The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
In the Empire of Migdal Bavel, Cherry is married to Jerome, a wicked man who makes a diabolical wager with his friend Manfred: if Manfred can seduce Cherry in one hundred nights, he can...
Jewish Book World Blog
New Podcast: Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed by Lesléa Newman
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Rabinowitz, features an interview with Lesléa Newman, prolific poet and author, about two of her recent books: the poetry book I...
Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust by Meron Medzini
Even before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese government and people to the Jews was totally different than that...
An American Indian Guide to the Day of Atonement by Emily Bowen Cohen
Emily Bowen Cohen makes memoir-style comics. This mini-comic recounts her reunion with her long-lost Native American family and her reflection on the trip over the following Yom Kippur. It is a 16 page mini-comic...
Books posted October-December 2016
Here is the list of the 40 books that I posted on this site during the month of August 2016: Acco Festival: Between Celebration and Confrontation by Jerome Napthaly Shem-Tov The Art of Jewish Pastoral...
Jewish in America: Living George Washington’s Promise by Richard Louis Rubin
In a 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island, President George Washington promised that America’s Jews would always enjoy the full rights, privileges, and protections of U.S. citizenship. Since that auspicious beginning,...
The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel by Steven Fine
Steven Fine explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world’s oldest continuously used religious symbol. This meticulously researched yet deeply personal history explains how the seven-branched menorah illuminates the great changes and...
Michael Weingrad: Why Are Jewish Children’s Books so Bad?
From Mosaic Magazine: Year after year, most of what gets served up to young Jewish readers is poorly conceived, substantively shallow, and reeking of chicken-soup nostalgia. … Admittedly, part of the challenge for children’s...
Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens; edited by Jane L. Kanarek & Marjorie Lehman
Learning to Read Talmud is the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms that range...
We Were the Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz by Yael Neeman
The beautiful, understated memoir by bestselling Israeli author Yael Neeman detailing the intimate, collective memories of children raised on the kibbutz. The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective...
