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Recommended Reading JBC Bookshelf: Poetry Edition Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPoetry collections from Canada, New Jersey, Russia (via NY), New Hampshire, and the Bay Area…Singing Me Home, Carol Lipszyc… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 3, 2011
Recommended Reading War & Love, Love & War Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPoet Aharon Shabtai’s latest collection, War & Love, Love & War, is now available. Words without Borders recently… Naomi Firestone-Teeter December 9, 2010
Recommended Reading Iran meets Beverly Hills: Angella M. Nazarian Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn Angella M. Nazarian’s stunning new book Life As a Visitor she blends prose and poetry with memoir and visual arts.… JBC Staff April 13, 2010
Essay Remembering Avrom Sutzkever Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAvrom Sutzkever, 1950 – photo by Fritz CohenJeremy Dauber writes for The New Republic on the Yiddish poet Avrom… JBC Staff February 2, 2010
Essay B‑Sides with Melissa Broder In her last post, Melissa Broder, author of the forthcoming When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother (February 6th), conducted a “Jewish vs.… Melissa Broder January 26, 2010
Poetry God is a Tree Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJust came across a lovely new book of poems by Esther Cohen entitled God Is a Tree, and Other Middle-Age Prayers. The publisher… Naomi Firestone-Teeter December 3, 2008
Poetry I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942 – 1944 Hana Volavkova, ed.