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A Global Jewish Literary Alliance Conversation with Amir Tibon and Yishay Ishi Ron
Thursday, June 11, 2026
12–1pm
Virtual
photo credits (L‑R): Ofir Berman, Yishay Ishi Ron
Join the Global Jewish Literary Alliance for a conversation with the 2026 Wingate Prize winner, Amir Tibon (The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands), and the 75th National Jewish Book Award winner for the Book Club and Hebrew Fiction in Translation categories, Yishay Ishi Ron (Dog).
Yishay Ishi Ron served in an elite IDF combat unit and is a survivor of PTSD. He has channeled his experiences into his writing, with his novel, Dog, offering a raw portrayal of a soldier grappling with trauma and addiction. The novel, originally written in Hebrew, was longlisted for the Sapir Prize, one of Israel’s most prestigious literary awards. Yishay Ishi Ron is married and lives in Tel-Aviv with his wife and three children.
Emily Kasriel is the author of Deep Listening: Transform your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, a Senior Visiting Fellow at King’s College London and was a longtime BBC Executive and journalist.
About the Global Jewish Literary Alliance
The Global Jewish Literary Alliance is an international collaboration that will provide resources and community for Jewish writers and those writing books of Jewish interest. The Global Jewish Literary Alliance aims to encourage more writers to write Jewish content and to explore what that might be, as well as to provide annually updated resources to connect professionals and writers and to create community. The Global Jewish Literary Resource Center will also provide information on funding opportunities, residencies, and events for the Jewish writing community. If you know of any resources for the Jewish writing community and would like them included in our Resource Center, please submit them here!
The Alliance aims to support a global ecosystem of Jewish arts and culture, with a specific focus on the literary arts, ensuring writers have the resources they need to write Jewish books, that readers are aware of these works, and that Jewish communities and institutions have the resources they need to create meaningful programs and events around Jewish literature. The Covid pandemic showed the benefits of connecting with people around the world and showed the possibilities of trans-Atlantic collaborations, something upon which the Global Jewish Literary Alliance will expand.
The members of the GJLA are The Wingate Prize (UK), Jewish Book Council (US), JCC Association of North America (US and Canada) and The Jewish Literary Foundation (UK).
