Jenni Frazer

Review: Life and Love in Nazi Prague

This book is one more remarkable piece in the unknowable and uncompletable jigsaw of European Jewry in the 1940s, says Jenni Frazer

The family whose tea and cakes changed the world

Thomas Harding's new book traces the history of the family behind the J Lyons business empire

Kafka and his friend's papers are free from a Zurich vault and heading to Israel

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Geoffrey displayed all the love of Judaism that had been his trademark as an editor

Veteran journalist Jenni Frazer remembers former JC editor Geoffrey Paul, who died this weekend at 90

From homeless teen to fire chief

At 15, Sabrina Hatton-Cohen was sleeping rough, today she's one of the UK's top fire-fighters. She tells Jenni Frazer her extraordinary story

My wife's death was not just a senseless murder

Lori Kaye died in the attack on the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in April. Her husband tells the JC her death was 'not just a senseless murder'

On the day Israel ended its war with Jordan, I visited Amman for the JC

Our correspondent recalls a royal interview with Crown Prince Hassan 25 years after peace was agreed

The man who broke into Auschwitz

Jenni Frazer meets an author of a new book which suggests the Allies knew of the Shoah much earlier than previously thought - and failed to respond

Howard Jacobson: ‘I was never a young man’

The Booker Prize-winning novelist's new book is about love in old age

Meet the ‘word rabbi’ from Queens

The lost world of Berlin fashion

Berlin once had a bustling fashion district - but almost all the businesses were Jewish-owned.

Tesco's 100th birthday: Jack 'Slasher' Cohen remembered

One hundred years ago, Jack Cohen started the market stall which grew into a vast supermarket chain. Jenni Frazer looks back on a colourful life