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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Fictional account of Netanyahu family in America wins Pulitzer Prize

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A satirical novel based on the true story of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s father searching for a job in academia in the United States has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Netanyahus: An Account...
Menachem Kaiser. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.

Menachem Kaiser wins Sami Rohr Prize for nonfiction

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The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, in association with the National Library of Israel, announces Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure as the winner of its 2022 award...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Aug. 28, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Danny Danon looks back on his fight for Israel in the halls of the...

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In the decade that separates the two books that former ambassador to the United Nations and current chairman of World Likud Danny Danon has written, a lot has transpired. Having served as a member...
Author Mikhal Dekel and her book. Credit: Courtesy.

How do Putin and Zelensky get the Holocaust so wrong?

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t’s a piece of the Holocaust that even scholars misunderstand, or neglect altogether. And it’s a story unknown even to the descendants of a quarter-million Holocaust survivors. The United Nations Holocaust Outreach Programme hosted author...
Charles Dickens Museum in London. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

London’s Dickens Museum tackles anti-Semitism in new program for students

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A museum in London dedicated to British author Charles Dickens has started a new program for schools about anti-Semitism that is focused on the novel Oliver Twist and a controversial character in it that is a...
Professor Uriya Shavit. Source: Screenshot.

UAE publishes book on Zionism written by Tel Aviv University researchers

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For the first time since the signing of the Abraham Accords, an Israeli research book has been published in Abu Dhabi, announced Tel Aviv University. The UAE’s largest public research institute—the Emirates Center for Strategic...
A simulated image of the new National Library of Israel Reading Hall. Credit: ©Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects, Executive Architect.

Sami Rohr Prize and National Library of Israel jump-start new literary endeavor

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The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the National Library of Israel have announced a new collaboration to promote their shared vision to further cultivate a vibrant international Jewish literary culture and community. The Sami Rohr...
A display of the book “Maus” by Art Spiegelman. Source: Flickr/ActuaLitté.

Tennessee Jewish group slams school-board’s decision to ban Holocaust book ‘Maus’

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The Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga in Tennessee is criticizing a local school board’s decision to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust book from its eighth-grade curriculum. The federation’s executive director, Michael Dzik, spoke about the...
Art Spiegelman. Source: Screenshot.

Tennessee school board removes graphic novel ‘Maus,’ author calls it ‘Orwellian’

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A school board in Tennessee unanimously voted to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the Holocaust from its schools because it includes eight minor curse words such as “damn” and an illustration of a...
From the newly released book series, “Heroes of Liberty.” Credit: Courtesy.

‘Heroes of Liberty’ series pushes back against ‘woke ideology’ in children’s literature

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Heroes of Liberty, a newly released book series for children, teaches values such as liberty and freedom amid what conservative columnist and commentator Bethany Mandel labels as a plague of “woke ideology” that is...