Tag: Literature
Sami Rohr Prize and National Library of Israel jump-start new literary endeavor
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...
‘Heroes of Liberty’ series pushes back against ‘woke ideology’ in children’s literature
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...
Adventures in Israel’s science-fiction scene
The first time Sheldon Teitelbaum came across a science fiction book was as a sixth-grader at a Talmud Torah in Montreal, Canada. A book with red bindings about a subversive school on Mars jumped...
French-Israeli author wins France’s top literary prize
A French-Israeli author has been awarded France’s most prestigious literary honor, the Spring Goncourt Prize, reported Haaretz on Monday.
Shmuel T. Meyer, 64, won the prize for Et la guerre est finie … (And the War Is Over …...
March 19, 1933: Philip Roth, one of America’s most powerful and celebrated novelists, was...
Philip Roth, one of America’s most powerful and celebrated novelists, was born in Newark, New Jersey on this date in 1933. Roth’s twenty-seven novels range from out-and-out political satire (Our Gang, about Richard Nixon being...
Norton Juster, 91, took boredom and turned it into fantasy for kids and adults...
Celebrated author Norton Juster, whose most popular book, The Phantom Tollbooth, sold more than 5 million copies, died at his home on March 8 at the age of 91. Norton Juster’s books—more than a dozen of...
Chava Rosenfarb – The Tree of Life – Volume 1 – חװה ראָזענפֿאַרב –...
דוד קאַץ שטעלט פֿאָר, לייענט און פֿאַרטײַטשט, דאָס ערשטע קאַפּיטל פֿון חיים גראַדעס קלאַסישן ראָמאַן װעגן
דער מוסר־באַװעגונג, צמח אַטלאַס: די ישיבֿה.
פֿאַרשרײַבט זיך איצטער אין קאַנאַל און לאָמיר־זשע לייענען און דיסקוטירן װײַטער דאָס מײַסטערװערק פֿון...
For bestselling Russian-Israeli author, physics is a day job
In the last month of 2020, Russia announced the winners of the Big Book National Literary Prize for the best prose writers in the Russian language. The prize, founded 15 years ago, has been...
In a first, Israeli Hebrew novel is translated into Moroccan Arabic
For the first time, an Israeli novel has been translated into Arabic in Morocco and will be sold in Moroccan bookstores.
The groundbreaking novel, A Girl in a Blue Shirt, was written by Gabriel Bensimhon of...
January 15, 1987: Note Lurie, Yiddish novelist, died
He was born in the old Jewish colony of Roskoshnaia, Zaporozhye (Zaporizhia) district, Ukraine. During a pogrom in 1919, the majority of the residents in the colony were massacred, and he moved with his...