Jewish Book Carnival discussion
Authors Announcing Their Books
I like the way you describe your book. It echoes my description of my e-novel, GRIEFWRITING, which is available on amazon. com. I explain that it is about caregiving and loss, but also a story of the reinvention of the self after traumatic loss. That "but also" is so important! In case you want to check it out, I'm including a link to amazon.http://www.amazon.com/Griefwriting-JO...
Philip wrote: "Gudrun, is this your first book?"It is my first novel!
Memoir about using K-9s to protect and defend Jews during the 2003 intifada when busses and pizzerias were being bombed almost daily. A small group of us tried to make a difference.
Announcing my new book Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What.Taking a break from fiction, best-selling author Maggie Anton takes her Talmudic expertise to bring you a short, 120-page, book that Prof David Biale of UC Davis, author of Eros and the Jews, praises, saying: "The only thing more surprising and amusing than Maggie Anton's book on sex in the Talmud is the Talmud itself. Anton shows us how the ancient rabbis—no prudes among them!—explored every angle of human sexuality with humor and insight that feel entirely modern."
Amusing. Seductive. Stimulating. We're talking about the Talmud? That's right. Take fifty actual Talmudic discussions, mix in pithy sayings (appropriate and inappropriate) by luminaries from Mae West and Amy Schumer to George Washington and Gandhi, add a few cartoons, and voila—delighted and enlightened readers will come away with a new perspective on what the ancient Jewish sages say about our most intimate relationships.
In this lighthearted, in-depth tour of sexuality within the Talmud, come eavesdrop at the first rabbis' locker-room door as they discuss every aspect of sexual relations—how, when, where, with whom—often in startlingly explicit fashion. Author Maggie Anton reveals how Jewish tradition is more progressive in many respects, and more bawdy, than one might think. The award-winning historical novelist's first foray into nonfiction is likely to leave her fans going OMG, WTF, and even LOL.
In addition to my popular Holocaust novel, Jacob's Courage (2015 Reprint, Texas Tech University Press), I just published another new novel, called Lost & Found (2016 Smashwords Publishing). In Lost & Found, a Jewish American astronaut faces love and death in an alien body on a distant planet. It is a tale of suspense, passion, war, intolerance and survival, where no human has ventured before.
Lost & Found is distributed via Smashwords to customers of Amazon, Apple (iTunes), Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Diesel, Kobo, Sony, Scrollmotion and many other e-book retailers.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Found-Adve...
Author landing page: http://charlesweinblatt.wix.com/charl...
Hi everyone,My new novel The Tsimbalist:
At once a thrilling whodunnit, a maddening romance, and an invigorating plunge into history, The Tsimbalist is a tale of Jews and Russians, depicting their complicated friendships, their dangerous enmities, and their illicit loves, all seen through the eyes of Avrom, a barber, musician, all-around mensch, and born detective.
The year is 1871. The inhabitants of Balativke live in delicate balance – until a young Russian aristocrat is found murdered near the home of Koppel, a poor Jew. With the police unable to unravel the mystery of the aristocrat’s murder, and blame falling upon Koppel amid a rising tide of anti-Jewish feeling, a desperate Avrom attempts to prevent disaster for his community by searching out the truth himself.
Learning as much about the people he lives among as he does about the slain Arkady Olegovich Efimovski, Avrom finds that few are who they seem. But could one of his neighbors really be a murderer?
Available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Tsimbalist-Sash...
and as an e-book from iBooks, barnesandnoble, Amazon, kobo
Thanks!
Hi, all-- I'm delighted to share that my newest book, Nurture The Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder and Radical Amazement of parenting is available for pre-order now and will be out soon.
Check out the Goodreads page here, and you can read the intro and first chapter at http://nurturethewow.com.
Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting
Hello everyone,My short novel, Winegarden, was published last autumn by Holland Park Press. It's about an agnostic British Jew who struggles with life, love, loss, and the complexities of being Jewish. It's at heart a love story, with thought experiments involving cats, zombies, and golems. One critic called it 'oddly compelling' and another 'surprisingly compelling'; I'm still waiting for just 'compelling'...
Available direct from the publisher's website, where you can also read an extract (http://hollandparkpress.co.uk/book_de... for details), from selected UK bookshops, or from Amazon.
Touching the Face of the Cosmos reviewed in The Jewish Standard http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.c...
Very nice, Paul! Are you also a Leonia resident? (I myself am.)
No, I'm not ... but - Rabbi Schwartz, Lance Strate, and I will be talking about the anthology at Adas Emuno in Leonia on April 9, 10-11:30am.
I'll be performing at the National Yiddish Book Center that day …
Ah - best luck with your performance! Will you be singing, fiddling, playing the violin, or all three?
Actually, violin and narration--it's a piece based on Peretz's poem "Monish." Best of luck with your talk!
AS long as they don't feel compelled to drop your book, it's great.
A wonderful review of my new book Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What in the LA Jewish Journal. Here’s a excerpt:Anton draws on her own deep knowledge of Jewish history and writing, as well as her sly sense of humor, to open our eyes to texts that sound more like they belong in a locker room than in a seminary.” The irony that suffuses her book is spoken aloud: “[A]ccording to the Torah … a Jewish man is both obligated to have sex, under certain circumstances, and forbidden to have sex, under other circumstances,” she explains. “This means the talmudic rabbis had to use their prodigious intellects to determine those precise circumstances — how, when, where, with whom?” Of course, this is hardly the first time that Anton has pushed the envelope on matters of gender in Jewish tradition.
To read the entire review, including a lovely tribute to my illustrator, Richard Shepphard, go to this link.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/books/ar...
Happy Purim! I'm celebrating that Hadassah Magazine just posted a wonderful review of Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What. To whet your appetite here's an excerpt:This delightful little gem of a book is recommended reading for any Jewish adult who has ever had or wanted to have sex. Non-Jews, too, will be fascinated, if not a bit envious learning about this aspect of our religion. Indeed, "Fifty Shades of Talmud" might be the perfect gift for that non-Jewish son- or daughter-in-law ... Augmented with cartoons and quotes about sex, "Fifty Shades of Talmud" gives us the skinny about "the how, when, where, and with whom" of sexual relations according to our Sages.
http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2016/...
Happy Purim! I'm celebrating that Hadassah Magazine just posted a wonderful review of Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What To whet your appetite here's an excerpt:This delightful little gem of a book is recommended reading for any Jewish adult who has ever had or wanted to have sex. Non-Jews, too, will be fascinated, if not a bit envious learning about this aspect of our religion. Indeed, "Fifty Shades of Talmud" might be the perfect gift for that non-Jewish son- or daughter-in-law ... Augmented with cartoons and quotes about sex, "Fifty Shades of Talmud" gives us the skinny about "the how, when, where, and with whom" of sexual relations according to our Sages.
http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2016/...
Fabulous Maggie.Can't wait to read it!May I ask who your PR person is?
Something Is Rotten in Fettig, my humorous satirical novel about the prosecution of a kosher butcher in a fictitious Republic, was published last month by Anaphora Literary Press. It is largely based on my experiences as a civil rights attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project and other public interest programs and observations while growing-up in a colorful Jewish neighborhood. Five free books will be selected in a Goodreads Giveaway campaign that ends the middle of April.
Laura wrote: "Fabulous Maggie.Can't wait to read it!May I ask who your PR person is?"
Sasha wrote: "Sounds like a lot of fun, Jere."
Jere wrote: "
Something Is Rotten in Fettig, my humorous satirical novel about the prosecution of a kosher butcher in a fictitious Republic, was publ..."
Sasha wrote: "Sounds like a lot of fun, Jere."
Jere wrote: "
Something Is Rotten in Fettig, my humorous satirical novel about the prosecution of a kosher butcher in a fictitious Republic, was publ..."
Sasha wrote: "Sounds like a lot of fun, Jere."
Jere wrote: "
Something Is Rotten in Fettig, my humorous satirical novel about the prosecution of a kosher butcher in a fictitious Republic, was publ..."
Sasha. It was great fun writing the book. Hopefully, it will be as much fun for those who read it. At the risk of sounding overtly promotional (as opposed to being covertly so), you can read the first chapter and a synopsis of the plot on my website: http://www.jerekrakoff.com. There is also a slideshow of the characters who populate the novel.
I published a book entitled Lashon HaKodesh: History, Holiness, & Hebrew by Mosaica Press.
Here's my publisher's press release:
Throughout Jewish literature, the Hebrew language is referred to as Lashon HaKodesh. Its history, origins, decline, and rebirth are simply fascinating. Furthermore, at its deepest level, Lashon HaKodesh is called such (“the Holy Language”) because it is intrinsically sacred – and is thus unlike any other language known to Man.
Lashon HaKodesh: History, Holiness, & Hebrew seeks to understand the holiness of Lashon HaKodesh, follows its history, and focuses on the significance of Aramaic and other ‘Jewish languages’ such as Yiddish and Ladino. An extended section is devoted to Modern Hebrew, its controversies, and its implications from a religious perspective. This unique work delves into the linguistic history of each ‘Jewish language’, as well as the philological, Kabbalistic, and Halachic approaches to this topic taken by various Rabbinic figures through the ages. The author also compares and contrasts traditional Jewish views to those of modern-day academia, offering proofs and difficulties to both approaches.
As the old saying goes, “Two Jews, three opinions.” In almost every chapter, more than one way of looking at the matter at hand is presented. In some cases, the differing opinions can be harmonized, but ultimately many matters remain subject to dispute. Hopefully, the mere knowledge of these sources will whet the reader’s intellectual curiosity to learn more.
Written by a brilliant young scholar, Lashon HaKodesh: History, Holiness, & Hebrew is ground-breaking, intriguing, and remarkable.
Great slideshow, Jere! Are you the artist?
Thanks, Sasha. Confess that I am. I drew the caricatures after writing the text. It was great fun, not only drawing, but in a sense seeing the characters come to life.
Anthony Ferner will talk about #Winegarden his witty and moving novella about the meaning of being Jewish @spiroark London on April 6 at 7m. Do come along!http://www.spiroark.org/events/1272/w...
Winegarden
Jere, when you talk to your characters, do they talk back to you, or do they ignore you?
When I talked to my characters, which was often while writing the novel, they frequently scolded me for exaggerating their negative qualities or making them two, as opposed to three dimensional. As a general rule, I agreed with them and made the necessary corrections. Now that the book has been released, however, they seem to be ignoring them. Nevertheless, I continue to think about them often and miss their companionship.
Jere, you sound almost as psychotic as I am. Good to know.
Philip,I suspect that there are many others out there who suffer from our problem. We aren't alone.
available on Kindle for the first time ... Borrowed Tides ... space travel and time travel in the same novel ... with first seder in deep spacehttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DTZMKMI/r...
"packed with layers of meaning that blend ancient legends and modern science and provides an intriguing glimpse into the mysteries of time and space" -Library Journal
"bizarre enough to satisfy readers"-The New York Times Book Review
"to-the-last-page spellbinder"-Booklist
"Politics blends neatly with spirituality in an ingenious narrative that loops back on itself like a Moebius strip."-Publishers' Weekly
"Levinson does a terrific job ....[reminiscent] of the philosophic space fiction of James Blish or the reality-testing scenarios of Philip K. Dick." -Locus
Greetings; This is my first post and I'm excited to be here. I just published my first novel with Papyrus Publishing, a small, Canadian independent publisher. It is entitled "The Bridge of Haunted Souls" and has a strong Jewish theme and a Jewish heroine by the name of Tamar. Available now on Amazon.ca. Thank you so much.
Hello, I wrote a children's book about the daily life of children in the ghetto, Dreams Are Forbidden https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Thank you and Yom Haatzmut Sameah, Danna
Michael, a successful businessman with a turbulent past, is probably having the best time of his life, when everything around him starts to crumble - first his country, second - his business.
Involuntary, he finds himself entangled in the most dangerous predicament, where stakes are too high and there is no way to survive unless you prevail.
New on Amazon, not for weak hearts or gentle souls:
https://www.amazon.com/FIRST-DEAD-har...
Hello everyone. Becoming Malka is an historical fiction/ fantasy. It follows a modern-day, American young woman as she accidentally hurls herself back through time and lands in Ukraine. Set in Odessa, prior to the Russian Revolution, the story touches upon the plight of Russian Jews, as well as the history of Argentine Jews and their"Moses of the Americas"- Baron Maurice de Hirsch.Using the fantasy of time travel, "BECOMING MALKA" is enchanting and enlightening at the same time, shedding light on Jewish mysticism, delighting period-drama fans with Victorian era traditions and providing historical details of the upper echelons of Russian Jews. Easy reading. Light and Clean. A great read for teens and adults.
The Holocaust–six million Jews murdered. Then the war is over, a remnant is saved, and all drift back into the normal world. But for those who survived and their children, it is never over. Duvid’s sons, Simon and his twin brother Adam, born in Israel, raised in Montreal, grow up haunted by their father’s memories. The secret stories from the war that they overhear in disconnected, whispered bits and pieces only create confusion. After the death of their father, they find strange writings on crumbling scraps of cloth, hidden in his father’s old valise. Are they clues to a hidden past, this past which their father always avoided talking about? Simon, his life torn apart by personal adversity, hopes also to discover something about himself in them. He doesn’t imagine, though, the wonders they will lead to: his father’s secret and surprising history, and its stunning results in the present. Shifting from the small town Jewish life of pre-war Poland to the wilds of Russia, from Europe to Montreal, and on to Israel, Gravitational Fields is a moving, lyrical story, an epic tale of family, adventure, survival, determination, and especially, love.https://www.amazon.com/Gravitational-...
Enter my giveaway for this Jewish Historical Fiction/Fantasy:
Five copies of Something Is Rotten in Fettig, my satirical novel about the prosecution of a kosher butcher, are included in a Giveaway campaign. The Giveaway ends on July 9th. I invite you to check it out.
Mark wrote: "Thank you for this forum.I am the author of the first biography of Jewish song parodist Allan Sherman, of "Hello Muddah" fame. It is forthcoming in May from Brandeis U. Press.
Still learning my ..."
This is a great place to let people know about your books. I just shelved your book on my "to read" shelf. I loved Allan Sherman, and will buy your book. Thanks to the group admin for letting people post their books, and good luck with this one.
Hope about a little summer spirituality? Why not start at the beginning with Genesis? Register now to win my latest book: Tiptoe Through Genesis. You will see why the oldest book in the world is timelier than ever. https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/a0f2a12...
Hello. My name is Jack Michonik and I am a Jewish Spanish author. My historical fiction book, “La Descendencia” was translated and published in English on Amazon Kindle in 2015. "The Heritage" follows the story of two families who landed up in Latin America after they were forced to flee poverty and anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe in 1926. Though not an autobiographical novel, it could be the story of the parents or grandparents of any Jew from Central or South America.The Heritage is currently on a special 99c promotion on Amazon (7-10 July). If it sounds like something that you might be interested in, don’t miss out on this special deal. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010GJP068.
Thank you.
I’m excited to announce the publication of my young adult novel, ON BLACKBERRY HILL. The book tells the story of two teenagers, mother and daughter, coming of age at the same Jewish sleepaway camp, twenty years apart. Many people say there aren’t enough books about and for contemporary Jewish teenagers. This is one! If you have magical camp memories, it may be for you, too. Just in time for summer vacation reading...Available in paperback and ebook from Amazon.
On Blackberry Hill
www.rachelmannwriter.com
Wow!! Amazon has my new book Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What on sale for $3.10. That is almost 60% off. If you have Prime you can get it in time for Shabbat. https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Shades-T...
Hi All,
Rise of an Oligarch is free on kindle today only.This is what it's about:
'The deal is on and Michael (Misha) is one step away from triumph! Almost six billion green crunchy dollar project is practically in his pocket. And then there is a shot that changes everything.....
Conspiracies, old scores, powerful enemies and the blurred lines between decency and corruption all surface. Packed with remarkable characters and exotic scenes, humorous and philosophical at times, Rise of an Oligarch is a historical fiction with elements of a thriller set against the background of the Big Bang of the USSR and a young Ukrainian state striving to embrace capitalist democracy.
This is the book that tycoons certainly don't want you to read.'
Hope you'll enjoy
"Knit a hat and love thy neighbor." *KirkusI am pleased to announce my newest picture book, A Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story About Knitting and Love. It is illustrated by Brian Karas and will be available October 10, 2016.
Can't wait! Knitting=Love; I've just finished knitting a huppah for my son's wedding.
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Announcing my book From Ashes Into Light published this last week. Yes, it is a holocaust story, but also a story of spiritual awakening and the conversion of a young woman to Judaism. For anyone interested in Jewish Speculative Fiction.
Thanks!
Gudrun