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 pro­vides a 200-page snap­shot of the 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 Three

2019/5779
Features
  • Inter­views with Kei­th Gessen, Chloe Ben­jamin, and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
  • Jane Yolen on Jew­ish fairy tales
  • A Jew­ish lit­er­ary map of Italy
  • An exam­i­na­tion of Jew­ish life in rur­al Amer­i­ca in three parts
  • Adeena Suss­man on tahini
  • Poet­ry by Ali­cia Jo Rabins
  • A Portnoy’s Com­plaint advice col­umn
  • Pamela Nadell shares a brief his­to­ry of the first Jew­ish women’s book club in America 
  • Beau­ti­ful pho­tog­ra­phy, comics, and fiction
$25
$36 Outside Continental U.S.

“smart and
gor­geous treat.”

– Tablet Magazine

Past Issues

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.

Vol­ume One

2017/5777

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

Praise for Paper Brigade

A neat pack­age of chick­en soup for the lit­er­ary Jew­ish soul.

– The Forward

A smart and gor­geous treat.

– Tablet

The 2017 issue just came out, and it’s so incredible.

– Kveller