pickBeckoned by the blue calligraphy on our #BookCoveroftheWeek? Dive into Lewis Glinert's 'The Story of Hebrew'—a linguistic history of the speech, preservation, and literature of #Hebrew (and its ongoing war with #Yiddish)—on The #ProsenPeople blog at http://bit.ly/2jHMuyQ! #JewLit
Although she wasn't MOT, Mary Tyler Moore introduced some of the best Jewish moments in American television. Remembering her today with a piece from The #ProsenPeople archives by 'Seinfeldia' author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong: http://bit.ly/29xt3ro #JewLit
What books on the #Shoah can be recommended as both readable and reliable to readers of all backgrounds? Peter Hayes, Chair of the Academic Committee at the United States #Holocaust Memorial Museum, offers a curated #readinglist today on The #ProsenPeople, Jewish Book Council's blog of all things #JewLit!
Find the full list at http://bit.ly/2k5zkfN
#DidJewKnow Roger Horowitz's grandmother was the first woman president of the Jewish Book Council? The author of 'Kosher USA' shared some wonderful memories of Bertie Schwartz today on The #ProsenPeople! Read Roger's post here: http://bit.ly/2d0ICvO #JewLit
"This was the very thing that my publisher had fretted over: no one would know what the word #treyf meant outside of New York City. It hasn‘t yet been dragged into the Yiddish-English lexicon, like schlep and schmuck and yutz and putz. No one at the reading would see the cover image of a three-year-old me sitting on the lap of the 1965 Macy‘s Santa and get the joke." #JewLit
