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.

|ByMARION FISCHEL
EMILY’S JOURNEY in the land of doors. Artwork by Orit Magia
From right: 2025 Sapir Prize debut winner Roni Partchek, honored for her novel “Sitara,” with Mifal HaPais CEO Adv. Beni Dreyfus, judging committee chair Dr. Ruth Calderon, Mifal HaPais board chair Itzik Lari, and 2025 Sapir Prize winner Amir Harash, awarded for “Bereavement and Failure and Zombies.

Amir Harash wins Sapir Prize for 2025; Roni Partchek takes debut award

Harash received the top honor at a ceremony held at the National Library of Israel, which hosted the prize event as part of celebrations marking 25 years since the award’s founding. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
“Neshama,” Marcella Pixley’s novel-in-verse, won the gold medal for Jewish children’s literature for middle-grade readers from the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Stories of ghosts, grief and Shabbat gladness win top prizes in Jewish children’s literature

“Neshama,” Marcella Pixley’s lyrically written novel-in-verse, won the gold medal for Jewish children’s literature for middle-grade readers from the Association of Jewish Libraries.

|ByPENNY SCHWARTZ/ JTA
‘The seventh Plague of Egypt,’ hail and fire, by John Martin, 1823.

'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.

|ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER

Iranian foundation offers land to Salman Rushdie's attacker - state media

Salman Rushdie was attacked by an American Muslim at a literary event in the summer, losing an eye and the use of one hand.

FEBRUARY 21, 2023ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL, REUTERS
Author Salman Rushdie gestures during a news conference before the presentation of his latest book 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights' at the Niemeyer Center in Aviles, northern Spain, October 7, 2015.

Israel's oldest English theater group to perform 'The Wizard of Oz'

Beginning February 23 and throughout March, LOGON will be staging The Wizard of Oz in Eshkol, Ashkelon, Jerusalem, Netanya, Ra’anana, Givatayim, Beit Shemesh, Modi’in, Rehovot and Beersheba.

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByPATRICIA GOLAN
LEXI LEITNER as the Scarecrow, Eric Isaacson as the Cowardly Lion, Ed Spitz as the Tin Man and Aida Hasson as Dorothy in LOGON’s upcoming production of ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

Israeli entrepreneur sheds light on connection between innovation and ‘tikkun olam’ in Thailand

FEBRUARY 9, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

David Grossman receives major international cultural prizes

FEBRUARY 7, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DAVID GROSSMAN faces the concept of death in every one of his books.

A Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory

This week YIVO and the NLI will announce the completion of the digitization of writer Chaim Grade's entire archive.

FEBRUARY 6, 2023ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Shtetl in Poland 370

National Library of Argentina showcases Borges’ love for Israel and Judaism

JANUARY 31, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
German Alvarez, Investigator of the Borgean funds recovery program, Prof. Ruth Fain, head of the department Latin American studies, the HebreU, Eyal Sela, Ambassador of Israel to Argentina, Laura Rosarto, Investigator of the Borgean funds recovery program, Amital Perry, head of public diplomacy

Int'l Winnie the Pooh Day: How do stuffed toys aid early development?

Winnie the Pooh Day is celebrated every year on January 18, the birthday of the British author A.A. Milne (1882-1956), who wrote the book.

JANUARY 17, 2023ByMOSHE COHEN/MAARIV
Pooh with Tigger and Eeyore at the Shanghai Disney Resort in 2019.

Jewish American poet Naomi Replansky dies at 104

Replansky was described as "an intensely political poet, appalled by the cruelty, greed, and corruption of the masters of nations and corporations."

JANUARY 10, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Books (illustrative)

Book lovers rejoice: New app offers 600,000 books to read, listen to

The platform allows book lovers to consume them on the way to work, on vacation, during sports or at home, and enjoy a wide range of unlimited books for the price of one book.

JANUARY 5, 2023ByLIOR NOVICK/MAARIV
Oodles of reading material at an old bookstore in Safed

Madrid pays tribute to late Israeli writer Amos Oz

DECEMBER 31, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A tribute to late Israeli writer Amos Oz