Jewish voices have shaped literature—turning history into testimony, trauma into art, and identity into something unforgettable. But celebrating #WorldBookDay as a Jewish community carries even deeper meaning.

For centuries, our books have been burned, banned, and silenced. Our response? We keep telling our stories. We refuse to be erased.

Here are a few Jewish authors that I have focused on today:

Franz Kafka – Gave us Kafkaesque nightmares of alienation and absurdity (The Metamorphosis, The Trial).

Philip Roth – Provocative, unfiltered, and deeply Jewish (Portnoy’s Complaint, The Plot Against America).

Elie Wiesel – A Holocaust survivor who made the world remember (Night).

Art Spiegelman – Revolutionized literature with Maus, the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Saul Bellow – Nobel Prize-winning giant of Jewish-American literature (Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March).

Rebecca Walker – Explored Black and Jewish identity in Black, White, and Jewish.

David Baddiel – Exposed modern antisemitism and Jewish exclusion in Jews Don’t Count.

Sara Glass – Redefined queer Jewish storytelling with Kissing Girls on Shabbat.

Books are survival. Books are resistance. Books are identity.

Tell me your favorite Jewish author in the comments! ⬇️📚

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