December 2011 Jewish Book Carnival

The Whole Megillah is proud to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival!

Let’s start off with exciting news from the Jewish Book Council — it has recently launched a new website and now offers readers the opportunity to sign up for a weekly email, featuring an image of each book it reviewed online that week with a link to the review.

And now for this month’s links:

• The Jewish Book Council shares two posts from its ProsenPeople blog:
• JBC Bookshelf: Series, Art, and Fiction
• Publishing a Real-Life Old-Fashioned Book
• The Book of Life’s Canadian Correspondent Anne Dublin interviews author and filmmaker David Bezmogis in David Bezmozgis and The Free World
• Ann Koffsky shares a holiday craft project from one of her books with Chanukah Activity – Shamash Holder
• My Machberet’s Erika Dreifus reflects on My Year in Jewish Books
• On her blog, Rhapsody in Books, Jill Broderick reviews The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
• From the Jewish Journal J Street Zionist, Jonathan Kirsch shares his review of A New Voice for Israel by Jeremy Ben-Ami
• Linda Wertheimer recommends nine books for Hanukkah, one for each candle that will be lit on the last nigh, in Make Hanukkah a Literary Fest: My Jewish Book List for 2011
• The Whole Megillah presents a cyber-roundtable with the author-editor-illustration team that made The Doll Shop Downstairs and its sequel, The Cats in the Doll Shop, possible and a book review of a new favorite, The Berlin Boxing Club, by Robert Sharenow