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The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) — 348 episodes

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1

The Jewish Book Garden

2

Candles and Memories

3

The Passover Pet Surprise

4

Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz

5

Shabbat Shalom, Let's Rest and Reset

6

The Keeper of Stories

7

The 2026 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Revealed!

8

Announcement: Share Your Shelf

9

20th Anniversary Retrospective Spectacular!

10

A Hanukkah Classic Crossover with Fuse 8 n' Kate

11

November Throwback: Jewish Book Month

12

Jean Meltzer, Queen of Jewish Joy

13

October Throwback: Laurel Snyder Redux

14

One Small Spark & More Than Enough

15

September Throwback: Sweep, The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

16

A World Worth Saving

17

August Throwback: Summer Coolness

18

The Five Books Podcast

19

Announcing: Jewish Joy Con

20

July Throwback: The Inquisitor's Tale

21

Max in the Land of Lies

22

Pride Month Throwback: The New Queer Conscience

23

Pride Month Special: The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie

24

A Special Message from Heidi (A High, a Low, a Call to Action)

25

#JAHM Throwback: The Book of Life in America, 2006

26

Mendel the Mess-Up

27

A Feather, A Pebble, A Shell

28

Bonus: Next Year at the White House

29

Dara Horn's One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe

30

Night Owls: Jewish Paranormal Romance Adventure!

31

Finn & Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop

32

2025 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Revealed!

33

One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor

34

The Bubbe of Them All: Kar-Ben Publishing

35

Cheering On Jewish Books

36

A Very December 25th Hanukkah

37

Celebrate Jewish Book Month 2024

38

Creature Double Feature Part I: Vampires & Werewolves with Deke Moulton

39

Creature Double Feature Part II: Dragons & Golems with Emi Watanabe Cohen

40

Festive Friends Part I: Teshuvah and Apologies with Gayle Forman & Marjorie Ingall

41

Festive Friends Part II: Asian Jewish Kidlit with Mixed-Up Mooncakes

42

Our Jewish Emotional Support Books

43

The Mitzvah of Voting, Encore

44

The State of Middle Grade

45

"Espionage! Secrets! Suspense!" Holocaust Books with Adam Gidwitz & Steve Sheinkin

46

Joyful Song: Lesléa Newman & Susan Gal

47

Across So Many Seas, with Ruth Behar

48

Project Shema

49

The Miracle Seed

50

The 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Revealed

51

The Artists Against Antisemitism

52

Hanukkah Upside Down

53

Two Tribes

54

We Need Israel Books

55

Am Yisrael Chai: Tammar Stein

56

E Train Talks

57

Two New Years

58

Friends for Levine Querido Online Auction

59

The Jake Show

60

Levine Querido and the 100K Books Challenge

61

Pride Month Special with A.J. Sass

62

A Sky Full of Song

63

A Walk on the Jewish Side

64

Shoham's Bangle

65

The 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Revealed!

66

When the Angels Left the Old Country

67

It's Always a Party with a Sephardi

68

Orthodox Excellence

69

The Very Best Sukkah by Shoshana Nambi

70

Some Kind of Hate

71

Detour Ahead

72

Catnip for Librarians: Smart Kids Talk About Books

73

Zay Getray Zikh Aleyn, or You Be You: The Kid's Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family

74

Unite Against Book Bans

75

Wayward Creatures

76

Passover! "Holiday Highlights"

77

The Unfinished Corner

78

Good Grief

79

Blog Tour 2022: The Sydney Taylor Book Award

80

The 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Revealed

81

Holiday Heroes

82

Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero

83

The Way Back

84

Little Free Libraries & Read In Color

85

Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good

86

Family Stories with the Foers (Live Show)

87

The New Queer Conscience

88

Not Your All-American Girl

89

Through the Window: Brave with Beauty

90

Vaccines Then & Now: The Polio Pioneer

91

The Passover Guest

92

Little Jews of Color in Ezra's Big Shabbat Question

93

The 2021 Sydney Taylor Book Awards

94

The Mock Award Bloggers Speak!

95

The Sydney Taylor Shmooze

96

The Puppy Test

97

City of Light

98

Anya's Dragons and Nightingales

99

The Mitzvah of Voting, Part 3

100

The Mitzvah of Voting, Part 2

101

The Mitzvah of Voting, Part 1

102

Pond Life

103

Honey on the Page

104

A Place at the Table

105

Video Episode: Artist Patricia Portillo

106

No Vacancy

107

The Bubbes and the Zaides

108

Through the Window: Lee Wind

109

A Ceiling Made of Eggshells

110

Books in the Time of Coronavirus: Parenting on a Prayer

111

Books in the Time of Coronavirus: Gluskin Family History

112

Books in the Time of Coronavirus: Beyond the Ghetto Gates

113

Books in the Time of Coronavirus: All the Horrors of War

114

Books in the Time of Coronavirus: Birthright

115

Books in the Time of Coronavirus: Hebrew Roots, Jewish Routes

116

Books in the Time of Coronavirus: You Are Not What We Expected

117

Books in the Time of Coronavirus: Welcoming Elijah

118

Books in the Time of Coronavirus: Worse and Worse on Noah's Ark

119

No Entry (Books in the Time of Coronavirus)

120

Family Meeting

121

No Steps Behind

122

The 2020 Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners

123

A Bisl Yiddish

124

Hanukkah with Noshy Boy & Friends

125

A Field Guide to Jewish Kidlit

126

The 100 Most Jewish Foods

127

Honeycake, a Jewish Magazine for 2-6 Year Olds

128

Nancy Churnin, Biography Queen

129

Bonus: Let's Play Superfight!

130

Live Show!

131

Sister Religion/Sister Kidlit

132

Notes from a Young Reader

133

A Cage Without Bars

134

Simple Acts: The Busy Family's Guide to Giving Back

135

Craig Taubman & Mostly Kosher

136

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

137

The Length of a String

138

The Kosher Baker

139

Craig Taubman Is Coming To Town

140

Fania's Heart

141

Meet Me at the Well

142

The 2019 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Revealed!

143

Beyond the Holocaust and Holidays

144

Stand Up: Social Justice Storytime

145

All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah

146

The Missing Voices of Moe and Mo

147

Light the Menorah!

148

The Girl with the Red Balloon

149

Barbara Bietz and The Sundown Kid

150

American Golem

151

Social Justice and Jewish Children's Books

152

2018 Sydney Taylor Book Awards

153

Teaser: The 2018 Sydney Taylor Book Awards

154

Grand Finale

155

The Many Faces of the Pirkei Avot

156

Tasa's Song

157

The Yiddish Book Center

158

My Jewish Year

159

The Language of Angels

160

Back to School with Behrman House

161

The Last Shepherd

162

Shalom, Salaam

163

The Six-Day Hero

164

PJ Our Way

165

Almost a Minyan

166

Mamaleh Knows Best

167

Kasper Mutzenmacher's Cursed Hat

168

Serendipity's Footsteps

169

The (Unofficial) Harry Potter Haggadah

170

Call Me Ishmael.com

171

Mark Your Calendar

172

Honey and Me

173

Unorthodox, Live

174

Another Me

175

Everybody Says Shalom

176

The Inquisitor's Tale

177

The 2017 Sydney Taylor Book Awards

178

Adam & Thomas

179

The Sunset Gang

180

Dreidels on the Brain

181

Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed

182

I Dissent

183

Once in a Lifetime

184

Fascinating

185

The Golem

186

Shmelf the Hanukkah Elf

187

The Hired Girl

188

Biblical Wives

189

Vox Tablet and Other Podcasts

190

The Safest Lie

191

Viva Rose!

192

More Than Enough

193

The Yiddish Fish

194

Hare and Tortoise Race Across Israel

195

My Grandfather's Coat

196

Enough with the Holocaust Books for Children

197

Pick a Card, Any Card

198

Last of the Red Hot Mamas

199

Enchantress

200

Do the Menschy Thing

201

Here is the World of Leslea Newman

202

Welcome to Kutsher's

203

Playing with Matches

204

Carol Matas

205

Visible City

206

The Pat Boone Fan Club

207

Good ole Lerner/Kar-Ben!

208

Eva Wiseman

209

Presses with Alliterative Names

210

Diversity in Jewish Kidlit

211

The Longest Night

212

STORM

213

The Nazi Hunters

214

Seminar Stories

215

BEA14 Variety

216

Never Say a Mean Word Again

217

Jo Joe

218

Queen of the Jews

219

Jews in Texas

220

The Legacy of Jewish Swimmers

221

The Seminar on Jewish Story

222

The Jewish Comix Anthology

223

Inspiration Then and Now: Raoul Wallenberg

224

Hannah's Way

225

Canadian Interlude

226

Laurel Snyder Redux

227

Rav Hisda's Daughter

228

Intentions

229

Whitman's Jewish Picture Books

230

Zayde Comes to Live

231

The Schmutzy Family

232

Eugene Yelchin

233

The Sophie Brody Award

234

Hava Nagila: The Movie

235

We Are Their Voice

236

Announcing the 2013 Sydney Taylor Book Awards

237

McFarland: Goyish Name, Jewish Books

238

Rubin & Sharenow: 2012 Sydney Taylor Winners

239

A Song for My Sister

240

Looking For Me in this Great Big Family

241

Reuven Firestone: Jews and Muslims

242

Marc Tyler Nobleman: Biographer of Underdogs

243

Room Enough for Daisy

244

David Bezmozgis and The Free World

245

Pulani

246

Write Your Own Megillah

247

Life, After

248

Wherever You Go

249

Noah's Swim-a-thon

250

Double Dip: Rona Arato

251

Tropical Secrets

252

Yuvi's Candy Tree

253

The Rooster Prince of Breslov

254

Defying Gravity

255

The Year of Goodbyes

256

Hereville

257

Shalom Sesame

258

The Canadian Jewish Book Awards

259

Book Expo 2010: Jewish Presses

260

Book Expo 2010: Kidlit

261

Book Expo 2010: Adults

262

Kathy Kacer

263

When the Hurricane Came to New Orleans

264

Live from Israel, It's Anna Levine!

265

So Punk Rock

266

Scribblers on the Roof

267

Save the Deli!

268

The Big Reveal: 2010 Sydney Taylor Book Awards

269

Jewish Kidlit at 92Y

270

Planet Esme!

271

Podcasters Across Borders: Alexa Clark

272

Podcasters Across Borders: Hugh McGuire

273

Jewish Book Month's Hot Authors

274

Pick Up the Phone

275

Kvetchfessional!

276

Podcasters Across Borders: Connie Crosby

277

Running for My Life

278

Jacqueline Dembar Greene, In Full

279

Jacqueline Dembar Greene

280

ForWords Is Back!

281

New Year at the Pier, Take Two

282

New Year at the Pier

283

Why Be Social? Part 4, Create-Consume-Contribute

284

Why Be Social? Part 3, Suggestions

285

Why Be Social? Part 2, Definitions

286

Why Be Social? Part 1, Philosophy

287

Book Expo: Jewish Books for Kids

288

Book Expo: Jewish Authors Etc.

289

Book Expo: Jewish Titles for Adults

290

Mark Blevis, Kidlit Podcaster

291

Book Expo: Jewish Publishers

292

The Red Leather Diary Part 2

293

The Red Leather Diary, Part 1

294

Mitzvah Time: The Bridget Zinn Auction

295

Sing, Little Birdie

296

Moses Is Departing Egypt, A Facebook Haggadah

297

Truth or Dare

298

A Civil War Passover

299

Memories of Aranka Siegal

300

Sonia Levitin's Return

301

Black History Month, Jewish Style

302

The 2009 Sydney Taylor Book Awards

303

Marc Aronson's Unsettled

304

Spin the Dreidel

305

Tribalism

306

Blog Action Day: Poverty

307

O Canada

308

Laughing with God

309

2 Jews, 3 Opinions

310

Book Expo, Part 4: The Holocaust

311

Book Expo, Part 3

312

Book Expo, Part 2: Jewish Kids/Teen Books

313

Brand Spanking New, Part 1: Jewish Picture Books

314

See You at Book Expo!

315

Israel @ 60

316

Passover Internationale

317

The One with the Mezuzahs

318

Funny, That Book Doesn't Look Jewish

319

Bells & Whistles: How to Call In, Live

320

Empowerment for the New Year

321

Meet Markus!

322

Hooray for Hanukkah!

323

Thanksgiving Shout-Out Special

324

Old Radio and New Media

325

Catch Me a Classic!

326

Seeing Through New Eyes

327

Klezmapalooza!

328

Magic & Mystery

329

Summer Coolness

330

The Book of Life Plays Ball

331

The Book of Life and the Power of Books

332

Why is this Podcast Different from All Other Podcasts?

333

The Book of Life's Purim Celebration

334

The Book of Life: The Best New Books and Music

335

A Joyous Hanukkah with The Book of Life

336

A Book of Life Addendum

337

The Book of Life Celebrates Jewish Book Month

338

The Book of Life: Past, Present and Future

339

The Book of Life Starts a New Chapter

340

The Book of Life Tells Stories

341

The Book of Life in America, July 2006

342

The Book of Life on Summer Reading, June 2006

343

The Book of Life Gets Caught Reading

344

The Book of Life on Passover, April 2006

345

The Book of Life on Purim, March 2006

346

The Book of Life on Heroes, February 2006

347

January 2006, The Book of Life on Book Awards

348

The Book of Life, December 2005