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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Jewish literature

Writer Sasha Vasilyuk, whose debuty novel, 'Your Presence Is Mandatory,' won the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature on May 20, 2025 (Credit: Christopher Michel)
May 21, 2025, 11:44 am
Sami Rohr prize awarded for novel about Jewish life in Soviet Union
Writer Sasha Vasilyuk wins 2025 Jewish literature prize for her debut book, ‘Your Presence Is Mandatory’
By Jessica Steinberg
Dara Horn's latest book is a graphic novel featuring a time-traveling talking goat. (Norton Young Readers via JTA)
April 6, 2025, 2:46 am
Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews
The author of bestseller ‘People Love Dead Jews’ takes readers to the seder tables of historically iconic Jews such as Sigmund Freud in ‘One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
'The Last Dekrepitzer' by National Jewish Book Award winner Howard Langer. (Courtesy/ Barbara Jaffe)
April 2, 2025, 12:23 pm
Fiddling with writing, lawyer pens award-winning book about busking rabbi in NYC
Winning the National Jewish Book Award for his debut novel ‘The Last Dekrepitzer’ at age 74, banjo-playing law prof Howard Langer says it’s not always about writing what you know
By Cathryn J. Prince
This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "Queen Esther" by John Irving. (Simon & Schuster via AP)
February 6, 2025, 8:23 pm
John Irving’s new novel, ‘Queen Esther,’ touches decades of Israeli history
Book to be released in November tells story of Esther Nacht, Viennese Jew born in 1905 whose life ‘is fated to intersect with Israel’s history’; story closes in Jerusalem, 1981
By AP
In '10/7,' journalist Lee Yaron profiles victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre from a wide range of communities. (Uri Bareket; St. Martin's Press via JTA)
January 23, 2025, 2:56 pm
Young journalist’s accounts of Oct. 7 assault named Jewish book of the year
Jewish Book Council gives top honor to Lee Yaron for her ’10/7: 100 Human Stories’; reporter Amir Tibon wins best autobiography for account of how parents rescued him from attack
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Lisa Barr, author of 'The Goddess of Warsaw.' (Courtesy)
November 30, 2024, 4:24 am
Blacklisted for Israel support, author draws strength from Holocaust survivor grandma
Bestselling writer Lisa Barr – targeted by hecklers and review bombers – vows that though she wants to ‘curl up in a ball’ after Oct. 7, she will ‘fight back constructively’
By Jordana Horn
Zachary Solomon's dystopian novel, 'A Brutal Design,' puts a Jewish protagonist at the center of a deceptive experiment in communal living. (Lanternfish Press via JTA)
February 7, 2024, 4:54 pm
In dark times, is a dystopian Jewish novel just what we need?
Zachary Solomon’s ‘A Brutal Design’ joins a growing body of Jewish speculative fiction as it imagines an alternate world in which the Holocaust and antisemitism are all too real
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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
Norm Finkelstein was the author more than 20 nonfiction books for children and teens, including a forthcoming biography of the legendary Forward editor Abraham Cahan. (Courtesy: Holiday House/JTA)
January 10, 2024, 7:45 pm
Boston writer Norm Finkelstein, whose YA books championed Jewish heroes, dies at 82
A rare two-time Jewish Book Award winner, the librarian, educator and author was lauded for awakening the minds and hearts of students to their heritage
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
American author Bernard Malamud, author of 'The Fixer,' in August 1980. (Nancy R. Schiff/Getty Images via JTA)
August 19, 2023, 3:23 am
How a US school district put a contested Bernard Malamud classic back on the shelves
On an oft-unseen battlefield of the culture war over books in states and school districts around the country, there are panels of judges that may feel more like a book club
By Andrew Lapin
Author Aaron Hamburger's grandmother in Key West in 1922, on the local rabbi's balcony. (Courtesy)
May 28, 2023, 2:09 am
No ‘Fiddler’: Fun-loving bubbie goes from shtetl to Cuba to NYC in grandson’s novel
Aaron Hamburger paints an unconventional but true-to-life picture of Old Country Jewish immigrants discovering a new world in his new historical novel, ‘Hotel Cuba’
By Avner Landes
Illustrative: The City of Books library in Mexico City, June 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)
January 31, 2023, 8:58 am
Holocaust survivor story, fantasy novels win prestigious Jewish books for kids prize
Sydney Taylor Book Awards go to illustrated book about genocide survivor who collected remembrances of Jewish families from her hometown, stories of dybbuks and demons
By Penny Schwartz
'Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew' by Michael W. Twitty (Amistad)
January 19, 2023, 1:08 am
Michael W. Twitty’s food memoir ‘Koshersoul’ named Jewish book of the year
Jewish Book Council hails book, which details US chef’s career of fusing Jewish and African-American cooking, for its ‘deep dives into theology, identity, and, of course, food’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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