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JBC Staff Articles Interviews News Amir Gutfreund Shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter2007 Sami Rohr Prize Choice Award Winner Amir Gutfreund (Our Holocaust) has been shortlisted for this year’s JQ-Wingate Literary Prize… JBC Staff April 1, 2009 News More Israeli Authors at PEN World Voices Festival Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAfter posting the earlier link to the Israeli authors at the PEN World Voices Festival, I received news that there are two more… JBC Staff March 30, 2009 News R.Crumb Does Genesis Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterR. Crumb has finished his “Genesis Project,” a graphic novel projected for this Fall as reported by GalleyCat.Robot 6Crumb… JBC Staff March 26, 2009 News Avivah Zornberg and the ‘Biblical Unconscious’ Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAn interesting interview with Avivah Zornberg on her new book The Murmuring Deep: Deep Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious,… JBC Staff March 18, 2009 News AJL’s Reference & Bibliography Awards Announced Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections Division (RAS) of the Association of Jewish Libraries just announced the… JBC Staff March 16, 2009 News 2008 NETWORK Author News Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterCongratulations to Ariel Sabar on his National Book Critics Circle Win! He is the Autobiography Winner for his title My… JBC Staff March 13, 2009 News Have an Extra $40 Million on your Hands? Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWell, fear not! We found a way for you to spend it. Sotheby’s is auctioning off what scholars in the field have described as “the… JBC Staff February 12, 2009 News JPS Aims to Donate 2500 Pounds of Books Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWhen the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) discovered four years ago that Jews serving in the U.S. military were offered only the New… JBC Staff February 11, 2009 Recommended Reading Build Your JPS Library Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter Into series? Into JPS series? If so, you have much to look forward to in 2009! Three-yes THREE – new books are scheduled for… JBC Staff December 18, 2008 Recommended Reading Janna Gur on Hummus Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterRemember the JBC’s earlier post about the delicious new cookbook New Israeli Food by Janna Gur? Well, lucky for us, Janna will be guest… JBC Staff December 16, 2008 Recommended Reading The Jewish Community of… JBC Staff December 1, 2008 News Avant-Garde Zionism JBC Staff November 14, 2008 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 18 Next page ›› News 2019 National Jewish Book Award Auction February 19, 2020
News Amir Gutfreund Shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter2007 Sami Rohr Prize Choice Award Winner Amir Gutfreund (Our Holocaust) has been shortlisted for this year’s JQ-Wingate Literary Prize… JBC Staff April 1, 2009
News More Israeli Authors at PEN World Voices Festival Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAfter posting the earlier link to the Israeli authors at the PEN World Voices Festival, I received news that there are two more… JBC Staff March 30, 2009
News R.Crumb Does Genesis Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterR. Crumb has finished his “Genesis Project,” a graphic novel projected for this Fall as reported by GalleyCat.Robot 6Crumb… JBC Staff March 26, 2009
News Avivah Zornberg and the ‘Biblical Unconscious’ Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAn interesting interview with Avivah Zornberg on her new book The Murmuring Deep: Deep Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious,… JBC Staff March 18, 2009
News AJL’s Reference & Bibliography Awards Announced Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections Division (RAS) of the Association of Jewish Libraries just announced the… JBC Staff March 16, 2009
News 2008 NETWORK Author News Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterCongratulations to Ariel Sabar on his National Book Critics Circle Win! He is the Autobiography Winner for his title My… JBC Staff March 13, 2009
News Have an Extra $40 Million on your Hands? Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWell, fear not! We found a way for you to spend it. Sotheby’s is auctioning off what scholars in the field have described as “the… JBC Staff February 12, 2009
News JPS Aims to Donate 2500 Pounds of Books Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWhen the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) discovered four years ago that Jews serving in the U.S. military were offered only the New… JBC Staff February 11, 2009
Recommended Reading Build Your JPS Library Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter Into series? Into JPS series? If so, you have much to look forward to in 2009! Three-yes THREE – new books are scheduled for… JBC Staff December 18, 2008
Recommended Reading Janna Gur on Hummus Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterRemember the JBC’s earlier post about the delicious new cookbook New Israeli Food by Janna Gur? Well, lucky for us, Janna will be guest… JBC Staff December 16, 2008
