Literature
Sami Rohr Prize 2026 shortlist highlights family survival and Jewish history
The annual award — which alternates each year between works of fiction and nonfiction and which honors emerging Jewish writers — is considered one of the most prominent awards in Jewish literature.
'The Sacrificial Service': Leviticus has been mistranslated for centuries - review
'Agents of Change': American Jews and the transformation of Israeli Judaism - review
'The Wisdom of Truth': Reaching the attic with a ladder to the Zohar - review
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.
Robert Gottlieb, legendary editor who championed Joseph Heller, Robert Caro dies at 92
A famous workaholic, he reportedly was reviewing proofs of a book by the Jewish author Cynthia Ozick while helping his pregnant wife through labor.
