Jenni Frazer

Jenni Frazer is an award-winning London-based journalist.. After a long career at the JC she became freelance and now writes for Jewish, national and international publications.

Latest from Jenni Frazer

Israel

Revealed: Second World War prophecy of British general who helped forge the IDF

Donation of Orde Wingate archive documents to National Library of Israel unearths historic thoughts of influential Christian Zionist

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Orde Wingate (right) in 1944 and his notebook with notes in Hebrew (Orde Wingate Archives, National Library of Israel)

Making the Cut review: razor-sharp tips on how to become an observant Jew

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New tales from the Ghetto

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Curtain up: (clockwise) Elliman's book; the Metropole cinema; the Gaiety theatre; Louis Elliman with James Cagney; Louis Elliman with Bing Crosby, Walt Disney and Joan Fontaine and Ginger Rogers. Inset: Wendy Elliman

The showbiz dynasty that brought Tinseltown glamour to Dublin

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Auslander review: a tale that supports the theory we don’t belong anywhere

The former journalist Michael Moritz’s family memoir of escape and exile is a triumph

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January 8, 2026 20:34

The long lines of blood and family: Moritz's book and his family tree

2025 in review: Books

Our critics’ stand-out Jewish books of the year include eviscerating fiction, assiduously researched history, memoirs and reflections on the lives of poets

7 min read

December 24, 2025 12:47

So what exactly is Dan Brown’s secret? Who knows

I can’t recommend the author’s latest novel, but I have no doubt his fans will buy it in their millions

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November 28, 2025 10:49

So what exactly is Dan Brown’s secret? Who knows

What Have I Done? review: A highly entertaining autobiography by the oft-maligned ‘Blackadder’ writer

Jewish comedian and writer Ben Elton settles old scores in this frank account of his life in showbiz

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November 20, 2025 14:53

Ben Elton's new autobiography 'What Have I Done?' (Photo: Macmillan)

The English houses brought to life with Jewish stories

The art historian Dan Cruikshank tells the story of the English house through eight very different buildings and, in the process, tells the story of the Jews in England

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November 16, 2025 13:36

The English houses brought to life with Jewish stories

For sale: the hidden collection of Dutch Masters owned by property mogul who fled Hitler

When Lester Weindling died last year aged 96, it emerged he had kept a very big secret

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November 12, 2025 15:10

Still Life with Assorted Fruit by Pieter Claesz (Image: Sotheby's)

Pioneer Freddie Krivine honoured on 25th anniversary of Jewish-Arab tennis programme

‘On the tennis courts, everyone is the same, with no borders’

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November 5, 2025 13:37

Guests heard about the history of the Freddie Krivine Initiative at its 25th anniversary dinner

‘I won’t be known as the Baroness Lovell Cocks!’

The legendary Lady Cocks on her hotly anticipated memoir in which she spills nearly all the beans on a life rich in event and incident

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November 2, 2025 11:11

The art collector who was ‘the essence of a good Jew’

Manny Davidson’s extraordinary collection of more than 500 objects of art, sculpture and furniture is coming up for sale

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July 31, 2025 14:17

A portrait by Thomas de Keyser of the Silversmith Christian van Vianen is among the works of art from Manny Davidson's collection that is now for sale.

The history of the Jews – told through 100 objects

To mark its centenary, the YIVO Institute in New York has used a tiny fraction of its vast collection of artefacts to condense the Jewish story into a coffee-table book

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June 17, 2025 12:58