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Nat Bernstein Nat Bernstein is the former Manager of Digital Content & Media, JBC Network Coordinator, and Contributing Editor at the Jewish Book Council and a graduate of Hampshire College. Articles Reviews Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Poetry Will Save Your Life Nat Bernstein May 23, 2017 Interview Interview: Marjorie Ingall Nat Bernstein May 14, 2017 Video Good Girls, Nasty Women: Gender and American Jewish History Great news for those of you who couldn’t make it to “Good Girls, Nasty Women: Gender and American Jewish History” last month: a recording of the full… Nat Bernstein April 26, 2017 Recommended Reading JBC Bookshelf: 8 New Books for Passover 5777 With Passover just around the corner, it’s time to start stocking your bookshelves for the holiday! Slip away from your seder and sink into poetry, memoirs, and new… Nat Bernstein April 4, 2017 Essay Want to Understand Israel? Start Reading… Internal Dialogue is a Jewish Book Council blog series on literary trends, ideas, and discussions of interest to Jewish readers and community organizers,… Nat Bernstein March 1, 2017 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Story of Hebrew If I had to sum up this book cover in one word, it would be “AMEN”: Lewis Glinert’s linguistic history The Story of Hebrew boasts one of the loveliest covers of… Nat Bernstein February 2, 2017 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: On Turpentine Lane It’s been kind of a topsy-turvy week, so the image of a quaint suburban house ripped from the earth and spun like Dorothy Gale’s twister-borne home feels about right… Nat Bernstein January 24, 2017 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Widow of Wall Street If you enjoy dark fiction about family relationships and deception, keep an eye out for a new novel coming out this April from bestselling author Randy Susan… Nat Bernstein January 10, 2017 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Breaking the Chains of Gravity I’m not sure I can express how much I am looking forward to seeing Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures this weekend: the incredible true story of three black… Nat Bernstein January 5, 2017 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: E. L. Doctorow’s Collected Stories Posted by Nat BernsteinA year and a half after the passing of “the reigning godfather of historical fiction,” a new collection of fifteen stories… Nat Bernstein December 20, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Menorah Perhaps one of the best religious traditions I have adopted for myself as an adult is hearing the Book of Lamentations read at Congregation Shearith Israel, the… Nat Bernstein December 13, 2016 Essay Brontë, Beyoncé, and the Case for Mediocre Adaptations of Great Literature Internal Dialogue is a Jewish Book Council blog series on literary trends, ideas, and discussions of interest to Jewish readers and community organizers,… Nat Bernstein December 2, 2016 Pagination Page 1 Next page ›› Children’s A Hat for Mrs. Goldman Michelle Edwards; G. Brian Karas, illus. Nonfiction Alligator Candy David Kushner Fiction Albina and the Dog-Men Alejandro Jodorowsky Visual Arts Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s Diana Tuite Fiction Three Early Stories J. D. Salinger Fiction Above Us Only Sky: A Novel Michele Young-Stone Nonfiction Childhood Jona Oberski; Ralph Manheim, trans. Fiction The Sunlit Night Rebecca Dinerstein Knight Nonfiction The Lost Book of Mormon Avi Steinberg Fiction The Confabulist Steven Galloway Fiction The Best Place on Earth: Stories Ayelet Tsabari Fiction Jewish Mothers Never Die Natalie David-Weill; Molly Grogan, trans. Cookbook Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London’s Ottolenghi Yotam Ottolenghi Fiction After Birth Elisa Albert Fiction Diary of the Fall Michel Laub Pagination Page 1 Next page ››
Video Good Girls, Nasty Women: Gender and American Jewish History Great news for those of you who couldn’t make it to “Good Girls, Nasty Women: Gender and American Jewish History” last month: a recording of the full… Nat Bernstein April 26, 2017
Recommended Reading JBC Bookshelf: 8 New Books for Passover 5777 With Passover just around the corner, it’s time to start stocking your bookshelves for the holiday! Slip away from your seder and sink into poetry, memoirs, and new… Nat Bernstein April 4, 2017
Essay Want to Understand Israel? Start Reading… Internal Dialogue is a Jewish Book Council blog series on literary trends, ideas, and discussions of interest to Jewish readers and community organizers,… Nat Bernstein March 1, 2017
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Story of Hebrew If I had to sum up this book cover in one word, it would be “AMEN”: Lewis Glinert’s linguistic history The Story of Hebrew boasts one of the loveliest covers of… Nat Bernstein February 2, 2017
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: On Turpentine Lane It’s been kind of a topsy-turvy week, so the image of a quaint suburban house ripped from the earth and spun like Dorothy Gale’s twister-borne home feels about right… Nat Bernstein January 24, 2017
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Widow of Wall Street If you enjoy dark fiction about family relationships and deception, keep an eye out for a new novel coming out this April from bestselling author Randy Susan… Nat Bernstein January 10, 2017
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Breaking the Chains of Gravity I’m not sure I can express how much I am looking forward to seeing Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures this weekend: the incredible true story of three black… Nat Bernstein January 5, 2017
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: E. L. Doctorow’s Collected Stories Posted by Nat BernsteinA year and a half after the passing of “the reigning godfather of historical fiction,” a new collection of fifteen stories… Nat Bernstein December 20, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Menorah Perhaps one of the best religious traditions I have adopted for myself as an adult is hearing the Book of Lamentations read at Congregation Shearith Israel, the… Nat Bernstein December 13, 2016
Essay Brontë, Beyoncé, and the Case for Mediocre Adaptations of Great Literature Internal Dialogue is a Jewish Book Council blog series on literary trends, ideas, and discussions of interest to Jewish readers and community organizers,… Nat Bernstein December 2, 2016
