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Meet the world’s first fascist

This is a revelatory biography about the Frenchman who almost fought Dreyfus in a duel

By Robert Low

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

One-state solutionist: Will Self and his new book

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Will Self: What inspired me to write this book? The Glasto crowd chanting ‘Death to the IDF’

By David Bennun

6 min read

Our love is stronger than your hate: the march against antisemitism in London, in November 2023

October 7

Melanie Phillips’s new guide to our antagonists and how to fight them fair and square

By Dominic Green

3 min read

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Why did people stand by when the Gestapo came child-hunting?

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

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

By Robert Low

3 min read

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Howard Jacobson’s brilliant new book on the moral insanity unleashed by October 7

By David Herman

2 min read

Kisharon Langdon

‘Our social enterprise gives people work experience and the confidence to go into the big, wide world’

By Ben Conway

4 min read

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

Neil Roots has written a well-researched if lightly-edited biography about a man whose deeds were indefensible

By Robert Low

3 min read

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

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Making the Cut review: razor-sharp tips on how to become an observant Jew

This entertaining memoir does an excellent job of steering the non-Jewish, or less informed Jewish, reader through the maze of Orthodox Judaism

By Jenni Frazer

2 min read

Making the Cut review: razor-sharp tips on how to become an observant Jew

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New tales from the Ghetto

You may think we know everything we need to about the world’s first ghetto and its Jews, but this remarkable history proves otherwise

By Jenni Frazer

1 min read

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Meet the Holmes (and Watson) of pre-war East European Jewry

The non-literary Yiddish tales of Spitzkopf and his assistant Fuchs display an appealing sense of Jewish invincibility and as such provide an insight into the minds of the Jews on the eve of their destruction

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

Elementary: Kreppel's original Yiddish tales and the English translation (Photo: Yale University Library)

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Sex, lies and terrorists

Ellie Levenson’s thriller is a twisty page-turner with an intriguing concept that grabs from the get-go

By Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

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There’s no easy cure for the world’s longest hatred. But this book is a start

This rigorous guide works for Jewish readers trying to comprehend how this irrational madness is happening again, and for allies grappling with the question of why people hate Jews

By Nicole Lampert

2 min read

World expert: David Harris and his new book

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One rabbi’s search for the boys who survived an Auschwitz gas chamber

Rabbi Naftali Schiff’s 20-year mission to track down the 51 boys who left Crematorium 5 alive has resulted in a book and film

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

Rabbi Naftali Schiff, left, and Michael Calvin, co-authors of the book 'Miracle'. (Jacob Gersch photography)

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The horror behind Hayim Bialik’s most feted poem

On the Slaughter is considered the Russian-Jewish poet’s masterpiece, as well as his most controversial work

By David Herman

1 min read

The horror behind Hayim Bialik’s most feted poem

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If you wanted something done in Jewish Europe 300 years ago, who did you ask?

The findings of this excellent work of scholarship will likely not surprise all readers of this newspaper...

By Jennifer Lipman

3 min read

Leading the way: Kaplan and Carlebach's new book, and Jewish women dancing at the Jews' Infant School charity ball at Willis's Rooms in London in 1872

Jewish children's books

What’s the difference between an emigrant and an immigrant?

Our critic rounds up the best new titles for young readers, from science and fairy tales to discussion-starters

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

What’s the difference between an emigrant and an immigrant?

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‘Do we really want to know about human goodness?’

Historian Anthony Seldon discusses his new book about the Shoah’s unsung heroes with Etan Smallman

By Etan Smallman

5 min read

‘Do we really want to know about human goodness?’

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What it means to grow up as a Jewish child from Cuba

A recipe developer talks to Eliana Jordan about her debut novel for children

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Patterns of behaviour: author Jennifer Stempel

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William Shakespeare was a ‘Jewish woman of north African descent’, new book claims

Emilia Bassano, England’s first published female poet, has long been associated with the Bard

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

Historian Irene Coslet argues that Emilia Bassano was responsible for the plays attributed to Shakespeare (Image courtesy of Pen and Sword Books Ltd)

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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

By Robert Low

3 min read

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

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The Jewish woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe

Jennifer Lipman meets the author of a new book about Zionist paratrooper and poet Hannah Senesh

By Jennifer Lipman

6 min read

Jewish Joan of Arc: Hannah Senesh and Douglas Century with his book Crash of Heavens

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Berlin Shuffle review: Pimps, prostitutes and peddlers in Weimar Germany

Hopeless cases, lowlifes and down-and-outs, the atmosphere in the extraordinarily talented Ulrich Boschwitz’s first novel feels like something from Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera

By David Herman

2 min read

Berlin Shuffle review: Pimps, prostitutes and peddlers in Weimar Germany

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Meet the world’s first fascist

Will Self: What inspired me to write this book? The Glasto crowd chanting ‘Death to the IDF’

Melanie Phillips’s new guide to our antagonists and how to fight them fair and square

Why did people stand by when the Gestapo came child-hunting?

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

Howard Jacobson’s brilliant new book on the moral insanity unleashed by October 7

‘Our social enterprise gives people work experience and the confidence to go into the big, wide world’

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

Making the Cut review: razor-sharp tips on how to become an observant Jew

New tales from the Ghetto

Meet the Holmes (and Watson) of pre-war East European Jewry

Sex, lies and terrorists

There’s no easy cure for the world’s longest hatred. But this book is a start

One rabbi’s search for the boys who survived an Auschwitz gas chamber

The horror behind Hayim Bialik’s most feted poem

If you wanted something done in Jewish Europe 300 years ago, who did you ask?

What’s the difference between an emigrant and an immigrant?

‘Do we really want to know about human goodness?’

What it means to grow up as a Jewish child from Cuba

William Shakespeare was a ‘Jewish woman of north African descent’, new book claims

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

The Jewish woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe

Berlin Shuffle review: Pimps, prostitutes and peddlers in Weimar Germany