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Nobel Prize

Author László Krasznahorkai
Posted inBooks

Hungarian writer with hidden Jewish roots wins literature Nobel

by Andrew Lapin October 9, 2025October 14, 2025

(JTA) — This year’s Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to a Hungarian writer whose work offers bleak visions of existence, and whose father hid his Jewish ancestry from him […]

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu
Posted inPolitics

Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize as pair talks cease-fire

by Grace Gilson July 8, 2025July 8, 2025
David Julius, a professor of physiology at UCSF, is one of two recipients of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. (Photo/Courtesy UCSF)
Posted inNews

UCSF scientist whose grandparents fled antisemitism in Czarist Russia wins Nobel Prize in medicine

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 4, 2021October 4, 2021
Poet Louise Glück, seen here at the National Book Awards in New York City in 2014, is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. (Photo/JTA-Robin Marchant-Getty Images)
Posted inPoetry

WNBA’s Jewish Bird; Gadot as Cleopatra causes a flap; stars get naked for democracy; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 13, 2020October 13, 2020
President Trump announces the Israel-UAE agreement with (from left) senior adviser Jared Kushner, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, Aug. 13, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Brendan Smialowski-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for brokering Israel-UAE agreement

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA September 9, 2020September 9, 2020
“Two Minds” is about the unique collaboration and troubled friendship of Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky (Brian Herndon) and Daniel Kahneman (Jackson Davis). (Photo/David Allen)
Posted inCulture

‘Two Minds’ explores intense friendship of Israeli psychology legends

by Patricia Corrigan May 2, 2018May 3, 2018
Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, "golem in repose," 2017
Posted inOpinion

Art in ‘Remember the Sabbath’ is nice. But what does it have to do with the Sabbath?

by J. Readers December 1, 2017December 4, 2017
interior of a red, eerily-lit space
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‘Unseemly’ to ignore refugees, says artist Kapoor as he wins ‘Jewish Nobel’

by JTA February 6, 2017February 24, 2017

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