Jenni Frazer

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’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These are fascinating portraits of an extraordinary family few now remember

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

The Piano Player of Budapest review: A beautifully performed Holocaust symphony

Roxanne de Bastion has written an extraordinary Shoah memoir

The Curse of Pietro Houdini, review: Riveting wartime art-heist tale plus philosophy

This is a sweeping work of storytelling bravado