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Review: Einstein on the Run

This book tells the story of how the great Albert Einstein was rescued from the clutches of the Nazis by an Englishman

By Monica Porter

2 min read

Review: Einstein on the Run

Review: Learning From the Germans

Review: Learning From the Germans

America, Neiman feels, can and should learn from the Germans, a thesis she examines at length, says Daniel Snowman

By Daniel Snowman

2 min read

Review: A State at Any Cost

Review: A State at Any Cost

A long but inspiring account of the life and times of David Ben-Gurion, says Colin Shindler

By Colin Shindler

2 min read

The history of a heavenly love song

The history of a heavenly love song

The Song of Songs, Ilana Pardes, Princeton University Press, £20

By Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild

1 min read

Josephus, the priestly historian who divided critics

Josephus’s The Jewish War, Martin Goodman, Princeton, £20

By Dr Harris Bor

1 min read

Review: Josephus’s The Jewish War, a Biography

Goodman’s work is clear, precise, and a pleasure to read, writes David Ruben

2 min read

My father's 13,000 mile escape

A new book tells the extraordinary story of the Jewish children who travelled 13,000 miles through Siberian gulags and central Asia to escape the Holocaust

By Jennifer Lipman

6 min read

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The new siddur that wants to get teens thinking

The Koren NCSY Siddur —Tribe Edition, £24.99

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Harold Bloom, an irreplaceable genius of criticism

Kate Maltby reflects on her old teacher, 'a man unashamed to preach that poems should be beautiful, rather than merely worthy'

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Review: We Are The Weather

This book gives a stark overview of what we are doing to the environment.

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Review: On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

Conversion is at the core of this book, says Anne Garvey

By Anne Garvey 

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Review: On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

Review: Hunky Dory (Who Knew?)

An engaging story about a Jewish kid from Finsbury Park who made good, says Johnny Belknap

By Johnny Belknap

2 min read

Review: Hunky Dory (Who Knew?)

Review: This Tilting World

There is little higher praise than to say that this short book is a perfect example of a small moral choice exquisitely realised.

By Amanda Hopkinson

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Review: This Tilting World

The story teller of Auschwitz

Heather Morris hit the bestseller lists with her fictionalised account of a Holocaust survivor's life, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Now she's written a controversial sequel.

By Angela Kiverstein

6 min read

The story teller of Auschwitz

Review: The Age of Football

This book mixes searing detail with laconic wit, says David Winner

By David Winner

1 min read

Review: The Age of Football

Review: Ducks, Newburyport

Stoddard Martin hails a major new work as possibly today’s ‘Great American Novel’

By Stoddard Martin

2 min read

Review: Ducks, Newburyport

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