Dear Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Com­mu­ni­ty,

This year was an incred­i­bly mean­ing­ful cel­e­bra­tion of 100 years of Jew­ish Book Month. Your part­ner­ship brought Jew­ish Book Month into your com­mu­ni­ties and out into the larg­er world. 

Togeth­er, we hon­ored Fan­ny Gold­stein’s lega­cy with book fes­ti­vals across North Amer­i­ca — in part­ner­ship with our JBC Net­work Mem­ber Sites. We reached over 1,000 read­ers at Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Low­er East Side Pop Up Book­store, part­nered with over 200 com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions and mem­bers through social media, events, and our Jew­ish Book Month 100 dis­play kits, and engaged young read­ers through our Jew­ish Book Month 100 Day School Events and our PJ Library Novem­ber mail­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion. Jew­ish Book Coun­cil also proud­ly launched our newest ini­tia­tive, Nu Reads, in hon­or of the cen­ten­ni­al.

As we reflect on the 100 years of Jew­ish Book Month, we are inspired by what the next 100 years of Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture will look like. Thank you for the con­tin­u­ous sup­port in hon­or­ing Fan­ny’s lega­cy and keep­ing Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture in read­ers’ hands.

Jew­ish Book Month 100 Pop Up Bookstore

In hon­or of the 100th anniver­sary of Jew­ish Book Month, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil — in part­ner­ship with UJA Fed­er­a­­tion-NY and the Charles H. Rev­son Foun­da­tion — turned 81 Hes­ter Street into a cozy Jew­ish book­store. Joined by our friends in Jew­ish com­mu­nal and pub­lish­ing spaces, author sign­ings, and a spe­cial Russ & Daugh­ters give­away, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil dis­trib­uted 1,000 books to our Man­hat­tan based read­ers to kick off Jew­ish Book Month 100!

Jew­ish Book Month 100 Com­mu­ni­ty Partners

Jew­ish Book Coun­cil part­nered with over 100 com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions on our ​“Share Your Shelf. Share Your Sto­ry.” social media cam­paign, and — thanks to the sup­port of a UJA Fed­er­a­tion – NY grant — brought Jew­ish Book Month direct­ly to doorsteps across New York by dis­trib­ut­ing more than 100 Jew­ish Book Month Dis­play Kits through­out the month of Novem­ber. The kits were designed by Eitan Guten­mach­er and includ­ed posters, books, lit­er­ary resources, and more!

Jew­ish Book Coun­cil also col­lab­o­rat­ed with mul­ti­ple Jew­ish artists this year to pro­duce four one-of-a-kind Jew­ish Book Month 100 posters and part­nered on events and cam­paigns across North Amer­i­ca in hon­or of the momen­tous hol­i­day.

High­lights include a Book Swap with the West End Muse­um in Boston, a lun­cheon with Geor­gia Hunter at The Weitz­man Muse­um in Philadel­phia, and a book launch for In God’s Name by Tomer Per­si­co in part­ner­ship with The Shalom Hart­man Insti­tute the Mar­lene Mey­er­son JCC Man­hat­tan. You can find the full list of our Jew­ish Book Month 100 fes­tiv­i­ties at this link. 

If you have any events or pho­tos from Jew­ish Book Month 100 that you would like to share with Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, please email them to arielle@​jewishbooks.​org.