The Five Books

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    🕮    The Five Books is a new literary Jewish podcast hosted by Tali Rosenblatt Cohen, in partnership with the Jewish Book Council. I'm very happy to welcome another show to our little corner of the book world, so I invited Tali to do a mutual interview. We interviewed each other, and the episode will appear on both our podcast feeds. Go to the Substack post for this episode for links to other podcast swaps I've done over the years!

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Book #1: Favorite Picture Books

  • The House on the Roof by David Adler (Tali)

  • The Rabbi and the 29 Witches by Marilyn Hirsh (Heidi)

  • Savta Simcha series by Yaffa Ganz (Tali)

  • The Passover Parrot by Evelyn Zusman (Tali)

  • Once Upon a Shabbos by Jacqueline Jules (Heidi)

  • The Hardest Word by Jacqueline Jules (Tali)

Book #2: Favorite Middle Grade

  • All-of-a-Kind Family series by Sydney Taylor (Tali)

  • To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloane and Meg Wolitzer (Heidi)

  • The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (Heidi)

  • Not Nothing by Gayle Forman (Tali)

  • When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman (Tali)

  • Max in the House of Spies/Max in the Land of Lies by Adam Gidwitz (Heidi)

Book #3: Favorite Young Adult

  • When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb (Heidi)

  • Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero by E. Lockhart (Heidi)

  • Boys of the Beast by Monica Zepeda (Heidi)

  • Recipe for Disaster by Aimee Lucido (Heidi) - actually Middle Grade but mentioned at this point

Book #4: What books are you excited about right now?

  • More Than Enough: Inspired by Maimonides’s Golden Ladder of Giving by Richard Michelson (Heidi)

  • Mendel the Mess-Up by Terry LaBan (Heidi)

  • Night Owls by A.R. Vishny (Heidi)

  • Honey and Me by Meira Drazin (Tali)

Book #5: Adult Books

  • One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank (Tali)

  • My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar (Tali)

  • Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom by Ariel Burger (Tali)

  • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn (Heidi)

  • Thistlefoot: A Novel by GennaRose Nethercott (Heidi) 

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