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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Israeli writers

Shiri Artzi (Avishag Sha'ar-Yeshuv)
October 11, 2024, 5:29 pm
Israeli author Shiri Artzi reflects on her antidote for despair after the Oct. 7 horrors
The novelist and screenwriter discusses writing an obituary for a massacre victim whom she never met, leading a workshop for evacuees, and the power of love in times of adversity
By Tamar Mor Sela
Crew members and media work near the Hollywood Walk of Fame, March 8, 2023, outside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
September 18, 2024, 2:16 pm
Petah Tikva to launch Hollywood-inspired ‘walk of fame’
Initial list of people to get stars comprises 31 Israeli singers, actors, authors and performers who were born in or live in the Tel Aviv suburb
By ToI Staff
Book lovers unite at Jerusalem's Tmol Shilshom cafe, celebrating 30 years in June 2024 (Courtesy)
May 29, 2024, 5:21 pm
Jerusalem book lovers’ cafe marks 30 years with Etgar Keret, others
Tmol Shilshom will mark its anniversary after nearly closing its doors during the pandemic
By Jessica Steinberg
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
Visitors at the National Library of Israel for Epilogue on June 21, 2023, an event to bid goodbye to the library's Hebrew University Givat Ram campus prior to its move to a new building near the Knesset (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
June 22, 2023, 6:04 am
Closing chapter, National Library holds last hurrah in Hebrew U jewel it called home
Epilogue event sees tours, talks, concerts, and more fill stacks and reading rooms throughout building that marked major architectural milestone when it opened in 1960
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli author meir Shalev speaks at the 25th Jerusalem National Book Festival held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem. February 22, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 11, 2023, 5:53 pm
Meir Shalev, beloved writer of fiction and complicated Israeli lives, dies at 74
Renowned author of fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, melded Biblical narratives with modern Israeli life; Herzog: His books changed and enriched us
By Jessica Steinberg
An 'Enlightenment' scene with guests in the home of Moses Mendelssohn, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1856. (Public domain)
July 16, 2022, 2:40 pm
Epic historical novel digs deep into Zionism’s less probed Western European roots
In ‘The Wealthy,’ Israeli author Hamutal Bar-Yosef uses 200-year saga of fictional German-Anglo Jewish family to highlight different take on how the Jewish state came to be
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Writer Stuart Schoffman, a longtime journalist and translator in Jerusalem, died at 74 on November 7, 2021 (Courtesy Stuart Schoffman Facebook page)
November 8, 2021, 1:35 pm
Stuart Schoffman, a master and devotee of Hebrew culture, dies at 74
A journalist, screenwriter, thinker and translator of some of Israel’s greatest writers, Schoffman was known for his words and warmth; colleague recalls a ‘genius and a mensch’
By Jessica Steinberg
Yaniv Iczkovits, author of 'The Slaughterman's Daughter.' (Photo by Eric Sultan)
May 16, 2021, 5:48 am
Israeli Wingate prizewinner’s novel brings female empowerment to the shtetl
Set in a 19th-century Pale of Settlement, Yaniv Iczkovits’s ‘The Slaughterman’s Daughter’ sees a woman trained to perform a job reserved for men bring her sister justice
By Anne Joseph
From the Metulla Poetry Festival, taking place this year over Shavuot, May 16-18, 2021 (Courtesy Nir Shaanani)
May 12, 2021, 4:22 pm
COVID rules eased, Metulla Poetry Festival to be held in person
Annual event for poets and scribes — including A.B. Yehoshua, Nurit Zarchi and Erez Bitton — will take place over Shavuot in the northern town
By Jessica Steinberg
Noa Tishby in Jaffa, January 2021. (Alon Shafransky)
May 6, 2021, 4:22 pm
Israeli actress Noa Tishby’s ‘Simple Guide’ to Israel shakes up US progressives
Endorsed by both Bill Maher and Ben Shapiro, the book seeks to stop left-leaning people ‘from being used by voices who want to dismantle’ the most ‘misunderstood country on Earth’
By Robert Sarner
In this February 14, 2016 illustrative photo, a woman in an alien costume poses for a picture during the annual Alien Festival in Capilla del Monte, Cordoba, Argentina, the site of an alleged UFO sighting 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
April 29, 2021, 4:25 am
How do aliens look? An Israeli zoologist’s down-to-earth theory on ET evolution
In his new book ‘The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy,’ Arik Kershenbaum argues that using earthly evolutionary biology is the best way to picture interstellar life
By Rich Tenorio
An event at the 2019 Jerusalem Writers Festival at Mishkenot Sha'ananim, which was held in person, unlike the 2020 edition, which was online due to the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy Writers Festival)
April 12, 2021, 9:18 pm
Jerusalem writers festival back to in-person, with online option
Annual author event scheduled for May 3-6, with Salman Rushdie and Harlan Coben participating, among others
By Jessica Steinberg
A composite image showing the cover of the book "Rebel Daughter," by Lori Kaufmann, and a Late 1st century epitaph for Claudia Aster. (Courtesy Delacorte Press and Museo Archeologico nazionale, Naples)
February 17, 2021, 3:18 pm
Inspired by an ancient tomb, a Jewish love story puts the Roman in bildungsroman
Lori Kaufmann’s debut ‘Rebel Daughter’ brings serious research to a tale of family and survival, from Jerusalem to southern Italy
By Jessica Steinberg
Musician Asaf Roth, left, artistic director Anat Safran, middle and director Zvi Sahar of the Gnazim Itim Ensemble performance project produced in Tel Aviv's Beit Ariela public library and premiered December 28, 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
January 3, 2021, 2:35 pm
Letters from literary lights inspire artists in underground library show
Basement stacks of Tel Aviv’s Beit Ariela become online performance space for musicians, actors and dancers responding to authors’ letters
By Jessica Steinberg
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