Unclean Lips: Jews, Obscenity, and American Culture by Josh Lambert
Tells of the risks Jewish writers faced if they dabbled in obscenity. And they were serious. One place you never want to see your name is beside the words v. United States in a...
Jewish Book World Blog
Hope for the Holy Land by Mona Pastroff Goldstein
Hope for the Holy Land begins shortly before May 14, 1948 at midnight when the United Nations issued the Declaration of Independence for the state of Israel. Over the next few days the armies...
Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors by R. D. Rosen
This fantastic book explores the consequences, psychological and otherwise, to Holocaust survivors who survived the Holocaust by hiding when they were children. In the first part of the book, Rosen describes different experiences of...
Books posted in January 2015
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of January 2015: After the Fact: The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film by Brad Prager All Who Go Do Not Return:...
2014 National Jewish Book Award Winners and Finalists
Jewish Book of the Year – Everett Family Foundation Award Winner: Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives Series Ileene Smith, editorial director Steven J. Zipperstein and Anita Shapira, series editors American Jewish Studies – Celebrate 350 Award...
When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010 by Tony Judt
In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and...
Unpacking the Book: Jewish Writers in Conversation
This spring, join Jewish Book Council for an exciting new event series featuring incredible authors in an incredible venue. Hosted at The Jewish Museum in New York City (1109 5th Avenue), Unpacking the Book:...
The Underground: The untold story of how a handful of Jews helped spark a spiritual revolution in the Soviet Union
by Rabbi Mordechai Neustad, Yaakov Astor Like scenes out of a spy novel … … except that this was real life, not fiction. They were instructed what to say and what not to say,...
Podcast for Multicultural Children’s Book Day
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features an interview with conference panelists responding to the Pew study “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” and how children’s literature...
Voices in the Wilderness: Emerging Roles of Israel Clergywomen
Edited by Jonathan L Friedmann and Meeka Simerly This is an amazing book about Jewish women’s rights in the traditional world of religious practice. This is an important ongoing debate in the Jewish world....
