This month, to start the New Year off with a bang, we are hosting the Jewish Book Carnival! Started by Heidi Estrin and Marie Cloutier to build strength in the Jewish-book-blogosphere, JPS has collected a series of links to share with you:

JBooks: The Jewish Manuscript Project: “Poem in the Prophetic Manner.”

LibrarysCat: Life in Biblical Israel

rhapsodyinbooks: Sunday Salon – Review of “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union,”

Beliefnet: Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher and Tashlich at Turtle Rock

Jewish Boston: Book Review: Broken Birds and Book Review: Queering the Text

Laurel Snyder: The Art of Beginning… Again. Renewel

Erika Dreifus: A Conversation with Allison Amend

Sylvia & Jeff Rouss: A Circle of Smiles for Beit Issie Shapiro

Sheryl Stahl: That one special High Holiday tune

The Fourth Musketeer:Top of FormBottom of Form Book Review: Annexed, by Sharon Dogar

She is Too Fond of Books: Children’s Book Review: *Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher*

Jew Wishes: They Dared Return, Lest Innocent Blood be Shed, and Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald

Jewish Book Council: High Holiday Reading

The Whole Megillah?”: Tashlich at Turtle Rock and Say Hello, Lily

The Book of Life: Book Expo 2010: Kids & Teens

AJL Blog: Recent Books about the Fall Holidays

AJL Podcast: What’s Hot in Israeli Literature?

Also, don’t forget to check out the Jewish Book Carnival Goodreads page