Robert Low

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Stay Alive by Ian Buruma review: ‘a meticulously researched war history’

In his understated matter-of-fact style, Buruma tells the extraordinary stories of the Berliner Jews who evaded arrest by the Gestapo

3 min read

No match: a drawing of the duel between the Marquis de Morès and Captain Mayer, as it appeared on the front page of Le Petit Parisien Illustré

Meet the world’s first fascist

3 min read

Pogrom aftermath: burnt-out festival goers' cars at Nova festival site after the massacre

A useful handbook on the Israel-Palestine deadlock...until it turns to Netanyahu

3 min read

Shameful: (right) post-war slum housing in London. Left: Neil Root's new book

How landlord Rachman’s name became a household word for the worst reasons

3 min read

A timely reminder for all those anti-Israel hysterics: this is what genocide looks like

Robert Low welcomes a robust history of the Holocaust in an era in which the facts are under threat

3 min read

January 23, 2026 09:37

Jews queuing at the Glass House in Budapest hoping to get documentation that would allow them to leave Hungary

2025 in review: Books

Our critics’ stand-out Jewish books of the year include eviscerating fiction, assiduously researched history, memoirs and reflections on the lives of poets

7 min read

December 24, 2025 12:47

The Right of Passage review: a harrowing tale of a couple trapped in Nazi Europe

This moving and tense Holocaust memoir is a fitting tribute to a remarkable and courageous husband and wife whose lives ended in the most appalling circumstances, and who might otherwise be forgotten

3 min read

October 24, 2025 17:32

Distinguished: the logician Kurt Grelling translated Russell Bertrand's books into German

The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review: ‘a beautifully constructed book’

He tells the story of the courageous groups of Germans who risked their lives to defy Hitler with all the flair of the seasoned thriller writer that he is

2 min read

September 9, 2025 11:43

The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review: ‘a beautifully constructed book’

Operation Wrath of God review: ‘A reminder of the sad need for Mossad – then and now’

This fascinating account of Israeli counterterrorism is based on unique access to a huge cache of original documents

3 min read

September 5, 2025 18:17

Grieving: relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Olympics receive their coffins at Ben Gurion Airport

Iosi, the Remorseful Spy review: ‘it all ends badly’

This book about the spy who came to regret his double life inside Argentina’s Jewish world is a structural mess

2 min read

July 20, 2025 13:02

Co-author Miriam Lewin and the newly translated book

Does the brave new world of AI utterly baffle you? Then this is the book for you

This is an invaluable, clear and rather terrifying account for lay readers of the history, development and possible future of artificial intelligence

2 min read

May 13, 2025 14:36

Unique perspective: Richard Susskind and his new book

How heroes outwitted collaborators in Nazi-occupied Norway

This book is a rigorously documented history of wartime resistance in Norway

2 min read

April 20, 2025 22:12

Shoah survivor Kai Feinberg and Robert Ferguson's book

The German Jew who fought his way through Europe to find his parents at Theresienstadt

This most dramatic of war stories has the makings of a marvellous TV series

2 min read

February 16, 2025 11:40

The German Jew who fought his way through Europe to find his parents at Theresienstadt

Why the longest hatred isn’t going anywhere soon

This new study on contemporary antisemtism is a welcome addition to the canon

2 min read

January 10, 2025 15:43

Big question: why did the left excuse Hamas's actions on October 7?

Why in the Middle East, a cartoon can be worth a thousands words

This visual guide to the Arab-Israeli conflict between 1917 and 1949 is enthralling

2 min read

December 12, 2024 13:02

Visual aid: Sidney Strube, Daily Express cartoon, 20 June 1938

The Writers’ Castle review: ‘gripping portrait of the reporters at Nuremberg’

This is a fascinating account of the hacks who reported on the post-WW2 trials

2 min read

August 14, 2024 17:06

The Writers’ Castle review: ‘gripping portrait of the reporters at Nuremberg’

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Robert Low

Latest from Robert Low

Stay Alive by Ian Buruma review: ‘a meticulously researched war history’

Meet the world’s first fascist

A useful handbook on the Israel-Palestine deadlock...until it turns to Netanyahu

How landlord Rachman’s name became a household word for the worst reasons

More from Robert Low

A timely reminder for all those anti-Israel hysterics: this is what genocide looks like

2025 in review: Books

The Right of Passage review: a harrowing tale of a couple trapped in Nazi Europe

The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review: ‘a beautifully constructed book’

Operation Wrath of God review: ‘A reminder of the sad need for Mossad – then and now’

Iosi, the Remorseful Spy review: ‘it all ends badly’

Does the brave new world of AI utterly baffle you? Then this is the book for you

How heroes outwitted collaborators in Nazi-occupied Norway

The German Jew who fought his way through Europe to find his parents at Theresienstadt

Why the longest hatred isn’t going anywhere soon

Why in the Middle East, a cartoon can be worth a thousands words

The Writers’ Castle review: ‘gripping portrait of the reporters at Nuremberg’