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News The Holocaust Book Award in Memory of Ernest W. Michel Named for 2017 JBC Staff March 7, 2017
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
News Writing Across the Linguae Francae of Midcentury Jewish America Posted by Nat BernsteinJewish Book Council is proud to announce the realization of its project to create a digitized archive of the Jewish Book Annual in… Nat Bernstein November 23, 2015
News “An Age of Creative Readers Makes for Literature Which Is Immortal” Posted by Nat Bernstein.Fifteen years after Fanny Goldstein established the first Jewish Book Week at the West End Branch of the Boston Public Library in 1925,… Nat Bernstein November 9, 2015
News RA and Jewish Lights Publishing Form Joint Publishing Imprint Posted by Jackie AnzarootIt was announced last week that two major players in the Jewish book world, Jewish Lights Publishing and the Rabbinical Assembly, will be… Jackie Anzaroot March 5, 2013
News One of These Authors Will Win $100,000 Read more about the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature finalists here. Read more about the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature here.The People of Forever Are… JBC Staff February 27, 2013