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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: Karl Marx, Greatness and Illusion Posted by Nat BernsteinWhile the contents of a philosophy-packed biography of Karl Marx is almost certain to send my head spinning, the clean lines of its book… Nat Bernstein July 5, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: They Were Like Family to Me Posted by Nat BernsteinIf you’re surprised to discover that Helen Maryles Shankman already has another title due out this October, look closer:For reasons the author… Nat Bernstein June 28, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This Posted by Nat BernsteinIt took opposite journeys for a mother and daughter to each find themselves at the start of their adult lives: one needed to leave France to… Nat Bernstein June 21, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Reason for Flowers Posted by Nat BernsteinOne of my very favorite Jewish holiday traditions is coming up: beflowering one’s home for Shavuot! Owing to a midrash that Mount Sinai… Nat Bernstein June 7, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Barbra Streisand’s Jewish Lives Biography Posted by Nat BernsteinWhat’s a girl to do at 74 years old with a No. 1 selling album for every decade since 1964 to her name?National treasure… Nat Bernstein May 17, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Here I Am Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s been over a decade since Jonathan Safran Foer’s last novel—Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close—was published. But as fans of Foer’s… Nat Bernstein May 10, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Warp Posted by Nat BernsteinYou know how some shows take a few episodes to find their legs? I initially gave up on Parks and Recreation, for example, disappointed… Nat Bernstein March 18, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Orphan #8 Posted by Nat BernsteinOrphan Number Eight author Kim Van Alkemade shared the cover for the novel’s new large-print edition last week, and it’s no wonder she’s… Nat Bernstein March 8, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar Posted by Nat BernsteinI don’t know anyone who didn’t grow up with Eric Carle, whether has a young reader or a parent or a grandparent. Universally… Nat Bernstein February 11, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Poems That Make Grown Women Cry Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s already February, and with a certain day dedicated to romance on the greeting card calendar falling over a weekend this year,… Nat Bernstein February 5, 2016 Recommended Reading Spring 2016 Book Preview Posted by Nat BernsteinJanuary 2016Primo Levi’s Resistance by Sergio Luzzatto (Metropolitan Books)The Road to Resilience: From Chaos to Celebration by… Nat Bernstein January 12, 2016 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Fire and Ice Posted by Nat BernsteinIf you had to guess which month of the year sees the highest cookbook sales, you might place your bet on one boasting a bountiful season… Nat Bernstein January 5, 2016 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3 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 ››
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Karl Marx, Greatness and Illusion Posted by Nat BernsteinWhile the contents of a philosophy-packed biography of Karl Marx is almost certain to send my head spinning, the clean lines of its book… Nat Bernstein July 5, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: They Were Like Family to Me Posted by Nat BernsteinIf you’re surprised to discover that Helen Maryles Shankman already has another title due out this October, look closer:For reasons the author… Nat Bernstein June 28, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This Posted by Nat BernsteinIt took opposite journeys for a mother and daughter to each find themselves at the start of their adult lives: one needed to leave France to… Nat Bernstein June 21, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Reason for Flowers Posted by Nat BernsteinOne of my very favorite Jewish holiday traditions is coming up: beflowering one’s home for Shavuot! Owing to a midrash that Mount Sinai… Nat Bernstein June 7, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Barbra Streisand’s Jewish Lives Biography Posted by Nat BernsteinWhat’s a girl to do at 74 years old with a No. 1 selling album for every decade since 1964 to her name?National treasure… Nat Bernstein May 17, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Here I Am Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s been over a decade since Jonathan Safran Foer’s last novel—Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close—was published. But as fans of Foer’s… Nat Bernstein May 10, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Warp Posted by Nat BernsteinYou know how some shows take a few episodes to find their legs? I initially gave up on Parks and Recreation, for example, disappointed… Nat Bernstein March 18, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Orphan #8 Posted by Nat BernsteinOrphan Number Eight author Kim Van Alkemade shared the cover for the novel’s new large-print edition last week, and it’s no wonder she’s… Nat Bernstein March 8, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar Posted by Nat BernsteinI don’t know anyone who didn’t grow up with Eric Carle, whether has a young reader or a parent or a grandparent. Universally… Nat Bernstein February 11, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Poems That Make Grown Women Cry Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s already February, and with a certain day dedicated to romance on the greeting card calendar falling over a weekend this year,… Nat Bernstein February 5, 2016
Recommended Reading Spring 2016 Book Preview Posted by Nat BernsteinJanuary 2016Primo Levi’s Resistance by Sergio Luzzatto (Metropolitan Books)The Road to Resilience: From Chaos to Celebration by… Nat Bernstein January 12, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Fire and Ice Posted by Nat BernsteinIf you had to guess which month of the year sees the highest cookbook sales, you might place your bet on one boasting a bountiful season… Nat Bernstein January 5, 2016
