42 Jewish Authors Slam Jewish Book Council for ‘Bias Toward Centering Israeli and Zionist...
Dozens of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish authors are criticizing the Jewish Book Council, a historic literary group, for what they said was a “bias...
A Lost Novel From 1943 Predicted the Holocaust. Now, It Has Been Recovered.
As World War II raged in Europe, Friedrich Torberg, an Austrian Jew who fled for the United States in 1940, imagined what was befalling...
Matzah Pizza, Miriam and a ‘HUG-Gadah’ Star in New Children’s Books for Passover in...
Penny Schwartz | JTA
Welcoming the stranger — and opening one’s home to guests at the seder — is a defining theme of Passover, the...
Eli Sharabi’s ‘Hostage’ Memoir Named Jewish Book of the Year
Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA
Eli Sharabi’s memoir “Hostage,” recounting his experience in Hamas captivity after the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, has been named Book of...
French Publisher Recalls Books Portraying Oct. 7 Victims as ‘Jewish Settlers’
France’s largest publisher, Hachette, announced on Jan. 14 that it was recalling three high-school textbooks that describe the victims of the Hamas-led Oct. 7,...
New High Holidays Children’s Books Take Place in Uganda, Hong Kong and a Sephardic...
Penny Schwartz | JTA
A laugh-out-loud Sukkot story that reimagines the classic tale of the three little pigs; an inspiring work of historical fiction story...
Har Zion Brings in Well-Known New York Rabbi for Book Talk
Sheila Kliger is part of the group of congregants at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley that organizes the “Open a Book, Open Your...
How Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ Became an Unlikely Lightning Rod in...
“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” Gabrielle Zevin’s novel about video game designers, has dominated the bestseller list for two years.
Rowan Professor Finishes Late Colleague’s Book on Confederate Jewish Woman
Dianne Ashton, a professor of world religion and philosophy at Rowan University, died in January 2022. At the time, she was working on her...
Kibbitz: Why Israel Was the First Country to Get its Own Version of ‘Who...
Taylor Swift’s detachment from contentious global conflicts ...