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Review: Forgetting

A fascinating book of reflections on memory and forgetting, says David Herman

By David Herman

2 min read

Review: Forgetting

New Maimonidean insights into the Torah

New Maimonidean insights into the Torah

Judaism Reclaimed: Philosophy and Theology in the Torah, Shmuel Phillips, Mosaica, £19.99

By Rabbi Michael Pollak

1 min read

Review: Confessions of a Bad Mother: The Teenage Years

Review: Confessions of a Bad Mother: The Teenage Years

The author is brutally honest and more or less incapable of writing a stuffy or self-satisfied line, says Anne Garvey

By Anne Garvey 

3 min read

Review: The Sisters of Auschwitz

Review: The Sisters of Auschwitz

A compelling tale, says Jennifer Lipman

By Jennifer Lipman

2 min read

Review: The Jews, The Holocaust, and The Public

This new collection of essays demonstrates Cesarani’s extraordinary range of interests and his formidable intellectual energy, writes David Herman

By David Herman

2 min read

Seat feats and treats

Angela Kiverstein on the latest children's books

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

Review: That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Anti-Semitic

David Herman reviews two books on antisemitism

By David Herman

2 min read

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Review: Genius and Anxiety

Norman Lebrecht has a rare ability to evoke the past with the immediacy of a good journalist, broadcaster, novelist or blogger, says Daniel Snowman

By Daniel Snowman

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Review: Genius and Anxiety

Review: We Fight Fascists

The importance of this book is not simply that it tells the story of the 43 Group’s fight against post-war Fascism, but that it reclaims part of our heritage, writes Colin Shindler

By Colin Shindler

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Review: We Fight Fascists

Review: Insiders/Outsiders

This book may be about the past but it is also about the present, says Gabriel Josipovici

By Gabriel Josipovici

2 min read

Review: Insiders/Outsiders

Review: The Gunzburgs: A Family Biography

This book is full of big names, fascinating stories and teems with detail, says David Herman

By David Herman

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Review: The Gunzburgs: A Family Biography

Review: The Order of the Day

A compellingly authentic commentary on factual events and the attitudes of real people in the run-up to the Second World War, writes Gerald Jacobs

By Gerald Jacobs

2 min read

Review: The Order of the Day

Year in Review: Books in 2019

Bookish morsels from the JC critics in 2019

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Year in Review: Books in 2019

Review: From Miniskirt to Hijab

This story is as old as Pharaoh, but Jacqueline Saper tells it afresh, says Madeleine Kingsley

By Madeleine Kingsley

2 min read

Review: From Miniskirt to Hijab

Review: Becoming Eve

This book takes you into a different world, and leads you to despair, writes Julia Neuberger

By Rabbi Julia Neuberger

2 min read

Review: Becoming Eve

Review: Bitter Reckoning

Porat’s book carefully traces, in close detail, eight landmark cases which, he says, mark important milestones in the development of the kapo trials

By Jenni Frazer

2 min read

Review: Bitter Reckoning

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