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Recommended Reading The Brilliance of Chanukah We thought we’d kick off Eight Nights of Stories series with a Hanukkah classic — but scroll down, there’s plenty more! Click on book images for JBC reviews and links to… JBC Staff November 5, 2013
Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Stories We know, it seems far too early to be planning for Chanukah. For all the “Thanksgivingukkah” frenzy that’s been about since the start of autumn, the calendric… Nat Bernstein November 4, 2013
Recommended Reading If You Read Just Ten Stories by Sholem Aleichem… Earlier this week, Jeremy Dauber wrote about touring with his recently published biography, The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem (Schocken Books/Nextbook Press). Want to win… Jeremy Dauber October 10, 2013
Recommended Reading October 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: Dan Gets a Minivan (Dan Zevin) | Naomi: The Kraus Project (Jonathan Franzen)Carolyn: Like Dreamers (Yossi Klein Halevi) |… JBC Staff October 7, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Kraus Project Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus, Jonathan Franzen gives new voice to the great nineteenth-century European critic Karl Kraus.… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 3, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Pascin by Joann Sfar Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJoann Sfar’s biography of the Jewish modernist painter Pascin (Julius Mordecai Pincas) will soon be available in the U.S. with… Naomi Firestone-Teeter September 25, 2013
