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Jane Yolen and her most famous book, 'The Devil's Arithmetic' (Courtesy of Jason Stemple and Penguin Random House via JTA)
June 13, 2026, 5:25 am
Jane Yolen, author whose novel ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ became Holocaust classic, dies at 87
Yolen published her first book at 22 and brought 450 titles to press, according to her family
By Penny Schwartz
Hannah Senesh with her older brother Gyuri in Tel Aviv. After being stranded in France during the war, Gyuri finally made it to Palestine the day his sister was shipping out to Egypt for training for her mission. This photo documents this meeting. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
March 24, 2026, 4:56 pm
Certain death, small chance of success: The pre-state parachuters who jumped into Nazi Europe
Matti Friedman’s new book, ‘Out of the Sky,’ breathes life into British intelligence operatives who became Zionist heroes despite — or because of — failing at their real mission
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A 500-year-old first printed edition of Maimonides’ ‘Guide for the Perplexed,’ combining two books to make it complete, is set to be auctioned on February 26, 2026, by the Jerusalem-based Kedem Auction House. (Kedem Auction House)
February 23, 2026, 4:16 pm
First printed edition of Maimonides’ ‘Guide for the Perplexed’ on auction for $1M
The volume, which combines two books experts believe were printed in Rome around 1473, to be auctioned Tuesday by Jerusalem-based Kedem
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: Issa Kassissieh, 47, who has dressed up as Santa Claus for 18 years, waves to the people during his annual tour of the Old City of Jerusalem, December 18, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)
December 23, 2025, 8:30 pm
How the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Europe had themselves a merry little Nittel Nacht
A new book explores how, contrary to popular belief, Christmas was a festive time for Jewish men, who took time off from Torah study to play cards and games
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Katherine Janus Kahn, the illustrator of the Sammy Spider Jewish children's books, speaks about her work in a 2013 video. (Screenshot via JTA)
October 25, 2025, 5:49 am
Illustrator of ‘Sammy Spider’ Jewish children’s books dies at 83
‘My Judaism and my books are tied together so integrally that I don’t think I could ever untie them,’ said Katherine Janus Kahn, who studied at Bezalel after volunteering in Israel during Six-Day War
By Penny Schwartz
Detail from an illustration from 'Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,' by Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band. (Courtesy)
October 18, 2024, 12:14 pm
This Sukkot, a new book gives a daring – and beautiful – reassessment of Ecclesiastes
In ‘Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,’ Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band paint the ancient eponymous text in a more optimistic light
By Rich Tenorio
The so-called Afghan Liturgical Quire, a codex some believe is the oldest Jewish book in existence. (Museum of the Bible)
September 25, 2024, 7:44 am
Museum of the Bible unveils newly dated ‘oldest Jewish book’
Museum says 5-inch by 5-inch codex, including prayers, poems and Haggadah, is relic from Jewish minority in 8th century Afghanistan
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Dov Linzer and Abigail Pogrebin, study partners and co-authors of 'It Takes Two to Torah' (Lorin Klaris)
September 15, 2024, 4:33 pm
What happens when a seemingly odd couple becomes friends and Torah study buddies?
In their new book, Reform journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox Rabbi Dov Linzer show genuine warmth and respect for one another while not dancing around their differences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
Joshua Leifer and his new book, "Tablets Shattered." (Courtesy/Dutton Publishing via JTA)
August 23, 2024, 10:38 pm
Brooklyn book launch rescheduled after cancellation over ‘Zionist’ rabbi moderator
Event for Joshua Leifer’s ‘Tablets Shattered’ back on as owner of bookstore blames rogue employee for ‘hideous’ incident, fires her
By Luke Tress
Bettina Farack, a research fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, speaks about the Library of Lost Books initiative during a launch event in Berlin in November 2023. (Courtesy Weiner Library via JTA)
July 6, 2024, 3:59 am
Amateur detectives invited to join search for lost Jewish library looted by Nazis
Researchers from the Leo Baeck Institute seek to virtually reunite 60,000 texts from the modern liberal Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, destroyed in the Holocaust
By Shira Li Bartov
National Jewish Book Awards for the best books of 2023 were presented to works by, from left, Sabrina Orah Mark, Ruth Madievsky, Jeremy Eichler and James McBride. (Random House, Catapult, Knopf, Riverhead via JTA)
January 24, 2024, 9:31 pm
Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust named Jewish book of the year
Jeremy Eichler’s ‘Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance’ is joined by many other notable titles at the 73rd annual Jewish Book Awards
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
'Blood Years,' 'Two New Years' and 'The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman' won this year's Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book awards. (Collage by Mollis Suss/ JTA)
January 23, 2024, 2:58 pm
Story of Chinese-Jewish family observing two New Years nabs top Jewish kids book award
Announced Monday, the 2024 Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book awards winners include the story of a 6th grader who stands up to peer pressure and a young adult Holocaust memoir
By Penny Schwartz
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
A rare Jewish prayer book that sold for tens of thousands of pounds at auction, September 5, 2023. (Hansons Auctioneers)
September 10, 2023, 11:37 am
Centuries-old Jewish prayer book smashes expectations at UK auction
Illustrated volume, brought to appraisers as afterthought alongside sellers’ Harry Potter book, fetches £57,000; may be linked to noted 18th century German Rabbi Yaakov Emden
By ToI Staff
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