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Author Dara Horn in a promotional video for her Tell Institute. (screenshot)
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'I absolutely think the battle is winnable'
Dara Horn tackles enduring antisemitic lies head-on with optimistic ‘Final Solution’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Inundated by readers sharing painful personal experiences, author of 'People Love Dead Jews' parses the hateful phenomenon and proposes an innovative educational fix
Meg Keene is helming Meg Keene Books, a new fiction imprint from Wicked Son, a Jewish publisher. (Courtesy Keene via JTA)
July 30, 2026, 4:57 pm
Feeling excluded in the literary world, US Jews launch their own publishing houses
Backlash against Jewish authors post-Oct. 7 inspires new initiatives, as many in the industry believe the situation is so dire that Jews need their own distribution pathways
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Daniela Gerson is the author of 'The Wanderers.' (Kait Lavo via JTA)
May 16, 2026, 4:09 am
Author tracing family’s Holocaust survival finds partner’s ancestors took same path
Daniela Gerson says that like her grandparents, most of the 300,000 Polish Jews who lived through the war were not in camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia
By Shira Li Bartov
Three new books draw on Jewish examples in providing advice for would-be protesters. (Crown; Wicked Son; Mariner Books; illustration design by Grace Yagel/ JTA)
May 5, 2026, 1:23 am
Jewish authors borrow from the past in new ‘mini-genre’ of ‘how-to’ activism literature
Arriving at a moment of protest fatigue and political polarization, three books for would-be dissidents draw on a long tradition of making good trouble
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Correspondence between J.D. Salinger and his editor referring to his Jewish and Irish heritage, overlaid on top of the book jacket for Salinger's novel, 'The Catcher in the Rye' (Images Courtesy Peter Harrington London via JTA)
April 29, 2026, 10:56 am
J.D. Salinger asked publishers to remove mention of Jewish-Irish heritage, letters show
Request was made by acclaimed author ahead of 1951 publication of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’: ‘Don’t know that I’d like to have that Jewish-Irish business slapped on the jacket’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Guests at Art and Fashion Café, Warsaw, 1930s. (Public domain via Polish National Digital Archives)
April 7, 2026, 7:48 pm
In glitzy interwar Warsaw, truth meets fiction as 2 young women hunt for missing mentor
In ‘The Last Woman of Warsaw,’ out April 7, author Judy Batalion shows the Jewish diversity of the cosmopolitan city as an odd couple sets out to solve a mystery
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Lore Segal gestures during an interview in New York, February 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
January 28, 2026, 4:09 pm
NYC exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a Holocaust child refugee and skeptic of easy truths
‘And That’s True Too,’ on display through April 15, traces the New Yorker contributor’s arc from Kindertransport to the Big Apple, where she dazzled with novels, short stories and kids’ books
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jean Meltzer, author of 'The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah.' (Courtesy)
December 19, 2025, 10:02 am
Let Jean Meltzer’s new Hanukkah-themed romance put the spark in your Festival of Lights
The American Jewish author and onetime rabbinical student adds to the winter holiday canon with ‘The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah,’ the People of the Book’s answer to ‘A Christmas Carol’
By Rich Tenorio
Henry H. Sapoznik, author of 'The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City.' (Audrey Martinovitch)
December 14, 2025, 3:50 am
From Black cantors to kosher health nuts, new book reveals lost histories of Yiddish NYC
Great for Hanukkah, ‘The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City’ by Henry H. Sapoznik is not your usual guidebook. In fact, many of the sites listed in it haven’t existed for decades
By Zack Rothbart
In 'Jew vs. Jew,' Samuel Freedman showed a community not so much assimilating away but imploding from within. (Author photo Gabriela Bhaskar via JTA)
September 9, 2025, 11:53 am
25 years after writing ‘Jew vs. Jew,’ Samuel Freedman sees new divisions in US Jewry
The catchy title of the journalist’s 2000 book referred to a community torn between tradition and modernity. Today it has new meaning as bigger rifts emerge over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks is awarded the 2025 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. (Library of Congress via JTA)
August 28, 2025, 9:52 am
Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks awarded Library of Congress American fiction award
Author’s novels often focus on aspects of Jewish history; amid turmoil at institution, Brooks praises ‘visionary librarians who value inclusion, free expression and truth’
By Grace Gilson
Detail from a newspaper illustration of Nathaniel Isaacs's colony in Matakong. (Courtesy of Adam Rovner)
April 26, 2025, 8:26 am
How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord
In new book ‘The Jew Who Would Be King,’ historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck and went on to a life of wealth, adventure and corruption
By Rich Tenorio
A woman is carried over the crowd at the Lollapalooza concert in Pownal, Vermont, July 9, 1996. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
April 9, 2025, 3:34 am
The surprisingly Jewish history of iconic counter-cultural music festival Lollapalooza
From its creator, to performers, promoters, and now the chroniclers of a new oral history on it, Jews have always had a hand in the traveling show that changed America
By Jordan Hoffman
Dara Horn's latest book is a graphic novel featuring a time-traveling talking goat. (Norton Young Readers via JTA)
April 6, 2025, 2:46 am
Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews
The author of bestseller ‘People Love Dead Jews’ takes readers to the seder tables of historically iconic Jews such as Sigmund Freud in ‘One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
'The Last Dekrepitzer' by National Jewish Book Award winner Howard Langer. (Courtesy/ Barbara Jaffe)
April 2, 2025, 12:23 pm
Fiddling with writing, lawyer pens award-winning book about busking rabbi in NYC
Winning the National Jewish Book Award for his debut novel ‘The Last Dekrepitzer’ at age 74, banjo-playing law prof Howard Langer says it’s not always about writing what you know
By Cathryn J. Prince
Lisa Barr, author of 'The Goddess of Warsaw.' (Courtesy)
November 30, 2024, 4:24 am
Blacklisted for Israel support, author draws strength from Holocaust survivor grandma
Bestselling writer Lisa Barr – targeted by hecklers and review bombers – vows that though she wants to ‘curl up in a ball’ after Oct. 7, she will ‘fight back constructively’
By Jordana Horn
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