Jewish Book Council, founded in 1943, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature.
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Philippa Strum is Professor Emerita at the City University of New York and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Specializing in civil liberties and women and the law, she has lectured widely across the U.S. and abroad, as well as at the U.S. Supreme Court. Her biography of Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish justice, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.