SJCC Spotlight

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November is Jewish Book Month 

Celebrate the joy of reading with the Greenberg Families Library!  

This month we continue the 90 plus year tradition of celebrating our rich textual heritage. Jewish book month began in 1925, when a librarian from Boston named Fanny Goldstein set up a display of Judaic books outside of her library to showcase Jewish writing. By 1943, what had started with one woman had become so popular that it was expanded to an entire month and the Jewish Book Council was created. Today, Jewish organizations and secular libraries alike celebrate the best in Jewish writing, showcasing the vibrancy of the Jewish literary tradition. 

We celebrate the Jewish books every day in the Greenberg Families Library, and your SJCC Membership gives you access to the library’s extensive collection of books, films, digital books and more.  

Top Jewish books of the year: 

Fiction 

  • Fiction
  • A Death in Cornwall by Daniel Silva
  • 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages by Nora Gold
  • Days of Wonder by Caroline Leavitt
  • The Great Goldbergs by Daniel Goodwin
  • Goyhood by Ruven Fenton
  • The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad
  • The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
  • The Scrolls of Deborah by Esther Goldenberg
  • The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer

Non-Fiction 

  • At Night’s End by Nir Baram
  • Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander
  • First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America’s First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian by Grace Kessler Overbeke
  • The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorehouse
  • It Takes Two to Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses by Abigail Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer
  • Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories by Mike Rothschild
  • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life by Shai Held
  • Kissing Girls on Shabbat by Sara Glass
  • Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War by Jason K. Friedman
  • To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People by Noah Feldman
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