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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: What We Brought Back Posted by Nat BernsteinAs summer programs and, God willing, this summer’s war between Israel and Hamas draw to a close, one has to wonder at the experiences of the… Nat Bernstein August 7, 2014 Essay Internal Dialogue: Portraits of Intermarriage Posted by Nat BernsteinThe findings of the Pew Research Center survey of United States Jews published last fall indicated a rise in Jewish intermarriage that… Nat Bernstein July 31, 2014 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry Posted by Nat BernsteinThis week at the farmers market I marveled at the fresh currants currently in season: spherical crimson and blush-colored jewels on… Nat Bernstein July 30, 2014 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Language of Paradise Posted by Nat BernsteinThe microcosm encased within a glass terrarium on the book cover for Barbara Klein Moss’s forthcoming novel The Language of… Nat Bernstein July 25, 2014 Essay Internal Dialogue: Let’s Talk Soccer Posted by Nat BernsteinLiel Leibovitz is participating in the 2014 – 2015 JBC Network with A Broken Hallelujah: The Life of Leonard Cohen. It is… Nat Bernstein July 18, 2014 Essay The Mothers’ Kaddish Posted by Nat BernsteinWe are all still reeling from the past weeks of terror and grief over the murders of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrah, three Jewish young… Nat Bernstein July 11, 2014 Interview Interview: Joshua Max Feldman JBC’s Nat Bernstein recently sat down with Joshua Max Feldman to discuss his debut novel, The Book of Jonah, which will be published on February 4th by Henry Holt and… Nat Bernstein January 23, 2014 Essay A Tu B’Shvat Post in the Dead of Winter If ever there was a harsh reminder that Tu B’shvat is not a celebration of the spring, this year would be it. Just a few short weeks since Jerusalem was… Nat Bernstein January 16, 2014 Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Stories: The Yiddish Masters Posted by Nat Bernstein Yes, if you’re wondering, my parents have been following the entire Eight Nights of Stories blog series. My mom has no memory of the night she… Nat Bernstein November 13, 2013 Recommended Reading Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a… Rabbi? Read all of the posts in our Eight Nights of Stories series here.Hanukkah Bear by Eric A. Kimmel; illus. Mike WohnoutkaI have to admit, I was extremely puzzled when… Nat Bernstein November 12, 2013 Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Stories We know, it seems far too early to be planning for Chanukah. For all the “Thanksgivingukkah” frenzy that’s been about since the start of autumn, the calendric… Nat Bernstein November 4, 2013 Interview An Interview with Adelle Waldman, Part III The Jewish Book Council is publishing an extend online edition of our Jewish Book World interview with Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., over… Nat Bernstein October 11, 2013 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 8 Next page ›› Cookbook The Macaroon Bible Dan Cohen; Alice Gao, photographs 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: What We Brought Back Posted by Nat BernsteinAs summer programs and, God willing, this summer’s war between Israel and Hamas draw to a close, one has to wonder at the experiences of the… Nat Bernstein August 7, 2014
Essay Internal Dialogue: Portraits of Intermarriage Posted by Nat BernsteinThe findings of the Pew Research Center survey of United States Jews published last fall indicated a rise in Jewish intermarriage that… Nat Bernstein July 31, 2014
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry Posted by Nat BernsteinThis week at the farmers market I marveled at the fresh currants currently in season: spherical crimson and blush-colored jewels on… Nat Bernstein July 30, 2014
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Language of Paradise Posted by Nat BernsteinThe microcosm encased within a glass terrarium on the book cover for Barbara Klein Moss’s forthcoming novel The Language of… Nat Bernstein July 25, 2014
Essay Internal Dialogue: Let’s Talk Soccer Posted by Nat BernsteinLiel Leibovitz is participating in the 2014 – 2015 JBC Network with A Broken Hallelujah: The Life of Leonard Cohen. It is… Nat Bernstein July 18, 2014
Essay The Mothers’ Kaddish Posted by Nat BernsteinWe are all still reeling from the past weeks of terror and grief over the murders of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrah, three Jewish young… Nat Bernstein July 11, 2014
Interview Interview: Joshua Max Feldman JBC’s Nat Bernstein recently sat down with Joshua Max Feldman to discuss his debut novel, The Book of Jonah, which will be published on February 4th by Henry Holt and… Nat Bernstein January 23, 2014
Essay A Tu B’Shvat Post in the Dead of Winter If ever there was a harsh reminder that Tu B’shvat is not a celebration of the spring, this year would be it. Just a few short weeks since Jerusalem was… Nat Bernstein January 16, 2014
Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Stories: The Yiddish Masters Posted by Nat Bernstein Yes, if you’re wondering, my parents have been following the entire Eight Nights of Stories blog series. My mom has no memory of the night she… Nat Bernstein November 13, 2013
Recommended Reading Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a… Rabbi? Read all of the posts in our Eight Nights of Stories series here.Hanukkah Bear by Eric A. Kimmel; illus. Mike WohnoutkaI have to admit, I was extremely puzzled when… Nat Bernstein November 12, 2013
Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Stories We know, it seems far too early to be planning for Chanukah. For all the “Thanksgivingukkah” frenzy that’s been about since the start of autumn, the calendric… Nat Bernstein November 4, 2013
Interview An Interview with Adelle Waldman, Part III The Jewish Book Council is publishing an extend online edition of our Jewish Book World interview with Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., over… Nat Bernstein October 11, 2013
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
