The basic situation of the post-World War Two American Jew is one conditioned by the Diaspora, the Shoah, and both a religious and otherwise a cultural tradition marked by letters. American Jewish ...

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus and Gramercy Books will host a National Poetry Month program featuring the poetry troupe Elixir of Voice. Elixir of Voice is composed of four ...

More than 50 Jewish poets gathered earlier this summer for the first-ever Yetzirah Poetry Conference, part of a new initiative to create a “hearth” for Jewish poetry. Over the past few months, ...

Menachem Rosensaft was born within walking distance of a place that was conceived for death and where his mother barely survived. The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The international ...

Three poetry awards and one for a book of fiction were made by the Jewish Book Council of America at its annual meeting today. Judah Stampfer received a $100 prize for his “Jerusalem Has Many Faces,” ...

For the past few decades, Charles Bernstein has been a seminal figure in the world of avant-garde poetry; in the past decade, his engagement with Jewish poetics has come to define, for many fellow ...

In an underground reservoir built 1,233 years ago in a city that saw sectarian riots last year, visitors hear a beguiling musical composition that combines Arab love songs with Hebrew poetry. By ...

For the Jews of northern Europe, the year 1096 brought a brutal spring. Crusaders on their way to Jerusalem attacked Jewish communities throughout the Rhineland. It was then, says Susan L. Einbinder, ...

Three literary awards for works of poetry of literary merit and Jewish interest will be made by the Jewish Book Council of America, sponsored by the National Jewish Welfare Board, it was announced ...

The love of poetry runs so deep within the Jewish people that the pre-Sabbath editions of Israel’s daily newspapers have a poetry section, much as the United States’ newspapers have sports sections.

ROME (Reuters) - Menachem Rosensaft, the son of two Holocaust survivors who became an international lawyer specialising in genocide, has spent much of his life trying to reconcile the horrors of the ...