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What Tisha B’Av can teach about the silencing, and creative defiance, of Jewish writers - opinion

Our writers and artists create out of the conviction that we must do justice to our suffering, to our losses. That we must create a future for which we have already sacrificed so much.

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Italian writer Erri Da Luca.

Winging it: Jerusalem writers festival lineup reveals a shifting cultural landscape

Aron Heller at his book launch for Zaidy’s Band: The Untold Stories of a Jewish Band of Brothers in World War II in Toronto, November 2025.

'Too Israel-focused, too Jewy': How publishing closes its doors to Jewish writers - opinion

ITALIAN AUTHOR Erri De Luca.

Italian author Erri De Luca to take part in International Writers Festival in Jerusalem


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.

Shtetl in Poland 370

Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93

The writer was well-known for bringing attention to the Lithuanian-Jewish experience.

A memorial candle for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93

A memorial candle for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Madrid pays tribute to late Israeli writer Amos Oz

A tribute to late Israeli writer Amos Oz

A year in columns: Why put pen to paper? - opinion

I hope to be able to share more interesting topics with you, dear readers.

A child receives the COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary Maccabi healthcare center in Rehovot on Monday.

The sequel to the Holocaust novel ‘Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ is here. Its author has no regrets.

Over the years, more research has been published about the book’s popularity in the classroom, which has led to more scrutiny of its factual inaccuracies.

 John Boyne, author of the Holocaust novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and its sequel "All the Broken Places."

Yuval Noah Harari to CNN: 'Israeli public has moved on from two-state solution'

The Israeli author and Hebrew University professor says that most of the general Israeli public wants three classes of people.

Yuval Noah Harari of Hebrew University of Jerusalem attends a session at the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020

Screenwriting guru Robert McKee to teach screenwriting seminars in Tel Aviv

Rober McKee, screenwriting guru, is coming to Tel Aviv for the first time in 16 years to teach a screenwriting seminar for the last time.

 ROBERT McKEE: It’s categorically unfair to compare works of art, whether it be a screenplay or a novel or a play

This olah moved to Israel as a doctor and became an award-winning writer

While dreaming of being a writer but finding work as a doctor, Dr. Leah Scheier moved to Israel and managed to make her dream come true - and she has the awards to prove it.

 SIGNING THE contract for ‘The Last Words We Said.’

Award-winning author Dara Horn sheds light on prevalence of antisemitism

No. 33 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2022: Dara Horn, award-winning author.

 Dara Horn, award-winning author.