November Throwback: Jewish Book Month

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    🕮    Continuing the celebration of my 20th year of podcasting, I've got another archival episode for you from 2006, about Jewish Book Month. In the early days of The Book of Life I usually had multiple guests in each episode, and this one includes 4:

  • Folklorist Howard Schwartz, talking about his picture book Before You Were Born, which had just won the Koret Award
  • Carolyn Starman Hessel, longtime director of the Jewish Book Council, whose nickname was "the Jewish Oprah"
  • Esme Raji Codell, author of one of my favorites middle-grade novels Vive La Paris
  • and David Levithan, author of the 2004 young adult novel Wide Awake, which was reissued as Wide Awake Now in 2024 because its message about politics and protest is more relevant than ever.

I’m celebrating Jewish Book Month by participating in the Jewish Book Council’s “Share Your Shelf, Share Your Story” project. I will post a photo on social media each day of Jewish Book Month, November 13 through December 13, 2025, showing a Jewish book from my personal collection with a comment about why the book is special to me. See Facebook or Instagram.

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