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australia

Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

I Won’t Water Down Who I Am: On the Sug­ges­tion to Remove My Book Cover’s Star of David

Lin­da Mar­golin Royal
March 10, 2025
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Poet­ry
Heim­lich Unheim­lich: a poet­ry and art collaboration
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Chil­dren’s
This Is Not a Cholent
Sarah Sassoon; Viviana Garofoli, illus.
Essay

A Let­ter from a Stranger Revealed a Fam­i­ly Secret Kept from Me

Karen Kirsten
July 22, 2024
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Non­fic­tion
The Ghost Tattoo
Tony Bernard
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Fic­tion
Abom­i­na­tion
Ash­ley Goldberg
From the Journal

The World of Aus­tralian Jew­ish Literature

Goldie Gold­bloom
April 11, 2022
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Non­fic­tion
Good Neigh­bors, Bad Times Revis­it­ed: New Echoes of My Father’s Ger­man Village
Mimi Schwartz
Excerpt

Excerpt: Now for Some­thing Sweet

Mon­day Morn­ing Cook­ing Club
December 14, 2020
Essay

The Speed of Thought: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Maria Tumarkin

Dalia Wolf­son
December 9, 2019
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Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Bram Presser

JBC Staff
February 7, 2019
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Fic­tion
Danc­ing in the Dark
Robyn Bavati
Essay

Beach Mem­o­ries

Ear­li­er this week, Lily Brett wrote about her love for pens and pen­cils and why she did­n’t become a lawyer. Her newest book, Lola Ben­sky:…
Lily Brett
October 24, 2013
Essay

One Egg Is A Fortune

Judy Kem­pler and Pni­na Jacob­son​’s cook­book One Egg Is A For­tune is now avail­able. They will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
Judy Kem­pler, Pni­na Jacobson
June 12, 2012
Essay

The Sev­en Roads to Hell (or: Dante’s Infer­no adapt­ed for Chas­sidic Jews)

Goldie Gold­bloom is the author of Toads’ Muse­um of Freaks and Won­ders, a nov­el about Ital­ian pris­on­ers of war in Aus­tralia dur­ing World War II. She will be…
Goldie Gold­bloom
March 8, 2010

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