Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish author Geraldine Brooks awarded Library of Congress American fiction award

The Library of Congress has awarded Geraldine Brooks, a Jewish author whose best-selling novels are often inspired by Jewish history, its prestigious 2025 Prize for American Fiction. Brooks, a former ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A digital Jewish library aims to add women’s Torah scholarship to its shelves — by helping them write it

While women have been teaching Torah for decades, few have been writing about it — and a new book writing project aims to rectify that. (JTA) — Sefaria, the app that contains a digital collection of ...
Religion News Service

A decade in, Jewish digital library has revolutionized learning for 'people of the book'

(RNS) — Walk into any yeshiva classroom or rabbi’s study and you will find floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with the golden-lettered spines of traditional Jewish texts — compilations of ancient ...
University of Delaware

Jewish Studies at Morris Library

During the summer, Derek Dolby, Library Museum and Press Coordinator at the University of Delaware, worked to redesign and improve the Jewish Studies Research Guide available through the University of ...
Sun Sentinel

Join the search for a lost Jewish library looted by the Nazis

(JTA) On the eve of World War II, the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin embodied an avant-garde era for the study of modern Judaism and philosophy, hosting students from the leading ...
The Forward

A digital Jewish library aims to add women’s Torah scholarship to its shelves — by helping them write it

(JTA) — Sefaria, the app that contains a digital collection of Jewish texts, has made everything from Genesis to an essay on Jewish law and gambling accessible at the tap of a finger. But in one way, ...