Stephen Applebaum

Stephen Applebaum is a widely published UK-based writer with more than 25 years' of experience contributing to newspapers and glossies at home and abroad

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Film

Putting the British Jewish community on the big screen

Stephen Applebaum meets the people behind two new short films with a local Jewish flavour

7 min read

Putting the British Jewish community on the big screen

Meet the ‘Jewish American hero’ whose bookstore is improving the world

6 min read

The gripping story of Reality Winner, as told by its Jewish director

6 min read

Meeting the other Spielberg sibling

5 min read

A Small Light: The story of the woman who helped Anne Frank

The makers of a new TV drama about the doomed teenager tell of how they approached the story from a new angle

4 min read

May 8, 2023 13:10

Bel Powley as Miep Gies in A SMALL LIGHT. (Credit: National Geographic for Disney/Dusan Martincek)

From boxing to baking: the joy of learning new things

Adam Gopnik’s new books celebrates the mastery of skills, something that is sadly neglected in the education of children

6 min read

April 4, 2023 16:03

From boxing to baking: the joy of learning new things

Meet the menschiest man in publishing

Treating his authors well, whether they write bestsellers or not, is publisher Richard Charkin’s business philosophy

4 min read

March 30, 2023 14:17

Painting her life — the tragic story of Charlotte Salomon

Keira Knightley stars in a new animated biopic of the extraordinary artistic talent who died aged 26 in Auschwitz. We meet the makers...

6 min read

December 8, 2022 13:10

Painting her life — the tragic story of Charlotte Salomon

A Jewish community frozen on the eve of destruction

The Jews of a small Polish town were filmed in 1938, before the Nazi invasion brought disaster. The director of a new film about them talks about how it was made

6 min read

December 1, 2022 13:57

A Jewish community frozen on the eve of destruction

The shtetl that rewinds time

Ady Walter’s discusses his new film about Jewish life in Ukraine before the Nazi invasion

6 min read

November 11, 2022 12:37

My Hollywood father: Paul Newman’s daughter on the silver screen icon’s struggles with fame

As the star's posthumous memoir is published, Melissa Newman discusses his feelings on his celebrity status — and his Jewish heritage

6 min read

November 3, 2022 12:47

American actor, film director, producer, and race car driver Paul Newman (1925 - 2008), and, walking behind him, his daughter Melissa Newman, UK, 11th February 1977. (Photo by Douglas Doig/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A new film about Adolf Eichmann's trial sees the event through the eyes of Israel

Jake Paltrow’s June Zero offers a new take on the historic legal proceedings, by exploring them through the experiences of three disparate characters — a boy, a prison guard and a Holocaust survivor

5 min read

October 27, 2022 12:39

A new film about Adolf Eichmann's trial sees the event through the eyes of Israel

Jewish identity explored in a tale of love among the etrogs

For Stéphane Freiss, the writer and director of this new French film, this was a deeply personal project

6 min read

October 13, 2022 10:16

Jewish identity explored in a tale of love among the etrogs

Back to Berlin to confront the dark secrets of the past

A fascinating new documentary traces two friends travelling to Germany to face up to very different tales from their families’ past, as its director explains

6 min read

September 29, 2022 20:47