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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.

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15 Essen­tial Essays and Inter­views from 2015

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Nat Bern­stein
December 24, 2015
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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Ques­tion of the Ani­mal and Religion

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinJew­ish Book Coun­cil is just begin­ning to pack up our table at the 47th Annu­al Con­fer­ence of the Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies in Boston,…
Nat Bern­stein
December 15, 2015
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8 Books to Pre­order Over the 8 Nights of Hanukkah

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinBack when we first start­ed the Eight Nights of Sto­ries series here on The ProsenPeo­ple, I men­tioned a child­hood friend’s fam­i­ly…
Nat Bern­stein
December 10, 2015
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Book Cov­er of the Week: The End of Days

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinLooks of con­cern and alarm were exchanged around the office when man­ag­ing edi­tor Bec­ca spon­ta­neous­ly exclaimed, ​“Oh good, the End of Days has…
Nat Bern­stein
November 25, 2015
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Writ­ing Across the Lin­guae Fran­cae of Mid­cen­tu­ry Jew­ish America

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinJew­ish Book Coun­cil is proud to announce the real­iza­tion of its project to cre­ate a dig­i­tized archive of the Jew­ish Book Annu­al in…
Nat Bern­stein
November 23, 2015
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Inter­view: Rebec­ca Dinerstein

Nat Bern­stein
November 20, 2015
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“An Age of Cre­ative Read­ers Makes for Lit­er­a­ture Which Is Immortal”

Post­ed by Nat Bern­stein.Fif­teen years after Fan­ny Gold­stein estab­lished the first Jew­ish Book Week at the West End Branch of the Boston Pub­lic Library in 1925,…
Nat Bern­stein
November 9, 2015
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Book Cov­er of the Week: Noto­ri­ous RBG

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinYes­ter­day, a book released last week hit The New York Times​’s best sell­ers list:If you are not already famil­iar with the blog/​meme…
Nat Bern­stein
November 5, 2015
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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Bus Dri­ver Who Want­ed to Be God

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinFour­teen years after its orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in Eng­lish trans­la­tion, Etgar Keret’s sem­i­nal col­lec­tion of short sto­ries was reis­sued…
Nat Bern­stein
October 29, 2015
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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Hours Count

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinDon’t you kin­da wish all books about the Rosen­bergs looked like this?I’ll be hon­est, His­tor­i­cal Fic­tion does not always appeal to me — but now…
Nat Bern­stein
October 20, 2015
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Book Cov­er of the Week: Wait

Pulitzer Prize and Nation­al Book Award win­ner C. K. Williams suc­cumbed to mul­ti­ple melanoma yes­ter­day at the age of 78. One of Amer­i­ca’s great­est poets of the turn of…
Nat Bern­stein
September 21, 2015
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10 Awe­some Books for the 10 Days of Awe 5776

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinEach year pro­duces a fresh crop of fic­tion, non­fic­tion, poet­ry, and mem­oir address­ing the Jew­ish High Hol­i­days and the themes they embody:…
Nat Bern­stein
September 14, 2015

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Michelle Edwards; G. Brian Karas, illus.
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Alli­ga­tor Candy
David Kushner
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Fic­tion
Albi­na and the Dog-Men
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Brand-New & Ter­rif­ic: Alex Katz in the 1950s
Diana Tuite
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Fic­tion
Three Ear­ly Stories
J. D. Salinger
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Fic­tion
Above Us Only Sky: A Novel
Michele Young-Stone
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Non­fic­tion
Child­hood
Jona Oberski; Ralph Manheim, trans.
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The Sun­lit Night
Rebec­ca Din­er­stein Knight
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The Lost Book of Mormon
Avi Stein­berg
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The Con­fab­u­list
Steven Galloway
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The Best Place on Earth: Stories
Ayelet Tsabari
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Yotam Ottolenghi
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Jew­ish Moth­ers Nev­er Die
Natalie David-Weill; Molly Grogan, trans.
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After Birth
Elisa Albert
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Michel Laub

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