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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
On July 28, at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, Amit Tibon will receive the 2026 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his memoir, 'The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands.' (©Ofir Berman/Courtesy Stribe via JTA)
July 24, 2026, 4:26 pm
Award-winning writer Amir Tibon readies to return to kibbutz where his family survived Oct. 7
As he accepts the Sami Rohr Prize for his memoir and prepares to move back home to Nahal Oz after three years as an evacuee, the Haaretz journalist talks about what still gives him hope
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
'One Day in October' authors Oriya Mevorach, left, and Yair Agmon, right, at Book Week in June 2024. (Courtesy)
June 22, 2025, 4:35 pm
Author duo finds renewal in book about October 7 heroes
Yair Agmon and Oriya Mevorach, authors of ‘One Day in October: Forty Heroes, Forty Stories,’ discuss writing process on book delving into unexpected courage during Hamas atrocities
By Jessica Steinberg
Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy will speak at the opening event of Jerusalem International Writers Festival, May 18. 2025. (Credit Alexis Duclos)
April 14, 2025, 11:32 pm
Bernard-Henri Lévy to open Writers Fest, Book Forum in Jerusalem in May
Jerusalem Prize to be awarded to French author Michel Houellebecq, who has written about France becoming Islamic
By Jessica Steinberg
Members of Zaka walk through the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, as they collect the dead bodies, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 15, 2023. (Edi Israel/ Flash90)
March 26, 2025, 8:22 am
‘A murder in every corner’: 60-year resident writes book on Kfar Aza challenges post-Oct. 7
Ami Cahana, author of ‘Journey Back to the House of Betrayal,’ reflects on his reeling community where 64 were slaughtered by Hamas. Revival will depend on newcomers, he says
By Sue Surkes
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
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