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Recommended Reading War & Love, Love & War Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPoet Aharon Shabtai’s latest collection, War & Love, Love & War, is now available. Words without Borders recently… Naomi Firestone-Teeter December 9, 2010
Essay Thrilling Hebrew Tales! On Jewish Vampires, Golems, Tzaddiks, and HebrewPunk Lavie Tidhar’s most recent book, An Occupation of Angels, is now available. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book… Lavie Tidhar November 8, 2010
Recommended Reading Jewish Book World Review: To the End of the Land Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn honor of David Grossman making Amazon’s top ten this year, and with the winter issue going in the mail next, we thought we’d offer… Maron L. Waxman November 5, 2010
Excerpt Excerpt from Yael Hedaya’s Eden Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe fall issue of Zeek is now available! The newest issue features fiction from Yael Goldstein Love. Also, check out an… JBC Staff October 19, 2010
Recommended Reading Israeli Fiction Round Up Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterDon’t have the funds to travel over to Israel this fall? Well, we have an easy solution…bring Israel to your home with this great fall line-up… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 2, 2010
News Keep Up-to-date with Hebrew Lit Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterI received the first Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (ITHL) newsletter this week from Liran Golod over at… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 1, 2009
Essay Tablet on Yoel Hoffmann Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterTablet featured this week’s Jewish Book Council recommended read (sign up for our weekly e‑mails here) Curriculum… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 16, 2009
Essay Israeli writer Gail Hareven in the New Yorker Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterRead Israeli writer Gail Hareven’s short story “The Slows” in The New Yorker.A review of Weber’s most recent title, The… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 27, 2009
Essay The Poetics of Agnon from Syracuse UP Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIf you’re a Jewish Book World subscriber and enjoyed our 26:3 (Fall 2008) feature on S.Y. Agnon, one of the foremost Hebrew… Barbara Andrews April 22, 2009
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
Essay Fleeing the News! Posted by Naomi FirestoneWhile in Israel last month for Jerusalem International Book Fair, I had the pleasure of spending time with Ilana Kurshan. Ilana,… Ilana Kurshan March 11, 2009
News A Word from the Israeli Literary Front Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe Jewish Book Council has spent the past few days at Jerusalem International Book Fair and so, keeping with the Israel theme, we offer… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 17, 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
