June 2023 Jewish Book Carnival


The Rachack Revew is proud to serve as the June 2023 host for the Jewish Book Carnival, “a monthly event where bloggers who blog about Jewish books can meet, read, and comment on each others’ posts.” The posts are hosted on a participant’s site on the 15th of each month. Here are the latest book-related blog posts from the last month or so...

  • Gila Green interviews Tara Ison about her new book that explores Vichy France under Nazi Occupation (Amazon). 
  • Sarah Rindner reviews a newly translated book by Chaim Grade about two ex-Yeshiva students (Amazon).
  • Ben Rothke takes a look at two new books on Medical Halacha (Both on Amazon: here and here).
  • Allan Arkush introduces us to a book that explores Satmar Hassidic life in America (Amazon).
  • Laurie Novick offers us a scholarly review of the newly released Reclaiming Dignity Reviewed, an edited volume with essays from many different authors on the topic of what a woman's role should be in contemporary Judaism and how that fits with the ideals of tznius (Amazon).
  • Over at SeforimChatter, the host spoke to my friend Rabbi Shnayor Z. Burton about his new book that discusses the mitzvah of living in Eretz Yisroel (Amazon).
  • On her My Machberet blog, Erika Dreifus routinely curates "Jewish Literary Links." Here's one of the most recent posts, sourced by London's Jewish Book Week; the upcoming Yetzirah poetry conference; the Yiddish Book Center; new publication Yafeh Zine; and more.
  • Israel Drazin sings the praises of Koren's translation of the Pentateuch (Amazon).
  • Barbara Bietz interviews Chris Baron about his newest middle-grade novel, The Gray (Amazon).
  • Rabbi Aryeh Klapper tells us about the first volume of hopes to be an annual journal dedicated to contemporary questions of medicine and Halacha published by Mosaica Press and Touro University (Amazon).
  • Jewish fictional protagonists and historical figures are discussed in Veronica Leigh's book review of Celestial Persuasion (Amazon)
  • If you're into real Yeshiva-style scholarship, you might want to find out about what new sefer Rabbi Yair Hoffman is ranting and raving.
  • Chava Pinchuk recently attended a bookstore event at the famous Pomeranz book store in Jerusalem about media bias against Israel.
  • Mrs. Rachel Reese wrote a fascinating book about the Jewish perspective on Christianity and the Messianic Movement.
  • Barbara Krasner interviews Michael Hinkins about his memoir, The Silk Factory: Finding Threads of My Family's True Holocaust Story (Amazon).
  • Deborah Kalb interviews Susan Rubin Suleiman about her new memoir, Daughter of History (Amazon).
  • And last but not least, my own blog, the Rachack Review has a book review about a biography of a Reform rabbi whose innovations continue to influence Judaism denominationally (Amazon).