Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Posted by Naomi Firestone We just received word about a new endeavor from Yaldah Magazine, a magazine for Jewish girls, by Jewish girls, has expanded to YM Books, offering a variety of books for Jewish girls. The first release is The Yaldah Year: Crafts & Recipes for Every Month of the Jewish Year, a colorful Jewish craft [...]
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Posted by Naomi Firestone From Jewcy.com: Thanksgiving Cooking with JDub’s Director of Events JDub’s Director of Events, Adam Teeter and his fiancee Naomi are planning their wedding – and their new life together. Naomi was raised in a kosher home, and so Adam has decided to learn to make some great kosher recipes…Read On (As the cameraman for this...
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Posted by Naomi Firestone The Forward surveys each of the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize finalists: http://www.forward.com/articles/119655/ Posted in Jewish Books Tagged: Jewish Books, The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Posted by Naomi Firestone Moment Magazine lists its “Intriguing Books of 2009″: Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West Michael A. Ledeen (Truman Talley) Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer (Little, Brown) The Clothes On Their Backs Linda Grant (Scribner) Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife Francine Prose (HarperCollins) Homer & Langley E. L. Doctorow...
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Posted by Naomi Firestone NETWORK author Jessica Handler (Invisible Sisters) reports on her experience at a Jewish Book Festival for Erika Dreifus of My Machberet: About a month ago, my good friend G. asked me, “So, what is the Jewish platform for your book?” She’d read Invisible Sisters, and that evening we were practicing our digital video [...]
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Posted by Naomi Firestone Sick of the same old Christmas Eve routine… Chinese food and a movie? (blah blah blah) If so, let us spice it up for you at Jewltide 7 in Brooklyn, NY. Jewish Book Council is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s party, which will be held at Southpaw (125 5th Ave. [...]
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Posted by Naomi Firestone Haven’t received your winter issue of Jewish Book World yet? Not to worry–it’s in the mail! In the meantime, here’s an excerpt from an interview Maron Waxman conducted with Bruce Feiler, author of the recently published America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story: Best-selling writer Bruce Feiler talks about why he sees the [...]...
