(JTA) — In early 2023, I wrote a novel that was Jewish in every possible way. The lovers called each other “ahuvati” and ...

Jewish Book Council: What is Nu Reads, and why was it created? Tova Mirvis: Nu Reads is a bimonthly book subscription series curated by the Jewish Book Council that brings outstanding Jewish ...

(JTA) — Music critic Jeremy Eichler’s study of how classical composers made music after the Holocaust was named the book of the year by the Jewish Book Council, which will present the National Jewish ...

The Jewish Book Council celebrated 75 years of presenting the National Jewish Book Awards with a gala on March 25. The event celebrated this year’s winning authors, as well as their agents, editors, ...

(JTA) — When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family — I asked her how she managed to breathe life into a tired genre ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Where once ethnicity was a subtle or implicit characteristic of the highbrow publication (Partisan Review, ...

A century ago, Fanny Goldstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant working as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, noticed Jewish visitors rarely checked out books about their own culture. With her ...

The Jewish tradition overflows with stories — and great storytellers. This month, just before Passover, award-winning storyteller Arnon Z. Shorr and illustrator Joshua M. Edelglass published their ...

(JTA) — Dozens of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish authors are criticizing the Jewish Book Council, a historic literary group, for what they said was a “bias toward centering Israeli and Zionist ...

The censorship of Hebrew books has a long and interesting history, though the methods and motives for the censorship was not always the same. Censorship in Russia of Jewish books began in the late 18 ...

Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.

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