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…

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…

Inter­nal Dia­logue is a Jew­ish Book Coun­cil blog series on lit­er­ary trends, ideas, and dis­cus­sions of inter­est to Jew­ish read­ers and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­ers,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinA year and a half after the pass­ing of ​“the reign­ing god­fa­ther of his­tor­i­cal fic­tion,” a new col­lec­tion of fif­teen sto­ries…

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…

Inter­nal Dia­logue is a Jew­ish Book Coun­cil blog series on lit­er­ary trends, ideas, and dis­cus­sions of inter­est to Jew­ish read­ers and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­ers,…