The world is erupting with flat out antisemitism and Jew hatred—and it’s terrible. That’s why we”ve been working to put together an ever-evolving Jewish book list ideal for people of all backgrounds.
Great Neck Library is celebrating Jewish-American Heritage Month as Michael Chaplan, M.A. Anthropology, shares his knowledge of the Jewish immigrant community, their steamship journey to New York and ...
A conversation with author Tova Mirvis, writer-in-residence of the Jewish Book Council’s new initiative Nu Reads.  Jewish ...
Meiner lieben guten Marta dem 22t November 91. Hugo. Brandeis librarian Lou Hartman found this handwritten inscription, translated from German as “To my dear good Marta on the 22nd of November [18]91 ...
A century ago, Fanny Goldstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant working as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, noticed Jewish visitors rarely checked out books about their own culture. With her ...
More than a century ago, this busy Gulf Coast port and longtime vacation destination 50 miles southeast of Houston welcomed so many European immigrants – including some 10,000 Jews – it earned the ...
In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call the Jewish Bookshelf. On it sat “The Source” by James Michener, “Exodus” by Leon Uris, “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, ...
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl discusses her new book at the opening of the Jewish Book and Arts Festival opening night. Credit: Mark Katz Already on the New York Times Best Seller list, Angela Buchdahl’s new ...
The Nazis seized tens of thousands of books from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, but the works are making their way back, including one being returned in New York this week. By Catherine ...