November Jewish Book Carnival

I am honored to host the November Jewish Book Carnival, "a monthly event where bloggers who blog about Jewish books can meet, read and comment on each others' posts."

Let's begin:

On her blog, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, Deborah interviewed Marilyn Simon Rothstein about her new novel, Who Loves You Best.

On The Book of Life Podcast, Heidi Rabinowitz has a 2-part series: CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE: ANTISEMITISM AND THE SUPERNATURAL. Hear interviews with Deke Moulton about her vampire and werewolf books, and Emi Watanabe Cohen about her dragon and golem books, all of which combine fantasy adventure with deep and meaningful societal critique!

Life Is Like a Library relives One Day in October (Toby Press, 2024), with accounts of forty of the heroes of October 7th:

On her My Machberet blog, Erika Dreifus routinely compiles news of Jewish literary interest. Here's one recent post.

Over at the Rachack Review, Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein offers a review of a scholarly book that deals with the question of God-like lookalikes in the ancient world. That work is an edited volumes with contributions from many different academicians, and Rabbi Klein summarizes and critiques their essays.

Here on gilagreenwrites, I'm celebrating Mizrachi Heritage Month. To honor this month, I'm  posting a series of guest articles on the topic featuring Lyn Julius, Esther Amini, Sarah Sassoon and more. I invite anyone with a guest post for this series to email me through my site. The series begins with a guest post by author Sarah Aroeste. Sarah discusses why all of us should be interested in celebrating our Mizrachi heritage, " I want more people to understand and learn about this oft under-represented part of Jewish life, especially in books"--I couldn't agree with her more.  

Finally, on the Nice Jewish Books podcast:

For 100 years the Rosenfelds have been trapped in a time bubble in their tenement apartment on the lower East Side of New York. They can only catch glimpes of the outside world which has no idea that they are there. Until one day, Esther Luna, who works in the building which has now been turned into the Tenement Museum see a girl in the window who smiles and waves at her.

After exploring every reasonable explanation, Esther turns to Rabbi Meyer Poppers, a Jewish magician. While he finds the source of the curse, figuring out how to lift it is another matter entirely. And lifting it without killing the Rosenfelds will be even trickier. Join me for a conversation with author Mickey Dubrow.