Literature

Wingate Prize

October 7 survivor Amir Tibon scoops 2026 Wingate Prize for ‘The Gates of Gaza’

The prize is awarded annually to the book deemed to best communicate ‘the idea of Jewishness to the general reader’

By Jamie Shapiro

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Amir Tibon and his family survived October 7

Amy Levy. (Photo: Cambridge University Library)

Literature

Oscar Wilde’s queer and Jewish female friend

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

The prize is open to translators worldwide (Image: Getty)

Books

The Jewish Literary Foundation launches a new prize for translated works

By JC Reporter

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Jewish Book Week 2025

A life-affirming Jewish Book Week made space for debate... and dinner plans

By Jane Prinsley

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Leading lights: Cook for Good chief executive Karen Mattison; comedy writer/producer Robert Popper, cellist Gemma Rosefield and writer Miriam Gold (Images: Getty)

Jewish Book Week 2025

Your must-see guide to Jewish Book Week

By Orlando Radice

2 min read

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 30: Dr. Elie Wiesel and Marion Wiesel attend the Norman Mailer Center Commendation Awards at The National Arts Club on April 30, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael N. Todaro/Getty Images for Norman Mailer Center)

Literature

Marion Weisel, translator, activist and wife of Elie Wiesel dies at 94

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of Long Island Compromise (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

By Hadley Freeman

Is this new novel too Jewish to be hailed for its brilliance?

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Jewish American novelist Paul Auster dies aged 77

The acclaimed writer was the son of two Jewish immigrants from Poland

By Rosa Doherty

2 min read

May 1, 2024 11:19

Paul Auster penned more than 30 titles and his work was translated into 40 languages (Photo: Getty Images)

By David Aberbach

TS Eliot’s masterpiece reflected darkness that led to the Shoah

Published a hundred years ago this month, ‘The Wasteland’ expressed an uncanny movement of literary bleakness

5 min read

December 16, 2022 15:20

TS Eliot’s masterpiece reflected darkness that led to the Shoah

Wingate Literary Prize celebrates the best of Jewish writing

Judges praise the ‘breadth and depth’ of the current crop of Jewish writers

By Nic North

1 min read

November 30, 2022 09:00

Wingate Literary Prize celebrates the best of Jewish writing

By David Herman

Ignore the naysayers, we’re living in a golden age of Jewish writing

Modern diaspora fiction is going through a period of growth and Israeli fiction is booming

3 min read

October 20, 2022 13:29

Ignore the naysayers, we’re living in a golden age of Jewish writing

By Josh Glancy

The Jewish diaspora is going through an age of mediocrity

A new biography of Joseph Roth shows the contrast with our more affluent, comfortable lifestyles — and the victims of our modern quality of life are great art, music and literature

3 min read

October 13, 2022 11:38

The Jewish diaspora is going through an age of mediocrity

By Tanya Gold

Netflix should've made Jane Austen's Persuasion more Jewish

It is very possible to site Austen in Jewishland, and that is why she has so many Jewish fans

3 min read

July 21, 2022 11:29

Netflix should've made Jane Austen's Persuasion more Jewish

A.B. Yehoshua, renowned Israeli writer and peace activist, dies age 85

President Isaac Herzog described him as 'one of Israel’s greatest authors in all generations, who gifted us his unforgettable works, which will continue to accompany us for generations'

By Ben Bloch

2 min read

June 14, 2022 12:48