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Support your local literary community on Independent Bookstore Day this weekend! Looking for recommendations while you browse? We got you: http://bit.ly/2oUfd6X
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Couldn’t make it to “Good Girls, Nasty Women: Gender and American Jewish History” last month? Good news: we have the live recording! Watch now to hear Lynn Povich, Bonnie S. Anderson, and Rebecca Traister discuss the history and future of feminism and women’s movements with Bari Weiss of The New York Times Opinion!
Want to understand the history of Israel and Palestine? Two of the region’s most prominent writers compile a list of books every American should read to gain a nuanced, deeper understanding of the region’s history, future, and contending narratives.
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Did you set new reading goals for 2017? So did we! Check out Jewish Book Council’s January 2017 staff picks and see how we’re kicking off a new year of reading!
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The Pioneers, America’s first literary society for Jewish women, met for the first time on this day in 1789. Thanks to the Jewish Women’s Archive for this wonderful piece of Jewish literary history!
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“Agitate! agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation—the one is life, the other, death.”
Ernestine Rose, nineteenth-century women’s rights activist, would certainly have marched this past weekend to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to biographer and women’s historian Bonnie S. Anderson.
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What books on the Shoah can be recommended as both readable and reliable to readers of all backgrounds? Peter Hayes, chair of the Academic Committee at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, offers a curated reading list.
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Aharon Appelfeld’s new novel is a reminder that the past is never really gone; the darkness and the light, the bitter and the sweet, are tangibly close when we close our eyes.
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Amy Shira Teitel’s fascinating nonfiction debut is an excellent companion to Michael Chabon’s recent novel Moonglow and Theodore Melfi’s film Hidden Figures—which hits theaters tomorrow!
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A year and a half after the passing of “the reigning godfather of historical fiction,” a new collection of fifteen stories written, selected, revised, and ordered by the E. L. Doctorow himself comes out January 2017.
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Wonder how we’re filling the last few weeks of 2016? Check out the Jewish Book Council’s December staff picks!
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Yes, we know the difference between a menorah and a chanukkiah. But our Book Cover of the Week is still a great Hanukkah read!
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It’s a great day for America: not only do we get to fulfill our civic duty and wear cool stickers (and even get free doughnuts, if you know where to go), but the English edition of Amos Oz’s newest novel comes out today!
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Delighted to find our #JewLit Map of New York City in Katharine Harmon’s collection of illustrated maps of #NYC! Order the poster at www.jewishbookcouncil.org/books/jewish-literary-maps—where you can find our Jewish Literary Map of the American South, too!
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Have you read this week’s new Jewish Book Council reviews? Find daily new #JewLit book reviews, reading recommendations, and more at www.jewishbookcouncil.org!
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First you hear that Jami Attenberg has a new novel in the works, and you think: yes. Then you see the book cover, and you think: YES.
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Wondering what to read over the Jewish High Holidays starting next week? Check out this year’s 10 Awesome Books for the 10 Days of Awe recommended by the Jewish Book Council!
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It’s rare that a children’s book about doing a mitzvah tugs at adult readers’ heartstrings, but A Hat for Mrs. Goldmanmight make you cry.
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