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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Recommended Reading November 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: The Missing File (D. A. Mishani) | Miri: Beautiful Souls (Eyal Press)Nat: The Power of Light (Isaac Bashevis Singer) |… JBC Staff November 12, 2013
Recommended Reading October 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: Dan Gets a Minivan (Dan Zevin) | Naomi: The Kraus Project (Jonathan Franzen)Carolyn: Like Dreamers (Yossi Klein Halevi) |… JBC Staff October 7, 2013
Recommended Reading September 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: The Tin Horse (Janice Steinberg) | Carolyn: Hothouse (Boris Kachka)Naomi: The Property (Rutu Modan) | Suzanne: Sinners… JBC Staff September 16, 2013
Recommended Reading August 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: In the Land of the Living (Austin Ratner) | Joyce: The Liars’ Gospel (Naomi Alderman)Naomi: Curriculum Vitae (Yoel Hoffmann) |… JBC Staff August 12, 2013
Recommended Reading July 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: The Art Forger (B.A. Shapiro) | Naomi: Herzog (Saul Bellow)Mimi: The Invisible Bridge (Julie Orringer) | Emma:… JBC Staff July 11, 2013
Recommended Reading June 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth) | Carol: No Joke (Ruth R. Wisse)Emma: Portrait Inside My Head (Phillip Lopate) | Naomi:… JBC Staff June 26, 2013