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The songs of anguish they wrote and sang in the Polish ghettos and camps

This book of songs from the Shoah was conceived and written in passion, and the unsparing efforts of the authors to trace their composers is laudable

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

Words for horror: lyricists Shmerke Kaczerginski (far left) and Abraham Sutzkever (second left) with two other survivors in a portrait taken in Moscow after the war

The Inspired review: ‘Reminds us that comfort can always be found in music’

The Inspired review: ‘Reminds us that comfort can always be found in music’

James Inverne’s debut novel conveys the turmoil of a person under huge political pressure and is imbued with a musicality honed from decades of experience as a music journalist

1 min read

Children’s books: 7-12 years

Children's books

Children’s books: 7-12 years

From a space-colonising dynasty to an ice-cream ambush, JC Life rounds up the best new titles for kids

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

Like (grand)mother, like (grand)daughter: Jess and Rosi

Noughties, Nazis and tittle-tattle – how my and my survivor grandma’s lives chime

Jess Robinson’s memoir combines memories of her life in her twenties in London with her grandmother’s under Hitler

6 min read

The Melted Pot review: ‘Why has this intolerance been tolerated?’

Harry Saul Markham’s sure-footed exploration of the forces of extremism which threaten Britain, and its Jews in particular, will alarm moderates, but it also offers a way ahead

By Ben Felsenburg

1 min read

Worlds Apart review: How a terrible childhood can last a lifetime

This is beautifully written and translated autofiction by an author desperate to make sense of her bleak start in life

2 min read

Famesick review: Lena Dunham bares her soul on a pitiful cycle of fame, abuse, drugs and self-harm

In her new memoir, the creator and writer of the hit TV series Girls writes with fluency and candour about the price of stardom

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

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‘It changed my understanding of the trials’ – Natalie Livingstone tells the story behind The Nuremberg Women at JC event

The author told guests at Hampstead Synagogue how a visit to the Imperial War Museum inspired her fascinating new book on history’s most famous trials

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Natalie Livingstone talking to Simon Sebag Montefiore at JC event at Hampstead Synagogue

A medic’s front-line accounts of battlefield salvations

A former British Army officer is moved by a new book on military medicine and the ingenuity and humanity of those who adminster it

1 min read

A medic’s front-line accounts of battlefield salvations

High and Low by Amanda Craig review: ‘A thoroughly moreish state-of-the-nation novel’

If half a century from now you were to be asked what it was like to live in Britain in 2026, this is the book you should hand over in answer

By Ben Felsenburg

2 min read

In this together: Amanda Craig's new novel, and Londoners sitting cheek by jowl share park space with a pigeon

What made Osip Mandelshtam tick?

This book is a fascinating introduction to one of the great modern poets

By David Herman

1 min read

What made Osip Mandelshtam tick?

Himmler’s Curtains: How my survivor mother ended up living in a Nazi leader’s house

This beautifully written memoir is full of startling vignettes, but using a psuedonym in this age of disinformation and denial feels a disservice to the reader

By Jennifer Lipman

2 min read

Pulling back the curtain: Simon Weisz (a pseudonym) and his mother c.1959

The Jewish Renoir girls who were betrayed by France

Catherine Ostler’s new book explores the fate of the children in the painter’s famous work Pink and Blue, one of whom was murdered at Auschwitz

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

Alice and Elisabeth in Pierre-Auguste Renoir's portrait 'Pink and Blue'. (Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Acerbic verse from a ‘cantakerous’ Yiddish poet

Anyone with an interest in Yiddish culture, or simply first-class poetry, will relish this excellent selection

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

Acerbic verse from a ‘cantakerous’ Yiddish poet

The Tribe review: ‘a brilliantly told story of a once gilded Sephardi family’

This epic set in Jewish Salonica is full of ideas, marvellously rich in detail and its people feel real

By David Bennun

2 min read

The way we were: Michael Arditti's new saga, and the Kovo family in Salonica, in Greece, which under Ottoman rule was Europe's only Jewish-majority city

Shushu review: ‘Motherhood, warts and all, beautiful, ugly and true’

This graphic novel by a Jewish writer is a gift for a woman who is out the other side but can still see those moments in the rear window

By Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

Shushu review: ‘Motherhood, warts and all, beautiful, ugly and true’

Meet the world’s first fascist

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

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

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

Twenty years on from his public resignation as a Jew, the novelist explains where he stands now

By David Bennun

6 min read

One-state solutionist: Will Self and his new book

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

This punchy and practical handbook to battling Jew-hate is more than timely

By Dominic Green

3 min read

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

Children's books

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

From carrying messages for the Resistance to hugging at the Seder table, our pick of the best new books for children

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

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

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

Colin Shindler’s historical guide is erudite and concise but perhaps guilty of wishful thinking when it describes a Tel Aviv rally as Bibi’s ‘Ceaușescu moment’

3 min read

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

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

Howl is the first major British novel to address why so many in this country have been driven mad with hatred for Israel

By David Herman

2 min read

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

Kisharon Langdon

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

To mark World Book Day, the JC joined Kisharon Langdon members at its huge second-hand books warehouse in Harrow

4 min read

Talia (L) and Debbie Rees on Talia's first day of the 12-week programme

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