literature

Mifal Hapayis names five finalists for prestigious literature award

The winner will receive a prize of NIS 180,000, and the winning book will be translated into Arabic as well as another foreign language.

By NERIA BARR
08/01/2024

From guerillas to Guernica: Tracing evolution of war and its lexicon

As war has played such a significant part of human history, it is a theme that figures largely in the realms of art, literature, and film.

By RUTH BELOFF
03/11/2023

'Abraham': A literary reading of the Bible's famous story - review

In some circles, literary readings of the Bible are seen as controversial, but good literary analysis can enhance the Bible’s message about God and human beings.

By MARTIN LOCKSHIN
22/09/2023

A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author’s broken Cuban-Jewish family

Three generations of her family, beginning with her paternal grandfather’s arrival from Transylvania, lived in Cuba — which was still taking in Jews when the United States had closed its doors.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
04/09/2023

Beloved Jewish children's writer Mary Ann Hoberman dies at age 92

She co-founded and performed with “The Pocket People,” a children’s theater group, and “Women’s Voices,” a group giving dramatized poetry readings.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
26/07/2023
Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl Museum installs plaque to acknowledge author's antisemitism

The famed children's book author had once famously said “Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

It’s ‘Hanukkah in the summer’ as New Yorkers raid the Jewish Book Council’s shelves

Jewish Book Council’s annual “Raid the Shelves” event, which, for $25, allows members of the public to take home as many of the nonprofit’s spare books as they can carry.

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
21/07/2023
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