New Podcast Episode: Viva, Rose
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Rabinowitz Estrin, features an interview with Susan Krawitz about her middle grade novel Viva, Rose, based on her own family’s history...
Category: People
Q&A with Jennifer S. Brown, author of Modern Girls
Modern Girls is a well-researched and thought-provoking debut novel by Jennifer S. Brown. It is a portrayal of three women who attempt to balance traditional Old World values with “modern” American views. (The book...
The Soviet Jewish Writer Whose Masterpiece Was Banned for 200 Years
From Jewniverse In 1959, Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman finished his magnum opus, the novel Life and Fate, an account of the Battle of Stalingrad during the Nazi invasion of the USSR and, simply,...
Reflections on Herman Wouk
From Tablet Magazine: The first novel I ever read was by Herman Wouk. Now, 60 years later, he’s publishing yet another one. By Morton Landowne When I became a senior citizen a few years...
RIP Manny Steinberg
Manny Steinberg, the author of Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs, passed away on December 21, 2015. From all the hundreds of books/posts on this site his book was the second most visited. Probably because he was...
Remembering I.L. Peretz, who died 100 years ago
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the death of I.L. Peretz, perhaps the most important cultural figure in the history of modern Jewish literature. One of the three major writers of the first...
Interview with Ruchama King Feuerman, author of In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Miriam Bradman Abrahams: To which characters do you relate in your stories? Ruchama King Feuerman: There are pieces of me in all the characters. Isaac reminds me...
Interview: Yelena Akhtiorskaya, author of Panic in a Suitcase
Nat Bernstein: What was the impetus behind Panic in a Suitcase? What inspired the novel, and what pushed you to write it? Yelena Akhtiorskaya: The impetus for Panic in a Suitcase was really just...
Interview: David Bezmozgis (Jewish Book Council)
Q: How does The Betrayers continue or, perhaps, depart from what has engaged your work in the past? David Bezmozgis: It’s true that the original inspiration for the novel had to do with Natan...
Curious George Goes to Arkansas…From Nazi-Occupied France
You’ve probably known Curious George all your life, right? You remember when he pranked the fire department, when he got a job, and maybe even when he learned his ABCs. You might even know...
