By Sheryl Stahl
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Heidi Rabinowitz and I both saw a cartoon from the New Yorker in which one spouse was trying to move a pile of tottering books off the other spouses night-stand. The other spouse yelled in alarm (something like) "don't move those - they are my emotional support books!" We were inspired to ask our fellow attendees at the 2024 Association of Jewish Libraries conference to speak about their emotional support books!
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Enter the drawing for your own personal emotional support book bag! Share a review on social media (such as Facebook or Instagram) or post a review on your podcast platform (such as Apple podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, etc.) Take a screen shot of the review and email it to [email protected] by Oct. 24 2024 (the ultimate Jewish reading holiday, Simchat Torah)
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OUR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT BOOKS
Sheryl Stahl: He, She, and It by Marge Piercy
Heidi Rabinowitz: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
Heidi Rabinowitz: Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesléa Newman
Dara Henry: On All Other Nights: A Passover Celebration in 14 Stories ed. by Chris Baron, Joshua Levy, and Naomi Milliner
A.R. Vishny: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
David Schlitt: Teitelbaum's Window by Wallace Markfield
Sally Weiner Grotta: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Sally Weiner Grotta: The Golden Dreidel by Ellen Kushner
Lies Meerboom: The Promise by Chaim Potok
Aden Polydoros: A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft
Rifka Yerushalmi: What a Beautiful Morning by Arthur A. Levine
Sidura Ludwig: Starry Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume
Elysa Keshen: All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel
Susan Dubin: Sisters at Sinai by Jill Hammer and other books about women in the Bible
Richard Ho: Happy Hanukkah, Curious George by H.A. Rey
Shoshana Traum: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Shoshana Traum: Jewish Futures: Stories from the World's Oldest Diaspora by Michael A. Burstein
Henry Woodall: Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah
Dina Herbert: The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann. M. Martin
Olga Potap: the works of Sholem Aleichem
Daniel Scheide: the works of William Morris
Jane Rothstein: All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Sally Stieglitz: Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Michal Babay: the works of Harlan Coban
Xandra O'Neill: Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen
Bette Stahl: Jewish Cookbooks
David Stahl: A Torah Commentary for Our Times by Harvey J. Fields
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Whether you play the lottery or not, I think that all of us dream about what we would do if we won a major jackpot. This is what happened to three out of the four Jacobson siblings. Matthew, Laura, Sophie, and Noah were gathered to pack up the family summer house on Long Beach Island, when Noah announced he was going out and would be buying a lottery ticket. Laura and Sophie jumped to go in on the tickets, while Matthew flatly refused. They were all completely shocked to find that one of their tickets was a winner. The three winning siblings quickly set about spending the money. They found that becoming overnight millionaires brought more complications into their lives than they possibly could have projected. Join me for a conversation with Ellyssa Friedland about her latest work, Jackpot Summer.
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Eve is only looking for some shelter from the rain, but what she finds will change her work, her heart, and her life. In a small cave in the Scottish highlands, Eve finds a journal written in as a series of letters from a woman named Shira to her lover Benjamin. Eve realized that the letters contain secrets about the family of her new love Mac. What secrets are revealed and can Eve and Mac's love survive? Join me for a conversation with Lynne Golodner about her latest book, Cave of Secrets.
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Often we just want to connect with all the people around us and fix any problems we see. In the Hebrew Teacher, a collection of three novellas, people attempt to do this in very different situations. But sometimes, other people see the problem from a different perspective, or the problem is not what it seems. And to connect with someone else, they need to want to connect back with you. Join me for a conversation with Maya Arad about navigating life, jobs, and family.
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. Annamae lives in New York with her brother and linguist mother. She yearns for connection and feels that someone will show up to take her away to where she is supposed to be. In the meantime, she pours her thoughts and dreams into her diary. Ani lives on a homestead which is a safe place for misfits and homeless. One day, the Captain, one of the long time residents, hears a call and just walks away to follow it. When Ani realizes that he forgot his treasured journal, she attempts to follow him to him to return it. Each girl is growing into her identity and finding her place in her family, community, and world. Join me for a conversation with Leah Hager Cohen about her book (or books!) To and Fro.
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Every year the Research, Archive, and Special libraries division of the Association of Jewish Libraries (otherwise known as RAS) gives awards for excellence in Reference and in Bibliography. Since these are obviously not fiction, they wouldn’t ordinarily be a candidate for this podcast. But I got an opportunity to share the interview with last year’s bibliography winner that I found too delicious to pass up. The bibliography award focuses on books written about other books. In the case, the winner Adras Koerner won for this work Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essay on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History. Join me at Nice Jewish books to listen to RAS vice president Eitan Kensky and author Andras Koerner discuss Jewish food, cookbooks and culture.
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During the Holocaust, desperate Jewish parents placed their children with Christian families and in convents in the hope that the children would survive the war. After the war, Jewish organizations went to reclaim these children to be raised in the Jewish community. But how did the children deal with yet another displacement. Join me for a conversation with Jennifer Rosner.
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We start in a familiar place, in contemporary Chicago, where Jennifer, a museum curator, is asked to go to Belarus to create a living installation of Jewish life there before the Holocaust. She invites a distant cousin to participate, and she brings with her an old Yiddish literary magazine to use as a prop in the installment. In each chapter we move backward in time. As the settings become less familiar to us, we see the cousin relationships getting closer and see that there is a poem in the journal that is directed at three brothers in the family. The triplets had been separated at a young age. To find out why, and what the poem has to do with it, we must travel back further in time. Join me on this journey of Our Little Histories by Janice Weizman
Check out her Jewish fiction website which focuses on literature from small presses.
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Adam is a twelve year old boy preparing for his bar mitzvah in Flushing New York in the early 1970. In many ways, he is a typical kid, trying to fit in at school, but also trying to find himself and find ways to stand out. But his year is off to a difficult start when his parents decide to move the family to a different neighborhood and at the same time his best friend decides to ghost him. Can Adam make new friends, find his people, and survive his bar mitzvah? Join me for a conversation with author Don Futterman about Adam Unrehearsed.
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Don supports the residents and rebuilding of Kfar Azza and the Israel Center for Educational Innovation.
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While the body of Yiddish literature is vast, many people still think of Tevye the milkman, trudging along with his lame horse and arguing with God. But the many new translations of Yiddish fiction show the breadth and depth of the settings, characters, and topics covered as well as the many different voices of the authors.
This past fall, Nice Jewish Books in conjunction with AJL presents, gathered three amazing scholars to speak about the past, present, and future of Yiddish literature and especially Yiddish literature in translation. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, poet, writer, and translater; translator Mindy Liberman, and Ellen Cassedy, a translator, author and activist, discussed the resurgence of interest in Yiddish literature and their own particular projects.
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Links from the chat:
Yermiyahu's website : https://yataubdotnet.wordpress.com/bio/
Ellen's website: https://ellencassedy.com/translations...
Mindy in geveb: https://ingeveb.org/people/mindy-libe...
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tra...
https://yivo.org/Irena-Klepfisz
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If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also like the AJL sister podcast, The Book of Life, a podcast about Jewish kidlit, mostly.
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