The Five Books

著者: Tali Rosenblatt Cohen
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  • The Five Books celebrates the role of books in our lives. Each week we’ll talk with a Jewish author about five books in five categories. We’ll hear about: two Jewish books that have impacted the author’s Jewish identity; one book (not necessarily Jewish) that they think everyone should read - a book that changed their worldview. We’ll get a peek into what book they're reading now, and we’ll hear the inside scoop on the new book they’ve just published. The Five Books creates a space for all listeners to explore what it means to live, write, and read as a Jewish American today.
    Tali Rosenblatt Cohen
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The Five Books celebrates the role of books in our lives. Each week we’ll talk with a Jewish author about five books in five categories. We’ll hear about: two Jewish books that have impacted the author’s Jewish identity; one book (not necessarily Jewish) that they think everyone should read - a book that changed their worldview. We’ll get a peek into what book they're reading now, and we’ll hear the inside scoop on the new book they’ve just published. The Five Books creates a space for all listeners to explore what it means to live, write, and read as a Jewish American today.
Tali Rosenblatt Cohen
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  • Samantha Greene Woodruff on Blacklists and being a 'Christmas Tree Jew'
    2025/01/07
    The Trade Off is the story of a brilliant and ambitious young woman striving to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street. Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers, and for finding patterns within the stock market. But in the 1920s, in a Lower East Side tenement, opportunities for (Jewish) women on Wall Street don't just come knocking. It's easier for her golden-boy twin brother, Jake, who longs to reclaim all their parents lost after fleeing the pogroms in Russia to come to America. Well intentioned but undisciplined, Jake has a charm that can carry him only so far on Wall Street. So Bea devises a plan to be the brains behind her brother, acting as broker. As Jake's reputation, his heedless ego, and the family fortune soar, Bea foresees catastrophe: an impending crash that could destroy everything if she doesn't finally take control. (Lake Union) Samantha Greene Woodruff has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and spent fifteen years at Viacom’s Nickelodeon before leaving to parent her two young children. Her first novel, The Lobotomist’s Wife was a #1 Amazon bestseller and Amazon First Reads Pick. The Trade Off is her second novel. Samantha expounds upon her love of Christmas, what it meant to step into her Jewish identity post 10/7, and her conflicted feelings toward wealth. Samantha Greene Woodruff’s Five Books: The Diary of Anne Frank Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl and The Whispers by Ashley Audrain The Trade Off by Samantha Greene Woodruff The Five Books has the advisory and promotional support of The Jewish Book Council. The Five Books is fiscally sponsored by FJC, a 501c3 public charity. Hosted by Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen Produced by Odelia Rubin Artwork by Dena Friedman Music by Dov Rosenblatt and Blue Dot Sessions
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    43 分
  • Yehuda Kurtzer on Grappling with History and Memory
    2024/12/31
    The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook, a rich collection of major Jewish ideas from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. (Academic Studies Pres) Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is president of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Yehuda is a leading thinker on the essential questions facing contemporary Jewish life. He is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, the co-editor of The New Jewish Canon, the host of the Identity/Crisis podcast. He writes, teaches, and lectures widely about contemporary Jewish life. Yehuda is trained as a scholar of ancient Judaism and rabbinics with a doctorate in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and previously served as a member of the faculty at Brandeis University, where he held the inaugural Chair in Jewish Communal Innovation. In this wide ranging conversation Yehuda will reflect on his unusual upbringing as the child of a diplomat with a front row seat to Middle East politics, on falling in love with second century rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity, and his optimistic take on a new path forward for Israel and the Middle East. Yehuda Kurtzer’s Five Books: As a Driven Leaf, by Milton Steinberg Zakhor, by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi In The Land of Israel, by Amos Oz The Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden The New Jewish Canon, edited by Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire E. Sufrin The Five Books has the advisory and promotional support of The Jewish Book Council. The Five Books is fiscally sponsored by FJC, a 501c3 public charity. Hosted by Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen Produced by Odelia Rubin Artwork by Dena Friedman Music by Dov Rosenblatt and Blue Dot Sessions
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    55 分
  • Zibby Owens on the Healing Power of the Written Word
    2024/12/24
    On Being Jewish Now is an intimate and hopeful collection of 75 meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how life has changed since the attacks on October 7th, 2023, and the unique culture that brings this group together. Contributors include Mark Feuerstein, Jill Zarin, Steve Leder, Joanna Rakoff, Amy Ephron, Lisa Barr, Annabelle Gurwitch, Daphne Merkin, Bradley Tusk, Sharon Brous, Jenny Mollen, Nicola Kraus, Caroline Leavitt, and many others. (Zibby Books) Zibby Owens is the bestselling author of Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, Princess Charming, and the forthcoming novel Overheard. She is the editor of three anthologies: On Being Jewish Now, Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology and Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology. Zibby is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, which includes the Zibby Books boutique publishing house, Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, the award-winning daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, which she hosts, Zibby’s Book Club, and Zibby Retreats for book lovers. Zibby shares what draws her to books and writing, and what compels her to speak up for Jewish authors. Zibby Owens' Five Books: Night by Elie Wiesel 10/7 by Lee Yaron Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp Here One Moment, by Liane Moriarty On Being Jewish Now, edited by Zibby Owens Other Books & Resources: Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro On Being Jewish Now Substack The Five Books has the advisory and promotional support of The Jewish Book Council. November 24 to December 24 is Jewish Book Month! Celebrate with Jewish Book Council. https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/celebrate The Five Books is fiscally sponsored by FJC, a 501c3 public charity. Hosted by Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen Produced by Odelia Rubin Artwork by Dena Friedman Music by Dov Rosenblatt and Blue Dot Sessions
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    44 分

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