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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Trotsky Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNow in paperback, Robert Service’s Trotsky: A Biography Naomi Firestone-Teeter December 14, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Seriously, Just Go to Sleep Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe children’s version of Adam Mansbach’s smash success (coming April 2012)… Naomi Firestone-Teeter December 6, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Apples from Shinar Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWesleyan University Press reissued the classic collection of poetry Apples from Shinar this past April: Naomi Firestone-Teeter November 30, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Archaeology of Home Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAfter a long week, this was a breath of fresh air:The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the… Naomi Firestone-Teeter November 17, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe paperback edition of Gal Beckerman‘s When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet… Naomi Firestone-Teeter September 9, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Eden Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterYael Hedaya, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her novel Accidents, is a favorite here at… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 30, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: My Russian Grandmother and Her American… Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNational Jewish Book Award Winner Meir Shalev has a memoir coming out on October 4th (translated by NETWORK… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 23, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Elmo’s Little Dreidel Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterHeart! Available this September… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 16, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Yiddishkeit Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLoving the orange, black, and beige combo on this one…Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land will be available… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 10, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Frozen Rabbi Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe paperback edition of The Frozen Rabbi (Steve Stern) is now available from Algonquin Books: Naomi Firestone-Teeter June 21, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Dreyfus Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe paperback edition of Ruth Harris’s Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century (2010 National Jewish… Naomi Firestone-Teeter June 14, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: FARM 54 Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPublished today by Ponent Mon: Galit and Gilad Seliktar’s FARM 54: Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 26, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Book of Life Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterComing in September from Reagan Arthur Books/Back Bay Books: The Book of Life (Stuart Nadler): Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 19, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Kosher Chinese Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterComing in July from Henry Holt, Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion (Michael Levy): … Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 10, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: From the Jewish Heartland Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterEllen F. Steinberg and Jack H. Prost’s From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways , coming from University… Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 6, 2011
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Arrogant Years Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAs promised, a book to look forward to this summer: 2008 Sami Rohr Prize Winner Lucette Lagnado’s The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 29, 2011