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Author Helene Wecker. (Sheldon Wecker)
September 26, 2026, 7:54 am
Golem and Jinni bid bittersweet goodbye in final book of gripping fantasy trilogy
In long-awaited ‘The Gates of Midnight,’ author Helene Wecker moves mystical action ahead to eventful 1930 and explores legacy of Jewish immigration and assimilation in America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ariana Harwicz attends 'Die My Love' New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on November 1, 2025 in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images/AFP)
September 25, 2026, 8:38 am
350 cultural figures back Jewish author dropped from Spanish festival over Israel support
Ariana Harwicz says organizers bowed to pressure; festival claims cancellation followed complaints from university community, school rejects move and defends open debate
By Shira Li Bartov
Novelist Phil Klay speaking at the Berkley Center in Georgetown University, Washington DC, April 18, 2023. (Screenshot from YouTube)
September 18, 2026, 6:19 pm
PEN America names author Phil Klay, critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza and West Bank, as president
Amid ongoing uproar over Israel-Hamas war, group which advocates for writers and free expression taps Iraq War veteran who signaled support for PEN article on Israeli and Jewish writers, denounces Israel’s treatment of Palestinians
By Hillel Italie
Elisheva Levy at Kumkum Tea House, 2026 (Yitzchak Ledee)
August 16, 2026, 6:01 am
Elisheva Levy, Jerusalem’s fairy godmother
On this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a woman who has made a home for everyone in her whimsical British tea house
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Dinaw Mengestu speaks at a PEN America event in May 2026. (YouTube screenshot)
July 14, 2026, 1:10 pm
PEN America president’s resignation marks latest anti-Zionist uproar in literature
Dinaw Mengestu quits free-expression group over article that highlighted post-October 7 prejudice against Jewish and Israeli writers and expressed opposition to cultural boycotts
By Luke Tress
Dory Manor, left, and Moshe Sakal of new Hebrew publishing house Altneuland. (Courtesy via JTA)
May 6, 2026, 8:14 am
New Hebrew press in Berlin seeks to build literary home outside of Israel
Founders of Altneuland, the first such publishing house since the Jewish state’s inception, embrace Israeli writers – and readers – while spurning government funding
By Shira Li Bartov
The first immigrants to Galveston, Texas, through the Galveston Movement. (The Rosenberg Library, Galveston)
November 29, 2025, 2:59 am
Lone Star of David: How a short-lived plan saw persecuted European Jews reroot in Texas
In her new book ‘Melting Point,’ Rachel Cockerell chronicles her ancestors’ involvement in an obscure movement – exclusively in their own words
By Rich Tenorio
From left: Authors Tova Mirvis and Maya Arad, with Jewish Book Council CEO Naomi Firestone-Teeter, at right. (Courtesy/Jewish Book Council)
November 24, 2025, 5:38 am
Jewish book subscription program pushes back against publishing industry antisemitism
Marking the centennial of one of the Jewish Book Council’s foundational programs, ‘Nu Reads’ delivers books bimonthly with aim to boost writers and send a message to publishers
By Luke Tress
Omar El Akkad attends the 76th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on November 19, 2025 in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
November 21, 2025, 8:15 am
Gaza polemic denouncing indifference to Palestinian suffering wins US National Book Award
Omar El Akkad, author of ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,’ says it’s ‘difficult to think in celebratory terms’ about book written ‘in response to a genocide’
By Andrew Lapin
Author Salman Rushdie appears during an interview in New York, October 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
November 10, 2025, 5:27 am
Salman Rushdie honored with Dayton Literary Peace Prize lifetime achievement award
The 78-year-old author best known for his 1988 novel, ‘The Satanic Verses,’ wins award after publishing his first work of fiction since being stabbed on stage in 2022
By AP
Steven J. Zipperstein said his training as a historian helped him separate truth from fiction in writing his biography of Roth. (Yale University Press via JTA)
October 31, 2025, 1:21 am
Philip Roth’s latest biographer wants Jews to read him again — without the guilt
In ‘Philip Roth: Stung by Life,’ Stanford professor Steven Zipperstein argues for the brilliance and relevance of a writer who ‘probed nearly every aspect of contemporary Jewish life’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
In 'Boy from the North Country,' Sam Sussman writes about his mother's real-life romance with Bob Dylan. (Penguin Random House; author photo by Ben Kaplan via JTA)
September 12, 2025, 2:04 pm
Sam Sussman’s novel turns mystery of whether Bob Dylan is his father into ode to his mother
In ‘Boy from the North Country,’ the writer leverages his real-life uncertain paternity into a fictional exploration of his late mother’s wisdom, finding a legacy deeper than celebrity
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Prof. Aaron Kreuter, author of 'Lake Burntshore.' (Courtesy)
September 6, 2025, 12:51 pm
Sex, drugs and anti-Zionism fuel this new woke novel about a Jewish summer camp experience
In ‘Lake Burntshore,’ far-left Jewish-Canadian author Aaron Kreuter explores the increasing Israel dissonance felt by North American Jewish youth, even in the most utopian of settings
By Rich Tenorio
Avner Landes, author of 'The Delegation.' (Courtesy)
July 26, 2025, 7:40 am
The semi-true story of two Soviet Jews sent abroad by Stalin to fundraise during WWII
Avner Landes discusses his new book ‘The Delegation,’ an account of the adventures – and dark fates – of an actor and poet sent to raise money from coreligionists in the West
By Janice Weizman
'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
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