Inde­pen­dent Book­store Day is this week­end! If you’re vis­it­ing your local book­store to sup­port your local lit­er­ary anchor on Sat­ur­day — or any day of the week — let us…

My name is Eva Mozes Kor. I am a sur­vivor of Auschwitz, a sur­vivor of human med­ical exper­i­men­ta­tion on twins by Dr. Josef Men­gele, and now, I am…

With Passover just around the cor­ner, it’s time to start stock­ing your book­shelves for the hol­i­day! Slip away from your seder and sink into poet­ry, mem­oirs, and new…

The Jew­ish Book Coun­cil staff shares what we’ve been read­ing over the last month:Car­olynHow did the small coun­try of Israel, with a pop­u­la­tion of only six…

Ear­li­er this week, Ellen Uman­sky recalled the com­pli­cat­ed kashrut of her child­hood home. With the recent release of her nov­el The For­tu­nate Ones, Ellen is guest…

If I had to sum up this book cov­er in one word, it would be ​“AMEN”: Lewis Glinert’s lin­guis­tic his­to­ry The Sto­ry of Hebrew boasts one of the loveli­est cov­ers of…