Posted by Naomi Firestone
Dan Friedman’s musings on the first two Sami Rohr Prize Winners, Tamar Yellin (The Genizah at the House of Shepher) and Lucette Lagnado (The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit): http://www.jewcy.com/post/fiction_and_nonfiction_different_forms_lying
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: Ecco, Jewcy, Jewish Books, Lucette Lagnado, Tamar Yellin, The Genizah at the House of Shepher, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Toby Press, Zeek
Posted by Naomi Firestone
Over the past several years, the Jewish Book Council has received an influx of titles concerning the plight of Jews outside the boundaries of Europe. No longer are our shelves dominated by the European Jewish experience, as we see an increasing number of books that convey stories of the Jewish experience in Iran, Iraq, India, and Egypt, among other places. As the Jewish communities of these regions shrink, it’s important that we encourage the publication of these gems of history that capture the vibrancy and unique qualities these cultures hold. With Winter at our door, what better time to stay inside and expand your understanding of the Jewish experience.
A few suggestions to you get you going…
My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, Ariel Sabar
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World, Lucette Lagnado
The Septembers of Shiraz, Dalia Sofer
The Last Jews of Kerala: The Two Thousand Year History of India’s Forgotten Jewish Community, Edna Fernandes
Dropped From Heaven, Sophie Judah
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home, Sadia Shepard
Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad, Naim Kattan
Have another recommendation? Please comment and let us know!
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: Algonquin, Ariel Sabar, Babylon, Dalia Sofer, David Godine, Dropped from Heaven, Ecco, Edna Fernandes, Farewell, Jewish Books, Jews of Egypt, Jews of India, Jews of Iran, Jews of Iraq, Lucette Lagnado, MacAdam Cage, My Father's Paradies, Naim Kattan, Penguin Press, Sadia Shepard, Schocken, Skyhorse Publishing, Sophie Judah, The Girl from Foreign, The Last Jews of Kerala, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, The Septembers of Shiraz
Posted by Naomi Firestone
This November brings us a glimpse into our musical past. Thanks to Roger Bennett, Josh Kun, and Janet Macoska, we now have two new titles to enhance our image of Jews on the music scene. With Bennett and Kun’s And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Our Vinyl you’ll have the opportunity to peruse album covers of long ago and reacquaint yourself with forgotten moments in Jewish American pop history, including well-dressed cantors singing Christmas tunes, Long Island suburbanites dancing the mambo, and Chassidic prog-rockers. With Macoska’s book of photography Jews Rock!, you’ll have the opportunity to celebrate the influence of Jewish talent in the world of rock and roll, including images of Bob Dylan, Gene Simons, Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, and Bette Midler. To read more about these two titles, check out:
http://trailofourvinylbook.blogspot.com/
http://www.jewsrock.net/
And…for your listening pleasure:
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Our Vinyl, Crown, Janet Macoska, Jewish Books, Jews Rock!, Josh Kun, Music, Photography, Roger Bennett
Posted by Naomi Firestone
Our Summer and Fall issue of Jewish Book World featured a piece on the history of Jewish graphic novels and comics books. You can now access the two part article through our website by clicking here.
If you enjoy this article, you may want to check out the new Jewish Publication Society title From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, by Arie Kaplan (http://www.ariekaplan.com/).
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: Arie Kaplan, From Krakow to Krypton, Jewish Books, Jewish Publication Society, People of the (Comic) Book, Wendy Wasman
Posted by Naomi Firestone
For all of your avant-garde Zionist needs, we’d like to introduce you to a new 
publisher, Miriam Books, that’s dedicated to fostering Zionism as an avant-garde force for artistic and intellectual progress in the 21st Century. We just received the inaugural publication, Alan Kaufman’s Visionary Expressionism, and are eager to see more from this new voice on the Jewish publishing scene. Fore more information about Miriam Books, be sure to check out their website here.
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: Alan Kaufman's Visionary Expressionsim, Jewish Books, Miriam Books, Polly Zavadivker, Zionism
