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Jewish Book Council’s July Reads

JBC Staff

July 13, 2026

Cover of Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World

Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World

Cover of In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union

In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union

Sasha Senderovich

Essay

Between Memory and Imagination: Understanding My Mother’s Childhood in Siberia

Zeeva Bukai

February 23, 2026

Cover of Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America

Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America

Cover of Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture

Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture

Cover of Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity

Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity

Interview—From the Journal

The Treasure Hunter: A Conversation with Aaron Lansky

Isadora Kianovsky

December 17, 2025

Cover of The Shepherd's Hour

The Shepherd’s Hour

Cover of Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes

Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes

Jonas Kreppel; Mikhl Yashinsky, trans.

Cover of Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: The Untold Story

Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: The Untold Story

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Jewish Book Month 100: A Book for Every Decade

JBC Staff

November 10, 2025

Essay

Recovering Yiddish Answers to the Enduring Question, “What Shall We Tell the Children?”

Miriam Udel

October 13, 2025

Cover of Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature

Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature

Cover of The Winding Road: My Childhood Years

The Winding Road: My Childhood Years

Rokhl FeygenbergTamara T. Helfer, trans.

Cover of The Podolian Nights

The Podolian Nights

Nachman of Bratslav; Jordan Finkin and Robert Adler Peckerar, trans.