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Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: Selected Stories

‘Sacred Stories as Metaphor’: A Modern Retelling of Biblical Stories

Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

August 19, 2019

Hollywood’s Eve

America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Essay

Marilyn Sachs, Forgotten Pioneer in Children’s Literature

At a time when children’s literature was filled with picture-perfect families, Marilyn Sachs painted a darker, richer reality.

Emily Schneider

June 3, 2019

Hedy and Her Amazing Invention

Morgana Wallace, illus.

Never a Native

Interview

Meet National Jewish Book Award Winner Alice Shalvi

JBC Staff

March 4, 2019

The Woman Who Fought An Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring

Gregory Joseph Wallance

Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Karen E. H. Skinazi

The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture

Hannah Schwadron

Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life

William Roy; Sylvain Dorange, illus.

Excerpt

Read an Excerpt from Alice Shalvi’s Memoir ‘Never a Native’

Alice Shalvi

December 17, 2018

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Jane Sherron De Hart

Those Who Knew: A Novel

Regina Persisted: An Untold Story

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Margeaux Lucas, illus.