{"id":303087,"date":"2025-11-19T17:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/?p=303087"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:19:05","slug":"november-throwback-jewish-book-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=303087","title":{"rendered":"November Throwback: Jewish Book Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-7043481204652271901\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8lEr8CWCgS485sEx7Z1pUkHwBGz8R41ttPpdWXo2Zw-YT-FqgtRicvpOsOr6jeP6F1nEM1dDhqf8min4hsbgMrTMaqA0ruvYKdkA-lH5822xG6Usq3LzpCqXKPNCxZKnhDho4uPX4WvF0kMwXP07tYy2LWDyIktUOrN-OCFE0KrgnLM3yzuKA2A\/s1080\/Nov%20Throwback%202025.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1080\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8lEr8CWCgS485sEx7Z1pUkHwBGz8R41ttPpdWXo2Zw-YT-FqgtRicvpOsOr6jeP6F1nEM1dDhqf8min4hsbgMrTMaqA0ruvYKdkA-lH5822xG6Usq3LzpCqXKPNCxZKnhDho4uPX4WvF0kMwXP07tYy2LWDyIktUOrN-OCFE0KrgnLM3yzuKA2A\/w640-h640\/Nov%20Throwback%202025.png\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" height=\"192\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/38801525\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/8a140a\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/FFFFFF\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Embed Player\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bookoflifepodcast\/TBOL314.5JBMNov25.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">LISTEN TO THE PODCAST<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/otter.ai\/u\/sEuzJ-GYxRIHREm5DRtY94hYkFI?utm_source=copy_url\" target=\"_blank\">READ THE TRANSCRIPT<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \ud83d\udd6e\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Continuing the celebration of my 20th year of podcasting, I&#8217;ve got another archival episode for you from 2006, about Jewish Book Month. In the early days of The Book of Life I usually had multiple guests in each episode, and this one includes 4:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Folklorist Howard Schwartz, talking about his picture book Before You Were Born, which had just won the Koret Award<\/li>\n<li>Carolyn Starman Hessel, longtime director of the Jewish Book Council, whose nickname was &#8220;the Jewish Oprah&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Esme Raji Codell, author of one of my favorites middle-grade novels Vive La Paris<\/li>\n<li>and David Levithan, author of the 2004 young adult novel Wide Awake, which was reissued as Wide Awake Now in 2024 because its message about politics and protest is more relevant than ever. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m celebrating Jewish Book Month by participating in the Jewish Book Council\u2019s \u201c<b>Share Your Shelf, Share Your Story<\/b>\u201d project. I will post a photo on social media each day of Jewish Book Month, November 13 through December 13, 2025, showing a Jewish book from my personal collection with a comment about why the book is special to me. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Bookoflifepodcast\">Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bookoflifepodcast\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>LEARN MORE:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>CREDITS:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Your feedback is welcome! Please write to <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishbooks.blogspot.com\/2025\/11\/mailto:bookoflifepodcast@gmail.com\">bookoflifepodcast@gmail.com<\/a> or leave a voicemail at 561-206-2473. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN TO THE PODCAST\u00a0 \u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0 READ THE TRANSCRIPT \u00a0 \u00a0 \ud83d\udd6e\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Continuing the celebration of my 20th year of podcasting, I&#8217;ve got another archival episode for you from 2006, about Jewish Book Month. 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