Items with the category: Contemporary Jewish Life | Jewish Book Council

Poetry—From the Journal

The Imminent Decline of Everything We’ve Understood to Be What Governs Our Privileged Daily Lives

Daniel Khalastchi

March 15, 2023

Essay

Sex and the Survivor: Elie Wiesel’s “Day” and a Contemporary Woman Writer

Courtney Sender

March 15, 2023

Essay

Belonging: A Brief History of Jews, Catholics, and Basketball

David Hollander

March 13, 2023

Recommended Reading

Nine Jewish Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month

JBC Staff

March 13, 2023

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Take What You Need

Cover of The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor

The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor

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Künstlers in Paradise

Cathleen Schine

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The Purim Panic

Laura Gehl; Olga Ivanov and Aleksey Ivanov, illus.

Interview

Catskills, Compulsion, and Conventionality: A Conversation with Sara Lippmann

Avner Landes

February 27, 2023

Essay

‘Stories Like Mine’: Aden Polydoros on Writing Fantasy

Aden Polydoros

February 20, 2023

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The Shortest Skirt in Shul

Fiction—From the Journal

The Virgin Grandmother

Kate Schmier

February 15, 2023

Essay

Fictionalizing the Lower East Side: Assimilation and Opportunity in the Jewish Immigrant Experience

Daisy Alpert Florin

February 13, 2023

Fiction—From the Journal

Poland Itinerary, Class 3B

Leeor Ohayon

February 7, 2023

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My Last Innocent Year

Daisy Alpert Florin

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De-Integrate!: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century

Max Czollek; Jon Cho-Polizzi, trans.