A new platform launches tonight to offer resources and an online community for Jewish fiction writers and those writing literature of Jewish interest around the world. The Global Jewish Literary Alliance aims to encourage more…
It is unlikely many Iranian Jewish women are involved in the ongoing protests in Iran. Historically they have been silent and invisible and there has always been an almost total absence of literature by Jewish women in Iran because it endangered the community. But in exile there has been…
When I was five years old, I found a song-thrush nest. Gleaming blue eggs with tiny black flecks in a clay-white cup. It was in a small bush in the churchyard that lay across the road from our family house at the edge of Sheffield…
“It had embroidered black eyes – the original glass ones had fallen out years before – and an endearing habit of collapsing on its paws. How could she ever have chosen to pack that characterless woolly dog in its stead?” Judith Kerr’s seminal children’s book When Hitler Stole…
Poison Ivy, The Riddler and Killer Croc have got a new hero to contend with: 16-year-old Willow Zimmerman, aka Whistle. The crime-fighting teenager is the newest member of the Batman universe and she’s the first Jewish…
This week Green Bean Books and Jewish Book Week announced a brand new award in the world of literature for youngsters. The Jewish Children’s Book Awards aims to celebrate work by budding authors and illustrators…
How can a demographic that isn’t necessarily marginalised, but whose practices certainly haven’t been given much academic attention in the past, live alongside and within a community with the traditional structures and practices…
Since my schooldays, I’ve had a thing for TS Eliot – despite overtly antisemitic lines in his poetry. “Rachel née Rabinovitch tears at the grapes with murderous paws” (Sweeney Among the Nightingales, 1920) gave me pause for thought all right. Our English teacher called him out…