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Adam Freudenheim, head of Pushkin publishing house. (Courtesy)
March 3, 2018, 12:45 pm
Babel revisited: Little-known books find homes on foreign shelves — in English
From Holocaust memoirs to fairy tales, Adam Freudenheim's Pushkin Press hits record margins by taking popular international literature to the Anglo crowd
By Nadine Wojakovski
'The Book of Separation,' by Tova Mirvis. (Courtesy)
February 8, 2018, 3:18 pm
Who’s afraid of Tova Mirvis?
Should her memoir about leaving Modern Orthodoxy be required study material for day school students?
By Moshe Simkovich
Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld, who died at the age of 85 on January 4, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 4, 2018, 11:23 am
Aharon Appelfeld, literary giant who gave vivid voice to Holocaust, dies at 85
Winner of multiple literary awards, the prolific Appelfeld published his most recent book just three months ago
By Jessica Steinberg
Author Nicole Krauss (Goni Riskin)
December 28, 2017, 11:43 pm
In new Nicole Krauss novel, Tel Aviv is the backdrop for two US Jews’ reboot
Celebrated author mines her own lifelong relationship with Israel in 'Forest Dark,' a meditation on love, Franz Kafka and the 'what ifs' of life
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe are shown in a scene from 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.' (AP/Warner Bros. Pictures)
October 25, 2017, 8:17 pm
Harry Potter’s ‘sacred meaning’ probed by Harvard chaplains
Touted as ‘the English class you didn’t know you missed,’ a podcast based on J.K. Rowling’s iconic series has converted Muggles around the country
By Matt Lebovic
Anne Frank's hiding place bedroom during the 1950s (left) and her restored bedroom at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam today (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
June 10, 2017, 7:21 am
Publication of Anne Frank’s diary saved her ‘Secret Annex’ from destruction
60 years ago, the Netherlands avoided 'national scandal' when activists rescued the wartime hiding place
By Matt Lebovic
Idra Novey, author of 'Ways to Disappear.' (Donata Zanotti)
May 20, 2017, 3:21 am
The award-winning novel that appeared out of nowhere
Acclaimed translator Idra Novey's debut book 'Ways to Disappear' is a five-year secret project turned Sami Rohr Prize winner
By Cathryn J. Prince
Walter Benjamin at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1937. (© Gisèle Freund - RMN, image provided by IMEC, Fonds MCC, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York)
March 25, 2017, 2:09 pm
Take a stroll through philosopher Walter Benjamin’s brain at new NY exhibit
His tragic death in the Holocaust cut short the Jewish thinker's 1,000 page opus. Through August 6, the Jewish Museum in New York's immersive exhibit 'Arcades' brings it to life
By Cathryn J. Prince
Students from St Angela’s School, Ursuline Convent view 'Representations of Jews in Irish Literature' exhibition at Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland, February 2017 (Jennifer Bolger/WIT)
March 15, 2017, 3:08 pm
Dracula the ‘Wandering Jew,’ and other unknown facets of Irish lit in NY-bound exhibition
From the Middle Ages and the Annals of Innisfallen to Leopold Bloom, Jews are a surprisingly constant presence in a millennium of Irish writing
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This undated photo provided on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 shows Palestinian author Abbad Yahya. (Abbad Yahyia via AP)
February 10, 2017, 3:52 pm
Palestinian writer afraid to go home amid uproar over novel
Book uses 'sexual terms,' challenges attitudes toward fanaticism, religious extremism and homosexuality, and critiques PA
By Mohammed Daraghmeh
Bulgarian-French philosopher Tzvetan Todorov appears on the literary TV show 'Campus' on French TV in Paris, October 2, 2003. (AFP/Martin Bureau/File)
February 8, 2017, 8:22 pm
Literary theorist, Holocaust thinker Tzvetan Todorov dies at 77
Bulgarian-born writer found acts of generosity among inmates even in inhumane conditions of Nazi camps
By JTA
Writer Michael Chabon speaking at The New Yorker Festival 2014 on October 10, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images for The New Yorker Festival via JTA)
January 11, 2017, 11:44 pm
Michael Chabon, Daniel Gordis win National Jewish Book Awards
'Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn' declared book of the year; author of 'The Yiddish Policemen’s Union' also honored
By JTA
Books make wonderful Chrismukkah gifts. (Courtesy of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation)
December 21, 2016, 6:26 pm
8 books for 8 nights of Hanukkah
Whether you burn through a book a day or wrap a few as gifts, we've got enough literature to fuel you for the duration of the holiday
By Victor Wishna
Yael Neeman grew up as part of an extreme communal 'experiment' on Kibbutz Yehiam. (Courtesy)
November 13, 2016, 6:45 am
In the kibbutz children’s house, we grew up speaking in plural, writes memoirist
Newly released in English, Israeli Yael Neeman's portrait of her 1960s Socialist childhood is ripe to resonate with US Millennials exploring communal living
By Jen Maidenberg
Jonathan Safran Foer (Jeff Mermelstein/via JTA)
October 8, 2016, 1:43 am
10 awesome tomes for the Days of Awe (and after)
If you dare glance away from your prayer book a moment, these volumes might be worth the risk
By Victor Wishna
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