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Getting in the right mood for the High Holy Days

Big Questions, Brief Intentions, Edited by Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum,London School of Jewish Studies

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

Getting in the right mood for the High Holy Days

Review: A Life in a Poem

Review: A Life in a Poem

There is a spiritual intensity here which pervades both the poetry and the prose of this memoir, says Peter Lawson

By Peter Lawson

2 min read

Review: Ghetto: The History of a Word

Review: Ghetto: The History of a Word

An authoritative survey of how this most malleable of words was understood in different ways over the centuries, says Howard Cooper

By howard cooper

2 min read

Review: Fly Already

Review: Fly Already

Etgar Keret is a master of melancholy, but also of terror, says David Herman

By David Herman

2 min read

Cliveden gets ready to rock again

JC literary editor Gerald Jacobs previews a literary festival that has established itself among the best in a short time

By Gerald Jacobs

1 min read

Review: Legacy

This history of the J Lyons company and the family that ran it is a (mostly) gripping read, says Robert Low

2 min read

Review: Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution

This book presents a beautifully clear introduction to Marx’s thought and its Hegelian origins, says Vernon Bogdanor

By Vernon Bogdanor

2 min read

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Review: Generation Y: Generation Snowflake?

This book is ideal for anyone who already firmly believes that today’s youth are little more than pathetic, feckless ingrates, says Daniel Sugarman

By Daniel Sugarman

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Review: Generation Y: Generation Snowflake?

Review: Fabulous Monsters

A work of literary criticism that is full of sailors, little girls, monsters and vampires, says David Herman

By David Herman

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Review: Fabulous Monsters

Preaching in the time of the Nazis

Agony in the Pulpit, Marc Saperstein, Hebrew Union College, £81

By Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild

1 min read

Preaching in the time of the Nazis

Review: The Exiles

This book about creatives and scholars exiled by the Nazis is an impeccably researched yet eminently readable book, says Daniel Snowman

By Daniel Snowman

2 min read

Review: The Exiles

Review: The Thirty-Year Genocide

This incisive work transmits to us in these dark days of political turmoil, says Colin Shindler

By Colin Shindler

2 min read

Review: The Thirty-Year Genocide

Interview: children's author Helen Peters

Helen Peters speaks to Angela Kiverstein about being 'terrified' of writing from the perspective of a child of the Kindertransport

By Angela Kiverstein

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Interview: children's author Helen Peters

Review: Those Who Come After

This is an absolute firecracker of a book, says Julia Neuberger

By Rabbi Julia Neuberger

2 min read

Review: Those Who Come After

Review: The Drama of Celebrity

Sharon Marcus’s book is tour de force and the author a total star, says Jonathan Margolis

By Jonathan Margolis

2 min read

Review: The Drama of Celebrity

Review: Refugee Tales Volume III

A heartfelt and compelling form of protest, a setting down as evidence of the experiences of those whom the media so often vilify and reject, says Rabbi Johnathan Wittenberg

By Johnathan Wittenberg

2 min read

Review: Refugee Tales Volume III

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