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Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter
This fall brings not only a bounty of fiction, but a bounty of nonfiction, as well. This edition of “JBC Bookshelf” offers memoirs, a “biography,” and humor, taking us from Israel to Egypt to France (keeping with the “travel” trend). Many of the below titles will be reviewed in our fall or winter issue of Jewish Book World, so be on the look out for more about each of them. And, while we love bringing you fall book treats, we also have another (literary) treat in store for you…stay tuned…
Jerusalem: The Biography
Watch Simon Sebag Montefiore talk about Jerusalem with the BBC here.
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter
Have you read Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise?
Bad for the Jews
Fun Fact: Scott Sherman writes for The Colbert Report.
The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
Lucette Lagnado won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her Memoir The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World 
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
Meir Shalev won the 2007 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for A Pigeon and a Boy
Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Naomi Firestone-Teeter is the CEO of the Jewish Book Council. Prior to becoming executive director and then CEO, she served as founding editor of the JBC website and managing editor of Jewish Book World. Naomi sits on the board of Jewish Creativity International.Naomi was named to the New York Jewish Week’s 2019 “36 Under 36” and Algemeiner’s 2018 list of the 100 people positively influencing Jewish life and was included on the Global Jewish 100 list by Izzy in 2020. She graduated from Emory University with degrees in English and Art History and, in addition, studied at University College London. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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