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Ear­li­er this week, Steve Stern offered his rec­ol­lec­tions of the Mem­phis com­mu­ni­ty in which he grew up and the Jew­ish myth­i­cal lore occu­py­ing it. His most recent…

by Elie LichtscheinElie Licht­en­stein recent­ly spoke with Matthue Roth about his newest book, The Gob­blings.Elie Lichtschein: You’ve writ­ten both nov­els and pic­ture books.…

by Grace Stans­beryHoward Schwartz, three time win­ner of a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, has recent­ly pub­lished his fifth vol­ume of poet­ry, The Library of Dreams.“There…

We’re leav­ing you with three nights’ worth of read­ing in one book for the week­end, but don’t wor­ry: Eight Nights of Sto­ries con­tin­ues next week!What’s this all about? Read…

Gabi Gle­ich­mann was born in Budapest in 1954 and moved to Swe­den at the age of 10. After stud­ies in lit­er­a­ture and phi­los­o­phy, he worked as a jour­nal­ist and…

Ear­li­er this week, Matthue Roth wrote about why kids love scary sto­ries. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.I was try­ing to…

Matthue Roth​’s newest book is My First Kaf­ka: Rodents, Run­aways, and Giant Bugs. He lives in Brook­lyn with his fam­i­ly and keeps a secret diary at www​.matthue​.com. He…