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Jonathan Safran Foer

Etgar Keret is the subject of a Dutch-made documentary about his storytelling and the people around him in 'Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story' (Courtesy Stephane Kaas)
October 11, 2017, 8:08 am
A hunt for the kernel of truth behind Etgar Keret’s stories
Dutch documentary about the beloved Israeli fiction writer, a cult favorite in Holland, opens at the 33rd Haifa Film Festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Jonathan Safran Foer attends the 2011 WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year Awards at the Museum of Modern Art on October 27, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Fernando Leon/Getty Images via JTA)
February 22, 2017, 10:50 pm
Jonathan Safran Foer: My Israeli friends want to raise kids elsewhere
Jewish author criticizes Israel, says it encourages boycotts through its actions under Netanyahu
By JTA
Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer have rekindled their email correspondence. (Screenshots from Twitter via JTA)
July 17, 2016, 8:01 am
Portman and Safran Foer’s cringeworthy email moments
‘Awkward’ and ‘painful’ profile includes talk of the ‘wonder line’ and the weekly garbage schedule
By Gabe Friedman
Author Helen Maryles Shankman brings X-Men sensibilities to Holocaust horrors in Wlodawa, Poland. (courtesy)
May 27, 2016, 5:31 pm
Raised with miracle of parents’ survival, author writes magical Holocaust tales
With the X-Men and vampires as her influences, Helen Maryles Shankman brings ‘fabulist’ realism to Wlodawa, Poland
By Matt Lebovic
Carolyn Starman Hessel (Courtesy Jewish Book Council)
January 1, 2015, 6:00 pm
Jewish Book Council’s Oprah turns the page
As director Carolyn Starman Hessel retires with no successor in sight, ‘her’ authors clamor to sing her praises
By Beth Kissileff
Once a literary power couple, Jewish novelists Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer have legally separated. (Wikimedia Commons)
June 19, 2014, 2:09 am
Authors Foer, Krauss have been separated for a year
Award-winning Jewish writers were married in 2004 and have two children
By JTA
May 20, 2014, 2:04 pm
Safran Foer edits paper cup literature
Author initiates project to serve up a side of literature with Chipotle customers’ burritos
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Etgar Keret (left) and Nathan Englander, the BFF writers talking about their translations of one another's work at Jerusalem's International Book Fair last Wednesday night (photo credit: Dudi Saad)
February 18, 2013, 2:51 am
Nathan Englander, in translation
The acclaimed writer comes back to Israel, where he finds it surprisingly easy to return to the bilingual life
By Jessica Steinberg
Nathan Englander, winner of the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. (Photo credit: Juliana Sohn)
August 13, 2012, 9:53 pm
Former yeshiva boy Nathan Englander grapples with his place as a Jewish writer in America
Spoiler alert: Though his new story collection is named after Anne Frank, Englander’s never actually read her diary
By Alizah Salario
Nathan Englander, winner of the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. (Photo credit: Juliana Sohn)
July 11, 2012, 9:54 am
Nathan Englander takes short story prize
‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank’ won over a short story collection by Israeli writer Etgar Keret
David Bernstein
June 19, 2012, 2:28 pm
David Bernstein
Against Jewish moral aestheticism on Israel
Some criticism of Israel does indeed apply sound moral logic and should be taken seriously, but much of it does not
March 9, 2012, 11:58 am
Is Jon Stewart ‘good for the Jews’?
He may mean well, but frequent segments lampooning Jewish money and influence, as well as Israel’s sway over American politics, are counter-productive
Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia attend a rehearsal Seder ahead of Passover, March 2012. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
March 3, 2012, 8:48 am
New Haggada hits stores
The two writers seek to create a seder experience that is more engaging and relatable for modern-day Jews
By Hillel Italie
January 30, 2012, 1:06 pm
Stiller plays Jewish
An all-star cast of Ben Stiller, Jonathan Safran Foer and Alan Alda team up for a new HBO series about a Jewish family in DC
By Nathan Burstein
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