Literature
'Emily Saw a Door': Learning to create spaces for each other with creativity, acceptance - review
A story that encourages and empowers children to find the right place for them, or even to create their own.
Amir Harash wins Sapir Prize for 2025; Roni Partchek takes debut award
Stories of ghosts, grief and Shabbat gladness win top prizes in Jewish children’s literature
'Disasters of Biblical Proportions': From ancient Exodus to lessons in fear and faith - review
'Abraham': A literary reading of the Bible's famous story - review
In some circles, literary readings of the Bible are seen as controversial, but good literary analysis can enhance the Bible’s message about God and human beings.
UPenn to host slew of ‘antisemitic’ speakers at Palestine Writes literature festival
A number of the speakers to appear at the UPenn event
A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author’s broken Cuban-Jewish family
Three generations of her family, beginning with her paternal grandfather’s arrival from Transylvania, lived in Cuba — which was still taking in Jews when the United States had closed its doors.
Beloved Jewish children's writer Mary Ann Hoberman dies at age 92
She co-founded and performed with “The Pocket People,” a children’s theater group, and “Women’s Voices,” a group giving dramatized poetry readings.
The 11th international writers festival celebrates the power of the written word
Roald Dahl Museum installs plaque to acknowledge author's antisemitism
The famed children's book author had once famously said “Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
It’s ‘Hanukkah in the summer’ as New Yorkers raid the Jewish Book Council’s shelves
Jewish Book Council’s annual “Raid the Shelves” event, which, for $25, allows members of the public to take home as many of the nonprofit’s spare books as they can carry.
New program aims at fostering the art of Hebrew translation
Novel by Meir Shalev translated into Belarusian for the first time
Placing children’s literature at the head of the class
SASA Setton is engaged in a range of activities to promote the creation of original Hebrew literature for children and increased Hebrew literacy throughout Israel.