Authors pull out of future programming and staff resign as cultural center 'postpones' event featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen, who signed an open letter harshly criticizing Israel
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The famously Jewish New Yorker shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as 'Catch-22,' 'The Chosen' and 'The Power Broker'

Aaron Hamburger paints an unconventional but true-to-life picture of Old Country Jewish immigrants discovering a new world in his historical novel, 'Hotel Cuba,' released May 2

Award goes to Iddo Gefen's 'Jerusalem Beach'; organizers says including works translated into English, and honoring those who do the translating, adds new dimension to competition

When the 'Metamorphosis' author died his friend Max Brod published his journals - cutting the parts he thought too personal. Now they're complete thanks to translator Ross Benjamin

Adelaide Writers' Week lambasted for inviting authors who claim Israel harvests Palestinian organs, poisons wells; one calls recent American Israeli terror victim 'human garbage'

Acclaimed author indicates he suffers from PTSD along with loss of sight in one eye and use of a hand; doesn't know if it was an error to let his guard down decades after fatwa

First new books from author since 2006's 'The Road'; reviewer speculates that protagonists' Judaism may be a stand in for novelist's Catholicism

Writer honored for work that illuminates murky corners of memory, family and society; she is 17th woman of 119 recipients of award

Jewish-born Hugo Bettauer, whose 'The City Without Jews' became an international best seller, was assassinated after being denounced by Austrian Nazis