I am very pleased to play host for this months Jewish Book Carnival!  Enjoy your reading.

 

 

• Heidi Estrin at The Book of Life podcast presents an audio interview with Sally Wiener Grotta, author of Jo Joe. It’s the story of a mixed-race Jewish woman with deep prejudices about the Pennsylvania town where she grew up, and to which she has now returned.

 

• At Behrman House, Rabbi Arnold Samian gives us an educator’s perspective–and rant!– on Reclaiming Your Social Media Space. 

 

• At the Best Chapter, Diana Bletter blogs about being a moving target in Israel during this war between Hamas and Israel.

 

• (I also have an Israel related link, in the form of this coloring page, which I think sums up all our hopes.)

 

• Lorri M Writings reviews The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig, and found the stories to be a combined study on human behavior and Austrian life/mores.

 

• Over on My Machberet, Erika Dreifus spotlights a Jewishly-inflected poetry collection by Rachel Mennies. Erika also shares news about The Hope: American Jewish Voices in Support of Israel, an anthology edited by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (Erika is a contributor to the anthology, the proceeds from which are being donated to The Lone Solider Center in memory of Michael Levin).

 

• In July, Jill at Rhapsody in Books reviewed Ribbons for Their Hair  by Estelle Chasen.  This is a police procedural set in modern day Israel that goes back and forth in time to 1945 in the pre-Holocaust community of Salonika in Greece.

 

•  On Bagels, Books, and Schmooze, Susan Curtis talks about  Rebbe by Joseph Teluskin, and  People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.

 

• Barbara Krasner at The Whole Megillah interviews The Prisoner of Night and Fog author, Anne Blankman, and editor, Kristin Daly Rens and interviews The Patchwork Torah author, Allison Ofanansky, and illustrator, Elsa Oriol

 

• At Ellis Shuman Writes, several reviews: THE LIE by Hesh Kestin, A POSSIBILITY OF VIOLENCE by D.A. Mishani, CONTESTED LAND, CONTESTED MEMORY by Jo Roberts, and WHEN CAMELS FLY by NLB Horton.

 

• Leora Wenger at Sketching Out writes a book review of Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach.