Items with the tag: family & parenting | Jewish Book Council

Cover of The Bagel Who Wanted Everything

The Bagel Who Wanted Everything

Alan Silberberg

Essay

A New Vision of Childhood: The Jewish Innovators Who Defined Toymaking in the US

Michael Kimmel

February 16, 2026

Cover of The Dark-Robed Mother: A Memoir

The Dark-Robed Mother: A Memoir

Rachel Tzvia Back

Cover of Unfit

Ariana Harwicz; Jessie Mendez Sayer, trans.

News

Cover Reveal — “A Flame Burns On: Lighting the Yahrzeit Candle”

JBC Staff

November 5, 2025

Interview—From the Journal

A Queen Esther for the Twentieth Century: A Conversation with John Irving

Simona Zaretsky

November 3, 2025

Essay

What I Want for My Kids: Symbolic Bilingualism in Jewish Children’s Books

Sarah Aroeste

September 22, 2025

Cover of Right Back At You

Right Back At You

Carolyn Mackler

Cover of Plums, Paprika & Ghosts: Our Trip to the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Plums, Paprika & Ghosts: Our Trip to the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Essay

Reading Between the Sirens

Ilana Kurshan

August 25, 2025

Cover of Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together

Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together

Cover of Rising

Sidura Ludwig; Sophia Vincent Guy, illus.

Cover of Vera, or Faith

Gary Shteyngart

Cover of My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy

My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy

Essay

Finding the Words: Women and Prayer

Jaime Herndon

May 19, 2025

Cover of One One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor's Lost Identity

One One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity