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Jewish Book Carnival is a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere. Each month, a different blog hosts the Carnival, and any blogger is welcome to participate by submitting links from their own blog to that month's host.
This month, I am pleased to host the Jewish Book Carnival here at The Book of Life. In May, the Carnival will be hosted by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod on her blog, Adventures in MamaLand. We've got a great line-up of blogs for the upcoming months, but are still seeking hosts for September through November, 2016. See the
Jewish Book Carnival HQ to learn how the whole thing works, and let us know if you want to participate!
And now, this month's links... Batya Medad at
A Jewish Grandmother says "Wonderful book!! Total inspiration!!" about
Miriam's Song: The Story of Miriam Peretz by Smadar Shir.
In March, Jill at
Rhapsody in Books reviewed
Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit, which she rated as superlative. It is a stunning story set during the Holocaust, but without explicitness; rather, metaphor and allusion convey much of the story.
Deborah Kalb interviews a wide variety of authors on her blog,
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb. She
recently interviewed Rochelle Wisoff-Fields about her historical novels
Please Say Kaddish for Me and
From Silt and Ashes, which focus on members of a Jewish family who escape the pogroms of Eastern Europe and make their way to Kansas City.
Have you been wondering what author Maggie Anton has been up to? The
Fig Tree Books blog has that covered.
From
My Machberet: Having recently re-read Julie Orringer's
The Invisible Bridge, Erika Dreifus pauses over one critic's especially insightful take on the book, and on literature written by grandchildren of Holocaust survivors more broadly.
In
God and Politics in Esther: A political parable for our time, Yoram Hazony draws political lesson from the Book of Esther, some of which are harrowingly relevant to the increasingly polarized American political landscape, and to other nations facing the politics of pessimism.
Lorri M. Writings reviews
The Coffee Trader by David Liss.
Over on the
Jewish Book Review, Rivka Levy gets to grip with a new book on the history and holiness of Hebrew, called
Lashon HaKodesh: History, Holiness, and Hebrew.
The 2017 Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee is
accepting submissions of Jewish kidlit published during 2016. Read about it on the Association of Jewish Libraries blog,
People of the Books.
And in our Passover section, author April Halprin Wayland is getting a lot of attention! April Halprin Wayland at T
eaching Authors shares
behind the scenes stories of the creation of her new picture book,
More Than Enough: A Passover Story.
At
YA & Kids Books Central, Jill Ratzan highlights (chai lights)
recent Passover picture books (including
More Than Enough by April Halprin Wayland).
Jama Rattigan
interviews April about
More Than Enough at her blog,
Jama's Alphabet Soup: An Eclectic Feast of Food, Fiction, Folderol and Chewy Culinary Verse.
Barbara Krasner at
The Whole Megillah | The Writer's Resource for Jewish Story
interviews April Halprin Wayland about her newest picture book,
More Than Enough, a Passover Story.
On the
Multicultural Kid Blogs site, I (Heidi Estrin) posted a roundup of
Passover Books for Kids. The site is "For families and educators raising world citizens, through arts, activities, crafts, food, language, and love." The roundup happens to include
More Than Enough.
And finally, on this blog,
The Book of Life, I recorded a
podcast interview with April about
More Than Enough and about mindfulness and gratitude. April played Dayenu on the fiddle and I sang along!
The June Jewish Book Carnival is being hosted at the Write Kids' Books! blog by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod. The Jewish Book Carnival, created by the Association of Jewish Libraries, is a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere. You'll find links to Jewish book news, book reviews, author interviews and more.
Check out the June Jewish Book Carnival here: http://blog.writekidsbooks.org/2014/06/carnival-of-jewish-books.htmlThe July Carnival will be hosted by Susan Curtis at Susan’s Literary Café. To participate, please submit links from your own blog to [email protected]by July 13, 2014.
I am pleased to bring you the March 2014 edition of the
Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere! If you blog about Jewish books, you can play too! Visit the
Jewish Book Carnival HQ for info about submitting your links to upcoming carnivals.
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I'd like to draw your attention to an earlier post here on
The Book of Life, when I
interviewed editor Steven Bergson about The Jewish Comix Anthology. The Kickstarter campaign to fund this project was successful, with 289 backers raising CAD$52,777, so we can look forward to reading this amazing collection soon.
In March, Jill at
Rhapsody in Books reviewed
One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper, about a rabbi's son who is not convinced his life has any meaning. At once both tragic and funny, this story captures the essence of family and the various bonds among family members.
The Whole Megillah welcomed a guest post by Seminar on Jewish Story fiction panelist
Erika Dreifus and featured an interview with memoir panelist
Tahneer Oksman. The
Seminar on Jewish Story will be held May 18 at Temple Emanu-El in New York City, hosted by The Whole Megillah LLC in partnership with the Association of Jewish Libraries.
Click here for info about attending the event!On
My Machberet, Erika Dreifus shares a brief and meaningful excerpt on Jewish identity from
The Amos Oz Reader.
As part of the
2014 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour, Ann Koffsky
interviewed author/illustrator Patricia Polacco about her award-winning picture sequel to
The Keeping Quilt, called
The Blessing Cup.
At The Jewish Book Council's
Prosen People blog, Emily Stone, author of
Did Jew Know? looks at who's Jewish in Hollywood in "
Six Degrees of Kevin's Bacon" and includes a little quiz to test your knowledge. Plus, check out this
interview with Leah Vincent, author of
Cut Me Loose: Sin & Salvation After My Ultra Orthodox Girlhood. In Israel, Kathe Pinchuck at
Life is Like a Library had the opportunity to visit the Bible Lands Museum and see
the exhibit "Book of Books."
The Jewish Book Carnival is a monthly event where bloggers who blog about Jewish books can meet, read, and comment on each others’ posts. The posts are hosted on one of the participant’s sites on the 15th of each month.
For the month of June, 2011, our host is Erika Dreifus at My Machberet (Hebrew for "notebook"). She's got a great round-up of posts from all over the blogosphere. You'll find author interviews, book reviews, suggested reading lists, reflections on Jewish Book Network experiences, and various Shavuot-themed posts.
Visit My Machberet for the June Jewish Book Carnival!Enjoy, and please leave comments for the bloggers - they love feedback!
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The
Jewish Book Carnival is a monthly event where bloggers who blog about Jewish books can meet, read, and comment on each others’ posts. The posts are hosted on one of the participant’s sites on the 15th of each month. For April 2011, our host is the Jewish Book Council blog at
http://jewishbooks.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/jewish-book-carnival-april. There you will find links to Jewish book reviews, author interviews, and other booky Jewishy goodness (including a link back to The Book of Life's interview with Ann Redisch Stampler on
The Rooster Prince of Breslov).
Please visit the Carnival, comment on the posts, and if you'd like to play next time, send a booky Jewishy link from your own blog to our May host,
The Whole Megillah, at
[email protected].
Thanks to Linda K. Wertheimer for hosting this month’s Jewish Book Carnival over at Jewish Muse! She has gathered interesting posts about Purim, faith, reading recommendations, and by luck, multiple reviews of David Grossman’s To the End of the Land.
Follow the links! Read the posts! Leave lots of comments! And watch for April’s Jewish Book Carnival at The Jewish Book Council.
Welcome to the February 2011 edition of the Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly event where bloggers who blog about Jewish books can meet, read and comment on each others’ posts.
This month, the Carnival is hosted by The Boston Bibliophile and you can find the post here.
The carnival was started by Heidi Estrin and Marie Cloutier to build community among bloggers and blogs who feature Jewish books. It runs every month on the 15th. The Carnival headquarters is here.
The Jewish Book Carnival has a GoodReads page, where we host discussions and more. Whether or not you’re participating, we hope you’ll stop by, join and take part!
If you’d like to participate, either to host or contribute a link, send me an email at [email protected] and I’ll get you hooked up on the particulars. We are actively looking for hosts for May 2011 and beyond.
Feel free to download and save the logo, and use it on your blog posts or sidebar. Please do not link directly to the picture.
In the mean time, visit The Boston Bibliophile for this month’s carnival and don’t forget to check out the many great participating bloggers!
Today is the day for October’s Jewish Book Carnival.
Visit the Jewish Book Council to see this month’s Carnival and we hope you have time to visit and comment on as many blogs as you can!
The carnival was started by Heidi Estrin and Marie Cloutier to build community among bloggers and blogs who feature Jewish books. It will run every month on the 15th.
Feel free to download and save the logo, and use it on your blogposts or sidebar. Please do not link directly to the picture.
The Jewish Book Carnival has a GoodReads page, where we host discussions and more. Whether or not you’re participating, we hope you’ll stop by, join and take part!
Today is the Jewish Book Carnival!
This month the Carnival is hosted by The Jewish Publication Society here.
The carnival was started by Heidi Estrin and Marie Cloutier to build community among bloggers and blogs who feature Jewish books. It will run every month on the 15th.
We have hosts lined up through the end of 2010 but if you are interested in hosting the carnival on your blog sometime in 2011, feel free to contact Marie at [email protected].
Click here for the full schedule and list of participating blogs.
Feel free to download and save the logo, and use it on your blog posts or sidebar. Please do not link directly to the picture.
The Jewish Book Carnival has a GoodReads page, where we host discussions and more. Whether or not you’re participating, we hope you’ll stop by, join and take part!
For now, head over to the Jewish Publication Society and check out this month’s collection of great links.
The Jewish Book Carnival is your chance to participate in People of the Books.
The Carnival was started by Heidi Estrin and me, to promote blogs that cover Jewish books. It’s an effort to build community, so that blog writers and readers can share posts on Jewish books. We’ll read each others’ blogs, support each other and promote each other- and Jewish books- throughout the blogosphere.
Every month on the 15th, someone will host the roundup; this month (and next month) it will be here on the AJL blog. After that, we’d love to know if you would be interested in hosting the carnival on your blog!
The Jewish Book Carnival has a GoodReads page; we’d love for you to join, to keep up with Carnival news, join in our discussions and share what you’re reading and writing about.
We are also running a poll to choose a name for the Carnival; the voting is open until August 31.
In the mean time, let’s go with the inaugural edition of the Jewish Book Carnival.
From Steve Bergson, From Cyberspace to the Printed Page, from his Jewish Comics blog.
From Barbara Bietz, a post from her blog on Laurel Snyder and her new book, Baxter The Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher.
From Erika Dreifus, on the Fiction Writers Review blog: a review of Sarah/Sara by Jacob Paul.
Erika also sent us From My Bookshelf: Prisoners: A Muslim and A Jew Across the Middle East Divide.
The Jewish Book Council blog contributed Writing a Book Like Coney Island, a guest post by author Joshua Cohen, author of Witz.
The Jewish Women’s Archive blog Jewesses with Attitude contributed their Summer Reading List.
From the Jew Wishes book blog, a review of Mr. Rosenbaum Dreams in English, by Natasha Solomons.
From Ann D. Koffsky, Lifeguarding and Illustration.
From Barbara Krasner, a review of Lost, by Jacqueline Davies, and a review of Emma’s Poem, by Linda Glaser. Both are from the excellent Whole Megillah blog on children’s literature.
From Sylvia Rouss, Once Upon A Time There Was a Little Rescue Dog.
Please visit and bookmark all these great blogs. Thanks to those who participated, and if you’re a blogger who’d like to participate next month, please feel free to email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Happy reading!
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This is a great idea! It’s very important that we support each other and share ideas. Thank you for starting this, Heidi! JPS would love to host the carnival. Just let us know what to do.