Novel

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
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

John Irving’s Queen Esther follows an orphaned Jewish girl who becomes a family’s anchor, fights Nazis, and shapes Israel’s birth –while her son comes of age amid Vietnam and identity, love, and loss

|ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER
Philip Roth in 1967.

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

Philip Roth’s legacy continues to challenge and shape and challenge ideas of Jewish identity.

|BySTEPHEN DANIEL ARNOFF/JTA
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'

“It’s very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide,” El Akkad said in his acceptance speech.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA

"Romance on the Road" unites book-lovers across Israel

Groups and events are like oxygen for the growing cadre of enthusiasts of the erotic romance genre.

JULY 10, 2019ByCARMIT SAPIR VITZ
ROMANCE ON the Road has held well-attended book events all over the country, including in Jerusalem, Haifa and Eilat.

Love story between Nazi and Jew roils romance novel community

"Co-opting a genocide to further your specific religious perspective is unacceptable," critic says about 'For Such a Time.'

AUGUST 10, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Cover of 'For Such a Time'