Art Magazine
Photo: Courtesy of Judaica in the Spotlight Book Description: JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid—jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems—Jewish witticism is […]
Image: Courtesy of Jane Sutton & Albert Whitman Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born in New York City and grew up (although never completely) on Long Island. At Brandeis University I majored in Comparative Literature. Past jobs have included newspaper features writer, college writing tutor, and […]
Image: Courtesy of Judaica in the Spotlight Reviewed by Miriam P. First and foremost, I would like to thank Alina Adams and her publisher, History Through Fiction, for sending us a complimentary copy of My Mother’s Secret – A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region in exchange for an honest book review. As always, […]
Image: Courtesy of David de Wolf Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born in the Netherlands and studied Dutch Language and then the History of Art at the University of Nijmegen. I graduated with a Master of Arts and wrote my thesis on the architecture of the Italian […]
Images: Courtesy of Alina Adams Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born in Odessa, USSR, a city a great many people know about now, thanks to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, then knew about it then, or when I published my first novel set there, “The Nesting Dolls.” […]
Photo: Courtesy of Danica Davidson Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m an author of 17 middle grade and young adult books. My latest book is I Will Protect You (published by Little, Brown), which I worked on with Auschwitz twin survivor Eva Kor. She was elementary-school aged when her […]
Photo: Courtesy of Amalia Hoffman Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background I was born and raised in Jerusalem. I lived in the same room with my two sisters and it was a lot of fun. Dad used to read us bedtime stories but working hard, he always fell asleep just […]
Photo: Courtesy of Lesléa Newman Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island, went to school in Vermont and Colorado, and moved to Massachusetts in 1982 where I have remained happily ever since. I started writing poetry when I was eight years old […]
Photo: Courtesy of Bracha Goetz Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m the Harvard-educated author of 40 Jewish children’s books. I’m also the author of one candid memoir for adults about how I became an observant Jew and overcame food addictions joyfully and spiritually. The goal of all my books […]
Photo: Courtesy of Faith Goldstein Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Faith Goldstein, and I am a children’s book author. I have been writing since 2015. My debut picture book, Gorillas’ Night Out, was published in 2019, and my second picture book, Matzah Means So Many Things, […]
