The ProsenPeople

New Blog: The ProsenPeople

jewishbooks — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:34:42 +0000

The Jewish Book Council blog, The ProsenPeople, is now a part of jewishbookcouncil.org.

All future posts can be found here.

Questions? Comments? Email us at jbc@jewishbooks.org

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New Website!

jewishbooks — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:33:23 +0000

Our new website is officially live!

http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org

We’re very excited about all of the new resources available to readers, authors, and publishers and invite you to explore using our Resource section to find what you’re looking for.

Over the next two months, we will be making updates and edits throughout the site and we need your help. If you see anything strange, if a menu isn’t working, if there is a typo or misspelling, we want you let us know. Or, if you have any general feedback, please send that our way, as well. Please send all comments and feedback to: moderator@jewishbooks.org

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Never Quit on a Hill

jewishbooks — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:19:33 +0000

On Monday, Karol Nielsen wrote about the inefficiency of writing. She will be blogging all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.
A friend met an aspiring agent who had worked in publishing and recommended me to her. She submitted the manuscript to an editor who handled first books with film potential. We waited and waited. Word never came. She wondered if I had any suggestions about where to send the book. I didn’t. Not even a clue. She soon bagged the agenting business and went to graduate school. I saw her a few years later, and she said she often thought of a line in my memoir when she runs. “Never quit on a hill.”

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The Inefficiency of Writing

jewishbooks — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:25:51 +0000

Karol Nielsen’s memoir Black Elephants has just been released. She will be blogging all week for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council.

The facts of my story were always clear but the meaning eluded me for years. I took creative writing courses with a gifted, generous man who asked essential questions: Who are the characters? What is the conflict? What are you saying? Now I am a memoir writing instructor at New York University, asking students the same questions. Straightforward but difficult questions when telling a true story.

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The Jewish Message

jewishbooks — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:08:25 +0000

Earlier this week, Tom Fields-Meyer wrote about reading and thinking about books and took a look at autism and God. He has been blogging here all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.

Not long ago, I had the pleasure of speaking at an event to benefit my children’s summer camp. In the midst of a lovely discussion, the rabbi who runs the camp offered a question: “What’s your book’s Jewish message?”

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Filed under: Jewish Books Tagged: Following Ezra, JBC MJL Author Blog, Jewish Books, Tom Fields-Meyer

One Book, One Community in Chicago

jewishbooks — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:36:54 +0000

Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter
Spertus College recently announced their One Book, One Community pick for Jewish Book Month: A Day of Small Beginnings (Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum)

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JLit Links

jewishbooks — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:28:26 +0000

Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter

Network author Galit Seliktar’s Farm 54 has been listed as one of Publishers Weekly‘s 10 Best Books for 2011

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Reading and Thinking about Books

jewishbooks — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:00:35 +0000

On Monday, Tom Fields-Meyer took a look at autism and God. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.

Every Saturday morning, I ask my son Ezra the same question. As our family prepares to head out for the walk to synagogue, I stop Ezra with five words before he gets to the door:

“Do you have your books?”

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Autism and God

jewishbooks — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:00:40 +0000

Tom Fields-Meyer is the author of Following Ezra, a memoir about learning from his autistic son. He will be blogging all week for Members of the Scribe and the Jewish Book Council.

I was a guest on a radio talk show last week when the interviewer offered a question that caught me off guard. In the midst of a discussion about raising my son Ezra, who has autism, she asked: “With a person who is so comfortable with things that are very concrete and predictable, how do you explain a concept like God?”

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Silence, Blessed Silence

jewishbooks — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:00:47 +0000

Earlier this week, Gloria Spielman wrote about finding fellow writers on the Internet and the University of the Ghetto. Her most recent book, Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, is now available. She will be blogging here all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning‘s Author Blog.

One of the upshots of all the reading and thinking I did for Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, was that I ended up doing a lot of thinking about something I’d never thought that much about before – silence and its power.

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