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Essay “Foreclosed Possibility”: Resurrecting Jewish Women Artists in Weimar Germany Rebecca Birrell October 26, 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 When Paintings Bear Witness: The Jewish Family Behind a Renoir Masterpiece Doreen Carvajal October 19, 2026 News Cover Reveal — “Tov Is Good” JBC Staff October 14, 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 Fiction Venus, Vanishing Rebecca Birrell Visual Arts Menachem Kipnis Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland Sheila E Jelen, ed.; Raphael Finkel, trans.; Menachem Kipnis, photographer Nonfiction When She Remembered: Seven Women Who Transformed French Holocaust Memory Ashley Valanzola Children’s Maya’s Journey: A Story of Two Great-Grandmothers Marcella White Campbell; Olivia Smith, illus. Children’s All Who Are Hungry, Come and Eat!: A Passover Story Leslie Kimmelman; Alyssa Russell, illus. 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 “Foreclosed Possibility”: Resurrecting Jewish Women Artists in Weimar Germany Rebecca Birrell October 26, 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 When Paintings Bear Witness: The Jewish Family Behind a Renoir Masterpiece Doreen Carvajal October 19, 2026
Visual Arts Menachem Kipnis Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland Sheila E Jelen, ed.; Raphael Finkel, trans.; Menachem Kipnis, photographer
Nonfiction When She Remembered: Seven Women Who Transformed French Holocaust Memory Ashley Valanzola
Children’s Maya’s Journey: A Story of Two Great-Grandmothers Marcella White Campbell; Olivia Smith, illus.
Children’s All Who Are Hungry, Come and Eat!: A Passover Story Leslie Kimmelman; Alyssa Russell, illus.
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