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Essay The Middle East in the Middle of the Night Gregory Levey‘s newest book, How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment, is now available. He will be blogging all… Gregory Levey October 11, 2010
Essay The Best Part of Traveling Earlier this week, Martin Fletcher wrote about stories he’s covered for NBC’s London bureau and about choosing a title for his book. His newest… Martin Fletcher September 29, 2010
Essay Field Stories Without Names Yesterday, Martin Fletcher wrote about stories he’s covered for NBC’s London bureau. His newest book, Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of… Martin Fletcher September 28, 2010
Essay From Serious News to the Tabloids Martin Fletcher’s newest book, Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation, will be available tomorrow. He will be blogging all week for… Martin Fletcher September 27, 2010
Recommended Reading Israeli Fiction Round Up Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterDon’t have the funds to travel over to Israel this fall? Well, we have an easy solution…bring Israel to your home with this great fall line-up… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 2, 2010
News Israeli Flash Fiction Reviewed on Words Without Borders Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIsrael novelist and short-story writer Alex Epstein’s flash fiction collection, Blue Has No South, is reviewed by Jonathan Blitzer… JBC Staff June 24, 2010
Essay Consider Your Audience In her last posts, Miriam Libicki blogged on taking Egged buses across Israel and on her process of drawing comic books. She has been blogging… Miriam Libicki May 28, 2010
Essay Egged Bus Life In her last post, Miriam Libicki blogged on her process for creating the comic series jobnik. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Miriam Libicki May 26, 2010
Essay The Evolution of a Page: jobnik! 8, Page 11 Miriam Libicki, an American Jewish girl from a religious home, enlists in the Israeli Army one summer against everyone’s better judgment. Many qualities seem to… Miriam Libicki May 24, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Aharon Appelfeld and Nicole Krauss Bob Goldfarb has been blogging all week at the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim. More than a generation separates novelist Nicole Krauss,… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: JSF and Amir Gutfreund Bob Goldfarb has been blogging about the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim all week. Stay tuned for his final post later today.Jonathan Safran… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Paul Auster and David Grossman In his previous posts on the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Bob Goldfarb wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing,”… Bob Goldfarb May 6, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Zeruya Shalev and Siri Hustvedt In his last posts, Bob Goldfarb, a regular reviewer for Jewish Book World, wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing” and… Bob Goldfarb May 6, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Montefiore and Oz In his last post, Bob Goldfarb, a regular reviewer for Jewish Book World, wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing.” He is… Bob Goldfarb May 5, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Holocaust Writing This week Bob Goldfarb, a regular reviewer for Jewish Book World, is blogging about the International Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim in… Bob Goldfarb May 4, 2010
Essay More on Assaf Gavron… Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterDid you like Assaf Gavron’s posts on the blog last week (find them here)? If so, read more about his new novel, Almost… JBC Staff April 30, 2010
