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Art from "Brother's Keeper" by Arnon Shorr and Joshua Edelglass. (Illustration/Forward-Courtesy 
Shorr and Edelglass)
Posted inComics

A Jewish family story about defending a kibbutz in 1948 takes on new meaning

by Stav Ziv November 14, 2023November 15, 2023
"The Little Liar," the new novel by bestselling Jewish author Mitch Albom, is set in Salonika, Greece, before, during and after the Holocaust. (Photo/JTA-Jenny Risher / illustration by Mollie Suss)
Posted inBooks

Mitch Albom enters new Jewish territory with Holocaust novel ‘The Little Liar’

by Andrew Lapin November 10, 2023November 12, 2023
John Turturro stars in "Sabbath's Theater," which he adapted from the Philip Roth novel with the New Yorker writer Ariel Levy. (Photo/JTA-Monique Carboni)
Posted inCulture

How New Yorker writer Ariel Levy adapted Philip Roth’s filthiest book for the stage

by Andrew Silow-Carroll November 7, 2023
Iddo Gefen (center) hiking with his friend Sagi Golan (left) and another friend in an undated photo. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Gefen)
Posted inBooks

An Israeli author was excited for his best friend’s wedding. After Oct. 7, it became a funeral.

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman October 27, 2023October 27, 2023
Detail of cover of “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” by Nathan Thrall
Posted inBooks

He wanted to tell the story of ordinary Palestinians living under occupation. Will anyone listen now?

by The Forward October 13, 2023October 20, 2023
Lizi Rosenfeld sits on a bench in Austria in 1938. The sign says, ”Only for Aryans.“ (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leo Spitzer)
Posted inBooks

New book challenges narrative that Jews were passive victims of Nazis

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman October 12, 2023May 2, 2024
Author Rosa Lowinger (Photo/Scarlett Freund)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Art conservator turns critical eye on Cuban Jewish family in memoir

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 5, 2023
James McBride (Photo/Chia Messina)
Posted inBooks

Author James McBride’s anti-Mormon remarks contradict spirit of his new novel

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 28, 2023January 9, 2024
(JTA illustration by Mollie Suss)
Posted inBooks

The buzzy novel ‘Whalefall’ offers a modern spin on the ancient Book of Jonah

Rabbi Stuart Halpern by Rabbi Stuart Halpern September 21, 2023
Adam Mansbach is the author of "The Golem of Brooklyn." (Photo/Susan Chainey)
Posted inBooks

In Adam Mansbach’s latest novel, a golem confronts white nationalists in present-day Kentucky

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 13, 2023September 13, 2023

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