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JBC Staff Articles Interviews News The Holocaust Book Award in Memory of Ernest W. Michel Named for 2017 JBC Staff March 7, 2017 Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for December 2016 Find out what the Jewish Book Council staff is reading this month!MimiSababa by Yamin Levy is an interesting book of two stories, both taking place in Jerusalem, but… JBC Staff December 15, 2016 Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for November 2016 CarolLast week, in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory and Leonard Cohen’s death, I reached for Liel Leibovitz’s thoughtful and illuminating 2013 meditation on… JBC Staff November 29, 2016 Recommended Reading 10 Awesome Books for the 10 Days of Awe 5777 Posted by Nat BernsteinImage: Edel Rodriguez, from Fascinating: The Life of Leonard NimoyEach year produces a fresh crop of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and… JBC Staff September 26, 2016 Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for September 2016 BeccaNine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan is about a family of Irish Jews over three generations, written by a young writer who became… JBC Staff September 23, 2016 News New Categories and Honors for the 66th National Jewish Book Awards Celebrating its 66th year, Jewish Book Council is pleased to announce two new developments for the National Jewish Book Awards. Starting this year, a new… JBC Staff August 18, 2016 Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for August 2016 Posted by Salma FelahCarolThis month, I am reading The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret. It is as funny, as odd, and as true as his unforgettable and… JBC Staff August 11, 2016 Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for July 2016 Posted by Salma FalahMiriSacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo GenizaCarolynThe Imperial WifeBeccaNumber the Stars: 25th Anniversary EditionSophie… JBC Staff July 28, 2016 Recommended Reading Summer 2016 Book Releases Summer is officially here, and it’s time to plan your reading lists for the long daylight hours!Still need to catch up on all those books you meant to read last… JBC Staff June 30, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Hot Dog Taste Test If you own a Netflix account — or a subscription to Lucky Peach, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, or McSweeney’s—you’ve seen Lisa Hanawalt’s work. This week, the… JBC Staff June 15, 2016 Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Adam D. Mendelsohn Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff April 8, 2016 Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Yehudah Mirsky Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff April 5, 2016 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 8 Next page ›› News 2019 National Jewish Book Award Auction February 19, 2020
News The Holocaust Book Award in Memory of Ernest W. Michel Named for 2017 JBC Staff March 7, 2017
Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for December 2016 Find out what the Jewish Book Council staff is reading this month!MimiSababa by Yamin Levy is an interesting book of two stories, both taking place in Jerusalem, but… JBC Staff December 15, 2016
Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for November 2016 CarolLast week, in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory and Leonard Cohen’s death, I reached for Liel Leibovitz’s thoughtful and illuminating 2013 meditation on… JBC Staff November 29, 2016
Recommended Reading 10 Awesome Books for the 10 Days of Awe 5777 Posted by Nat BernsteinImage: Edel Rodriguez, from Fascinating: The Life of Leonard NimoyEach year produces a fresh crop of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and… JBC Staff September 26, 2016
Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for September 2016 BeccaNine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan is about a family of Irish Jews over three generations, written by a young writer who became… JBC Staff September 23, 2016
News New Categories and Honors for the 66th National Jewish Book Awards Celebrating its 66th year, Jewish Book Council is pleased to announce two new developments for the National Jewish Book Awards. Starting this year, a new… JBC Staff August 18, 2016
Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for August 2016 Posted by Salma FelahCarolThis month, I am reading The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret. It is as funny, as odd, and as true as his unforgettable and… JBC Staff August 11, 2016
Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for July 2016 Posted by Salma FalahMiriSacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo GenizaCarolynThe Imperial WifeBeccaNumber the Stars: 25th Anniversary EditionSophie… JBC Staff July 28, 2016
Recommended Reading Summer 2016 Book Releases Summer is officially here, and it’s time to plan your reading lists for the long daylight hours!Still need to catch up on all those books you meant to read last… JBC Staff June 30, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Hot Dog Taste Test If you own a Netflix account — or a subscription to Lucky Peach, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, or McSweeney’s—you’ve seen Lisa Hanawalt’s work. This week, the… JBC Staff June 15, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Adam D. Mendelsohn Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff April 8, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Yehudah Mirsky Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff April 5, 2016
