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JBC Staff Articles Interviews Recommended Reading National Poetry Month 2016 In honor of National Poetry Month, the Jewish Book Council will be highlighting some of our favorite Jewish poems, both old and new, on our twitter account. Click below… JBC Staff April 1, 2016 Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Aviya Kushner 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 March 30, 2016 Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Dan Ephron 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 March 24, 2016 Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Lisa Moses Leff 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 March 23, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Wildwood Tu Bishvat, the Jewish festival for trees and their fruits, begins Sunday night! In its honor, each year I like to feature books that depict or impart new knowledge… JBC Staff January 22, 2016 Recommended Reading 15 Fiction, Nonfiction, and Memoir Titles from 2015 With an entire year’s worth of 2015 titles of Jewish interest featured on Jewish Book Council’s daily new book reviews, we thought we’d sum up the year with the fiction,… JBC Staff December 31, 2015 Video 30 Day, 30 Authors: The List Over the course of Jewish Book Month, 30 amazing authors shared their ideal literary dinner guests, writing advice, book summary tweets and more for our 30 Days, 30… JBC Staff December 8, 2015 Recommended Reading August 2015 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks Posted by Arie MonasRead what the staff of the Jewish Book Council has been reading for the month of August!Mimi“This month, I’m reading The Last Summer at Chelsea… JBC Staff August 27, 2015 Recommended Reading July 2015 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks Posted by Arie MonasRead what the staff of the Jewish Book Council has been reading for the month of July!MimiI’m reading two books this month. The first one is… JBC Staff July 28, 2015 Interview Emerging Voices Interview: Shulem Deen Shulem Deen is the author of the recently published memoir All Who Go Do Not Return (Graywolf Press). JBC Staff: I think that sometimes the way in which… JBC Staff April 23, 2015 Essay Parent-Child Book Club: Shanghai Jews What trends in adult literature often sees its reflection in children’s publications — and now, more than ever, the other way around. In reviewing the 2014 – 2015 JBC… JBC Staff August 21, 2014 Recommended Reading June 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Nat: Night in Shanghai (Nicole Mones) | Naomi: J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (Thomas Beller)Carol: Becoming Frum (Sarah Bunin Benor) |… JBC Staff June 16, 2014 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 9 Next page ›› News 2019 National Jewish Book Award Auction February 19, 2020
Recommended Reading National Poetry Month 2016 In honor of National Poetry Month, the Jewish Book Council will be highlighting some of our favorite Jewish poems, both old and new, on our twitter account. Click below… JBC Staff April 1, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Aviya Kushner 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 March 30, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Dan Ephron 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 March 24, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Lisa Moses Leff 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 March 23, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Wildwood Tu Bishvat, the Jewish festival for trees and their fruits, begins Sunday night! In its honor, each year I like to feature books that depict or impart new knowledge… JBC Staff January 22, 2016
Recommended Reading 15 Fiction, Nonfiction, and Memoir Titles from 2015 With an entire year’s worth of 2015 titles of Jewish interest featured on Jewish Book Council’s daily new book reviews, we thought we’d sum up the year with the fiction,… JBC Staff December 31, 2015
Video 30 Day, 30 Authors: The List Over the course of Jewish Book Month, 30 amazing authors shared their ideal literary dinner guests, writing advice, book summary tweets and more for our 30 Days, 30… JBC Staff December 8, 2015
Recommended Reading August 2015 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks Posted by Arie MonasRead what the staff of the Jewish Book Council has been reading for the month of August!Mimi“This month, I’m reading The Last Summer at Chelsea… JBC Staff August 27, 2015
Recommended Reading July 2015 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks Posted by Arie MonasRead what the staff of the Jewish Book Council has been reading for the month of July!MimiI’m reading two books this month. The first one is… JBC Staff July 28, 2015
Interview Emerging Voices Interview: Shulem Deen Shulem Deen is the author of the recently published memoir All Who Go Do Not Return (Graywolf Press). JBC Staff: I think that sometimes the way in which… JBC Staff April 23, 2015
Essay Parent-Child Book Club: Shanghai Jews What trends in adult literature often sees its reflection in children’s publications — and now, more than ever, the other way around. In reviewing the 2014 – 2015 JBC… JBC Staff August 21, 2014
Recommended Reading June 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Nat: Night in Shanghai (Nicole Mones) | Naomi: J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (Thomas Beller)Carol: Becoming Frum (Sarah Bunin Benor) |… JBC Staff June 16, 2014
