(JTA) — Anna is a misunderstood sixth-grade girl who communicates with the ghosts of her Jewish ancestors. Teased by her ...

Neshama,' by Marcella Pixley, takes home gold medal for Jewish children’s literature for middle-grade readers; Uri Shulevitz ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

Authors and readers are hungry for characters who reflect the modern range of Jewish identity. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish ...

Sasha Vasilyuk, author of “Your Presence Is Mandatory,” will celebrate her Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature at a ceremony and live event in New York City. Sasha Vasilyuk was surprised to be named ...

Erika Dreifus‘s first book, “Quiet Americans,” will be published on January 19th. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish ...

A century ago, Fanny Goldstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant working as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, noticed Jewish visitors rarely checked out books about their own culture. With her ...

Considering the long history between literature and the Jewish people it should not at all be surprising that Jews made major contributions to American literature. From Emma Lazarus, whose poem “The ...

“Sons and Daughters” is quite probably the last great Yiddish novel. Chaim Grade, who was born in what is now Lithuania, in 1910, and spent the second half of his life in the Bronx, wrote it from the ...

At the end of my course on Jewish American literature, my students and I realized that the easy joining of “Jewish” and “American” has been strained by the presidential election. The course typically ...

Since the start of the year, the Marlene Meyerson JCC in New York City has been hosting the Books That Changed My Life Festival. On Feb. 10, the festival will be featuring a panel on monsters in ...

Prof. Emeritus Paul Mendes-Flohr, a leading University of Chicago scholar of intellectual history in modernity, modern Jewish thought and German-Jewish intellectual life, died Oct. 24 at the age of 83 ...