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Excerpt Read an Excerpt from Lore Segal’s Half the Kingdom Last year, we were excited to feature Lore Segal — of whom we’re adoring fans here at Jewish Book Council — and her newest novel Half the Kingdom, which was published in… Lore Segal November 10, 2014
Excerpt A Poem: The Quantum Rabbi A poem from the recently published To Sing Away the Darkest Days: Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish Folksongs (Holland Park Press), a new poetry collection from… Norbert Hirschhorn August 28, 2013
Excerpt Excerpt Friday Today’s Excerpt Friday features Chapter 8 from Maintaining Recovery from Eating Disorders: Avoiding Relapse and Recovering Life (Naomi… Naomi Feigenbaum September 23, 2011
Excerpt Excerpt Friday (part B): The Hat Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn the spring issue of Jewish Book World, Deborah Schoeneman offered the following review of Babette Hughes’s The… Babette Hughes May 6, 2011
Excerpt Excerpt Friday (part A): Folktales of the Jews Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJBC is very excited about the release of the newest volume in the Folktales of the Jews series (edited with commentary by Dan Ben-Amos),… Flora Cohen May 6, 2011
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