Joshua Cohen
Author
Former Talmud scholar Joshua Cohen is considered “a vanguard writer of our time”
(FAZ). The American author’s stories and novels combine sharp powers of observation with linguistic virtuosity and existential wit.
His works often feature themes of religion, displacement, life in exile and the Shoah. His campus novel The Netanyahus earned him the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize.
In 2023, Cohen founded a consortium to acquire the Schocken Books imprint from the German media group Bertelsmann to breathe new life into the great Jewish tradition of the Schocken publishing company.
Joshua Cohen; photo: Marion Ettlinger
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