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2013 Sami Rohr Prize Winner

Francesca Segal wins $100,000 2013 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

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2012 National Jewish Book Award Winners

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Reading Lists

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JBC Book Clubs

The Innocents

Pick of the Week The Innocents

Francesca Segal

Voice
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Current Review

The Trial of the Talmud

The Trial of the Talmud

by Friedman, Hoff, Chazan

The events of 1240, when the Talmud was put on trial before the Queen of France, are a fairly well remembered moment in Jewish history.read more

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From the JBC Blog

Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear: Shame, Truth, and Reconciliation

by Randy Susan Meyers
I take no comfort in lies, half-truths, and fairy tales.

Rebecca Miller on Gluckel of Hameln

by Rebecca Miller
This week on the Visiting Scribe, Rebecca Miller will be sharing texts that shed light on Jewish life in eighteenth-century France, the setting of her new novel, Jacob's Folly (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).