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Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council’s Jewish Book Month Reads JBC Staff November 2, 2026 News Cover Reveal — “They Carved Us to Be Perfect” JBC Staff October 27, 2026 Essay Hidden in the Hearts of Others: Looking for the Sacred and Divine in Everyday Life and Study Alex Braver October 26, 2026 Essay “Foreclosed Possibility”: Resurrecting Jewish Women Artists in Weimar Germany Rebecca Birrell October 26, 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 Nonfiction Life Is a Cabaret: The Amazing Story of the Real Lives Who Inspired the Iconic Musical Brian Fairbanks Fiction An Admirable Woman Arthur A. Cohen Nonfiction The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice Natalie Livingstone Nonfiction Entebbe: Diary of a Hostage Yehuda Gottlieb; Ester Gottlieb Smith, trans. Fiction Beyond Where Our Monsters Lie Debby Dodds Editors' Picks Fiction Delicate Ron Segal; Philip Simpson, trans. Visual Arts To Life: A Cartoonist’s Journal in the Aftermath of October 7th Joann Sfar; Montana Kane, trans. Cookbook The Dessert Table: 100 Joyful Jewish Sweets Leah Koenig Nonfiction The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal Catherine Ostler Fiction Homebound Portia Elan 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 Hidden in the Hearts of Others: Looking for the Sacred and Divine in Everyday Life and Study Alex Braver October 26, 2026
Essay “Foreclosed Possibility”: Resurrecting Jewish Women Artists in Weimar Germany Rebecca Birrell October 26, 2026
Nonfiction Life Is a Cabaret: The Amazing Story of the Real Lives Who Inspired the Iconic Musical Brian Fairbanks
Nonfiction The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice Natalie Livingstone
Visual Arts To Life: A Cartoonist’s Journal in the Aftermath of October 7th Joann Sfar; Montana Kane, trans.
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