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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

Literature

'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
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
FILE - Arthur Frommer, 83, and his daughter, Pauline Frommer, 46, pose among tourists in the Wall Street area in New York, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
November 19, 2024, 6:33 pm
Arthur Frommer, guidebook trailblazer who opened world to travelers, dies at 95
Legendary Jewish writer made international travel feel attainable with budget-friendly tourism guides at a time when overseas trips were exclusive province of wealthy jet-setters
By AP and ToI Staff
Géza Röhrig in 'After' (Lumen Productions)
November 8, 2024, 5:30 am
In striking art film, contemporary poets respond to the horrors of the Holocaust
Screening in New York and Los Angeles, genre-defying film about how poetic language can heal trauma points to how Israelis and Jews could use it to cope in Oct. 7 aftermath
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Lebanese writer Elias Khoury speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon, August 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
September 16, 2024, 5:18 am
Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, who praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught, dies at 76
Prominent columnist used his voice over the years to back Palestinians, chastise Israel’s establishment and settlement policies; he also hailed Arab Spring, taught at universities
By AP and ToI Staff
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
Canadian author Alice Munro poses for a photograph at the Canadian Consulate's residence in New York, October 18, 2002. (AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne, File)
May 14, 2024, 10:19 pm
Nobel Prize winning short story writer Alice Munro dies at 92
Canadian-born Munro, winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, often ranked with Anton Chekhov and John Cheever as one of the masters of the short story
By Hillel Italie
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators chant during a protest, April. 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
April 13, 2024, 6:20 am
Jewish writers say the post-Oct. 7 English literary world has blacklisted them
As the war in Gaza goes on, authors say that when they don’t face outright hostility for being Jews, they are marginalized as publishers claim their voices aren’t marketable
By Cathryn J. Prince
The website of Guernica, a literary magazine, shows the retracted essay by Israeli writer and translator Joanna Chen. (Screenshot via JTA/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))
April 8, 2024, 6:29 pm
Chief editor of US literary magazine quits after Israeli writer’s war essay dropped
Guernica pulled essay describing complicated feelings post-October 7 following mass resignation of writers, co-publisher’s criticism of ‘hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’
By Andrew Lapin
Joanna Chen (Heidi Levine)
March 12, 2024, 2:02 am
US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations
Guernica staffers quit, calling piece by Joanna Chen that is highly critical of Israel ‘a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’; critics lament anti-Israel extremism in literary world
By JTA and ToI Staff
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
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
File - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks at the PEN/Hemingway 2019 Award Ceremony at The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library And Museum on April 7, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images via JTA)
October 27, 2023, 2:20 pm
92NY in tumult after canceling Israel-critical author event amid Israel-Hamas war
Authors pull out of future programming and staff resign as cultural center ‘postpones’ event featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen, who signed an open letter harshly criticizing Israel
By Andrew Lapin
Robert Gottlieb, an eclectic literary editor whose career was launched with Joseph Heller’s 'Catch-22' and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Robert Caro's 'The Power Broker.' (Michael Lionstar/Knopf via AP)
June 15, 2023, 6:24 pm
Robert Gottlieb, legendary editor who championed Heller, Caro and Potok, dies at 92
The famously Jewish New Yorker shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as ‘Catch-22,’ ‘The Chosen’ and ‘The Power Broker’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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