Jewish Book World Blog

Instagram anniversary

The Instagram account accompanying this website, instagram.com/jewishbookworld is three years old today. This was its very first post: In its third year, I posted 850 posts and gained about 500 followers. # of followers...

The Four Questions by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

The Four Questions by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Illustrator: Ori Sherman Why is this night different from all other nights? Every year when families gather for the Passover holiday, the youngest child poses that question as part of the poetic Four Questions...

The Paper Girl of Paris by Jor­dyn Taylor

The Paper Girl of Paris by Jor­dyn Taylor

NOW: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in...

Kodesh by Gabi Aharonov

Kodesh by Gabi Aharonov

Kodesh is a compilation of vignettes which create a story about an extremist Jewish Orthodox settlement. It follows a variety of characters who choose to live in complete segregation from the outside world, and...