David Herman
David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer
Ukraine re-discovers its Jewish writers
How persecuted voices from the past are inspiring a new generation
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
Why Saul Bellow was the best US Jewish writer of his generation
Penguin is reprinting some of his best-known works in new editions
Arabesques Book review: Twisting time and place and politics
Anton Shammas' breakthrough novel cleverly interweaves the imagined and the remembered
Obituary: Edith Pearlman
Leading Jewish-American writer whose stories describe the humanity of the lonely
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
‘Deep feelings and a wild imagination’ - a tribute to the short-story queen Grace Paley
To mark the centenary of her birth, a celebration of a writer whose work focused on the roles of men and women
Ignore the naysayers, we’re living in a golden age of Jewish writing
Modern diaspora fiction is going through a period of growth and Israeli fiction is booming
Book review - Chapters of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir - Evocative portrait of a long-gone era
Literary memoir by one of the great Anglo-Jewish writers, whose best work focused on working-class life in London
Book review: Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth - A doomed, drunk wandering genius
Keiron Pim's biography of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century is a dark story, movingly told
Book review: The English GI - A soldier’s graphic story
Moving story told in pictures mixing maps, drawings and moving family photographs
Book review: Clouds over Paris - the banal life of an occupier
Fascinating chronicle of the Nazi-occupied French capital shows how the most everyday issues seem more important than the biggest historical issues of the day
Did The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas need a sequel?
Critics attacked John Boyne's 2006 novel for obscuring the historical reality of the Holocaust. Now he's back with a follow-up
Book review: The People Immortal - A final war novel from a Russian master
A gripping chronicle of Soviet life in wartime and an indispensable companion piece to the author's other works
Book review: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - The monster who hid from justice
A dark and disgusting story of how Germans, Catholics and Americans helped countless Nazis find refuge during the Cold War, including some of the most infamous figures from the Holocaust
Book review: The Incandescent Threads - Mystic hokum or a popular classic?
The latest in author's Sephardic Cycle begins begins by portraying the relationship between a Jewish-American artist and his father, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw
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