Books stored in the attic of a synagogue in Riga, Latvia, 1991. (Zion Ozeri/Jewish Lens)
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Jewish Literature Quiz

How much do you know about Jewish literature?

From legends in the Bible and Talmud, to the American masters Bellow and Roth, storytelling has been an integral part of Jewish life.

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Question 1 of 10
Which of these books is NOT about the Jewish immigrant experience?
Question 2 of 10
Which of these books features a climactic scene set in New York Harbor as a pair of tefilin bobs up and down in the water?
Question 3 of 10
Who was S.Y. Agnon?
Question 4 of 10
Who is the celebrated classical Yiddish writer known for short stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof?
Question 5 of 10
What subjects did Russian-born Hebrew poets Hayim Nahman Bialik and Saul Tchernichovsky write about in the late 1800s?
Question 6 of 10
Which of these is NOT an American Jewish poet?
Question 7 of 10
Which of these Jewish movements was responsible for the surge in 18th-century Jewish literature?
Question 8 of 10
Which book came out in 1960, around the time of Adolf Eichmann's arrest in Argentina, and eventually became the most frequently read story to emerge from the Holocaust?
Question 9 of 10
Which of these writers is known as the "grandfather of Yiddish literature"?
Question 10 of 10
Which of these is NOT a contemporary Israeli author?

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