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Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter
JBC-land is buzzing from all of the new authors and books coming out this year. We have over 250 authors signed up to tour through the Jewish Book Network, which means our offices are jammed with books we’re eager to read (Network authors – can’t wait to meet you in June!). The full-list of authors will be made public in August, but in the meantime look for the Jewish Book Network badge when browsing through our new reviews. On another note, in the coming weeks be on the lookout for an announcement about a new book club initiative launching in August. We’re really excited about it and think you will be too.
The Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength, Daniel Gordis (August 2012, Wiley)
Read reviews of Daniel Gordis’s books on the JBC website
JBC-land is buzzing from all of the new authors and books coming out this year. We have over 250 authors signed up to tour through the Jewish Book Network, which means our offices are jammed with books we’re eager to read (Network authors – can’t wait to meet you in June!). The full-list of authors will be made public in August, but in the meantime look for the Jewish Book Network badge when browsing through our new reviews. On another note, in the coming weeks be on the lookout for an announcement about a new book club initiative launching in August. We’re really excited about it and think you will be too. Finally, with Shavuot around the corner, it’s a good time to check out our Shavuot reading list. Find it here. Now, onto the shelf…
, Steve Guttenberg (May You had us at Three Men and a Baby…
Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890 – 1940
, Stephen Brown and Richard R. Brettell (May 2012, Yale University Press)
, Stephen Brown and Richard R. Brettell (May 2012, Yale University Press)New Yorkers: Check out The Jewish Museum’s Edouard Vuillard exhibition running from May 4‑September 23
The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition
, Doreen Carvajal (August 2012, Riverhead)
, Doreen Carvajal (August 2012, Riverhead)Doreen Carvajal’s search to recover her Catholic family’s hidden Sephardic roots
The Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength, Daniel Gordis (August 2012, Wiley)
Read reviews of Daniel Gordis’s books on the JBC website
, Jonathan Tropper (August Our Book Cover of the Week this week
Zoo Time: A Novel
, Howard Jacobson (October 2012, Bloomsbury USA)
Zoo Time: A Novel
, Howard Jacobson (October 2012, Bloomsbury USA)Read reviews of Howard Jacobson’s books on the JBC website
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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