Jewish Fiction is a prestigious online literary journal that publishes Jewish-themed fiction (either written in, or translated into, English) from around the world. In our first sixteen years, Jewish Fiction has published 675 first-rate works of fiction (stories or novel excerpts) that had never been previously published in English, and that were written on five continents and in twenty-three languages: Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish. Jewish Fiction is a truly international journal.
Jewish Fiction is very proud that for the second time in the past four years, a story we published has won a Pushcart Prize! The Pushcart is an extremely prestigious literary award, created to recognize the best writing published by small presses, so it is a huge honour for us to have received this recognition not only once but twice. Our most recent Pushcart prize was for “The Wing Man,” by Jake Wolff (from Issue 41), which will appear in the upcoming Pushcart Prize anthology.
We are also honoured that, in our first 42 issues, we have published fiction by many eminent authors, such as Elie Wiesel, Aharon Appelfeld, Chava Rosenfarb, S.Y. Agnon, A.B. Yehoshua, Nava Semel, Steve Stern, Nessa Rapoport, Abraham Karpinovich, Amir Gutfreund, Alicia Steimberg, Shira Gorshman, Gabriel Josipovici, Natan Zach, Clive Sinclair, Savyon Liebrecht, Grigory Kanovich, Yoram Kaniuk, Ana Maria Shua, Tova Mirvis, Yente Serdatsky, Miron Izakson, and Radu Cosaşu. We feel privileged, as well, to have published many very talented writers who are not yet well-known.
Media Coverage of Jewish Fiction
- Pushcart Prize Award – Jewish Fiction was recently awarded its first Pushcart Prize! The prize was for “The Ba’al Shem’s Daughter” by Glenn Gitomer, published in Issue 31 of Jewish Fiction. This story now appears also in the 2024 Pushcart Prize anthology.
- 18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages, an anthology of stories that were originally published in Jewish Fiction, was published in October 2023 by Academic Studies Press in Boston. The first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years, this collection of 18 stories, each translated into English from a different language, received international acclaim, and highlighted the importance of Jewish Fiction.
- 18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages was also a Finalist for a Foreword Indies Award.
- Los Angeles Review of Books – 2024
- Chicago Book Review – 2024
- New York Times – Wirecutter – 2023
- ABC News TV, Albania (in Albanian) – 2023
- Global News TV – 2023
- Contemporary Literary Review India – 2023
- Radio Sefarad (Spain) – 2023
- Jewish Book Council’s Paper Brigade Daily – 2023
- Martini Judaism – 2023
- The Miramichi Reader – 2023
- Webinar: Jewish Fiction Written in 16 Languages: Stories as Reflections of Jewish Lives Across Time and Place – July 2021. In this webinar hosted by The National Library of Israel, as part of the celebrations of Jewish Fiction’s 10th anniversary year, Dr. Gold briefly discusses 16 stories from Jewish Fiction and relates these stories to some of the central themes in Jewish fiction.
- Webinar: Exploring Jewish Women’s Fiction as Mirrors Into Jewish Women’s Lives – April 2021. Hosted by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Consuls General of Israel in New England and Toronto/Western Canada, as part of the celebrations of Jewish Fiction’s 10th anniversary year, Dr. Gold speaks about Jewish women’s writing and interviews two authors from Issue 26 (one American, one Israeli).
- Detroit Jewish News – 2020
- The Jerusalem Report – 2020 (Non-subscribers can read it here.)
- The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston) – 2020
- Open Book – 2020
- The Jerusalem Post –2020
- The Jewish Herald-Voice –2018
- The Times of Israel –2017
- Canadian Jewish News – 2016
- Classical 96.3 FM Radio – 2014
- Canadian Jewish News – 2013
- Makor Rishon (Hebrew) – 2013
- Beit Avi Chai (Hebrew) – 2013
- Ha’aretz, Achbar Ha’ir (Hebrew) – 2013
- Radio Shalom – 2013
- The Algemeiner – 2012
- The Whole Megillah – 2012
- Hadassah Magazine – 2012
- United Synagogue Women’s View (U.K.) – 2012
- The Jerusalem Post – 2010
- The Forward – 2010
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