Paper Brigade

Jewish Book Council’s Annual Literary Journal

Paper Brigade is named in honor of the group of writers and intellectuals in the Vilna Ghetto who rescued thousands of Jewish books and documents from destruction by the Nazis. The publication reflects today’s diverse Jewish literary landscape in America and abroad. Paper Brigade was a finalist for CLMP’s Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine. Find us listed on Erika Krouse’s Ranking of 500 Literary Magazines for Short Fiction and in The Best American Short Stories.

Current Issue

Volume Eight

2025/5785

Features

The theme of home

Reflections on October 7th
Ayelet Tsabari and Maya Arad on writing between Israel and abroad
Taffy Brodesser-Akner on her latest novel
James McBride’s ode to his mother and grandmother
Katya Apekina and Ruth Madievsky on intergenerational trauma from the Soviet Union
A conversation between Yael van der Wouden and Nina Siegal about Dutch Jewish life today – plus a Jewish literary map of the Netherlands!
Stunning photography of European Jewish country houses
Two debut novelists on the relationship between queer artists and muses
A follow-up to Basia Winograd’s story “The Realist”; new short fiction by Barak Kassar and Josh Rolnick
A dive into the little-known Passover story of Babar the Elephant
Cover art by Sammy Harkham
… and poetry, illustrations, and more!

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gorgeous treat.”

– Tablet Magazine

Past Issues

Volume Seven

2024/5784

Featuring fiction by Scott Nadelson and Adam Schorin; interviews with Rachel Aviv, Jonathan Rosen, Idra Novey, and Sabrina Orah Mark; explorations of the Jewish culinary heritages of Italy, Japan, and Syria; an illustrated look at Uganda’s Jewish community; a Jewish literary map of Los Angeles; and more.

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Volume Six

2023/5783

Featuring interviews with Michael W. Twitty, Sloane Crosley, Gary Shteyngart, and Claire Stanford; a Jewish literary map of India; five YA authors on mythological Jewish creatures; and more.

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Volume Five

2022/5782

Featuring interviews with Melissa Broder, Joshua Cohen, and Colum McCann, a Jewish literary map of Australia, an exploration of the folk healers of the Pale, and more. At checkout, you will be given the option to add an electronic gift note to this order.

Volume Four

2020/5780 — 2021/5781

Featuring interviews with Natasha Díaz, André Aciman, T Kira Madden, and Dani Shapiro, a Jewish literary map of Egypt, an annotated reading list on friendship by Lauren Mechling, and more. At checkout, you will be given an option to a add a gift note to this order.

Volume Three

2019/5779

Featuring interviews with Keith Gessen, Chloe Benjamin, and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, a Jewish literary map of Italy, Jane Yolen on Jewish fairy tales, and more. At checkout, you will be given an option to a add a gift note to this order.

Volume Two

2018/5778

Featuring Nicole Krauss, Dara Horn, and Rabbi David Wolpe, plus a Jewish literary map of Latin America, beautiful photography, and more.

Issue two is currently out of print.

Volume One

2017/5777

Featuring Jonathan Safran Foer, an exploration of Israeli crime fiction, Etgar Keret and Ann Goldstein on translation, and more.

Issue one is currently out of print.

Praise for Paper Brigade

There is nothing else like it. We have Jewish newspapers, Jewish magazines, websites that publish Jewish fiction, and so on. But not all of them unashamedly rejoice in Jewish letters, teasing out trends, celebrating established writers, and spotlighting emerging ones.

– CANVAS Compendium