Celebrating 10 Years of OBOJC Authors: What’s Cooking with Dara Horn
Author Name: Dara Horn OBOJC Book Title: All Other Nights Have you published another book since your OBOJC book? If so, what is the title? Can you briefly describe the book? If you have another book due out soon, please tell us about that one and the estimated publication date. My fourth novel, A Guide for the Perplexed, was published in 2013. It's about a software developer who creates an app that records everything we do-- and then the story spirals back to the discovery of the Cairo Genizah, a massive depository of over 100,000 Hebrew manuscripts in a 1000-year-old Cairo synagogue. It's [...]
Celebrating 10 Years of OBOJC Authors: What’s Cooking with Aaron Lansky and Ariel Sabar
As we prepare for the kick-off event for our 10th anniversary book, the One Book, One Jewish community committee is catching up with our past authors. We've asked them to fill us in on what they've published since being featured as a One Book selection and to share a special recipe with us in honor of this year's choice, Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking. Author Name: Aaron Lansky OBOJC Book Title: Outwitting History Have you published another book since your OBOJC book? If so, what is the title? Can you briefly describe the book? If you have another book due out [...]
Celebrating ten years of reading Jewish books together
By: Alyse Unterberger, Director, Special Events Ten years ago, we announced the very first One Book, One Jewish Community selection - how time flies! In the intervening years, we have shared the reading of all kinds of Jewish books: fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, short stories, local authors and writers from far away. Each one brought our community together to learn, discuss and share great Jewish books in all their different forms. This year’s choice is, in that spirit of diversity, an out-of-the-box selection…..ZAHAV: A World of Israeli Cuisine by Chef Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook. Memoir, personal history and fascinating culinary lesson all in [...]