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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Kraus Project Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus, Jonathan Franzen gives new voice to the great nineteenth-century European critic Karl Kraus.… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 3, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Pascin by Joann Sfar Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJoann Sfar’s biography of the Jewish modernist painter Pascin (Julius Mordecai Pincas) will soon be available in the U.S. with… Naomi Firestone-Teeter September 25, 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 4 Jewish Cookbooks We’re Excited About This September Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAs summer winds down and we begin to prepare for the High Holidays (!), we’ve had something very important on our minds: food.… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 29, 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 Book Cover of the Week: The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis irresistible collection of stories by Stefan Zweig (translated by Anthea Bell) will be published by Pushkin Press in November… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 6, 2013