The prose is beautiful, but this novel about how the Holocaust has shaped our modern lives is sometimes so hard to follow in a linear fashion, it becomes bewildering
By Jennifer Lipman
Mikołaj ŁoziNski’s fifth novel is a masterpiece of foreshadowing and, surely, a future Pushkin Press classic
By David Herman
This is an erudite, provocative and timely book on Jewish accomplishments in ‘exile’, and how they have been to the benefit of Jews and non-Jews alike
By Rabbi Howard Cooper
From the viewpoints of its three protagonists, ‘The Unworthy’ is a credible depiction of its tough working-class world
By David Bennun
Author Frederic Raphael argues that Judaism emerges as the only one of the three major religions to leave ‘middle ground... uncluttered by predetermined dogma’
By Mark Glanville
You don’t need to be going abroad to be transported to distant shores with our pick of the summer’s best holiday reads. From courtroom dramas to wartime love stories, Jennifer Lipman has you covered.
This book about the spy who came to regret his double life inside Argentina’s Jewish world is a structural mess
By Robert Low
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The Israeli writer’s latest short story collection features dating, sex, relationships – and deep wells of loneliness in contemporary Israel
The winning translator will receive a £3,000 cash award and be invited to speak at Jewish Book Week 2026
By JC Reporter
This is a beautiful and powerful debut novel examining intergenerational trauma, inherited guilt and all-consuming love
By Lianne Kolirin
This is an incisive and persuasive account of how the story of the Second World World has been the West’s defining narrative of the past 80 years. But when the author predicts the resurgence of a Christian tradition, his polemic becomes vaporous
This is a gripping account of young and unassuming American journalist Varian Fry’s mission to save the literary and artistic greats of his day
By Amanda Hopkinson
From royal rescue missions to understanding the liminal ritual of havdalah, here are the season’s four best new books for toddlers, teens and those in between
By Angela Kiverstein
This is a fascinating piece of work about people’s dreams in Nazi Germany
By Alun David
Historian Cécile Desprairies’ debut novel is a dark and powerful account of the French men and women who eagerly embraced evil
This forensically researched and lengthy tome uses previously unearthed documents that throw light on Stein’s personal relationships and her attitude to her work and legacy
By Monica Porter
