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Essay How Jewish Was Louis Kahn? Earlier this week, Wendy Lesser wrote about why she chose to write You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Wendy is guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week as… Wendy Lesser March 22, 2017
Nonfiction Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem George Prochnik
Children’s A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Andrea Davis Pinkney; Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, illus.
Children’s Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage Tillar Mazzeo; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell