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David Herman

David Herman

David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer

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George Segal

Hollywood star who helped bring a new Jewish visibility to mid-century American films

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Book Review: The Netanyahus

Book Review: The Netanyahus

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DJ0M5W Munich, Germany. 18th Nov, 2013. The Israeli historian and Holocaust survivor Otto Dov Kulka poses with his book 'Landscapes of the metropolis of death: reflections on memory and imagination' after a press conference in Munich, Germany, 18 November 2013. Kulka will receive the 34th Geschwister-Scholl Prize. Photo: INGA KJER/dpa/Alamy Live News

Professor Otto Dov Kulka

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Parting Words: 9 lessons for a remarkable life

Parting Words: 9 lessons for a remarkable life

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Joan Micklin Silver

Key figure in the American breakthrough of women screenwriters and directors

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March 12, 2021 11:36

Joan Micklin Silver

Comedy with a capital J

Brauner does a first-rate job of showing what makes Howard Jacobson such a good writer, says David Herman

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March 4, 2021 18:23

Comedy with a capital J

Family memoirs shine in book award

Hadley Freeman, Bess Kalb among nominees for Britain's pre-eminent Jewish books prize

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January 28, 2021 13:19

LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 12: Hadley Freeman at BFI Southbank on December 12, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Review: Käsebier Takes Berlin

This novel, written in the 1930's, is about the media, celebrity and fake news, and therefore remarkably topical today

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December 17, 2020 13:04

Review: Käsebier Takes Berlin

Review: Women

A modern translation of a 1933 collection of four connected stories

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November 12, 2020 10:24

Review: Women

Review: To Be a Man

The Holocaust looms large and Israel looms even larger, though not an Israel at war.

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November 5, 2020 11:57

Review: To Be a Man

Elly Miller

Refugee who brought the best of inter-war Vienna to British art publishing

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October 23, 2020 16:15

Elly Miller

Looking back at Play for Today

The 1970s BBC drama showcase launched many careers. David Herman looks back.

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October 15, 2020 12:51

Looking back at Play for Today

Review: Encounters and Destinies

Death looms large in this collection of essays

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October 15, 2020 12:18

Review: Encounters and Destinies

Review: Inside Story - A Novel

Really part novel, part memoir, it is not difficult to decide which part is better. The novel is too long, largely dull and should have been better edited

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October 15, 2020 11:31

Review: Inside Story - A Novel

Poetic voice of ‘austere beauty’ wins Nobel

Louise Glück has been publishing poetry for more than 60 years

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October 15, 2020 10:51

Poetic voice of ‘austere beauty’ wins Nobel

Carl Reiner

Key figure in mad, mad, mad world of post-war American-Jewish humour

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September 15, 2020 21:12

Carl Reiner

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