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 Five

2022/5782

Features

Interviews with Melissa Broder, Joshua Cohen, Colum McCann, Ruth Behar, Marjorie Agosín, Ilya Kaminsky, and Yaara Shehori
Original fiction by Yael van der Wouden and Steven Volynets
Helene Wecker on writing magical realism
Leigh Stein on taking inspiration from Anne Frank
An exploration of the folk healers of the Pale
New works of photography and graphic novels
A Jewish literary map of Australia
Plus translations, poetry, art, and more!

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“A smart and
gorgeous treat.”

– Tablet Magazine

Past Issues

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.

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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.

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Volume One

2017/5777

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

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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