Bestselling Israeli Author Releases Latest Novel Translated to English
Jessica Russak-Hoffman | JNS
Last year, the Israeli military launched operation “Rising Lion.” This year, it fought operation “Roaring Lion.”
June 16, a different lion —...
Finalists Announced for Lucrative Jewish Literary Award
Lisa Keys | JTA
Amir Tibon’s memoir about his family’s ordeal during the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and Laura Hobson Faure’s history of Jewish...
‘The Wanderers’ Tells the Story of Poland’s Holocaust Survivors Who Fled to the Soviet...
By Shira Li Bartov
Like many Holocaust survivors, Daniela Gerson’s grandparents lived by the vow to “never forget, never forgive” the annihilation of their Polish...
A Best-Selling Novelist Identified a Minor Character as Israeli. Some Fans Are Canceling Their...
Jackie Hajdenberg | JTA
A bestselling author is facing a flurry of anger from fans after advance copies of her upcoming novel identified a character...
42 Jewish Authors Slam Jewish Book Council for ‘Bias Toward Centering Israeli and Zionist...
Andrew Lapin | JTA
Dozens of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish authors are criticizing the Jewish Book Council, a historic literary group, for what they said...
A Lost Novel From 1943 Predicted the Holocaust. Now, It Has Been Recovered.
Shira Li Bartov | JTA
As World War II raged in Europe, Friedrich Torberg, an Austrian Jew who fled for the United States in 1940,...
Eli Sharabi’s ‘Hostage’ Memoir Named Jewish Book of the Year
Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA
Eli Sharabi’s memoir “Hostage,” recounting his experience in Hamas captivity after the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, has been named Book of...
A Spring Preview of the Arts in Jewish DC
Stephen Silver
Here are some highlights of artistic events coming up in the District and nearby throughout the spring:
February 27-April 5
The Arena Stage theater presents...
French Publisher Recalls Books Portraying Oct. 7 Victims as ‘Jewish Settlers’
France’s largest publisher, Hachette, announced on Jan. 14 that it was recalling three high-school textbooks that describe the victims of the Hamas-led Oct. 7,...
Facing Antisemitism and Exclusion, Jewish Authors Get a Lifeline
Elana Sztokman | JTA
Susan Blumberg-Kason, a Jewish author whose work explores Jewish history and identity, was deep into a book about Golda Meir’s Milwaukee...