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JBC Staff Articles Interviews Recommended Reading December 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Naomi: S. (J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst) | Suzanne: And So It Was Written (Ellen Brazer)Nat: Totally Unofficial (Raphael Lemkin;… JBC Staff December 9, 2013 Recommended Reading November 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: The Missing File (D. A. Mishani) | Miri: Beautiful Souls (Eyal Press)Nat: The Power of Light (Isaac Bashevis Singer) |… JBC Staff November 12, 2013 Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Snicket Read all of the posts in our Eight Nights of Stories series here.The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story by Lemony Snicket; Lisa Brown, illus.On… JBC Staff November 11, 2013 Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Stories; Three Nights of Kafka We’re leaving you with three nights’ worth of reading in one book for the weekend, but don’t worry: Eight Nights of Stories continues next week!What’s this all about? Read… JBC Staff November 8, 2013 Recommended Reading Thankgivingukkah Welcome to the second installment of the Jewish Book Council’s Eight Nights of Stories series! Missed yesterday’s reading list on Hanukkah magic? Catch up here.What’s… JBC Staff November 6, 2013 Recommended Reading The Brilliance of Chanukah We thought we’d kick off Eight Nights of Stories series with a Hanukkah classic — but scroll down, there’s plenty more! Click on book images for JBC reviews and links to… JBC Staff November 5, 2013 Recommended Reading October 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: Dan Gets a Minivan (Dan Zevin) | Naomi: The Kraus Project (Jonathan Franzen)Carolyn: Like Dreamers (Yossi Klein Halevi) |… JBC Staff October 7, 2013 Recommended Reading September 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: The Tin Horse (Janice Steinberg) | Carolyn: Hothouse (Boris Kachka)Naomi: The Property (Rutu Modan) | Suzanne: Sinners… JBC Staff September 16, 2013 Recommended Reading August 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: In the Land of the Living (Austin Ratner) | Joyce: The Liars’ Gospel (Naomi Alderman)Naomi: Curriculum Vitae (Yoel Hoffmann) |… JBC Staff August 12, 2013 Recommended Reading Love Stories for Tu B’Av We’ve spent all day discussing them at work and now we’re sharing them with you! Our Tu B’av 5773 JBC staff picks:A Pigeon and a BoyFugitive PiecesThe History… JBC Staff July 22, 2013 Recommended Reading July 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: The Art Forger (B.A. Shapiro) | Naomi: Herzog (Saul Bellow)Mimi: The Invisible Bridge (Julie Orringer) | Emma:… JBC Staff July 11, 2013 Recommended Reading June 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth) | Carol: No Joke (Ruth R. Wisse)Emma: Portrait Inside My Head (Phillip Lopate) | Naomi:… JBC Staff June 26, 2013 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 10 Next page ›› News 2019 National Jewish Book Award Auction February 19, 2020
Recommended Reading December 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Naomi: S. (J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst) | Suzanne: And So It Was Written (Ellen Brazer)Nat: Totally Unofficial (Raphael Lemkin;… JBC Staff December 9, 2013
Recommended Reading November 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: The Missing File (D. A. Mishani) | Miri: Beautiful Souls (Eyal Press)Nat: The Power of Light (Isaac Bashevis Singer) |… JBC Staff November 12, 2013
Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Snicket Read all of the posts in our Eight Nights of Stories series here.The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story by Lemony Snicket; Lisa Brown, illus.On… JBC Staff November 11, 2013
Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Stories; Three Nights of Kafka We’re leaving you with three nights’ worth of reading in one book for the weekend, but don’t worry: Eight Nights of Stories continues next week!What’s this all about? Read… JBC Staff November 8, 2013
Recommended Reading Thankgivingukkah Welcome to the second installment of the Jewish Book Council’s Eight Nights of Stories series! Missed yesterday’s reading list on Hanukkah magic? Catch up here.What’s… JBC Staff November 6, 2013
Recommended Reading The Brilliance of Chanukah We thought we’d kick off Eight Nights of Stories series with a Hanukkah classic — but scroll down, there’s plenty more! Click on book images for JBC reviews and links to… JBC Staff November 5, 2013
Recommended Reading October 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: Dan Gets a Minivan (Dan Zevin) | Naomi: The Kraus Project (Jonathan Franzen)Carolyn: Like Dreamers (Yossi Klein Halevi) |… JBC Staff October 7, 2013
Recommended Reading September 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: The Tin Horse (Janice Steinberg) | Carolyn: Hothouse (Boris Kachka)Naomi: The Property (Rutu Modan) | Suzanne: Sinners… JBC Staff September 16, 2013
Recommended Reading August 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: In the Land of the Living (Austin Ratner) | Joyce: The Liars’ Gospel (Naomi Alderman)Naomi: Curriculum Vitae (Yoel Hoffmann) |… JBC Staff August 12, 2013
Recommended Reading Love Stories for Tu B’Av We’ve spent all day discussing them at work and now we’re sharing them with you! Our Tu B’av 5773 JBC staff picks:A Pigeon and a BoyFugitive PiecesThe History… JBC Staff July 22, 2013
Recommended Reading July 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Carolyn: The Art Forger (B.A. Shapiro) | Naomi: Herzog (Saul Bellow)Mimi: The Invisible Bridge (Julie Orringer) | Emma:… JBC Staff July 11, 2013
Recommended Reading June 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Miri: Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth) | Carol: No Joke (Ruth R. Wisse)Emma: Portrait Inside My Head (Phillip Lopate) | Naomi:… JBC Staff June 26, 2013