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Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Yehudah Mirsky Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff April 5, 2016
Essay Drawing a Room of Her Own With the recent release of her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, author (and frequent… Tahneer Oksman April 4, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Aviya Kushner Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff March 30, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Dan Ephron Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff March 24, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Lisa Moses Leff Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff March 23, 2016
Essay Nine Rules for Writing Jewish Letters In honor of the 65th National Jewish Book Awards, Jewish Book Council asked some of this year’s winners to share their top rules for writing an award-winning book.… Alice Nakhimovsky, Roberta Newman March 7, 2016
Essay Writing from Elsewhere Beth Kissileff is the editor of Reading Genesis: Beginnings, a collection of essays on the Hebrew Bible by experts in range of non-rabbinic fields. Beth is blogging… Beth Kissileff March 4, 2016
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 In the Beginning(s) Anthony Schneider is the author of Repercussions, a novel about a grandfather whose South African past continues to affect his family in the generations… Anthony Schneider January 11, 2016
Essay The Scene I Cut From My Novel Is Actually the Key To It Earlier this week, Sigal Samuel wrote about envisioning a mystical experience for the twenty-first century against the traditions of Kabbalah. She is… Sigal Samuel December 23, 2015
Essay Within the Quotidian All the Secrets of Existence Are Concealed Earlier this week, György Spiró shared how the mysterious iidentity of St. Thomas led him to write Captivity. György will be blogging here all week as part of the… György Spiró November 18, 2015
Interview Interview: Sigal Samuel by Elie LichtscheinSigal Samuel is the author of the debut novel The Mystics of Mile End, published this October by William Morrow.Elie Lichtschein: The Mystics of Mile End… Elie Lichtschein October 4, 2015
Essay Memory Games Sasha Abramsky is the author of The House of Twenty Thousand Books, a memoir exploring his grandparents’ lives through their vast literary collection in London.… Sasha Abramsky August 31, 2015
Essay Diana Bletter’s Top 11 Jewish Quotes for Writers Earlier this week, Diana Bletter wrote about being not just a writer or a Jewish writer, but a Jewish woman writer. Her novel A Remarkable Kindness is… Diana Bletter August 26, 2015
Essay Of Lutis and Looters: History as the Sister of Fiction Earlier this week, Parnaz Foroutan wrote about her childhood determination to learn English after seeing a girl who looked just like her on the cover of Anne… Parnaz Foroutan August 19, 2015
