with Bob Gold­farb InTheir Promised Land, Ian Buru­ma tells the extra­or­di­nary sto­ry of his own grand­par­ents: British Jews who were apart dur­ing the World Wars and stayed…

Excerpt­ed from Paper Love: Search­ing for the Girl My Grand­fa­ther Left Behind by Sarah Wild­man, now avail­able in paper­back from River­head Books.It was some years after his…

This week, Ruth Behar, the author of An Island Called Home: Return­ing to Jew­ish Cuba and Trav­el­ing Heavy: A Mem­oir In Between Jour­neys, blogs for The Post­script on…

This week, Claude Kno­bler— the author of More Love, Less Pan­ic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Par­ent­ing After We Adopt­ed Our Son from Ethiopia blogs…

by Annette GendlerSarah Wildman’s Paper Love: Search­ing for the Girl My Grand­fa­ther Left Behind, her sto­ry of look­ing for the woman her grand­fa­ther left behind, is…

Last year, we were excit­ed to fea­ture Lore Segal — of whom we’re ador­ing fans here at Jew­ish Book Coun­cil — and her newest nov­el Half the King­dom, which was pub­lished in…

Bar­bara Isen­berg, author of Tra­di­tion!, is an award win­ning jour­nal­ist who has been writ­ing and lec­tur­ing about the­ater for over three decades. She is blog­ging here…