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The ‘Hanukkah Erotica Book Club’ aims to connect Jews — with romance novels

Friends and stepsisters Malya Levin and Rachel Mintz unpack the world of Jewish romance novels — and their own NYC dating history — on their biweekly podcast.

By Elizabeth Karpen December 4, 2023 5:45 pm

A mysterious postcard made French author Anne Berest confront her family’s Holocaust story

An award-winning bestseller tackles the tough questions French Jews are grappling with.

July 22, 2022 2:34 pm

Linda Grant wins British literary prize for coming-of-age novel about Jews in London

The Wingate Literary Prize is awarded to the best book, fiction or nonfiction, to translate the idea of Jewishness to readers.

March 17, 2020 11:47 am

Gal Gadot adapting controversial Israeli-Palestinian love story into film

By Marcy Oster December 26, 2019 9:49 am

40 years ago, a refusenik made art of the Soviet Jewish tragedy. At 82, he is seeing its first English translation.

By Penny Schwartz December 18, 2018 4:42 pm

Don’t pass over these 8 new books for spring

By Victor Wishna March 30, 2017 1:01 pm

A fresh crop of Jewish books for spring

By Victor Wishna April 27, 2016 3:30 pm

The Jewish translator behind Elena Ferrante — and Primo Levi

By Erica Brody March 8, 2016 3:25 pm

Jewish-Arab love story excluded from Israeli classrooms is best-seller

January 3, 2016 2:47 pm

Israel’s Education Ministry bans novel about Israeli-Palestinian love

December 31, 2015 11:08 am

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