"2026 has already been a great year for new #Jewish #reads, from podcaster #BrookeAverick‘s delightful #romance debut “Phoebe Berman Is Gonna Lose It” to #LenaDunham‘s latest #memoir “Famesick.” Now, as we enter the summer months — prime beach #read and #bookclub in the park time — there are a whole new crop of Jewish #titles and/or books #written by Jewish #authors to peruse.

And trust me, they won’t disappoint.

There are multiple spy #thrillers with compelling Jewish characters, histories of the #Rothschilds and #Renoir’s Jewish models, and tales of girlhood, Jewish motherhood and intergenerational trauma. There are even #queer #demons, #dybbuks and #golems, oh my!

Read on for our full list of new #Jewishbooks we’re excited to read this summer."

https://www.heyalma.com/14-jewish-books-were-excited-about-for-summer-2026/

A nice review of the book I'm traveling around to promote, about Jewish contributions to the modern world over the last 250 years. (For some reason, the review uses an earlier unused version of the cover design, but it's a good, fair review.)

https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/when-einstein-met-kafka-jewish-contributions-to-the-modern-world

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Announcing a Jewish book event in NYC this coming Tuesday featuring... me!

Spanish author Diego Moldes and I will discuss his book "When Einstein Met Kafka: Jewish Contributions to the Modern World." My English translation of this impressive 600-page volume was published in September by Mandel Vilar Press.

The event, partly in English and partly in Spanish, will be held at the Instituto Cervantes, March 24 at 6 p.m.

Tickets are free but limited:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/talk-when-einstein-met-kafka-jewish-contributions-to-the-modern-world-tickets-1982716627807

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Shalom friends! Welcome back to #JewishBookReactions.
On today’s episode: “The Holy and the Broken: A Cry for Israeli-Palestinian Peace from a Land That Must Be Shared” by Ittay Flescher 
— a National Jewish Book Awards shortlist selection.
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https://youtu.be/EcWpl9V9WrE

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Just received advance copies of "When Einstein Met Kafka: Jewish Contributions to the Modern World," a wonderful book by the Spanish writer Diego Moldes, which I translated and adapted into English.

It comes out on September 15 from Mandel Vilar Press. "When Einstein Met Kafka" is like those "great Jews in history" books that lots of us had when we were kids, except it's written for grown-ups and is about 600 pages long, covering science and inventions, the arts, human rights, politics, sports, business, entertainment, and countless other fields.

Here's a sort of unboxing video (though I'd already opened the box by then). 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDbqAFLUo5Y&lc=Ugy2SUTs2-oxCEXcxlR4AaABAg

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I've been using the same, small hardcover edition of Siddur Sim Shalom for decades. The pages are soft from turning. I love how there's a wine stain in one place, or handwritten notes on cantillation in another, and how the book opens naturally to the first pages of minḥa or ma'ariv.

But over the years some pages have gotten a bit loose, and I'm starting to fear the binding will self-destruct. So I just got myself the paperback version of the same #siddur, and I'm all excited about that because I am a giant nerd. 🤓

Unfortunately, the print in the paperback version seems a bit smaller to me, at a time in my life when what I kinda need the opposite. The next one I buy will probably be one of those editions that has super-large type and I'll need a stand to hold it.

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