Ideas Literature celebrates nuance. So why does the book world feel so one-sided on Israel? The erasure of Israeli suffering in literary circles comes as no surprise to a longtime writer, poet and newsletter editor. By Erika Dreifus April 5, 2024 3:01 pm
In ‘The Books of Jacob,’ Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk tells a story about Jews. But is it a Jewish novel? “This is a phenomenon happening in all of Eastern Europe, when Jewish culture is created by non-Jews, for non-Jews, but about the Jews,” one Polish Jewish scholar said. February 4, 2022 10:50 am
Susan Choi wins National Book Award for fiction Choi, whose mother is Jewish and whose father is of Korean descent, won for her novel “Trust Exercise.” November 22, 2019 9:47 am
A top French novelist published Holocaust denials and caricatures 30 years ago By Cnaan Liphshiz September 3, 2019 8:05 am
Ideas Remembering Aharon Appelfeld, from charnel house to whorehouse to a home in Israel By Thane Rosenbaum January 5, 2018 10:43 am
Book about mental illness — created by a Jewish father and son — wins National Book Award By Beth Kissileff November 25, 2015 11:55 am