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- 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Awards | Honey and Me by Meira DrazinHonor Book in Middle-Grade Category: Honey and Me by Meira Drazin (Scholastic, 2022, 304 pp.) The Whole Megillah (TWM): Mazel tov on your award! I’m so delighted to get to know you better.Meira Drazin (MD): Hi Barbara, thanks so much … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights by Kitty ZeldisZeldis, Kitty. The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights. New York: HarperCollins, 2022. 345 pages. Writing the Past (WTP): What motivated you to write Dressmakers of Prospect Heights?Kitty Zeldis (KZ): I had long been interested in New Orleans, a place that figures importantly in … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
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Tag Archives: Jewish Book Carnival
August 2018 Jewish Book Carnival
The Whole Megillah is pleased to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: At Life Is Like a Library, Chava Pinchuck looks at some books that are appropriate for the month of Elul, a time … Continue reading
June 2016 Jewish Book Carnival
The Whole Megillah is pleased to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: From Shiloh Musings, Batya Medad reviews Witness to History by Sybil Kaplan. Medad calls it an amazing book of modern Israeli history … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Across the Alley, angela cerrito, batya medad, Book of Life, booksandblintzes, deborah kalb, Erika Dreifus, fig tree books, Frances Dinkelspiel, Guest at the Shooter's Banquet, Heidi Rabinowitz, Jewish Book Carnival, Jewish Book Council, Jewish book reviews, life is like a library, My Machberet, rabbi deborah miller, Rhapsody in Books, Richard Michelson, Rita Gabis, shilo musings, sybil kaplan, Tangled Vines, the best chapter, the safest lie, The Whole Megillah, Towers of Gold, witness to history
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January 2015 Jewish Book Carnival
The Whole Megillah is pleased to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: The Fig Tree Books blog reflects on diversity within American Jewish literature. On My Machberet, Erika Dreifus looks back on her year in Jewish books. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged anita diamant, bagels books and schmooze, batya medad, Book of Life, dark mirror, deborah kalb, enchantress, Erika Dreifus, fig tree books, Heidi Estrin, Jewish Book Carnival, Jewish Book Council, Jewish book reviews, lizzie skirnick books, maggie anton, My Machberet, Prosen People, sara lipton, shilo musings, the best chapter, the boston girl, The Whole Megillah
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April 2014 Jewish Book Carnival
The Whole Megillah once again hosts the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: On My Machberet, Erika Dreifus hosts Molly Antopol, author of the story collection The UnAmericans, for a Q&A. On the Jewish Book Council’s “The Prosen People,” … Continue reading
July 2012 Jewish Book Carnival
The Whole Megillah once again hosts the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: On My Machberet, Erika Dreifus explains how an online essay-review helped rekindle her interest in the fiction of Israeli author Etgar Keret. From the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Alice Hoffman, Amy Ariel, Boof of Life, Dovekeepers, Erika Dreifus, Etgar Keret, Here in HP, Jeffrey Magee, Jewacious, Jewish Book Carnival, Jewish book reviews, Jewish Journal, jewishfiction.net, Joe Lieberman, Michal Mahgerefteh, My Machberet, Nora Gold, Origin of Sorrow, Poetica, Reuven Firestone, Robert Mayer, Susan's Literary Cafe, The Gift of Rest, The Whole Megillah, Yotzeret Publishing
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Ann Koffsky, Anne Dublin, Book of Life, Erika Dreifus, Heidi Estrin, J Street, Jewish Book Carnival, Jewish Book Council, Jewish Journal, Jill Broderick, Jonathan Kirsch, Linda Wertheimer, My Machberet, Prosen People, Rhapsody in Books, The Whole Megillah
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Jewish Book Carnival | May 2011
On the 15th of each month, a blogger hosts the Jewish Book Carnival. Today, The Whole Megillah is proud to host this month’s Carnival . For those of you who may be new to the Carnival, it is a blog … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews
Tagged An American Radical, Andrea Myers, Ann Koffsky, Book Frontiers, Book of Life, Claire Nivola, David Bezmozgis, David Levy, Emma's Poem, Erika Dreifus, Folktales of the Jews, forwordsbooks, Hebrew Union College, Heidi Estrin, How to Spot One of Us, Illana-Davita, interfaithfamily.com, Janet Kirchheimer, Jewish Book Carnival, Jewish Book Council Book Blog, Jewschool.com, Kathy Bloomfield, Linda Glaser, Lorraine Lotzof Abramson, Lydia Schultz, Margarita Engle, My Machberet, My Race, Needle in the Bookstacks, Susan Rosenberg, Sylvia Rouss, Talia Carner, TaliaTellsTales, The Choosing, The Free World, The Whole Megillah, Tropical Secrets, Yaldah Publishing
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Author’s Notebook | Guest Post by Laurel Snyder
I need to be honest—I’ve really struggled to write this little essay. When Barbara asked me to scribble something about the promotion of Jewish picture books, I said yes immediately! Because it seemed a simple enough task, and Barbara’s blog … Continue reading
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