Janice Weizman

Janice Weizman is the author of the award-wining historical novel, The Wayward Moon, which tells the story of a young woman on the run in the 9th century Middle East.

Her latest novel Our Little Histories is the multigenerational story of a Jewish family spanning 170 years and three continents. 

Her writing has appeared in World Literature Today, Ha'aretz, Lilith, and Queen’s Quarterly, among other venues. She curates the book review website, Reading Jewish Fiction.

Books by Janice Weizman

Book Reviews by Janice Weizman

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In her first memoir, The Places We Left Behind, Jennifer Lang attempted to examine, in a series of short reflections and vignettes, her complex but loving relationship with her French-born

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The subtitle of Write like a Man is Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, the implication being that the (mostly) Jewish intellectuals who dominated the mid-century A

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Jerusalem is one of the most historical, spiritual, and contentious cities in the world. Hardly a week goes by that it doesn’t show up in the news in some complex context.

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Places We Left Behind is almost a choose your own adventure scenario: While living in a foreign country, you meet someone who qualifies as the man of your dreams, except for two potential

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“‘When Buddhists speak of a lotus in the mud, they’re reminding us that the most beautiful of flowers has its roots in what we regard as muck and filth; it's only grit that makes the radian

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Coventry marks a return to a more conventional style of writing, yet retains that same sense of an alert, engaged intelligence, negotiating the complexities of women’s lives and i

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“‘. . . in today’s historiography, where the focus on the individual is once again becoming stronger, it’s actually better for a forgotten artist to have been a woman than a man.

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“Only when Isabel finally learns the truth about her mother’s past will she be able to . . . move forward with her own life.

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The memoir succeeds, with its deceptively quiet descriptions of autumn both in the natural world, and in the season of his and Hiroko’s own lives, in echoing a uniquely Ja

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What if we took seriously the form of thinking that we find in tragedy, and the experience of partial agency, limited autonomy, deep traumatic affect, agnostic conflict, g

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“Set in the midst of one of the darkest moments of human history, between the horrors of Nazism and Stalinist Communism, this book not only portrays an attempt to find meaning and comfort t