Literature
'Disasters of Biblical Proportions': From ancient Exodus to lessons in fear and faith - review
The book Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World provides a history of the interpretations of each of the 10 plagues in the Book of Exodus.
250 years later, Jane Austen lives on at the Jerusalem Cinematheque
Mastering the short story: Twelve vignettes capture America’s Jewish world - book review
From Talmud to temptation: How erotica found a home in Orthodox Israel
Mifal Hapayis announces Sapir Prize winners
The Sapir Prize for a Debut Novel was given to Ilana Rudashevski’s Taska, published by Shtaim, which is about a family that immigrates to Israel from the Soviet Union in the ‘70s.
Jewish authors in Britain prevented from publishing books
Stephen Games, an independent publisher, related how, following the start of the Israel-Hamas war, there has been "a climate of growing hostility against Jews."
Palestinian prisoner writes book in Israeli prison, nominated for award
While in prison, Basim Khandaqji wrote a book that was nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Jewish Life Stories: The authors that left us
Robie H. Harris, 83, whose best-selling sex-ed books for children earned her awards and a prominent place on lists of banned books, died January 6 in New York. She was 83.
Legendary Culture: Cinema, Literature and performing arts
Mifal Hapayis names five finalists for prestigious literature award
The winner will receive a prize of NIS 180,000, and the winning book will be translated into Arabic as well as another foreign language.
From guerillas to Guernica: Tracing evolution of war and its lexicon
As war has played such a significant part of human history, it is a theme that figures largely in the realms of art, literature, and film.
'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.
