Book of Life Podcasts
Jewish fiction
What My Parents Did on My Summer Vacation
Karin Karlitz’s work has been featured in several publications including The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Foliate Oak and the Loch Raven Review. Her short story ‘Pursuing Happiness’ was published on Scribblers on the Roof earlier this year
View from the Bleachers
Caryl Sills is a retired English professor who has turned her hand from critical essays to fiction
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Stewart Wright lived briefly in Golders Green, London, and ten years on is still deeply in love with the baker’s girl he met there, and all the glorious bread she bakes him.
Elevating the Masses
Ligia Ravé received a doctorate in art history from the Sorbonne and moved to the United States in 1982. Elevating the Masses is an excerpt from her novel, Hanah’s Paradise published by New Door Books in 2009.
Sydney Taylor Book Award and National Jewish Book Award winners
Mazal Tov to the winners of the Sydney Taylor Book Awards and the National Jewish Book Awards
Tea with Lena
Katherine Sand is a nice Jewish girl from North London transplanted – somewhat improbably – to the Rocky Mountains.
The Lost Rabbi
Canadian fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island. He has published nine short story collections, a poetry collection, and two novels.
The Stars Outside
Janice Weizman was born in Toronto in 1964 and immigrated to Israel at the age of 19. In 2007, she completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Bar Ilan University.
Salt
On the day that Jake Asher realized he was the last Jew in Loweville, he was sitting with his girlfriend, Sandra, in the fourth row of the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church…
