Jew­ish Book Coun­cil is proud to intro­duce read­ers to the five emerg­ing fic­tion authors named as final­ists for the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture. Today, we…

Inde­pen­dent Book­store Day is this week­end! If you’re vis­it­ing your local book­store to sup­port your local lit­er­ary anchor on Sat­ur­day — or any day of the week — let us…

The Jew­ish Book Coun­cil staff shares what we’ve been read­ing over the last month:Car­olynHow did the small coun­try of Israel, with a pop­u­la­tion of only six…

Find out what the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil staff is read­ing this month!MimiSaba­ba by Yamin Levy is an inter­est­ing book of two sto­ries, both tak­ing place in Jerusalem, but…

Car­olLast week, in the wake of Don­ald Trump’s vic­to­ry and Leonard Cohen’s death, I reached for Liel Lei­bovitz’s thought­ful and illu­mi­nat­ing 2013 med­i­ta­tion on…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinImage: Edel Rodriguez, from Fas­ci­nat­ing: The Life of Leonard NimoyEach year pro­duces a fresh crop of fic­tion, non­fic­tion, poet­ry, and…

Bec­caNine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilli­gan is about a fam­i­ly of Irish Jews over three gen­er­a­tions, writ­ten by a young writer who became…

Cel­e­brat­ing its 66th year, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil is pleased to announce two new devel­op­ments for the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards. Start­ing this year, a new…

Post­ed by Salma FelahCar­olThis month, I am read­ing The Sev­en Good Years by Etgar Keret. It is as fun­ny, as odd, and as true as his unfor­get­table and…