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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinFour­teen years after its orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in Eng­lish trans­la­tion, Etgar Keret’s sem­i­nal col­lec­tion of short sto­ries was reis­sued…

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…

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…

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:…