Literature
Many Jewish books are not making it into the world or being promoted adequately, according to an advocate. (Getty Images)
July 16, 2026, 9:30 pm
I gathered the data on Jewish fiction publishing. The trends are alarming.
One solution, writes an author and activist, is to envision publishing as an act of peoplehood.
By Meg Keene
Correspondence between J.D. Salinger and his editor referring to his Jewish and Irish heritage, for sale by Peter Harrington Books, overlaid on top of the book jacket for Salinger's novel, "The Catcher in the Rye". (Images Courtesy Peter Harrington London)
April 28, 2026, 4:36 pm
J.D. Salinger asked publishers to remove references to his Jewish heritage, newly surfaced letters reveal
“The Catcher in the Rye” could have had “that Jewish-Irish business” on its jacket, the letters show.
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A screenshot of the viral "Is your fav author a zionist" Google spreadsheet shows some of the reasons that the document's creators deemed writers pro- and anti-Israel. (Screenshot)
May 11, 2024, 9:19 pm
‘Is your fav author a zionist???’ A viral list reignites antisemitism fears in the literary world
The spreadsheet sorts authors into categories such as 'Pro-Israel/Zionist' or 'Pro-Palestinian/Anti-Zionist'
By Philissa Cramer
Portrait of Gertrude Stein (Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
September 21, 2023, 11:37 am
She was an outsider, a Jew and an iconoclastic artist — kind of like Picasso
A new exhibit in Paris explores the friendship between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
By Mervyn Rothstein
January 16, 2023, 1:25 pm
Ari Mittleman talks ‘Paths of the Righteous’
New book profiles non-Jews who have helped the community
By David Rullo
John Boyne, author of the Holocaust novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and its sequel "All the Broken Places." (Rich Gilligan/Courtesy of Penguin Random House)
December 1, 2022, 1:39 pm
The sequel to the Holocaust novel ‘Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ is here
Author John Boyne has no regrets
By Andrew Lapin
Michael Oren speaks at Bar-Ilan University in Israel in 2014. (Yoni Reif via JTA)
September 29, 2020, 2:15 pm
Michael Oren published a book of short stories.
He’s more worried about the future of literature than democracy.
By Ben Sales
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