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30-468: Angoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Angoff (1902–1979), American journalist Charles Angoff Award William H. Angoff (1919–1993), American testing expert [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Angoff . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding

60-588: A conference for all JBC Network members and their lay leaders in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America . This conference begins the new season of book festival planning. In addition to workshops and networking among the Network members, the annual conference includes a program called Meet the Author. Through this event, authors are invited to speak to the members of the JBC Network in the hopes of touring and visiting with

90-659: A focus of what she called Jewish Book Week. In 1927, with the assistance of Rabbi S. Felix Mendelssohn of Chicago, Jewish communities around the country adopted the event. Jewish Book Week proved so successful that in 1940 the National Committee for Jewish Book Week was founded, with Fanny Goldstein as its chairperson. Dr. Mordecai Soltes succeeded her one year later. Representatives of major American Jewish organizations served on this committee, as did groups interested in promulgating Yiddish and Hebrew literature. Jewish Book Week activities proliferated and were extended to

120-764: A one-month period in 1943. At the same time, the National Committee for Jewish Book Week became the Jewish Book Council, reflecting its broader scope. In March of the following year, the National Jewish Welfare Board , which would ultimately become the Jewish Community Centers Association (JCCA), entered into an agreement with the Book Council to become its official sponsor and coordinating organization, providing financial support and organizational assistance. This arrangement reflected

150-539: A specific interest in Jewish books, including library professionals, book festival coordinators, book group members, academicians, and lay leaders. The magazine was a tool to help them learn about new books of Jewish interest and make informed reading choices. Often called "the Publishers Weekly of Jewish literature", Jewish Book World brought the world of Jewish books to interested readers. Jewish Book World began as

180-431: A twelve-page pamphlet that was circulated to Jewish Community Centers, featuring short blurbs on approximately 50 new books of Jewish interest. In 1994, Jewish Book World expanded from a pamphlet to a full-length magazine that was published three times a year. Jewish Book World appeared quarterly and included reviews of over 120 books per issue, updates on literary events and industry news, author profiles, and articles on

210-538: A year-round basis, although the primary focus remains on the Fall Jewish Book Month season. The Jewish Book Council assists with program suggestions and coordinates the speaking tours of more than 260 authors who travel country-wide during the Fall season and throughout the year. The Jewish Book Council annually prepares a book providing information about the authors on tour. Each year the Jewish Book Council sponsors

240-524: Is a delight; swallowed, it leaves a faintly rusty taste on the palate, like water too long in the taps. With malice toward some, Nathan has his say on every subject under his sun." The following books appear in the Library of Congress . National Jewish Book Award The Jewish Book Council ( Hebrew : המועצה למען הספר היהודי באמריקה ‎), founded in 1943, is an American organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature . The goal of

270-415: Is a vital component. In recent years, the Jewish book festivals have grown into a $ 3 million industry. The Jewish Book Network goes a long way towards assisting in the preparation of successful events and connecting authors of Jewish interest books with the coordinators of these programs. The Jewish Book Council formed the JBC Network in 1999 to serve as a central address for book programming. It functions on

300-437: Is portrayed as a loud-mouthed vulgarian and an intellectual fraud with but a single saving grace, his love of music..." by the name of "Harry P. Brandt." Regarding his editing of the writings of Nathan, Time wrote, "Mercury associate, Charles Angoff, has reached back over 34 years, dusted off Nathan's personal Five-Foot Shelf of writings (some 39 books) and pieced together a Nathan sampler. Sipped, The World of George Jean Nathan

330-669: The American Feature Writers Syndicate , a front for communist underground agents as overseas cover. Chambers wrote: Among Lieber's friends was an editor of the American Mercury (not Eugene Lyons , who was still a U .P. correspondent in Moscow) . He gladly furnished a letter telling all whom it might concern that Charles F. Chase was a news gatherer for the Mercury. During testimony, members of HUAC identified Angoff as

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360-581: The National Jewish Book Award for In the Morning Light and again in 1969 for Memory of Autumn . Angoff received various other awards (1954-1977). The Literary Review offers an annual Charles Angoff Award for outstanding contributions to the magazine during his tenure as editor from 1957 to 1976. According to Whittaker Chambers in his 1952 memoir, Angoff worked closely with him, Maxim Lieber , and John Loomis Sherman after they formed

390-536: The American Mercury. During his final years at the American Mercury, Angoff began publishing more books. When the magazine closed in 1951, he began publishing a series about the Polonskys, a family of assimilating, immigrant Jews. It started with Journey to the Dawn (1951). The trilogy grew to eleven volumes and unfinished twelfth. He wrote a rather controversial biography, H. L. Mencken: A Portrait from Memory (1956) about

420-643: The JCC Association on January 1, 1994, and became an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation chartered in the State of New York. Its primary support is from individuals, and from organizations and foundations in the Jewish community. The Council's origins date back to 1925, when Fanny Goldstein , a librarian at the West End Branch of the Boston Public Library , set up an exhibit of Judaic books as

450-655: The Jewish Book Council. Hessel is credited with expanding the activities and influence of JBC. Jewish Book Council's annual literary magazine, Paper Brigade , is named in honor of the group of writers and intellectuals in the Vilna Ghetto who rescued thousands of Jewish books and documents from Nazi destruction. Each issue provides a 200-page snapshot of the Jewish literary landscape in America and abroad, including essays, fiction, poetry, and visual arts. JBC helps book clubs find reading material and discussion questions, whether

480-585: The Jewish book programs that are represented. Among the authors who were sponsored in the past are Warren Bass , Rich Cohen , Nathan Englander , Samuel G. Freedman , Jonathan Safran Foer , Myla Goldberg , Ari L. Goldman , Rabbi Irving Greenberg , Dara Horn , David Horowitz , Dr. Eric Kandel , Nicole Krauss , Rabbi Harold Kushner , Aaron Lansky , Daniel Libeskind , Tova Mirvis , Dr. Deborah Dash Moore , Judea Pearl , Naomi Ragen , Nessa Rapoport, Shulamit Reinharz , Steven V. Roberts , Jonathan Rosen, Ambassador Dennis Ross , and Dr. Jonathan Sarna. This

510-802: The Mercury person by asking: Angoff married Sara Freedman in June 1943. They had a daughter, Nancy Angoff. In 1967, his daughter published Marxism and the English Peasants of 1381: a Dream Deferred . He died on May 3, 1979, aged 77, survived by his wife and daughter. In his writings, Angoff may have become best known for his non-fiction and fiction works concerning his former boss, H. L. Mencken, and associate George Jean Nathan . As Time magazine wrote in 1961, "Having fanged his ex-idol non-fictionally in H. L. Mencken: A Portrait from Memory , Angoff releases some fictional venom in The Bitter Spring . Mencken

540-401: The Network, the Jewish Book Council is able to provide extensive resources to the program coordinators, including introduction to authors interested in touring Jewish book festivals, advice from experts on topics that affect a book program, and a chance to learn from the experiences of others in the field. Jewish books are an essential part of Jewish culture. Programming for Jewish book events

570-591: The Visiting Scribe series, a portion of the blog which features guest bloggers. These guest bloggers offer voices from the new Jewish literary scene and are most often Jewish Book Network authors. The National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running North American awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish literature and is recognized as the most prestigious. The awards, presented by category, are designed to give recognition to outstanding books, to stimulate writers to further literary creativity and to encourage

600-427: The book club is formal or informal; social or educational; interested in reading only books of Jewish content, just a few Jewish books throughout the year, or good literature that happens to have Jewish themes. Jewish Book World was a quarterly magazine published by the Jewish Book Council from 1982 to 2015. It was devoted to the promotion of books of Jewish interest. Jewish Book World reached over 5,000 readers with

630-610: The category awards, every year since 2002, one non-fiction book has been selected as the winner of the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award. The last winner was Daniel Gordis . The awards have a significant impact on American Jewish cultural life. The JBC Network is a membership organization of over 120 participating sites, JCCs , synagogues , Hillels , Jewish Federations and other related organizations that host Jewish book programs. Through

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660-642: The council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of quality English language books of Jewish content in North America". The council sponsors the National Jewish Book Awards , the JBC Network, JBC Book Clubs, the Visiting Scribe series, and Jewish Book Month . It previously sponsored the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature . It publishes an annual literary journal called Paper Brigade . It broke off from

690-559: The editorial staff of Mencken's American Mercury magazine until 1931, when he became managing editor. He wrote articles for the magazine, either signing them with pseudonyms or publishing them anonymously. Mencken and publisher Alfred Knopf felt Angoff was too leftist and sold the magazine privately in January 1935. Angoff joined the editorial board of The Nation magazine and then became editor of American Spectator until it folded in 1937. From 1943 to 1951, he served as managing editor of

720-510: The journal transformed into the Jewish Book World , a quarterly magazine that was published through 2015. On January 1, 1994, the Jewish Book Council became an autonomous organization. The Council's executive board voted to create an independent entity. The new organization is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation chartered in the State of New York. In 2015, Naomi Firestone-Teeter succeeded Carolyn Starman Hessel as executive director of

750-486: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angoff&oldid=992900133 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Monitored short pages Charles Angoff Angoff was born on April 22, 1902, in Minsk , Russia Empire . His father

780-783: The reading of worthwhile titles. The National Jewish Book Awards program began in 1950 when the Jewish Book Council presented awards to authors of Jewish books at its annual meeting. The first book awarded the prize was Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Harry Austryn Wolfson . Among the past notable literary winners are Deborah Lipstadt , Etgar Keret , Bari Weiss , Sonia Levitin , Howard Fast , Chaim Grade , Samuel Heilman , John Hersey , Bernard Malamud , Cynthia Ozick , Chaim Potok , Philip Roth , Arthur A. Cohen , I.B. Singer , Michael Chabon , Lauren Belfer , Elie Wiesel , Michael Oren , and Jonathan Safran Foer . In addition to

810-628: The realization that local JCCs were the primary site of community book fairs. While under the auspices of the JCCA, the Jewish Book Council maintained an executive board, composed of representatives from major American Jewish organizations and leading figures in the literary world. From 1942 through 1999, the council published an annual journal called the Jewish Book Annual . The journal reflected on "the year’s events, figures, works, and community interests impacting Jewish literature and literacy." In 1999,

840-743: The subject's anti-Semitism. He wrote several books of poetry. In the mid-1950s, Angoff became an English professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University . He co-founded the quarterly The Literary Review and helped found the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , launched in 1967. He retired in 1976 to the Upper West Side of New York City . Angoff was appointed to the Board of Trustees of New York City Community College . He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Fairleigh Dickinson University (June 1966). In 1954, he received

870-436: The world of Jewish books. Since the discontinuance of Jewish Book World , Jewish Book Council has been publishing online content such as book reviews, author interviews, and excerpts from up-and-coming Jewish books on their website, where readers can found hundreds of new reviews each year. The Prosenpeople is the Jewish Book Council's blog. It posts book reviews, excerpts, and author interviews. The Prosenpeople also includes

900-545: Was a tailor named John Jacob Angoff; his mother was named Anna Pollack. In 1908, the Angoffs left Russia and settled near Boston , Massachusetts. By age 12, he began writing poetry. He became a naturalized citizen in 1923. He studied at Harvard University from 1919 to 1923 on a scholarship and majored in philosophy. In 1923, Angoff began his career in journalism at a local weekly. He answered an advertisement by H. L. Mencken, who hired him as an assistant in 1925. He worked on

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