The best releases from the past year. Hint: There are no picture books on this list.

How the prolific writer Barry N. Malzberg showed me my passion was just Judaism in a spacesuit

Virginity and free love in the immigrant world of tenements, in Miriam Karpilove’s newly translated, unselfconsciously Jewish, and hugely popular Yiddish novel ‘Diary of a Lonely Girl’

The Dead Sea Scrolls blew the sci-fi writer’s mind

Was Isaac Bashevis’ older brother Israel Joshua Singer the better novelist?

The Israeli master’s latest novel to be translated to English is about the intricate work of forging a community, and a national narrative

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recent titles that are worth a read

In a landscape vacated of the two literary giants Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz, Israeli fiction ushers in the rise of a new generation of women writers. The author of ‘All the Rivers’ talks about sabras in New York, American Jewry’s allure, and learning to listen for the perfect watermelon.