Tagged: Jewish Book Council

The Place of All Pos­si­bil­i­ty by Adi­na Allen

The Place of All Pos­si­bil­i­ty by Adi­na Allen

Cul­ti­vat­ing Cre­ativ­i­ty Through Ancient Jew­ish Wisdom The Place of All Possibility is a paradigm-shifting work that reframes the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Drawing from the deep well of Jewish...

Near­ly Depart­ed by Gila Pfef­fer

Near­ly Depart­ed by Gila Pfef­fer

Adven­tures in Loss, Can­cer and Oth­er Inconveniences A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir of losing both parents to cancer and the daring choices Gila Pfeffer made to avoid the same early demise By the...

Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright

Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright

An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of Scrip­ture and its Origins Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so...

A Boy from Baghdad by Miri­am Halahmy

A Boy from Baghdad by Miri­am Halahmy

“Jews are no longer safe in Iraq. When are you going to get it through your thick head?” It’s 1951, and twelve-year-old Salman Shasha is happy with his life in Baghdad. But trouble is...

Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pin­sky

Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pin­sky

Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in...

Open­ing Doors by Hasia R. Diner

Open­ing Doors by Hasia R. Diner

The Unlike­ly Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America. Popular belief holds that the various...

Ire­na’s Gift by Karen Kirsten

Ire­na’s Gift by Karen Kirsten

Ire­na’s Gift: An Epic WWII Mem­oir of Sis­ters, Secrets, and Survival by Karen Kirsten Weaving mystery, history and memoir, Irena’s Gift is the captivating account of one woman’s personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give...

Mil­len­ni­al Jew­ish Stars by Jonathan Branf­man

Mil­len­ni­al Jew­ish Stars by Jonathan Branf­man

Nav­i­gat­ing Racial Anti­semitism, Mas­culin­i­ty, and White Supremacy Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences....