The Jewish Book Carnival is your chance to participate in People of the Books.
The Carnival was started by Heidi Estrin and me, to promote blogs that cover Jewish books. It’s an effort to build community, so that blog writers and readers can share posts on Jewish books. We’ll read each others’ blogs, support each other and promote each other- and Jewish books- throughout the blogosphere.
Every month on the 15th, someone will host the roundup; this month (and next month) it will be here on the AJL blog. After that, we’d love to know if you would be interested in hosting the carnival on your blog!
The Jewish Book Carnival has a GoodReads page; we’d love for you to join, to keep up with Carnival news, join in our discussions and share what you’re reading and writing about.
We are also running a poll to choose a name for the Carnival; the voting is open until August 31.
In the mean time, let’s go with the inaugural edition of the Jewish Book Carnival.
From Steve Bergson, From Cyberspace to the Printed Page, from his Jewish Comics blog.
From Barbara Bietz, a post from her blog on Laurel Snyder and her new book, Baxter The Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher.
From Erika Dreifus, on the Fiction Writers Review blog: a review of Sarah/Sara by Jacob Paul.
Erika also sent us From My Bookshelf: Prisoners: A Muslim and A Jew Across the Middle East Divide.
The Jewish Book Council blog contributed Writing a Book Like Coney Island, a guest post by author Joshua Cohen, author of Witz.
The Jewish Women’s Archive blog Jewesses with Attitude contributed their Summer Reading List.
From the Jew Wishes book blog, a review of Mr. Rosenbaum Dreams in English, by Natasha Solomons.
From Ann D. Koffsky, Lifeguarding and Illustration.
From Barbara Krasner, a review of Lost, by Jacqueline Davies, and a review of Emma’s Poem, by Linda Glaser. Both are from the excellent Whole Megillah blog on children’s literature.
From Sylvia Rouss, Once Upon A Time There Was a Little Rescue Dog.
Please visit and bookmark all these great blogs. Thanks to those who participated, and if you’re a blogger who’d like to participate next month, please feel free to email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Happy reading!
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This is a great idea! It’s very important that we support each other and share ideas. Thank you for starting this, Heidi! JPS would love to host the carnival. Just let us know what to do.
Great idea and a handy page for reference when looking for some new Jewish Lit ideas. I’ll check out Mr. Rosenbaum Dreams in English since I keep hearing that title.
This is a great kick-off to the Jewish Book Carnival – such interesting posts! I hope more and more bloggers will want to participate and that readers will find the discussions and reading recommendations interesting and helpful.
Thank you Marie and Heidi!
This is a wonderful carnival – I could stay all day!
Mazal tov on the inaugural edition! I’ll post this to my blog as well.
Great! Thank you!
Thank you for participating!
The posts were terrific- thanks to all the participants!
Thanks! I hope you contribute a link to the next one!
I’m so glad JPS is interested in participating this way! I will get back you with the details!
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