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

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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Does the world really need another Leonard Cohen biography?

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

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Welsh refuge: (clockwise from top left) Nans Bingley, Reg Bingley; Reg's mother Mary Bingley, Robert Borger, Jimmy Bingley and Erna Bingley pictured at the Bingleys' house in Caernarvon in about 1950. Above: Julian Borger's book

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

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

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

This is a sweeping work of storytelling bravado

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April 19, 2024 14:36

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

Review: Shylock’s Venice – An unimprovable book

A rigorous trawl through Venetian archives yields a work that begs for a lavish film adaptation

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March 21, 2024 10:44

Back to the wall: Venice Ghetto (Photo: Felix Pope)

The Fleet Street hack who hobnobbed with Hitler before becoming a spy

The appearance of this book could not be more timely, nor its message more urgent

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March 8, 2024 10:47

Inside story: 'Daily Express' journalist Sefton Delmer after the war Credit: Getty

Adama review: The land and the blood have the last say

Everyone gets what’s coming to him or her in Lavie Tidhar's new work - a novel all Israeli politicians should read

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September 29, 2023 16:49

Adama review: The land and the blood have the last say

The shameful story of art stolen by the Nazis, and the long fight to get it back

Twenty-five years since a landmark conference on looted treasures, Jenni Frazer asks why it has been so hard to get justice

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September 19, 2023 17:29

The shameful story of art stolen by the Nazis, and the long fight to get it back

Witness to the Warsaw ghetto: The brave woman who chronicled its horrors and survived

A new initiative will translate the works of Rachel Auerbach, part of a group who bore witness in the ghetto

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September 18, 2023 11:28

Witness to the Warsaw ghetto: The brave woman who chronicled its horrors and survived

The Wolf Hunt review: How well do you really know the people you love?

A lovely novel overall but Gundar-Goshen may have wrapped up the plot all too rapidly and expediently

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September 8, 2023 12:30

The Wolf Hunt review: How well do you really know the people you love?

Eternal review - The fate of Italy’s Jews made clear despite the froth

Legal thriller writer Lisa Scottoline turns her hand to historical fiction with well-researched wartime story

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July 27, 2023 15:57

A picture taken on September 14, 2017 shows bottles of wine with pictures of Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin at a shop in the center of Rome. Italy's lower house of Parliament voted for the introduction of an article in the penal code punishing "anyone who propagates the images or contents of the Italian former Fascist Party or the German former Nazist Party" affects production, distribution, diffusion or sale of goods depicting people, images or symbols, and increase of one-third of the punishment for the crimes committed through the web, the rectification of the law is now awaiting voting in the Senate. / AFP PHOTO / Alberto PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Trial book review: Is there anything Rob Rinder can't do?

A sparely written and enjoyable page-turner from the barrister turned TV personality

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June 30, 2023 13:30

The Trial book review: Is there anything Rob Rinder can't do?

Quest to discover the lost actress of Vilnius who is full of mystery

Diplomat Meryl Frank spent years tracing the wartime fate of her Lithuanian relative. But the truth was sitting on her bookshelf

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June 23, 2023 09:53

Quest to discover the lost actress of Vilnius who is full of mystery

'Our lives were torn apart by terror and now we're trying to manage the pain'

Cheryl Mandel lost her soldier son in a gun battle with terrorists; Iriya Mordechai's husband was murdered by a suicide bomber; and Tal Hartuv nearly died in a gruesome attack that saw her friend killed

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May 18, 2023 11:56