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Cover of Extreme Measures

Extreme Measures

Jessica Nutik Zitter

Cover of A Narrow Bridge

A Narrow Bridge

Janet B. Fattal

Cover of Being There: Journalism 1978-2000

Being There: Journalism 1978 – 2000

Cover of The Gene Machine

The Gene Machine

Cover of Distilled: A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball, and Philanthropy

Distilled: A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball, and Philanthropy

Charles Bronfman with Howard Green

Cover of Wherever You Go, There They Are

Wherever You Go, There They Are

Annabelle Gurwitch

Cover of Lifesaving for Beginners

Lifesaving for Beginners

Cover of Parenting in Perspective

Parenting in Perspective

Barry Kislowicz

Cover of Set in Stone: America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments

Set in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments

Jenna Weissman Joselit

Cover of The Book of Separation

The Book of Separation

News

The Holocaust Book Award in Memory of Ernest W. Michel Named for 2017

JBC Staff

March 7, 2017

Essay

Three Sets of Dishes

Ellen Umansky is the author of The Fortunate Ones, a novel released last week about the fate of a Chaim Soutine painting left behind in Vienna. Ellen will be…

Ellen Umansky

February 20, 2017

Cover of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

Abigail Pogrebin

Recommended Reading

Book Cover of the Week: On Turpentine Lane

It’s been kind of a topsy-turvy week, so the image of a quaint suburban house ripped from the earth and spun like Dorothy Gale’s twister-borne home feels about right…

Nat Bernstein

January 24, 2017

Cover of Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families

Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families

Sylvia Barack Fishman

Essay

Kornbluh’s Kosher Fish

Earlier this week, Eytan Bayme wrote about celebrating his third Christmas in Europe as an American Jew. Eytan is guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week…

Eytan Bayme

December 28, 2016