Monthly Archives: January 2021

Jewish Book Council Announces 2020 National Jewish Book Awards

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

2020 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners JBC Staff January 27, 2021 2020 NATION­AL JEW­ISH BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED Book of the Year Award­ed to Rab­bi Jonathan Sacks for Moral­i­ty Lau­ra Arnold Leib­man Wins Three Awards with The Art of the Jew­ish Family Colum McCann Wins Fic­tion Award with Apeirogon New York, Jan­u­ary 27, 2021—Jew­ish … Continue reading →

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Mid-Week Field Notes

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

Four quick things this week: I will now be a featured speaker about my middle-grade novel in verse, 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939, at a Yom Hashoah event at the Mercer County Holocaust, Genocide & … Continue reading →

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Reminder: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Event

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

On Jan. 27 at 6 pm ET, join a conversation hosted by the Mercer County Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Center with YA author Liza Wiemer about her novel, The Assignment, based on the true story of two teens in … Continue reading →

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Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners Announced Today!

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

2021 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED For More Information Contact:Rebecca Levitan, ChairSydney Taylor Book Award CommitteeAssociation of Jewish Librarieswww.sydneytaylorbookawards.orgsydneytaylorbookaward@jewishlibraries.org January 25, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  2021 Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners Announced  Winners of the annual Sydney Taylor Book Award were announced … Continue reading →

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#52snapshots–Week 4

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

Last week I chose to write about my grandmother sending her three boys off to war: One to the Army Air Corps, one to the Army Signal Corps, and one to the Navy. I wonder if she hung the Blue … Continue reading →

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Mid-Week Field Notes

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

Three quick things this week: A client of mine at the Olswanger Literary LLC agency saw that my middle-grade novel in verse, 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939, is on amazon for pre-sale. Thanks, Joanne Fritz! … Continue reading →

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Editor’s Notebook | Lili Rosenstreich about Kalaniot Books

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

The Whole Megillah (TWM): Tell us about Kalaniot Books. How, when, and why was it founded? Lili Rosenstreich (LR): After a lifetime of work in the mainstream book world, my partner (in life as well as business), Mitchel Weiss and … Continue reading →

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#52snapshots–Week 3

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

During two of the Amherst Writers sessions I participated in last week, I drafted my second of #52snapshots. This was a different kind of essay, because it needed factual information about my ancestral shtetl of Kozlow (from a page of … Continue reading →

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Thursday Links

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

Here are this week’s links: From The Librarians blog (thanks, Erika Dreifus!): Rebuilding Isaac Bashevis Singer’s mother’s shtetl of Bilgoraj From the Rutgers University Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life: “A Rosenberg of Any Other Name: A History … Continue reading →

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Mid-Week Field Notes

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Barbara Krasner

Three quick things this week: For two weeks now I have set aside an hour on Fridays to engage in collage. For me, it’s a good way to end the week and get into a different headspace for Shabbos. My … Continue reading →

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