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Books Hundreds of writers protest cancellation of Palestinian author’s event at Frankfurt Book Fair
Organizers called off an award ceremony for Adania Shibli's 'Minor Detail,' a novel based on the true story of a 1949 rape of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers
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Books He wanted to tell the story of ordinary Palestinians living under occupation — will anyone want to listen now?
Nathan Thrall's 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama' is an intimately reported account of the aftermath of a lethal West Bank bus crash
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Books How a 16-year-old Jewish high school student is fighting back against book banning in Florida
In a state than bans more books than any other, Iris Mogul is starting a conversation about George Orwell, Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston
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Books This Jewish philosopher should win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Martha Nussbaum's philosophy has forcefully argued for the importance of the humanities in a world that shrugs at art
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Books Jewish writers, Bible stories and Holocaust history are on new list of every banned book in the US
3 Jewish writers are among 10 most-banned authors on PEN America report documenting 33% increase in book bans
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Books Texas teacher reportedly fired after reading from Anne Frank’s diary to students
The teacher read a passage with sexual content from an oft-contested graphic adaptation of the Holocaust diary, which uses Frank’s words
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Books Why Jews should pay close attention to book banning and bomb threats against libraries
Threats against libraries across America recall a harrowing antisemitic history
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Books Elon Musk doubted biblical miracles but loves Mel Brooks
Walter Isaacson's doorstopper biography reveals a skeptical Musk who likes Jewish humor
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