Thursday, September 12, 2019

Jewish Book Carnival - September 2019

Welcome to the Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly event where bloggers who blog about Jewish books can meet, read and comment on each others’ posts.


The purposes of the Jewish Book Carnival are to build community among bloggers who feature Jewish books on their blogs, and to promote Jewish reading, and fields supporting this reading such as publishing and library services.

It's September, which means back to school, back to a "regular" schedule, and time to think about the upcoming Jewish holidays.  Here's what our bloggers have been reading:
  • "Honour thy father and thy mother." At A Jewish Grandmother, Batya Medad reviews 
  • The Lost Kitchen, Miriam Green's story of how she and her father cope with her mother's
  •  Alzheimer's Disease.  More than just the saga of dealing with Miriam's mother's 
  • increasing dementia, The Lost Kitchen is also a cookbook and includes poetry.

On her My Machberet blog, Erika Dreifus recently posted a list of 12 Jewish books, new for 
this fall, that are on her radar, including Birthright - Erika's collection of poetry, which 
will be coming out in November.

The Book of Life Podcast shares an interview with Sadaf Siddique of the South Asian kidlit 
site Kitaab World, about her Counter Islamophobia Through Stories campaign. Listen for 
the parallels with AJL's Love Your Neighbor campaign to fight anti-Semitism through kidlit! 

The Association of Jewish Libraries has posted a new book list: 
Selected Holocaust Literature for Youthpulled from the 200+ titles recognized 
by the Sydney Taylor Book Award over the years. 

Amalia Hoffman, whose The Brave Cyclist, about Righteous Gentile and champion

bicycle racer Gino Bartali was recently published (Capstone, 2019), reviews Susan 
Dubin's Katzele and the Silver Candlesticks (Armani the Cat Publishing, 2019). 

Gila Green is happy to share her interview with Rachel Barenbaum with you. Her debut 
novel, A Bend in the Stars, was a New York Times Summer Reading Selection and 
a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. It is also a Boston Globe Bestseller. 

Talia Carner's The Third Daughter (HarperCollins, 2019), was inspired by a story by 
Sholem Aleichem. Read Part I of her essay for the Jewish Book Council

From author/artist Ann Koffsky, coloring pages using the same designs from her book 
Creation Colors (Apples & Honey Press, 2019). Great for Rosh Hashanah!

At Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, Deborah interviewed Debbie Levy about Levy's new 
children's picture book, The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music.

In the run-up to the Rosh HaShana, you can find a book-based pamphlet of
Reflections and Resources on Teshuvah on the Memory & Redemption site. While the 
questions for discussion are drawn from one of the darkest periods of Jewish history, 
they prove the transformative power of hope for the future.

And, at Life Is Like a Library, it's the annual Elul book list.


May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year!


Enjoy!







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4 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for hosting! Looks great, Gila

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  2. Wonderful selection. Thanks for including my review of Miriam Green's book.

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  3. Thank you so much for hosting--and for expanding my own entry to include a mention of *my* book. So generous of you.

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