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Review: Inside Story - A Novel

Really part novel, part memoir, it is not difficult to decide which part is better. The novel is too long, largely dull and should have been better edited

By David Herman

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Review: Inside Story - A Novel

Review: The Yellow Bird Sings

Review: The Yellow Bird Sings

Far from perfect book, Jennifer Lipman cannot shake this poignant tale from her mind

By Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

Review: Never Alone

Review: Never Alone

There is a seam of self-justification running through the book as Sharansky seeks to explain his political decisions

By Jenni Frazer

2 min read

Book review: Learning on the Left

Book review: Learning on the Left

This book celebrates the many well-known alumni of Brandeis University, situated just outside Boston

By Colin Shindler

2 min read

Review: West Side Story. The Jets, the Sharks, and the making of a classic

This book is full of nutty detail, says John Nathan

2 min read

Review: Artifact

It is a meandering tale, graphic and shocking at times and meditative at others, which doesn’t so much reach a conclusion as simply end

By Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

Review: Life Should Be Transparent

This volume introduces us to the life and work of Irena Veisaite, an academic, theatre critic and long-time chair of the Open Lithuania Fund board

1 min read

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Review: Antkind

Kaufman’s genius makes me wonder if his book is a giant parody, writes Anne Joseph

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Review: Antkind

Review: New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

They are the heroes of a book that flits between colourful accounts of its protagonists’ world and clinical analyses of the music they played, a reflection of the author’s own double life as performer and academic

By Mark Glanville

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Review: New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

Karma and Kabbalah: reincarnation reconsidered

The Soul Survivor: Reincarnation – based on the Writings of the Zohar, Leonard Book, Tuchams Publishing House, £16.99

By Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski

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Karma and Kabbalah: reincarnation reconsidered

Book review: People Like Us

Holocaust novel is a fiction too far

By Anne Garvey 

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Book review: People Like Us

Book review: Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

This terrific, gripping book is, first, the story of sons haunted by their fathers and the terrible times they all lived through

By David Herman

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Book review: Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

Book review: Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

Powerfully reclaimed — and imagined — reality

By Jennifer Langer

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Book review: Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

Book review: What Are Jews For?

If there was a prize for Best Book Title of the Year, Adam Sutcliffe’s latest work would surely walk off with it.

By Rabbi Howard Cooper

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Book review: What Are Jews For?

Book review: A Delayed Life

Death, destruction and, eventually, happiness

By Johnny Belknap

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Book review: A Delayed Life

Book review: 'Franci's War' and 'Paris Fashion and World War Two'

Rescued and mesmerising

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Book review: 'Franci's War' and 'Paris Fashion and World War Two'

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