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William Kolbrener

William Kolbrener is the publisher of Writing on the Wall and teaches creative writing at Bar-Ilan University.

A Letter to the Free-Speech Hypocrite Who Ran PEN America

The organization, founded to defend writers and free expression, published testimony from silenced Jewish and Israeli writers. Its president quit in…

July 21, 2026

William Kolbrener

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