Tag: Literature
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...
The Kharkiv Yiddish literary world, 1920s‐mid‐1930s
The Kharkiv Yiddish literaryworld, 1920s ‐ mid ‐1930s
Gennady Estraikh
Associate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrewand Jewish Studies
Published online: 19 Jun 2008.
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East European Jewish Affairs
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Two Israeli authors included in ‘New York Times’ list of ‘100 Notable Books of...
The New York Times has included works by two Israeli authors in its 100 Notable Books of 2020 list: Yishai Sarid, the son of the late Meretz lawmaker Yossi Sarid, for his book The Memory Monster,...