As 2024 comes to a close, we’re reflect­ing on a year filled with essays on grief and com­mu­ni­ty (some from our Wit­ness­ing series), new sto­ries on his­to­ries long-buried, and the pow­er of lit­er­a­ture in our frac­tured world. Below are the ten pieces on PB Dai­ly that you read the most this past year. (Check out the Ten Most-Read Reviews of 2024.”)

How to Pray for Hostages” by Ruth Ebenstein

The Octo­ber 7th Hag­gadah” by Vivian Cohen-Leisorek

We Are No Longer Wel­come” by Yardenne Greenspan

Love and Sur­vival in Auschwitz” by Keren Blankfeld

Simona is the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s man­ag­ing edi­tor of dig­i­tal con­tent and mar­ket­ing. She grad­u­at­ed from Sarah Lawrence Col­lege with a con­cen­tra­tion in Eng­lish and His­to­ry and stud­ied abroad in India and Eng­land. Pri­or to the JBC she worked at Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press. Her writ­ing has been fea­tured in LilithThe Nor­mal School, Dig­ging through the Fat, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She holds an MFA in fic­tion from The New School.