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A Book That Writes Itself: Dalia Rotter Youngerwood’s Jewish Journal

"Shavua" is an interactive journal woven with Jewish wisdom, inviting readers to pause, reflect and add their own thoughts to an ongoing Jewish conversation. The post A Book That W...

The Yiddish Letter of American Liberty

Phillips’ letter – with its faith in Congress’ Declaration – now sits in display not far from the Liberty Bell and its inscription from the biblical book of Leviticus. The post Th...

Feeling excluded in the literary world, Jews are launching their own publishing houses

Meg Keene, an activist whose own novel failed to sell, is helming an eponymous imprint at Wicked Son Books. -- The post Feeling excluded in the literary world, Jews are launching t...

The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies

You can now read Brian Hillman’s review of Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski, and Steven Weitzman, eds.,The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies (Princeton University Press, 2025.) 5...

These Jewish readers wanted happy endings — so they turned to romance

Until a few years ago, every book math teacher Dahlia Evans had read about Jews was Holocaust historical fiction. Searching for a change, she went to her rabbi, who recommended a r...

What Tisha B’Av taught me about the silencing — and creative defiance — of Jewish writers

"After destruction, we create," writes the publisher of an Israeli literary journal. -- The post What Tisha B’Av taught me about the silencing — and creative defiance — of Jewish w...

Breakout Novels by Jewish Women to Add to Your TBR Right Now

Looking for your next book club pick? Want to support emerging Jewish women writers? Why not do both!? These writers have broken through barriers and written stories that captivate...

More Than Muscular Judaism

Nathaniel Helfgot, Mosaic As a lifelong student, longtime teacher, and passionate lover of Tanakh, it was deeply satisfying to read Rabbi Ya'akov Trump's essay outlining the ideol...

A Rabbi Explains What’s Jewish About ‘The Odyssey’

In both, there's sacrifices, there's tribal identity, there's a concern for honor and dignity. And then there are these huge, glaring differences The post A Rabbi Explains What’s...

New Critical Edition Available: Daniel J. Lasker (ed.), Judah ben Elijah Hadassi: Sefer Eshkol ha-Kofer. With the collab...

I gathered the data on Jewish fiction publishing. The trends are alarming.

One solution, writes an author and activist, is to envision publishing as an act of peoplehood. -- The post I gathered the data on Jewish fiction publishing. The trends are alarmin...

Ruth-less, the Enigma of a Name

Jews spoke in two voices about Ruth, a kind of national schizophrenia, one with joyous chanting on Shavuos as the Book of Ruth was read; the other, removing her name from the chain...

I gathered the data on Jewish fiction publishing. The trends are alarming.

(JTA) — In early 2023, I wrote a novel that was Jewish in every possible way. The lovers called each other “ahuvati” and “neshama sheli” — Hebrew for my love and my soul. There wer...

The gift Jews gave to America on its 100th birthday in 1876

The poem, 'Minchat Yehudah,' which honored America's centennial, was written in Hebrew by Moses Aaron Schreiber

VIDEO: Literature scholar Nathan Cohen speaks about ‘shund’ literature

נתן כּהן, דער אָנגעזעענער פֿאָרשער פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור בײַם בר־אילן אוניווערסיטעט, האָט לעצטנס געהאַלטן אַ רעפֿעראַט אויף ייִדיש אין מינכן, דײַטשלאַנד, וועגן דער ייִדישער...

Exhibition: Jiddisch/ייִדיש – Von den Anfängen bis zum Buchdruck.

21 July – 13 September 2026, Erfurt Small Synagogue Yiddish is primarily a language spoken and written by Jews in German-speaking regions. In its earliest stages, the language deve...

Jewish authors object to scheduling of a Chicago literary festival on Rosh Hashanah

Jewish writers say they are dismayed to learn that one of the nation’s largest free outdoor literary festivals is scheduled to take place during the two days of Rosh Hashanah, Sept...

Tales from the trash heap

You can now read John Tolan’s article “Tales from the trash heap. The fluid boundary between slavery and freedom among the Jews of medieval Cairo” via the Times Literary Supplement...

Ladino-speaking pirates, genies and grumpy demon cats: PJ Library expands bookshelves with Sephardic stories

In 1940s Baghdad, a little girl named Na’ima tries desperately to stay awake all night for Shavuot. In wartime Libya, a young boy embarks on a supernatural quest to find a lost cit...

The Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

You can now read the new volume The Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Artefacts, Rituals, Communities, Narratives, Doctrines, Concepts, ed. Katharina Heyden and Da...

The Yiddish Letter of American Liberty

Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, Jewish Journal On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was printed on the front page of The Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote. The paper, whose name.....

New book (Open Access)– Jewish Craftspeople in the Middle Ages: Objects, Sources and Materials

Edited by Andreas Lehnertz, Maria Stürzebecher, Simha Goldin, and Joseph Isaac Lifshitz. De Gruyter Brill, 2026.

Only a Jewish Woman Could Write a Dystopian Novel Like This

On its surface, there is nothing particularly Jewish about the French novel “I Who Have Never Known Men,” whose English translation has been experiencing an unexpected surge in pop...

Five stubborn Jewish newspapers that have lived through it all

Haaretz speaks to five Jewish publications around the world, from Russia and Turkey to Poland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. They print in a variety of languages, including Yidd...