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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. 

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.
Queen Esther by John Irving

John Irving's new novel follows a Jewish heroine across decades

Philip Roth in 1967.

Philip Roth’s flawed brilliance and its impact on Jewish identity - opinion

Omar El Akkad attends the 76th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on November 19, 2025 in New York City.

National Book Award in nonfiction goes to ‘One day, everyone will have always been against this'


‘Homeland’ creators to adapt ‘Dinner at the Center of the Earth’ to TV

The book centers on a Prisoner Z who is being held at a secret prison site in Israel’s Negev Desert.

Man Watching TV

Publishing my father's novel was my alternative to Kaddish

My father left a nearly finished version of that book, The Bell Tower, on his computer, which my brother, Dave, emailed to me following my father’s death.

Walter Blum

Judy Blume's teen classic 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' turns 50

The coming-of-age classic, focuses on 11-year-old Margaret as she navigates puberty and questions her faith after growing up without a religious affiliation.

Judy Blume

Gruesome adaptation of Holocaust novel 'The Painted Bird’ now on demand

In the 1960s, the author Jerzy Kosiński’s suggested that the novel — about a Jewish boy who witnesses sexual deviance and violence during World War II — was autobiographical

Stellan Skarsgaard, left, as Hans in "The Painted Bird."

Novel races to top of Amazon after fans spot parallels with coronavirus

Dean Koontz's novel 'The Eyes of Darkness,' released in 1981, features a killer virus named 'Wuhan-400'.

Residents line up to collect vegetables purchased through group orders at a residential area in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Hubei province, China March 5, 2020.

The Holocuast Lover-a historical novel in two volumes

This historical novel by Matt Nesvisky, a former writer for both The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Report, takes the reader on an emotional ride from the revolt at Sobibor to present day

The Holocaust Lover Matt Nesvisky Published independently 2018 397 pages; $12

French novelist published Holocaust denials and caricatures 30 years ago

“Everybody knows the camps never existed,” a caption alongside that caricature read.

Israel depicted as killing children in a Palestinian cartoon

Book review: Revelatory reunions

Richard Russo’s novel ‘Chances Are…’ is a beguiling, surprising reunion of college friends.

REUNIONS – ILLUSTRATIVE.

Book review: Kidnapping on steroids

‘The Chain’ is a kidnap yarn made for the big screen

‘TO GET your child back, you must pay a token ransom and abduct someone else’s child.’

Boris Johnson’s novel, Seventy-Two Virgins: A glimpse into his inner world

The book takes place over a few hours during which a group of Islamic terrorists plan to kidnap the US president while the Johnson-like hero stumbles across the plot and tries to foil it.

Boris Johnson