January 2018 Jewish Book Carnival
The Jewish Book Carnival is a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere. The January Jewish Book Carnival has just been posted. This month’s host is Erika Dreifus atthe My Machberet blog, and you can see her post here: https://www.erikadreifus.com/, including:
- Lilith magazine spotlights an item from its 2017 offerings: Naomi Danis’s “Great Girl Protagonists in Books For Young Readers,” which discusses debut novels from Rachel Mann and Ruth Behar
- Jewish Books for Kids, Barbara Bietz sends in this interview with Susan Krawitz, author of the middle-grade novel, Viva Rose!
- The Englewood Review of Books, contributes Jon Sweeney’s review of Rabbi Shai Held’s The Heart of Torah: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion