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Nonfiction A Blessing, Not a Burden: My My Parent’s Remarkable Holocaust Story and My Fight to Keep Their Legacy Alive Alex Kor Graham Honaker
Nonfiction Laughing at Myself: My Education in Congress, on the Farm, and at the Movies Dan Glickman
Essay Fictionalizing Am Olam, The Little-Known Movement of Midwestern Jewish Farmers Rosellen Brown October 22, 2018
Essay Writing the Jewish Rust Belt I suspect that there are readers like me who find nothing strange about love and Spinoza, about Coors Light and Treblinka. Allison Pitinii Davis April 16, 2018
Essay Five Historic Jewish Communities You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of Shari Rabin December 19, 2017
Essay Discovering the Power of Jewish Books in Ottumwa, Iowa Debbie Bornstein Holinstat March 27, 2017
Essay I’m Telling Everyone Judith Claire Mitchell, the author of A Reunion of Ghosts and The Last Day of the War, is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she… Judith Claire Mitchell March 16, 2015
Essay Digging Deep into the Soul in the Heart of Iowa We prompted this year’s Sami Rohr Prize awardees to write about “how they came to write their book.” Over the next several weeks, we’ll share their responses. Today, Stuart… Stuart Nadler April 29, 2013
Nonfiction A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness– and a Trove of Letters– Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression Ted Gup
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: From the Jewish Heartland Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterEllen F. Steinberg and Jack H. Prost’s From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways , coming from University… Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 6, 2011
