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'Munich' by Robert Harris. (Courtesy)
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The deal with Hitler that buried Neville Chamberlain
By Robert Philpot
Dropping this week, Robert Harris's historical fiction 'Munich' plays devil's advocate, examining whether the then-British PM was as naive as he appeared
Jerusalemite Barbara Shaw designs gifts sold in her German Colony store, and recently published a guide book introducing her favorite places in the city (Courtesy Barbara Shaw Gifts)
September 25, 2017, 8:16 am
Jerusalem travel guide is a love letter to the city
Australia native Barbara Shaw offers her own take on where to go and what to do in the town she now calls home
By Jessica Steinberg
September 24, 2017, 3:45 pm
The librarian’s bun
That time I tried to escape the high price of an overdue library book
By Lawrence Feldman
'Munich' by Robert Harris. (Courtesy)
September 21, 2017, 3:39 pm
The deal with Hitler that buried Neville Chamberlain
Dropping this week, Robert Harris's historical fiction 'Munich' plays devil's advocate, examining whether the then-British PM was as naive as he appeared
By Robert Philpot
August 23, 2017, 2:49 pm
Jerusalem: A library-poor city
Why does the capital city of the People of the Book have few options for kids to take summer refuge in the stacks?
By Julie Rosenzweig
Abby Sher, author of 'All the Ways the World Can End.' (Courtesy/Franck Goldberg)
August 21, 2017, 3:00 am
A young adult novel gives cancer the comic treatment
Abby Sher has written soulful nonfiction and performed with Chicago's Second City. Now two worlds combine in a hilariously touching coming of age story
By Judy Batalion
Illustrative: Books and a magnifying glass. (bee32/ iStock via Getty images)
August 6, 2017, 11:45 pm
New project reunites books stolen in Holocaust with heirs
German provenance researchers are searching some 6,000 libraries to find books taken illegally by Nazis
By JTA
From Berlin to New York, Israeli expat writers are moving well beyond the Israeli market. (Jessica Steinberg/The Times of Israel)
August 6, 2017, 9:36 am
Got a Jewish novel in your drawer? Now might be the time to pull it out
Although it's still tough to find an interested publisher, several new outfits offer increased opportunities -- online and on shelves
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Candlelighting for Shabbat in the current Broadway production of 'Fiddler on the Roof.' Jessica Hecht (center) plays Golde. (Joan Marcus)
August 5, 2017, 12:31 pm
‘Fiddler’ actress keeps the story going with debut novel
Alexandra Silber's 'After Anatevka' follows characters Hodel and Perchik in a journey that often mirrors her own
By Cathryn J. Prince
Children of al-Qaeda members in Tora Bora, 1996. (Abdel Bari Atwan/Courtesy)
August 5, 2017, 1:01 am
As told by friends and family, an insider’s dissection of the evolution of al-Qaeda
Authors Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy say while the West carefully curates the narrative of the global jihadi group, there was rife dissent over 9/11 and other 'policy'
By JP O’ Malley
'Jerusalem Ablaze' author, Orlando Ortega-Medina. (Courtesy)
August 3, 2017, 3:16 am
Literary world fired up over debut short story collection by gay immigration lawyer
Exploring his multi-pronged identity, Orlando Ortega-Medina recently released his book 'Jerusalem Ablaze' to a warm critical reception
By Cathryn J. Prince
Anita Diamant with a copy of “The Red Tent” in 2000. (David Bohrer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via JTA)
August 2, 2017, 6:15 am
How ‘The Red Tent’ invented a new kind of fiction
20 years ago, Anita Diamant's novel about the biblical Dinah was just a 'weird idea.' Then it inspired a new genre
By Erika Dreifus
Panelists at Sunday evening's Times of Israel Presents launch of 'Becoming Israeli.' From left: Sarah Tuttle Singer, Yossi Klein Halevi, Hillary Faverman, Chaya Lester, Akiva Gersh, Benji Lovitt. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
July 24, 2017, 12:42 pm
What is it like to become Israeli? These bloggers tell all
At a Sunday evening book launch co-hosted by The Times of Israel and Nefesh B'Nefesh, a panel of all-star writers regales a sold-out audience with aliyah 'war stories'
By Yaakov Schwartz
(Clockwise, from top left: Twelve Books/Flatiron Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Arcade Publishing/Lee Boudreaux Books/via JTA)
July 9, 2017, 6:03 am
9 Jewish books to read this summer
From memoir to biography, thriller to kooky caper, see what the Tribe has scribed for poolside perusal
By Victor Wishna
A copy of the 'Concordantiae Bibliorum Hebraicae' by Johannes Buxtorf, published in 1632 in Basel, Switzerland, had a 1686 'footprint' in Worms, Germany. Pictured is, clockwise from left, a portrait of the author Johannes Buxtorf, a detail from another one of Buxtorf's works, a portrait of Buxtorf by a different artist, maps of the footprints, and a page from the 'Bibliorum Hebraicae.' (Public domain, detail of the 'Bibliorum Hebraicae' courtesy of Footprints.)
July 8, 2017, 2:34 am
Crowdsourced online database traces the global footsteps of Jewish texts
In the first compilation of its kind, a Columbia University project journeys through distance and time with well-known Jewish tomes
By Julie Masis
Margaret Thatcher with Yitzhak Shamir in Jerusalem in 1986. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
June 29, 2017, 1:40 pm
How Margaret Thatcher’s family sheltered an Austrian Jew during the Holocaust
Britain's first female PM was known for an iconoclastic love of Jews and Israel. That was at least partly rooted in an early experience
By Robert Philpot
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