Open books and magazines spread out on a table, featuring a black and white photograph of an elderly man with glasses, a page with a quote about what the person did as a nine-year-old, and an illustration of a person sitting in a library.

Jewish Book Council

Collaborators
Katherine Messenger (Illustration)
Becca Kantor (Editor)

My role
Creative Direction / Design

Published annually, Paper Brigade is a literary journal celebrating the diversity of Jewish voices around the world. Filled with essays, poetry, art, and short stories, it’s a 200+ page snapshot of Jewish literature and culture in this moment. It’s named in hon­or of the group of writ­ers and intel­lec­tu­als in the Vil­na Ghet­to who res­cued thou­sands of Jew­ish books and doc­u­ments from destruc­tion by the Nazis.

Open magazine showing an article about Fanny Goldstein with images of books and illustrations on the pages.
Open magazine pages with an article titled 'Gender, Judaism, and Twentieth-Century American Writing' on a green background.
Open book with colorful illustration of a small round hut on a green hill, surrounded by leaves, flowers, and insects, with text on the right page titled 'The Very Best Sukkah'.
Open magazine on a pink background featuring a two-page spread. The left page has the title 'Words Between Worlds' in large, stylized blue and white text. The right page contains an interview with text about authors Maya Arad and Ayelet Tsabari, written in blue font inside a bordered box.
Open magazine lying on a pink surface, featuring an interview with Ayelet Tsabari and Simona Zaretsky, with text in black and blue fonts, and decorated with a dashed blue line on the pages.
Open magazine with article titled 'A Dybuk in the House of Fletcher' on the left page and a black-and-white photo of a hand with a paper dollar bill on fire hovering above it on the right page.
Open magazine featuring an article titled 'Through the Language of Folklore' with a black and white illustration of a woman and various mythological creatures.
Open magazine displaying two pages with text and an illustration of a fox on the left page.
Open magazine with a neon sign reading 'S MUT Z' on the left page and an article titled 'The Joy of Shmuzz' by Felicia Berliner on the right page.
Open magazine pages featuring black and white portraits of elderly individuals and text. The top left page shows a photo of a woman in a photography studio, while the other pages display quotes and images of a man with glasses and a woman with short hair.

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