JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel on Sunday declared Guenter Grass persona non grata, deepening a spat with the Nobel-winning author over a poem that deeply criticized the Jewish state and suggested it was as ...

Two new books of Jewish poetry form a bridge to the aftermath of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom — and also speak to us today.

Günter Grass, the German author who waited until he’d won a Nobel Prize before revealing that he’d served in Hitler’s SS, might seem an unlikely vessel for criticism of Israel (in 2006 he confessed ...

JERUSALEM/BERLIN (Reuters) - Israel declared Nobel Prize-winning German author Guenter Grass "persona non grata" on Sunday over a poem in which the former SS soldier described the Jewish state as a ...

For the last year I have had the distinct honor of serving our state as the Poet Laureate of Wisconsin. Officially, my job is to “act as a statewide emissary” for my craft, an artform that many of the ...

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Author Maxim D. Shrayer, who divides his time between Chatham and Brookline, has released a new collection of poems, “Zion Square” (Ben ...

(AP) A senior Iranian official has praised Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass for a poem criticizing Israel, saying he has beautifully carried out his human and historical responsibility. In the ...

Today, she is regarded as a hero in Israel. Hannah Senesh writing in her diary in 1938. It was published many years later, along with her poems.Credit...Balcony Releasing Supported by By Daniel E.

(AP) Israel has banned German intellectual Guenter Grass from visiting the country because of a critical poem published by the Nobel laureate last week. In his order, Interior Minister Eli Yishai used ...