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Essay The Magic of Summer Camp Earlier this week, National Jewish Book Award winner Jonathan Krasner discussed his use of the word “boys” in “Benderly boys.” He will be blogging here all week for… Jonathan B. Krasner May 23, 2012
Essay What’s in a Name? Jonathan B. Krasner is the author of the National Jewish Book Award winning title The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education. Krasner was also a finalist… Jonathan B. Krasner May 21, 2012
Essay Acknowledging the Tenement Museum Earlier this week Debra Spark wrote about meeting Adin Steinsaltz and why she makes her characters Jewish. She has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council… Debra Spark April 27, 2012
Nonfiction Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York Robin Shulman
Nonfiction Wives Without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York 1900 – 1935 Anna R. Igra
Nonfiction The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York’s Housing Market Emily Rosenbaum; Samantha Friedman
Nonfiction Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side Jonathan Boyarin
Nonfiction White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics Joshua M. Zeitz
