Podcast: Best of Book Expo
The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, offers a round-up of four episodes from Book Expo America 2014, featuring interviews with authors and publishers of Jewish books for kids, teens, and...
Jewish Book World Blog
Compulsion by Meyer Levin
Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but...
The Circles of Life by Anna Aizic
My Ukrainian Family’s Odyssey of Secrets, Love and Survival from Pre-War Odessa to the Promised Land and America Anna Aizic’s memoir in letters manages to transcend numerous potential hazards of the form to engage...
Safekeeping by Jessamyn Hope
Jessamyn Hope’s Safekeeping is a profound and moving novel about love, the inevitability of loss, and the courage it takes to keep starting over. It’s 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York...
Hotel Moscow by Talia Carner
From the author of Jerusalem Maiden comes a mesmerizing, thought-provoking novel that tells the riveting story of an American woman—the daughter of Holocaust survivors—who travels to Russia shortly after the fall of communism,...
The Baseball Haggadah: A Festival of Freedom and Springtime in 15 Innings
Written by Rabbi Sharon G. Forman Illustrated by Lisa J. Teitelbaum By holding up the Exodus story next to the concept of a beloved national pastime, Rabbi Forman casts light on the Passover story...
How Sweet It Is! by Thane Rosenbaum
Set in Miami Beach, Florida in 1972, the novel follows the Posner family, comprised of Holocaust survivors Sophie and Jacob, and their son Adam. The Posners do everything they can to avoid one another...
Panda Purim by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod
Not everybody looks forward to Purim. You know who doesn’t? Pandas. Purim is coming, and there’s so much to do to get ready. Children will love to read about rituals they are discovering themselves...
New header image for our social media channels (January 2015)
Using the covers of books I mentioned on this site in January 2015 I crated a new image for our social media channels. (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) :
The Green Book: A Play by Calvin Alexander Ramsey Sr.
The Green Book is a play that sheds light on a time in America when Jim Crow and separate but equal was the law of the land. Travel and accommodations for African Americans was...
