Paper Brigade

Jewish Book Council’s Annual Literary Journal

Paper Brigade is named in honor of the group of writers and intellectuals in the Vilna Ghetto who rescued thousands of Jewish books and documents from destruction by the Nazis. The publication reflects today’s diverse Jewish literary landscape in America and abroad. Paper Brigade was a finalist for CLMP’s 2018 Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine.

Current Issue

Volume Six

2023/5783

Features

Cover art by Ilya Milstein
Interviews with Michael W. Twitty, Sloane Crosley, Gary Shteyngart, Claire Stanford, and others
A look at recent novels about Jewish motherhood and fertility
Fiction by Kate Schmier and Leeor Ohayon
A Jewish literary map of India
Five YA fantasy authors on mythological Jewish creatures
An exploration of the art of Jewish puppetry
A comic by S. Bear Bergman and Saul Freedman-Lawson
Plus translation, poetry, photography, and more!

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“A smart and
gorgeous treat.”

– Tablet Magazine

Past Issues

Volume Five

2022/5782

Featuring interviews with Melissa Broder, Joshua Cohen, and Colum McCann, a Jewish literary map of Australia, an exploration of the folk healers of the Pale, and more. At checkout, you will be given the option to add an electronic gift note to this order.

Volume Four

2020/5780 — 2021/5781

Featuring interviews with Natasha Díaz, André Aciman, T Kira Madden, and Dani Shapiro, a Jewish literary map of Egypt, an annotated reading list on friendship by Lauren Mechling, and more. At checkout, you will be given an option to a add a gift note to this order.

Volume Three

2019/5779

Featuring interviews with Keith Gessen, Chloe Benjamin, and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, a Jewish literary map of Italy, Jane Yolen on Jewish fairy tales, and more. At checkout, you will be given an option to a add a gift note to this order.

Volume Two

2018/5778

Featuring Nicole Krauss, Dara Horn, and Rabbi David Wolpe, plus a Jewish literary map of Latin America, beautiful photography, and more.

Issue two is currently out of print.

Volume One

2017/5777

Featuring Jonathan Safran Foer, an exploration of Israeli crime fiction, Etgar Keret and Ann Goldstein on translation, and more.

Issue one is currently out of print.

Praise for Paper Brigade

There is nothing else like it. We have Jewish newspapers, Jewish magazines, websites that publish Jewish fiction, and so on. But not all of them unashamedly rejoice in Jewish letters, teasing out trends, celebrating established writers, and spotlighting emerging ones.

– CANVAS Compendium