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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

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Author and native New Yorker Sarah Seltzer, left, and the cover of her debut novel 'The Singer Sisters.' (Kurt Sneddon/Flatiron Books/ via JTA)
August 27, 2024, 1:07 am
In new book ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish rock music family finds sex, drugs – and deli
While some of the most iconic folk legends of the ’60s and ’70s were Members of the Tribe, author Sarah Seltzer’s fictional dynasty’s drama strikes a particularly Jewish chord
By Gabe Friedman
Author Gabrielle Zevin speaks about her bestseller 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' during the 28th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on April 22, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via JTA)
July 26, 2024, 4:43 am
How author Gabrielle Zevin has become a literary scapegoat for anti-Israel activists
Reflecting a wider trend since October 7, the writer has been accused of being a Zionist, and therefore, worthy of a boycott — most recently by a Chicago bookstore’s book club
By Andrew Lapin
Novelist John Irving speaks at the Mishkenot Sha'ananim cultural center in Jerusalem, July 3, 2024. (Ethan Freedman/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2024, 1:52 pm
After 40 years, novelist John Irving returns to Jerusalem, where new novel is partly set
Award-winning author speaks at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim cultural center, nostalgic about his time in Israel but not revealing much about about his work-in-progress ‘Queen Esther’
By Ethan Freedman
Novelist John Irving was scheduled to appear at the upcoming Jerusalem Writers Festival opening May 27, 2024, but had to cancel his in-person appearance due to a bout of COVID-19. (Courtesy: Derek O'Donnell)
May 26, 2024, 9:51 am
Novelist John Irving cancels long-awaited Israel visit due to COVID-19
Author was coming for Jerusalem Writers Festival and to work on final chapter of latest book, ‘Queen Esther,’ set in 1980s Jerusalem; now. he’ll do a Zoom interview for festival
By Jessica Steinberg
File: US writer Paul Auster looks on in Lyon, France, on January 16, 2018. (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)
May 1, 2024, 8:55 am
American-Jewish novelist Paul Auster dies at 77 of lung cancer
‘New York Trilogy’ author, who was known for his noirish existentialist novels, was rocked by family tragedies in his latter years
By Emilie BICKERTON
File: Writer Sami Michael in Jerusalem in 2004 (Flash90)
April 2, 2024, 6:25 am
Sami Michael, Iraqi-born and award-winning Israeli author and activist, dies at 97
Michael was known for his focus on oppressed minorities and the challenges faced by Jews from Arab countries in the state’s formative years
By Melanie Lidman
Some of 2023's best Jewish books. (JTA collage by Mollie Suss)
January 2, 2024, 2:08 am
Some of the best Jewish books – and authors – we’ve seen in 2023
Flawed and complex, historic and particular, the noteworthy works defining this year were written prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities; next year’s list may be marked by war
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Palestinian lawyer-activist Raja Shehadeh reacts during a session on Writing and Resistance, at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, India, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
November 15, 2023, 6:28 pm
Jewish sponsor withdraws from National Book Awards over ‘planned’ Gaza statement
Publisher Zibby Owens says she pulled out after failing to receive assurances from organizers that winners wouldn’t make speeches that ‘promote pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel agenda’
By Andrew Lapin
Iddo Gefen, center, seen hiking with his friend Sagi Golan, left, and another friend in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Gefen/via JTA)
October 30, 2023, 1:26 am
Israeli Sami Rohr Prize winner uses event to eulogize his good friend, killed Oct. 7
Author Iddo Gefen was set to attend Sagi Golan’s wedding to partner Omer Ohana this month, instead, he flew back to Israel an hour before the reservist’s funeral
By Gabe Friedman
A reinforced platoon of soldiers ready for battle moves out, in search of 'suicide squad' in Santiago, Chile, allegedly formed by government sympathizers, September 13, 1973, after the coup two days prior against president Salvador Allende. (AP Photo)
September 15, 2023, 1:33 am
What happened in Chile on the ‘other’ 9/11? A novel weighs a quasi-fictional scenario
In ‘The Suicide Museum,’ Chilean-American writer Ariel Dorfman pens an alternate history with himself and his family, along with a driven Holocaust survivor, as protagonists
By Rich Tenorio
Writer Alex Epstein with one of his handmade miniature novels (Courtesy Alex Epstein)
August 2, 2023, 2:54 pm
Author Alex Epstein crafts tiny books to fit his micro stories
Novelist specializes in very short stories, and designs his own miniature tomes for them
By Jessica Steinberg
Authors Mark Sachs and Evan Nierman say cancel culture runs counter to Jewish values. (iStock/ PeopleImages)
July 28, 2023, 2:18 am
A pair of crisis managers show how cancel culture targets all – without fear or favor
In new book, ‘The Cancel Culture Curse,’ Evan Nierman and Mark Sachs describe how the form of bullying has brought the United States to madness – and how to pull back from it
By Cathryn J. Prince
File: Czech writer Milan Kundera poses in a garden in Prague on October 14, 1973. (AFP)
July 12, 2023, 3:06 pm
Milan Kundera, exiled Czech author and dissident, dies in Paris aged 94
Fiction writer’s satirical take on one-party state got his works banned in former Czechoslovakia
By Agencies
Bruno Schulz, 'Dedication,' 'The Book of Idolatry,' 1920s. (courtesy)
June 30, 2023, 6:37 pm
How the work of a celebrated artist killed by a Nazi mysteriously ended up in Israel
In ‘Bruno Schulz,’ author Benjamin Balint follows the dark story of a renowned Polish-Jewish creative turned SS officer’s artist-slave, and the battles over his surviving legacy
By JP O’ Malley
20 children's book authors were in Israel for the PJ Library 2023 Author Israel Adventure. (courtesy, Danielle Mehler)
May 16, 2023, 12:45 am
PJ Library authors discuss storytelling with Etgar Keret on Israel trip
20 Jewish writers traipse all over Israel during eight-day visit sponsored by non-profit Jewish book organization
By Jessica Steinberg
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