Jewish Book Council, founded in 1944, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature.
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Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking home in New York. Once an International Jerusalem Post travel columnist, she now teaches in the nonfiction writing program at Columbia College Chicago. She is also a contributing editor at A Public Space and a mentor for the National Yiddish Book Center.