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Jewish Book Month 2026
This year, as we’re honoring the 101st Jewish Book Month (November 3 – December 3), let’s come together to celebrate authors and readers that keep the Jewish story alive!
Books and the authors who write them are an invaluable resource, to provide comfort and meaning, to challenge us and spark debate and dialogue. To bring us together as the people of the book. And as we’re turning to the books we love and the stories we haven’t yet discovered, authors are putting pen to paper and fighting to have their voices heard.
Readers are the pillar of the literary ecosystem. They pass books down from generation-to-generation, facilitate conversations at book clubs, recommend favorite books to friends, and are the ones who uplift and champion our authors. Without our readers, books would not part of our story.
In 1925, Fanny Goldstein, a librarian at the Boston Public Library, decided that Jewish books and Jewish pride were worth celebrating, so she set up a display of Jewish books and initiated the first Jewish Book Week. Over one hundred years later, we still think Jewish books are worth celebrating and that their stories are worth being passed down to the next generation!
Ways to Celebrate
- Join Nu Reads (and give it as a gift!)
- Invite your local school to join one of JBC’s school author events.
- Ask your local library to stock Jewish books that you love.
- Ask your local book store to stock Jewish books that you love.
- Attend an author event at a local synagogue, JCC or Jewish Federation.
- Buy a book by a Jewish author.
- Create a bulletin board dedicated to Jewish Book Month in a public community space.
- Display a table of Jewish books in your library, synagogue, JCC.
- Find a new book to love on Jewish Book Council’s website.
- Find your next read on a Jewish Book Council reading list.
- If you will be in Jerusalem, visit the beautiful new National Library of Israel.
- Invite an author to speak in your community.
- Join or start a book club.
- Listen to a podcast, like the newest one that’s all about Jewish books, The Five Books, or the Jewish kidlit podcast The Book of Life.
- Organize a community read.
- Organize a school read-a-thon.
- Read a Jewish book.
- Read a Jewish book to children in your home or community.
- Recommend a book to friends, your book club or your social media network.
- Send out a bookmark template to your community, and have members create a Jewish Book Month bookmark.
- Sign up to get weekly book reviews and news from Jewish Book Council.
Jewish Broadcasting Service is the media sponsor of Jewish Book Month 2026
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