In the crowded canon of books about how to change the world, few loom as large as Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” ...
Jewish authors in Northern California have been busy writing memoirs, historical fiction and children’s books.
Founders of Altneuland, the first such publishing house since the Jewish state's inception, embrace Israeli writers - and ...
This list of books with Jewish main characters will help you discover exceptional picture books and middle grade books with ...
(JTA) — When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family — I asked her how she managed to breathe life into a tired genre ...
Last December, in a column about the Jewish books of 2023, I predicted that “next year’s list will include a slew of books dealing with the crisis in Israel or will be read through the lens of the war ...
(JTA) — Music critic Jeremy Eichler’s study of how classical composers made music after the Holocaust was named the book of the year by the Jewish Book Council, which will present the National Jewish ...
A century ago, Fanny Goldstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant working as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, noticed Jewish visitors rarely checked out books about their own culture. With her ...
Jewish author Talia Carner thought she’d seen the worst after hundreds of antisemitic trolls review-bombed her new novel a few months back in retaliation for a pro-Israel video she posted on Instagram ...
In the past few months, I have encountered three new English-language books that all have Hebrew in them. Though it’s become fairly common for English language books to contain snippets of Spanish — ...
The censorship of Hebrew books has a long and interesting history, though the methods and motives for the censorship was not always the same. Censorship in Russia of Jewish books began in the late 18 ...