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David Herman

David Herman

David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer

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Joseph Debreczeni

The details of concentration camp life are brought to terrifying life

David Herman pays homage to an unforgettable Holocaust memoir

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The details of concentration camp life are brought to terrifying life

Arad, ISRAEL: (FILES)-Israeli writer and peace activist Amos Oz posses 26 February 2007 at his home in Arad in southern Israel. Israeli writer Amos Oz has been awarded Spain's high-prestige Prince of Asturias award for literature, organisers said 27 June 2007. Oz was born in 1939 in Jerusalem. AFP PHOTO/RELI AVRAHAMI-ISRAEL OUT (Photo credit should read RELI AVRAHAMI/AFP via Getty Images)

Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon review: Getting personal with a literary giant

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Obituary: Tobias Hill

Obituary: Tobias Hill

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The Book of Paradise review: Moonlit nights, pious Jews and demons

The Book of Paradise review: Moonlit nights, pious Jews and demons

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The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories review - Dark tales of Orthodox life with a feminist twist

Powerfully told dark stories should help author break through to a new British audience

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July 27, 2023 16:12

The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories review - Dark tales of Orthodox life with a feminist twist

Isaiah Berlin: A Life review - A fine account intellectual's Jewishness and Englishness

This is a fine account of one of Britain’s greatest Jewish intellectuals of the 20th century

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July 21, 2023 09:44

Philosopher and historian of ideas, Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909 - 1997, standing) chairing a 'musical discussion' at the Bath International Music Festival, 4th June 1959. On the panel are (left to right) violinist, Yehudi Menuhin (1916 - 1999), composer and writer, Nicolas Nabokov (1903 - 1978), Berlin, and music critic and BBC Controller of Music, William Glock (1908 - 2000). The event was organised by Menuhin in his first year as the festival's director. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cameraman review: Suspense in short supply in evocation of the Thirties

The English Passengers novelist returns with a disappointingly flat story about a cinematographer on a tour of fascist Europe

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June 15, 2023 17:29

The Cameraman review: Suspense in short supply in evocation of the Thirties

The very Jewish legacy of the non-Jewish Martin Amis

Unlike his father, the novelist had an abiding interest in the Holocaust and the great modern Jewish-American writers

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May 24, 2023 16:14

The very Jewish legacy of the non-Jewish Martin Amis

Book review: August Blue - A musical mystery stuck in a minor key

Deborah Levy's new novel about a gifted pianist is a slow burner but takes off in the final 200 pages

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May 12, 2023 13:58

Book review: August Blue - A musical mystery stuck in a minor key

Clive Sinclair: The gunslinger armed with a pen

A critic's fond memories of a writer with a love of Westerns

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April 28, 2023 13:09

Clive Sinclair: The gunslinger armed with a pen

Ukraine re-discovers its Jewish writers

How persecuted voices from the past are inspiring a new generation

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March 23, 2023 13:50

Ukraine re-discovers its Jewish writers

The next generation of Holocaust memoir is equally as powerful

The children of survivors are well placed to offer an attempt at answers, along with detailed research and recollections

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March 10, 2023 15:40

The next generation of Holocaust memoir is equally as powerful

Why Saul Bellow was the best US Jewish writer of his generation

Penguin is reprinting some of his best-known works in new editions

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February 23, 2023 13:46

Why Saul Bellow was the best US Jewish writer of his generation

Arabesques Book review: Twisting time and place and politics

Anton Shammas' breakthrough novel cleverly interweaves the imagined and the remembered

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February 2, 2023 16:42

Arabesques Book review: Twisting time and place and politics

Obituary: Edith Pearlman

Leading Jewish-American writer whose stories describe the humanity of the lonely

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February 2, 2023 12:17

Obituary: Edith Pearlman

Who Is Mr. Poliakoff? Book review: A Jewish answer to a Le Carré thriller

Short novel packed full of history, from the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union to secret agents in Israel, is full of twists and turns

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January 12, 2023 17:59

Who Is Mr. Poliakoff? Book review: A Jewish answer to a Le Carré thriller

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