Jewish Book Month 100
This year, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Jewish Book Month. As a community, we will come together to highlight the books that make us who we are by showcasing our own Jewish bookshelves.
In 1925, Fanny Goldstein, a librarian at the Boston Public Library, decided Jewish books and Jewish pride were worth celebrating. Fanny set up a display of Jewish books and initiated the first Jewish Book Week.
In honor of Fanny Goldstein’s original book display, we are rolling out a community-wide messaging campaign of “Share Your Shelf. Share Your Story.” Together we will be celebrate our Jewish identity and honor a century of Jewish stories. Fanny strongly believed Jewish identity through literature was worth honoring and recognizing and one-hundred years later, we still do!
Jewish Book Month 100 Events
- If you are live or work in New York City, sign up to receive a free Jewish Book Month Display at this link.
- Jewish Book Month 100 Pop Up Bookstore. Swing by the Lower East Side for a Jewish literary treat!
- Join Jewish Book Council for a Jewish Book Month 100 One Community Virtual Event with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl in Conversation with Abigail Pogrebin.
- Sign your school up for one, or all of Jewish Book Council’s Jewish Book Month 100 School Events.
- Calling all writers to attend the 2025 Jewish Writers’ Conference!
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Literary Resources brought to you by Jewish Book Council and PJ Library
- Make your own comic book with PJ Library’s comic book template.
- Play mad-libs with PJ Library’s printable mad-lib style activity.
- Print a reading bingo card from PJ Library. See how fast you are able to get BINGO!
- Send out a bookmark template to your community, and have members create a Jewish Book Month bookmark.
- Use Jewish Book Council’s discussion questions or discussion guides at your next book club.
Ways to Celebrate
- Ask your local library to stock Jewish books that you love.
- Ask your local book store to stock Jewish books that you love.
- Attend an author event at a local synagogue, JCC or Jewish Federation.
- Buy a book by a Jewish author.
- Create a bulletin board dedicated to Jewish Book Month in a public community space.
- Display a table of Jewish books in your library, synagogue, JCC.
- Find a new book to love on Jewish Book Council’s website.
- Find your next read on a Jewish Book Council reading list.
- If you will be in Jerusalem, visit the beautiful new National Library of Israel.
- Invite an author to speak in your community.
- Join or start a book club.
- Listen to a podcast, like the newest one that’s all about Jewish books, The Five Books, or the Jewish kidlit podcast The Book of Life.
- Organize a community read.
- Organize a school read-a-thon.
- Read a Jewish book.
- Read a Jewish book to children in your home or community.
- Recommend a book to friends, your book club or your social media network.
- Sign up to get weekly book reviews and news from Jewish Book Council.
- Look through Jewish Book Council’s Jewish Book Month archives below! Email arielle@jewishbooks.org if your community has any images to add to the slideshow, or if you want to receive a full size image of one of the below images.
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