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Recommended Reading JBC Bookshelf: Purim 2026 Simona Zaretsky February 23, 2026 Essay Between Memory and Imagination: Understanding My Mother’s Childhood in Siberia Zeeva Bukai February 23, 2026 News 75th National Jewish Book Award Winners JBC Staff February 18, 2026 News Watch the 75th National Jewish Book Award Winners Announced Here JBC Staff February 18, 2026 Jewish Book Council, founded in 1943, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox Invalid email address New Reviews Visual Arts Megillat Esther: The Graphic Tale JT Waldman Children’s The Bagel Who Wanted Everything Alan Silberberg Fiction Song of a Blackbird Maria van Lieshout Nonfiction Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver Peter E. Gordon Nonfiction On Both Sides of the Wall: A Resistance Fighter’s Firsthand Account of the Warsaw Ghetto Vladka Meed Steven D. Meed Editors' Picks Fiction The Anatomy of Exile Zeeva Bukai Nonfiction The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival and Hope on Israel’s Borderlands Amir Tibon Nonfiction Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust Janet Singer Applefield Cookbook Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook Ilan Stavans Margaret E. Boyle Fiction Next Stop Benjamin Resnick Current Issue Volume 9 2026/5786 Features A celebration of 100 years of Jewish booksA tribute to Fanny Goldstein, the librarian who planted the seed for Jewish Book Council one hundred years agoA beautifully illustrated map of Jewish libraries around the worldJohn Irving on the Jewish protagonist of the sequel to The Cider House Rules“My Journey From Ethiopia to Harlem,” an excerpt from a gorgeous cookbook by Beejhy BarhanyTwo true stories of Jewish Americans who helped Japanese Americans imprisoned in US concentration campsShort fiction about Jewish summer camp and a hotel haunted by victims of October 7th.Two contemporary authors on rewriting Fagin, the villain of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist Cover art by Jenny Kroik… and poetry, illustrations, photography, and more! Learn More
Essay Between Memory and Imagination: Understanding My Mother’s Childhood in Siberia Zeeva Bukai February 23, 2026
Nonfiction On Both Sides of the Wall: A Resistance Fighter’s Firsthand Account of the Warsaw Ghetto Vladka Meed Steven D. Meed
Nonfiction The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival and Hope on Israel’s Borderlands Amir Tibon
Current Issue Volume 9 2026/5786 Features A celebration of 100 years of Jewish booksA tribute to Fanny Goldstein, the librarian who planted the seed for Jewish Book Council one hundred years agoA beautifully illustrated map of Jewish libraries around the worldJohn Irving on the Jewish protagonist of the sequel to The Cider House Rules“My Journey From Ethiopia to Harlem,” an excerpt from a gorgeous cookbook by Beejhy BarhanyTwo true stories of Jewish Americans who helped Japanese Americans imprisoned in US concentration campsShort fiction about Jewish summer camp and a hotel haunted by victims of October 7th.Two contemporary authors on rewriting Fagin, the villain of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist Cover art by Jenny Kroik… and poetry, illustrations, photography, and more! Learn More