{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Jewish Emotional Support Books: a conversation with Heidi Rabinowitz and AJL conference attendees","description":"Heidi Rabinowitz and I both saw a cartoon from the New Yorker in which one spouse was trying to move a pile of tottering books off the other spouses night-stand. The other spouse yelled in alarm (something like) "don't move those - they are my emotional support books!" We were inspired to ask our fellow attendees at the 2024 Association of Jewish Libraries conference to speak about their emotional support books! Follow along with the transcript.   Enter the drawing for your own personal emotional support book bag! Share a review on social media (such as Facebook or Instagram) or post a review on your podcast platform (such as  Apple podcasts, Spotify,  Amazon, etc.) Take a screen shot of the review and email it to bookoflifepodcast@gmail.com by Oct. 24 2024 (the ultimate Jewish reading holiday, Simchat Torah) If you can't wait for the drawing or you want to buy one for your friends and family you can get one (or many) at our Zazzle shop.   OUR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT BOOKS Sheryl Stahl: He, She, and It by Marge Piercy Heidi Rabinowitz: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb Heidi Rabinowitz: Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesl\u00e9a Newman  Dara Henry: On All Other Nights: A Passover Celebration in 14 Stories ed. by Chris Baron, Joshua Levy, and Naomi Milliner A.R. Vishny: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik  David Schlitt: Teitelbaum's Window by Wallace Markfield  Sally Weiner Grotta: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl  Sally Weiner Grotta: The Golden Dreidel by Ellen Kushner  Lies Meerboom: The Promise by Chaim Potok  Aden Polydoros: A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft  Rifka Yerushalmi: What a Beautiful Morning by Arthur A. Levine Sidura Ludwig: Starry Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume  Elysa Keshen: All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel  Susan Dubin: Sisters at Sinai by Jill Hammer and other books about women in the Bible Richard Ho: Happy Hanukkah, Curious George by H.A. Rey  Shoshana Traum: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King  Shoshana Traum: Jewish Futures: Stories from the World's Oldest Diaspora by Michael A. Burstein  Henry Woodall: Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah  Dina Herbert: The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann. M. Martin  Olga Potap: the works of Sholem Aleichem  Daniel Scheide: the works of William Morris  Jane Rothstein: All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor  Sally Stieglitz: Sandwich by Catherine Newman  Michal Babay: the works of Harlan Coban  Xandra O'Neill: Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen  Bette Stahl: Jewish Cookbooks David Stahl: A Torah Commentary for Our Times by Harvey J. Fields Thanks to: The Association of Jewish Libraries Heidi Rabinowitz, podcast mentor Dee Yan Key for use of their Freylekh (downloaded from https:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/home) Donate to support the podcast If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also like the AJL sister podcast, The Book of Life, a podcast about Jewish kidlit, mostly. ","author_name":"Nice Jewish Books podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/jewishlibraries.org\/niceJewishbooks","html":"