Press Kit

About

Jewish Fiction is the only English-language journal (print or online) that is devoted exclusively to the publishing of Jewish fiction.

The Jewish Fiction journal showcases the finest contemporary writing on Jewish themes (either written in, or translated into, English), and provides an online community for writers and readers of Jewish fiction from around the world.

Jewish Fiction was started 14 years ago by Dr. Nora Gold, and since then it has published 36 issues. Today its archive contains 590 stories, originally written in 21 languages.

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About the Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Nora Gold is the prize-winning author of five books: Marrow and Other Stories (winner of a Canadian Jewish Book Award and praise from Alice Munro); Fields of Exile (winner of the inaugural Canadian Jewish Literary Award and praise from Ruth Wisse and Irwin Cotler); The Dead Man (awarded a Canada Council Translation Grant and published in Hebrew in Israel); and most recently, 18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages (2023, Finalist for a Foreword Indie Book Award and acclaimed by Cynthia Ozick and Dara Horn), and In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym (two novellas) (2024), which has been enthusiastically received internationally.

Dr. Gold received her PhD from University of Toronto and was a tenured professor until she left academia in 2000, in order to write fiction full-time. Since then, in addition to writing, she has founded and led Jewish Fiction, and co-founded three progressive Zionist organizations in Canada. Dr. Gold is active on social media, especially LinkedIn where she has over 100,000 followers. noragold.com

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In the Press

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