The Legacy of Jewish Swimmers
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features an interview with Karen Propp. Karen won the 2013 Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award for her work-in-progress FREESTYLE, based on...
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How About Never–Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons by Bob Mankoff
People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of...
Bar-Ilan University Press book sale
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Apples and Honey Press Wants Your Submissions
I am now the Editor-in-Chief of Apples and Honey Press and we are looking for great stories for Jewish children. With my success as a writer, I am now privileged to be able to...
The Lie by Hesh Kestin
Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools – or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending...
The No Potato Passover: A Journey of Food, Travel and Color by Aviva Kanoff
Join author Aviva Kanoff on a culinary journey from Italy to Morocco and places in-between (including England, France, Italy, Croatia, Austria, Hungary as well as Jamaica and Israel). You’ll explore the tastes and colors...
The Doppelganger’s Dance by Libi Astaire
Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes when a crime wave sweeps through Regency London’s Jewish community and the adventures of wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Ezra Melamed are recorded for posterity by Miss Rebecca Lyon, a young lady not...
The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales by Shoshanna Boyd Gelfand; Amanda Hall, illus.; Debra Messing, narrator
Thoughtfully chosen and cheerfully retold, this gathering of eight Jewish stories is sure to delight listeners and readers. Rabbi Boyd Gelfand offers a fresh take on some old favorites to share the beauty and...
Diary 1954 by Leopold Tyrmand
Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland’s Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating...
The Balancing Game by Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
It describes the strange and unique world occupied by a Jewish child, the daughter of refugees from Hitler’s Germany, growing up in post-war London and living in a run-down neighborhood. Naomi is obliged to maintain...
