The Holocaust remains the focus of many middle school books as writers and readers alike continue to seek an understanding of the horrific event.

Nathan Englander takes on his toughest topic and format to date—the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, wrapped in the guise of an international thriller.

Literary critic and linguist Joseph Lowin analyzes eight contemporary Israeli writers through the books they have written over the past four decades.

H.G. Adler arrived in the ghetto-work camp in February 1942, determined to record everything he witnessed.

A heavy dose of sex, drug and intrigue fills Bethany Ball's humor-laced debut novel about a dysfunctional family.

This landmark book illustrates the early victories as well as ongoing battles for equality and freedom in the United States.

The award-winning novelist shares her thoughts on her new novel about a man and a woman who (separately) go to Israel to reset their lives.

Dark humor and mysticism abound in Nicole Krauss’s modern Israel, enlivened by Kabbalistic rabbis, possible ex-Mossad agents and nods to gilgul and Gogol.