publishing

Orig­i­nal­ly from Lon­don, Eng­land, Rab­bi Lawrence Hajioff grad­u­at­ed with hon­ors in polit­i­cal sci­ence from Man­ches­ter Uni­ver­si­ty. After work­ing for MTV in news…

Yes­ter­day, Nora Gold wrote about Leah Gold­berg, poet­ry, and the title for her newest book, Fields of Exile. She has been blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…

by Maron L. WaxmanShort­ly after the launch of their first list, I talked with Michael Wise and Ross Ufberg about their new pub­lish­ing company…New Ves­sel Press, Michael…

Yes­ter­day, Peri Devaney wrote about work­ing on the Post­cript for her anthol­o­gy, A Jew­ish Professor’s Polit­i­cal Pun­dit­ry: Fifty-Plus Years of Pub­lished…

Peri Devaney​’s new book, A Jew­ish Professor’s Polit­i­cal Pun­dit­ry: Fifty-Plus Years of Pub­lished Com­men­tary by Ron Rubin (Syra­cuse Uni­ver­si­ty Press), is now…

Yes­ter­day, David Ehrlich wrote about the shared cul­ture, lan­guage, and fate of Israelis. He has been blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…

Ear­li­er this week, Kathy Ebel wrote about her Ger­man-Jew­ish fam­i­ly and Nice Jew­ish Girl pro­tag­o­nists from New York City. Her first nov­el, Clau­dia Sil­ver to the…

by Jack­ie AnzarootMichael Wex, author of Born to Kvetch and well-known Yid­dish schol­ar, is cur­rent­ly try­ing to crowd-fund his next project, a trans­la­tion of…

Between Feb­ru­ary 15, 2013 and March 10, 2013, Alli­son Amend and Austin Rat­ner, two mem­bers of the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize ​“class,” dis­cussed lit­er­ary fic­tion in soci­ety,…

by Stephen WittIn the brave new dig­i­tal world of the book busi­ness, self-pub­lished authors enjoy a new clout. And every week this trans­lates into more self-pub­lished…

Post­ed by Jack­ie AnzarootIt was announced last week that two major play­ers in the Jew­ish book world, Jew­ish Lights Pub­lish­ing and the Rab­bini­cal Assem­bly, will be…

In this week’s install­ment of the Vis­it­ing Scribe, Joshua Cohen and Justin Tay­lor exchanged ideas around book pro­mo­tion, mate­ri­als of writ­ing, and the devo­lu­tion of…