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Essay It Isn’t Often You Come Across an Eighth-Generation Israeli Jew Sarit Yishai-Levi is the author of four non-fiction books and the bestselling novel The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. Sarit is blogging here all week as part of the… Sarit Yishai-Levi April 4, 2016
Nonfiction Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Story of My Life Vladimir Jabotinsky; Brain Horowitz and Leonid Katsis, eds.
Nonfiction Ketchup Is My Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows Up With Autism Liane Kupferberg Carter
Nonfiction Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching through Silence, Stretch, and Song Benjamin Shalva
Interview Interview: Ian Buruma with Bob Goldfarb InTheir Promised Land, Ian Buruma tells the extraordinary story of his own grandparents: British Jews who were apart during the World Wars and stayed… Bob Goldfarb February 2, 2016
Nonfiction Comin’ Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country or the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel Ray Benson and David Menconi
Nonfiction The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor’s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South Marione Ingram
Essay Shulem Deen’s Top 10 Rules for Memoir Writing Jewish Book Council was honored to present Shulem Deen, the author of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards winner of the Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award for Contemporary… Shulem Deen January 14, 2016
Essay My Mom, a Character Judy Batalion is the author of White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between. She is blogging here all week as part of the Visiting… Judy Batalion January 4, 2016
Nonfiction White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between Judy Batalion
