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“Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries,” by Nicholas Lemann
Zoje Stage. (Photo courtesy of Zoje Stage)
BooksPittsburgh author’s newest thriller makes no mystery of animals, earth
By Adam Reinherz
Zoje Stage. (Photo courtesy of Zoje Stage)
September 8, 2026, 3:29 pm
Pittsburgh author’s newest thriller makes no mystery of animals, earth
'I'm not subtle in the point that I'm making, and I'm not trying to be'
By Adam Reinherz
August 30, 2026, 5:45 pm
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“Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries,” by Nicholas Lemann
In "Playmakers," Michael Kimmel writes about the mostly first-generation American Jews who led the toy industry in the 20th century, and in many ways invented the American idea of childhood. (W.W. Norton)
August 30, 2026, 10:18 am
This American childhood was brought to you by Jewish toymakers
Michael Kimmel’s new book traces how first-generation Jews created the dolls, games, comics and stories that shaped generations of children.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
New Jewish children's books released for the High Holidays in 2026 include ones about awe, tashlich and apologizing for burping. (Image courtesy of JTA)
August 21, 2026, 9:35 am
From fake burps to reverse tashlich, new children’s books bring the High Holidays to life
A bumper crop of new books for 2026 includes several focused on Sukkot.
By Penny Schwartz
Meg Keene is helming Meg Keene Books, a new fiction imprint from Wicked Son, a Jewish publisher. (Courtesy Keene)
July 29, 2026, 10:17 am
Feeling excluded in the literary world, Jews launch their own publishing houses
Meg Keene, an activist whose own novel failed to sell, is helming an eponymous imprint at Wicked Son Books.
By Philissa Cramer
Harold Grinspoon received a warm welcome by the several hundredparticipants at PJ Library's conference held in April 2026 in Springfield, Massachusetts. (Courtesy PJ Library)
July 27, 2026, 12:13 pm
The man who changed Jewish bedtime stories is still reinventing himself at 97
The philanthropist Harold Grinspoon has taken up art while continuing to fund the expansion of PJ Library.
By Penny Schwartz
The Posner Center at Carnegie Mellon University. (Photo courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University)
July 21, 2026, 1:19 pm
At CMU’s newly reopened Posner Center, history is hidden in the margins
Since reopening in November 2025, the Posner Center has welcomed more than 8,000 visitors.
By Octavia Liku
Political strategist and author of 'The Hidden Hand,' Warren Kinsella. (Dave Gordon)
July 17, 2026, 12:32 pm
Author: coordinated anti-Israel propaganda campaign blindsided West after Oct. 7
Veteran political strategist Warren Kinsella claims that "spontaneous outrage" on the streets is actually being planned by state actors and professional agitators
By Dave Gordon
July 12, 2026, 4:14 pm
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“As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us – A Defiant Memoir of Heritage, Identity, and Antisemitism,” by Sarah Hurwitz
Amir Tibon (L) and his book, “The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands." (Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature)
June 16, 2026, 4:12 pm
Journalist Amir Tibon wins Sami Rohr Prize for book on his family’s Oct. 7 survival
2026 Jewish literature prize awarded for book recounting how Tibon’s father, a retired IDF major general, saved his son and family during the massacre in Kibbutz Nahal Oz
By ToI Staff
The four finalists for the 2026 Sami Rohr Prize are, from left, Shaul Kelner, Amir Tibon, Jordan Salama and Laura Hobson Faure. (Anne Rayner, Ofir Berman, Becky Hale, Patrick Clavier/Archives de Paris)
June 3, 2026, 10:42 pm
Finalists announced for lucrative Jewish literary award
The winner of the 2026 Sami Rohr Prize will be named this month.
By Lisa Keys
May 31, 2026, 6:18 pm
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“A Guide for the Perplexed,” by Dara Horn
Michael Lowenthal (Photo by Scott Heim)
May 29, 2026, 1:21 pm
Jewish author Michael Lowenthal sits with complexity in new book ‘Place Envy’
Author to debut his new novel on June 11 at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall
By Emma Riva
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May 26, 2026, 4:17 pm
‘Talking to Irwin’ explores grief, legacy and the life that might have been
The writing of former Chronicle Editor Lee Chottiner, in his first chapbook, "moves from the simple and conversational to the profound."
By Toby Tabachnick
Daniela Gerson is the author of "The Wanderers." Photo by Kait Lavo
May 15, 2026, 11:47 am
‘The Wanderers’ tells the story of Poland’s Holocaust survivors who fled to the Soviet Union
Daniela Gerson was surprised to learn that most survivors, like her grandparents, survived not in concentration camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Sibera.
By Shira Li Bartov
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