Rec­om­mend­ed Reading

War & Love, Love & War

Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
December 9, 2010

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Poet Aharon Shabtai’s lat­est col­lec­tion, War & Love, Love & War, is now avail­able. Words with­out Bor­ders recent­ly reviewed the title, call­ing it “[a] bril­liant col­lec­tion …contain[ing] spe­cif­ic moments of emo­tion­al com­plex­i­ty that are rarely found else­where.” Con­tin­ue read­ing the review here. Read more from the pub­lish­er here.

Orig­i­nal­ly from Lan­cast­er, Penn­syl­va­nia, Nao­mi is the CEO of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. She grad­u­at­ed from Emory Uni­ver­si­ty with degrees in Eng­lish and Art His­to­ry and, in addi­tion, stud­ied at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don. Pri­or to her role as exec­u­tive direc­tor and now CEO, Nao­mi served as the found­ing edi­tor of the JBC web­site and blog and man­ag­ing edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World. In addi­tion, she has over­seen JBC’s dig­i­tal ini­tia­tives, and also devel­oped the JBC’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series and Unpack­ing the Book: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Conversation.

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