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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Eden Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterYael Hedaya, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her novel Accidents, is a favorite here at… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 30, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: My Russian Grandmother and Her American… Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNational Jewish Book Award Winner Meir Shalev has a memoir coming out on October 4th (translated by NETWORK… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 23, 2011
Essay Samuel Thrope: International Historian of Mystery On Monday, Aaron Roller, an editor of Mima’amakim, wrote about the Jewish poetry conspiracy.Of all the poets whose work I’ve come across while reviewing… Aaron Roller March 2, 2011
Essay JBC in Jerusalem: Simtaot Books Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterOur friends over at Urim Publications connected us with one of their new colleagues in the field, Simtaot… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 23, 2011
Recommended Reading War & Love, Love & War Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPoet Aharon Shabtai’s latest collection, War & Love, Love & War, is now available. Words without Borders recently… Naomi Firestone-Teeter December 9, 2010
Recommended Reading Jewish Book World Review: To the End of the Land Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn honor of David Grossman making Amazon’s top ten this year, and with the winter issue going in the mail next, we thought we’d offer… Maron L. Waxman November 5, 2010
Excerpt Excerpt from Yael Hedaya’s Eden Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe fall issue of Zeek is now available! The newest issue features fiction from Yael Goldstein Love. Also, check out an… JBC Staff October 19, 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 A Travel Tip In his last posts, David Rosenberg, whose latest books are A Literary Bible: An Original Translation and An Educated Man: A Dual Biography of… David Rosenberg February 26, 2010
Essay The Curious Case of Professor Barabtarlo Michael Idov is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and the author of the novel Ground Up. In his previous posts, Michael wrote about… Michael Idov December 18, 2009
Essay The Act of Self-Translation Michael Idov is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and the author of the novel Ground Up. He’ll be blogging all week… Michael Idov December 14, 2009
News Project Aladdin: Arabic and Farsi Translations of Key Holocaust Works Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLiel Leibovitz of TabletMag looks at Project Aladdin, a new initiative to publish Holocaust works in Farsi and… JBC Staff November 3, 2009
Essay The Tower of Babel and Crisis of Translation In her last posts, Ellen Frankel looked at how to make the Bible PG and looked at “What is Jewish Literature?”. She has been guest-blogging all… Ellen Frankel October 23, 2009
