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

Books

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

2 min read

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

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

3 min read

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

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

3 min read

Marital issues: Jerry Rabow and his book

How Henry VIII turned to rabbis to divorce wife No1

5 min read

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

5 min read

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

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

3 min read

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

2 min read

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

2 min read

September 11, 2024 17:46

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

I Seek a Kind Person review: ‘the British small ads that saved Jews from the Nazis’

Guardian journalist Julian Borger has written an emotionally disturbing family memoir that sets out some of the facts and figures of the Shoah in absorbing display

3 min read

August 28, 2024 17:33