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Jenni Frazer

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

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

3 min read

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

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

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

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Valerie Cocks and her memoir

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

4 min read

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

4 min read

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 13:58

Yiddish stage and screen star Mae Simon's red shoes and the keys to the New Yiddish Theatre in London's East End

Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil review: ‘Tangled up in clues’

This new book about the search for the real Dylan could be more enlightening

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June 8, 2025 23:33

Enigmatic: Bob Dylan with singer-songwriter Joan Baez

The Einstein Vendetta, review: ‘the tragic fate of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin’

This terrible war crime story does an enormous service to the Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s wider family

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May 21, 2025 17:12

Thomas Harding and his new book

38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review: Pinochet and the Nazis

The human rights lawyer’s latest book reveals the links between the notorious Chilean dictator and the Nazi inventor of the ‘gas vans’

3 min read

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May 2, 2025 10:35

Murderous CV: Walther Rauff in his SS days before he fled to Pinochet's Chile, and Philippe Sand's new boook

Acclaimed author’s Jewish refugee story republished as a graphic novel

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April 16, 2025 14:20

17 Martin Street by Marilyn Taylor has been republished as a graphic novel (Image: O'Brien Press/Alan Nolan/Jason Browne/Paul Carroll)

How Henry VIII turned to rabbis to divorce wife No1

A new book claims Jewish scholars guided the Tudor king in his row with Rome

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March 28, 2025 12:27

Marital issues: Jerry Rabow and his book

My novel shows that Jews and Scots have more in common than you may think

Jenni Daiches’s family saga is on the longlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

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March 26, 2025 12:53

Displacement theme: Jenni Daiches and her new book

The Prosecutor review: ‘the Jew who put his country on trial’

This is a monumental biography of Fritz Bauer, the German-Jewish lawyer who went back to Deutschland to see justice done

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March 7, 2025 12:12

Driven: Jewish judge Fritz Bauer (centre) in Frankfurt in 1964 and the biography about him

The Teacher of Auschwitz review: ‘he helped Jewish children survive hell’

Wendy Holden has brought Fredy Hirsch, a young gay man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi depredations, to life

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February 7, 2025 09:10

The Teacher of Auschwitz review: ‘he helped Jewish children survive hell’

The Power and the Glory review: ‘Jews who wished they were to the manor born’

This literary tour through the flamboyant Jewish-owned stately homes of the turn of the 20th century is highly entertaining

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January 22, 2025 16:51

The Power and the Glory review: ‘Jews who wished they were to the manor born’

Does the world really need another Leonard Cohen biography?

The late, great singer’s life story has been committed to print in some 30 books, and this latest publication is one too many

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December 13, 2024 12:59

Does the world really need another Leonard Cohen biography?

The Shapiro Family review: ‘portraits of a forgotten dynasty’

These are fascinating portraits of an extraordinary family few now remember

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September 11, 2024 18:46

The Shapiro Family review: ‘portraits of a forgotten dynasty’

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