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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 627

Jewish writers

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
Detail from a newspaper illustration of Nathaniel Isaacs's colony in Matakong. (Courtesy of Adam Rovner)
April 26, 2025, 8:26 am
How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord
In new book ‘The Jew Who Would Be King,’ historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck and went on to a life of wealth, adventure and corruption
By Rich Tenorio
Adam LeBor, author of 'Last Days of Budapest.' (Courtesy Zoltan Tuba)
April 22, 2025, 2:38 am
New book portrays a chaotic Budapest just before the Holocaust reached Hungary
‘Last Days of Budapest’ by Adam LeBor features oblivious politicians, Zionist forgers, courageous diplomats and murderous priests in a sad but true history of the Hungarian capital
By Robert Philpot
A woman is carried over the crowd at the Lollapalooza concert in Pownal, Vermont, July 9, 1996. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
April 9, 2025, 3:34 am
The surprisingly Jewish history of iconic counter-cultural music festival Lollapalooza
From its creator, to performers, promoters, and now the chroniclers of a new oral history on it, Jews have always had a hand in the traveling show that changed America
By Jordan Hoffman
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
Menachem Rosensaft at the Bergen-Belsen former Nazi camp in September 2022. (Shahar Azran/WJZ)
February 3, 2025, 3:56 am
A new book of psalms doesn’t praise God, but confronts Him over the Holocaust
Released on Jan. 27, genocide expert Menachem Rosensaft’s ‘Burning Psalms’ is a harsh condemnation of the lack of divine intervention against the Nazis – but it’s not a dismissal
By Cathryn J. Prince
Kaplan poses under the JewCE logo at JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, November 10, 2024. (Jay Deitcher)
December 4, 2024, 5:03 pm
He wrote the history of Jews in comics. Now he’s making Jewish comics history
At the annual JewCE con in Manhattan, Arie Kaplan, who exposed the industry’s Jewish roots, discusses the rise of overtly Jewish characters and what an Oct. 7 comic might look like
By Jay Deitcher
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
Adam Kirsch, an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section, is the author of 'On Settler Colonialism.' (W.W. Norton & Company/ via JTA)
September 1, 2024, 1:42 am
A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine
Struck by the number of activists and thinkers who cheered the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, Adam Kirsch has written a book on the misguided idealism that’s fostered Jew-hatred
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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
Myra Sack and Matt Goldstein holding Havi Lev Goldstein. (Courtesy)
August 2, 2024, 4:22 pm
Their daughter’s death from Tay-Sachs at age 2 transformed this family’s view of grief
In her new memoir, ‘Fifty-Seven Fridays,’ Myra Sack chronicles how she and her husband continue to navigate the loss of their child, carrying her with them as they move forward
By Cathryn J. Prince
Author Gabrielle Zevin speaks about her bestseller 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' during the 28th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on April 22, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via JTA)
July 26, 2024, 4:43 am
How author Gabrielle Zevin has become a literary scapegoat for anti-Israel activists
Reflecting a wider trend since October 7, the writer has been accused of being a Zionist, and therefore, worthy of a boycott — most recently by a Chicago bookstore’s book club
By Andrew Lapin
Jewish writer on dealing with terminal cancer Amy Ettinger, shown with her husband Dan White. (Courtesy Dan White, via X/JTA)
April 9, 2024, 10:34 am
Amy Ettinger, writer of life-affirming essays on dying, succumbs to cancer at 49
Jewish mother’s articles for the Washington Post about things she was able to do and cherish despite incurable disease were an inspiration to followers around the world
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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
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