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Sami Rohr Prize
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is an annual prize awarded to an outstanding literary work of Jewish interest by an emerging writer. Previously administered by the Jewish Book Council, it is now given in association with the National Library of Israel. History In 2006, the family of Jewish philanthropist Sami Rohr honored his lifelong love of Jewish learning and great books by establishing the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature on his 80th birthday. The annual award, alternating between fiction and non-fiction, seeks to promote writings of Jewish interest, and to encourage the examination of Jewish values among "emerging" writers. The $100,000 Prize honors an author whose work demonstrates potential for future contribution to the world of Jewish literature. All winners, Choice Award recipients, finalists, judges and advisors are Fellows in the Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute. The winner and finalists are honored at an awards ceremony for fiction in New York; the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary
Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, Diary, diaries, memoir, Letter (message), letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymology, Etymologically, the term derives from Latin language, Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaakov Katz (journalist)
Yaakov Katz (, born 1979) is an American-born Israeli journalist and author who currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post. Career Katz completed a law degree from Bar Ilan University in 2007, and in 2013, was selected as an outstanding alumnus. From 2003 to 2013 Katz was the military correspondent and defense analyst for The Jerusalem Post, and has also worked as the Israel correspondent for Jane's Defence Weekly and USA Today. His writings have also appeared in the Washington Post, New York Post, Daily Beast, Al Jazeera English, Israel Defense, Newsmax, Special Operations Report, Fair Observer and other publications. In 2012-2013, Katz was one of 12 international fellows to spend a year at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. In 2013 Katz became a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Israel's Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett. He became Editor-in-Chief at The Jerusalem Post in 2016. His first book, ''Israel vs. Iran: The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Goldberg (author) (born 1950), American architectural critic and educator
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Paul Goldberg may refer to: * Paul Goldberg (geologist), American geologist * Paul Goldberg (writer), American novelist and journalist See also * Pål Golberg (born 1990), Norwegian cross country skier * Paul Goldberger Paul Goldberger (born in 1950) is an American author, architecture critic and lecturer. He is known for his "Sky Line" column in ''The New Yorker''. Biography Shortly after starting as a reporter at ''The New York Times'' in 1972, he was assign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Torday
Daniel Torday is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He serves as an Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. Career Torday graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 and continued his study under George Saunders in Syracuse University's graduate writing program. He later worked as a junior editor at Esquire and is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College and editor of The Kenyon Review. His 2012 novella "The Sensualist" won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. Torday's first novel, ''The Last Flight of Poxl West'', was published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in 2015. The book was the winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and was awarded the Sami Rohr Choice Prize in 2017. Torday's second full-length novel, ''Boomer1'', was published by St. Martin's Press in hardcover in 2018. Critical reception "The Last Fight of Poxl West" received a glowing review from Michiko Kaku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idra Novey
Idra Novey (born Idra Rosenberg) is an American novelist, poet, and translator. She translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Persian and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Career Idra Novey is a novelist, poet, and translator. She is the author of the novels ''Ways to Disappear'' (2016) and ''Those Who Knew'' (2018), which received the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize, the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Prize, and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. ''Those Who Knew'' was also a finalist for the 2019 Clark Fiction Prize, a ''New York Times'' Editors’ Choice, and a Best Book of the Year with over a dozen media outlets, including NPR, Esquire, BBC, Kirkus Review, and O Magazine. In 2023, Viking published her third novel, Take What You Need'. Her poetry collections include ''Exit, Civilian'' (2011), selected for the 2011 National Poetry Series, ''The Next Country'' (2008), a finalist for the 2008 Foreword Book of the Year Award, and ''Clarice: The Visitor'', a collaboration wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanan Tigay
Chenan ( fa, چنان, also Romanized as Chenān and Chanān) is a state in Arkavazi Rural District, Chavar District, Ilam County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 146, in 29 families. The village is supprtd by Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir .... =D References Populated places in Ilam County Kurdish settlements in Ilam Province {{IlamCounty-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shari Rabin
Shari may refer to: * In South Asia, women's clothing also known as sari or saree * In Buddhism, bead-shaped objects among the cremated ashes of Buddhist spiritual masters, also known as Śarīra Japanese culture * Shari, deadwood on the main trunk of a bonsai tree * Flavored rice used in making sushi Places * Mount Shari, a quaternary stratovolcano * Shari, Hokkaido, Japan * Shari District, Hokkaido, Japan * Shari River, a 949-kilometer-long river of central Africa * Shari Mari, Anaqcheh Rural District, Ahvaz County, Khuzestan Province, Iran People Given name * Shari (actress), Indian film actress in Malayalam and Tamil films * Shari Addison (born 1962), American gospel musician and artist * Shari Arison (born 1957), American-born Israeli businesswoman and philanthropist * Shari Belafonte (born 1954), American actress, model, writer and singer * Shari Cantor (born 1959), American politician * Shari Decter Hirst, Canadian politician * Shari Elliker, American radio pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yair Mintzker , a location in Scotland
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Yair may refer to: *A spelling variant of the Jewish name Jair or Ya'ir *Yair (name), list of people with the name Yair *Yair, Scottish Borders Yair, also known as The Yair, is an estate in the Scottish Borders. It stands by the River Tweed in the former county of Selkirkshire, north-west of Selkirk, and south of Edinburgh. The name comes from the old Scots word for a fish trap. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Sara Yael Hirschhorn is currently the Visiting assistant professor of Israel Studies at Northwestern University. She was formerly the University Research Lecturer and Sidney Brichto Fellow in Israel and Hebrew Studies at the University of Oxford, historian and author. In May 2017, Harvard University Press published her first book ''City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement''. She began fieldwork for the book in 2008. She is a contributor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, as well as news publications such as ''The New York Times'', '' Haaretz'', ''The Times of Israel'' and '' Jewish Chronicle''. She is considered an expert Diaspora-Israel relations, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Israeli domestic politics, including Israel's ultra-nationalist movement]. Career In 2017, her research was published by ''The Atlantic'', reporting that 60,000 out of 400,000 (roughly 15 percent) of settlers on Israel's West Bank are American. In 2018, she became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilana Kurshan
Ilana Kurshan is an American-Israeli author who lives in Jerusalem. She is best known for her memoir of Talmud study amidst life as a single woman, a married woman, and a mother, ''If All the Seas Were Ink.'' Personal life Kurshan was raised on Long Island as the daughter of a Conservative rabbi and an executive at UJA-Federation of New York. She graduated from Huntington High School, Harvard College, and Cambridge University, where she studied the History of Science and English Literature. She worked as an editor and literary agent in New York before moving to Jerusalem with her first husband for his rabbinic studies. Although her first marriage quickly crumbled, Kurshan stayed in Jerusalem, working as a translator and foreign-rights agent. In her memoir, she describes how she found a lifeline in the Daf Yomi, the daily study of the Babylonian Talmud, applying its richness to her life as first a single woman, and then as a remarried wife and mother. Professional career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Singer
Margot Singer is an American short story writer and novelist. Her book ''The Pale of Settlement'' won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2006 and her novel ''Underground Fugue'' was listed as "one of the most anticipated books by women in 2017" by Elle Magazine. Biography She graduated from Harvard University for her undergraduate degree, Oxford University with a M.Phil. in 1986 after she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, and University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 2005. Singer worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company from 1986 until 1997, where she was a Principal in the New York Office. She teaches at Denison University in Granville, Ohio and at Queens University of Charlotte. She lives with her husband and two children in Granville, Ohio. Her work has appeared ''Agni'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''Shenandoah'', ''The Western Humanities Review'', ''The North American Review'', ''The Sun'', among other magazines. Awards * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Sarvas
Mark Sarvas (born September 26, 1964) is an American novelist, critic, and blogger living in Los Angeles. He is the host of the literary blog The Elegant Variation and author of the novel ''Harry, Revised'' (Bloomsbury, Spring 2008). ''Harry, Revised'' was a finalist for the Fiction Prize of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association, and was also a 2008 Denver Post Good Reads selection. Sarvas is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN/America and a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His second novel, ''Memento Park,'' was acquired for publication by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May 2014, for March 2018 publication. Awards *2005: ''Guardian'' Top 10 Litblog *2005: ''Los Angeles Magazine'' Top LA Blog *2006: ''Forbes'' Best of the Web *2008: Southern California Independent Booksellers Association: First Fiction Prize finalist *2018: Santa Monica Arts Fellowship *2019: AJL Fiction Award *2019: ''American Book Award The America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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