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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: Street Smart Posted by Nat BernsteinWere you aware that over the past decade Americans have been driving fewer total miles each year — a pattern that hasn’t trended… Nat Bernstein September 9, 2015 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Women in Clothes Posted by Nat BernsteinI just came across the book covers for the U.S. and U.K. editions of Women in Clothes at the same time and I honestly cannot decide which… Nat Bernstein September 1, 2015 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Secret of Chabad Posted by Nat BernsteinVeteran Chabad emissary to Yorba Linda and sitting president of the Rabbinical Council of Orange County and Long Beach, California Rabbi… Nat Bernstein August 26, 2015 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Piece of Mind Posted by Nat BernsteinWhenever W. W. Norton & Co. picks up a work of fiction, you know it’s going to be good — especially when they give it a book… Nat Bernstein August 20, 2015 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Enchanted Islands Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s been a great couple weeks for historical fiction, from Janis Cooke Newman’s list of Top 5 Historical Novels for summer 2015 (and… Nat Bernstein August 12, 2015 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Days of Awe Posted by Nat BernsteinSummer definitely ain’t over yet: August is bringing in a hearty new crop of books to read before the kids get back from camp — including Days… Nat Bernstein August 5, 2015 Interview Interview: Barbara Klein Moss by Nat BernsteinIntrigued by a nefarious Jewish character in Barbara Klein Moss’s debut novel, Jewish Book Council sought to learn more about the sympathetic… Nat Bernstein July 28, 2015 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Golem and the Jinni, Indonesian Edition Posted by Nat BernsteinIn case you needed an excuse to reread Helene Wecker’s stunning 2013 novel, the book cover for the Indonesian edition of The Golem and the Jinni… Nat Bernstein July 23, 2015 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Good on Paper Posted by Nat BernsteinMark your calendars for January 26, because Rachel Cantor’s next book will be hitting the shelves!Those who read Rachel’s first novel,… Nat Bernstein July 14, 2015 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Best Place on Earth Posted by Nat BernsteinExcellent news! Ayelet Tsabari’s debut collection of short stories, The Best Place on Earth—which won the 2015 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish… Nat Bernstein July 10, 2015 Essay No, I Have Not Read ‘The Jew in the Lotus’ Posted by Nat BernsteinWe all have one: that book recommended to us over and over again that we never read. Perhaps it becomes something of a personal badge past… Nat Bernstein July 9, 2015 Essay Internal Dialogue: What’s With All the Social Justice Seders? Posted by Nat BernsteinI’m afraid to admit it, but I have little patience for Passover. Almost none. And the seder least of all.Don’t get me wrong: I observe the… Nat Bernstein April 9, 2015 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 5 Next page ›› Cookbook The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home Nick Zukin and Michael Zusman Nonfiction Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler, eds. Fiction Margot Jillian Cantor Nonfiction Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany Robert Liberles Nonfiction The Holocaust as Culture Imre Kertesz; Thomas Cooper, trans. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Street Smart Posted by Nat BernsteinWere you aware that over the past decade Americans have been driving fewer total miles each year — a pattern that hasn’t trended… Nat Bernstein September 9, 2015
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Women in Clothes Posted by Nat BernsteinI just came across the book covers for the U.S. and U.K. editions of Women in Clothes at the same time and I honestly cannot decide which… Nat Bernstein September 1, 2015
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Secret of Chabad Posted by Nat BernsteinVeteran Chabad emissary to Yorba Linda and sitting president of the Rabbinical Council of Orange County and Long Beach, California Rabbi… Nat Bernstein August 26, 2015
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Piece of Mind Posted by Nat BernsteinWhenever W. W. Norton & Co. picks up a work of fiction, you know it’s going to be good — especially when they give it a book… Nat Bernstein August 20, 2015
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Enchanted Islands Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s been a great couple weeks for historical fiction, from Janis Cooke Newman’s list of Top 5 Historical Novels for summer 2015 (and… Nat Bernstein August 12, 2015
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Days of Awe Posted by Nat BernsteinSummer definitely ain’t over yet: August is bringing in a hearty new crop of books to read before the kids get back from camp — including Days… Nat Bernstein August 5, 2015
Interview Interview: Barbara Klein Moss by Nat BernsteinIntrigued by a nefarious Jewish character in Barbara Klein Moss’s debut novel, Jewish Book Council sought to learn more about the sympathetic… Nat Bernstein July 28, 2015
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Golem and the Jinni, Indonesian Edition Posted by Nat BernsteinIn case you needed an excuse to reread Helene Wecker’s stunning 2013 novel, the book cover for the Indonesian edition of The Golem and the Jinni… Nat Bernstein July 23, 2015
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Good on Paper Posted by Nat BernsteinMark your calendars for January 26, because Rachel Cantor’s next book will be hitting the shelves!Those who read Rachel’s first novel,… Nat Bernstein July 14, 2015
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Best Place on Earth Posted by Nat BernsteinExcellent news! Ayelet Tsabari’s debut collection of short stories, The Best Place on Earth—which won the 2015 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish… Nat Bernstein July 10, 2015
Essay No, I Have Not Read ‘The Jew in the Lotus’ Posted by Nat BernsteinWe all have one: that book recommended to us over and over again that we never read. Perhaps it becomes something of a personal badge past… Nat Bernstein July 9, 2015
Essay Internal Dialogue: What’s With All the Social Justice Seders? Posted by Nat BernsteinI’m afraid to admit it, but I have little patience for Passover. Almost none. And the seder least of all.Don’t get me wrong: I observe the… Nat Bernstein April 9, 2015
Nonfiction Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler, eds.
Nonfiction Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany Robert Liberles
