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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 652

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This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "Queen Esther" by John Irving. (Simon & Schuster via AP)
February 6, 2025, 8:23 pm
John Irving’s new novel, ‘Queen Esther,’ touches decades of Israeli history
Book to be released in November tells story of Esther Nacht, Viennese Jew born in 1905 whose life ‘is fated to intersect with Israel’s history’; story closes in Jerusalem, 1981
By AP
Hayuta (right) and Yosef Busel, circa 1917 (Family album, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
July 21, 2024, 12:28 pm
Post-Oct. 7 Hebrew novel ‘Night Sparkles’ shows old-new resilience of Zionist women
Ayala Deckel’s latest novel brings to life the untold challenges and triumphs of early female pioneer and labor activist Hayuta Busel, through the eyes of a modern-day professor
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Author Joan Leegant's latest book, 'Displaced Persons,' a collection of short stories, comes out June 1, 2024 (Courtesy)
June 11, 2024, 4:39 pm
Short stories about Israelis in flux feel familiar in novelist’s latest collection
Joan Leegant’s ‘Displaced Persons’ homes in on identity, character and the Jewish experience
By Jessica Steinberg
Novelist John Irving was scheduled to appear at the upcoming Jerusalem Writers Festival opening May 27, 2024, but had to cancel his in-person appearance due to a bout of COVID-19. (Courtesy: Derek O'Donnell)
May 26, 2024, 9:51 am
Novelist John Irving cancels long-awaited Israel visit due to COVID-19
Author was coming for Jerusalem Writers Festival and to work on final chapter of latest book, ‘Queen Esther,’ set in 1980s Jerusalem; now. he’ll do a Zoom interview for festival
By Jessica Steinberg
A novel written by Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, titled "A Mask, the Color of the Sky," written while serving three life sentences in an Israeli jail for assisting in a deadly 2004 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)
April 29, 2024, 4:54 am
Palestinian jailed for assisting in deadly 2004 suicide bombing wins top book prize
Convicted of helping terrorist in Tel Aviv market attack that killed 3 in Second Intifada, Basim Khandaqji gets 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for novel written in custody
By AFP and ToI Staff
Former Israeli Mossad agent and author Mishka Ben-David is pictured at his home in Ramat Raziel on April 15, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)
April 18, 2024, 11:53 pm
Ex-Mossad spy whose novel predicted October 7 fears for Israel’s future
Mishka Ben-David wrote book in 2017 in which Hamas attacks kibbutzim in the south and featuring an Iranian strike from the skies
By AFP and ToI Staff
Lihi Lapid (Vardi Kahana)
April 7, 2024, 6:43 pm
Author Lihi Lapid asks what happens when a mourning mother can’t remember her son
Novel ‘On Her Own’ marks a major milestone in the writer’s career, and paints a poignant portrait of Israel that provides much-needed insight to international readers at this time
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A woman walks past the artwork 'Golem' by Joshua Abarbanel during a press presentation for the 'Golem' exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, September 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
September 28, 2023, 2:46 am
A 21st-century golem tackles US white nationalism in modern retelling of Jewish myth
In darkly comic novel ‘The Golem of Brooklyn,’ author Adam Mansbach sets a nine-foot clay creature hurtling toward a neo-Nazi rally in Kentucky with an unlikely duo in tow
By Amy Spiro
Journalist and writer Ruth Eglash, whose debut novel, 'Parallel Lines,' launches June 15, 2023 (Courtesy Ariel Jerozolimski)
June 16, 2023, 5:53 pm
In teen-driven debut, a news veteran switches to fiction to unravel Jerusalem’s lives
Ruth Eglash plumbs her experiences as a veteran reporter in ‘Parallel Lines,’ a novel about three girls whose stories cross on the tracks
By Jessica Steinberg
'The Ghosts of Rose Hill,' by R.M. Romero. (Courtesy)
November 5, 2022, 5:53 am
A Latina-American Jew finds a kindred spirit in this romantic YA ghost story
When aspiring violinist Ilana is sent to stay with an aunt in Prague, she meets Benjamin. But things aren’t all as they seem in ‘The Ghosts of Rose Hill,’ a new book by RM Romero
By Rich Tenorio
An 'Enlightenment' scene with guests in the home of Moses Mendelssohn, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1856. (Public domain)
July 16, 2022, 2:40 pm
Epic historical novel digs deep into Zionism’s less probed Western European roots
In ‘The Wealthy,’ Israeli author Hamutal Bar-Yosef uses 200-year saga of fictional German-Anglo Jewish family to highlight different take on how the Jewish state came to be
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative image (iStock)
April 6, 2022, 2:42 am
As eating disorders among teens soar in pandemic, YA novel takes on grave issue
For debut work of fiction about anorexic high school girls, 25-year-old E.J. Schwartz draws on her own recent experience of social media-influenced devastating drive for thinness
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The cast of 'Eight Gifts of Hanukkah,' premiering in 2021 on Hallmark. (Courtesy Hallmark)
November 28, 2021, 5:05 pm
Love, laughter, latkes: Hanukkah rom-coms are having a moment
With a new Hallmark film and multiple new romance novels out this year, American Jews have a greater chance of seeing the Festival of Lights reflected in popular culture
By Amy Spiro
Joshua Henkin's new novel, 'Morningside Heights,' is set in the Manhattan neighborhood of the same name. (Author photo: Michael Lionstar/ via JTA)
July 13, 2021, 11:43 pm
Novel portrays how no one is too young, or too smart, for early onset dementia
Joshua Henkin’s ‘Morningside Heights’ examines devastating emotional and physical ripple effects after a person loses ability to think, communicate and function before age of 65
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Haviva Ner-David, rabbi and author whose first novel, 'Hope Valley,' tells the story of a friendship between two women, one Jewish Israeli and the other Palestinian (Courtesy Haviva Ner-David)
May 19, 2021, 10:39 am
Memoirist turns to fiction with tale of Arab, Jewish women’s unlikely friendship
Haviva Ner-David’s ‘Hope Valley’ weaves a story of Israeli and Palestinian histories in the verdant setting of the Galilee
By Jessica Steinberg
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