Eve Har­ris was born to Israeli-Pol­ish par­ents in Chiswick, West Lon­don, in 1973. She taught for 12 years at inner-city com­pre­hen­sives and inde­pen­dent schools in…

by Tah­neer OksmanHoward Jacob­son is a Man­ches­ter-born author and the recent recip­i­ent of the Man Book­er Prize, as well as two Bollinger Every­man Wode­house prizes…

We prompt­ed this year’s Sami Rohr Prize awardees to write about ​“how they came to write their book.” Over the past sev­er­al weeks, we shared their respons­es:Dig­ging Deep…

by Ada Brun­steinNao­mi Alder­man was a final­ist for the 2007 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture and is a Sami Rohr Prize Lit­er­ary Insti­tute fel­low.…

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterLast week, Ben Lern­er expressed his desire for read­ers to be active par­tic­i­pants in the con­struc­tion of what a poem or nov­el means.…

Ear­li­er this week, Francesca Segal wrote about recast­ing a clas­sic nov­el and about being asked the ques­tion ​“Who are your char­ac­ters REAL­LY?”. She has been…

On Mon­day, Francesca Segal wrote about recast­ing a clas­sic nov­el. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.It’s…

Francesca Segal​’s debut nov­el The Inno­cents is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.I would nev­er have set…

Ear­li­er this week, Sami Rohr Prize Choice Award Win­ner Dr. Abi­gail Green wrote about the mak­ing of a good biog­ra­phy and trav­el­ing in the foot­steps of…

Debra Spark​’s newest book, The Pret­ty Girl, is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.In lit­er­a­ture, as in…