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Josephus, the priestly historian who divided critics

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

By Dr Harris Bor

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Josephus, the priestly historian who divided critics

Review: Josephus’s The Jewish War, a Biography

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

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

The school that prays together... JFS provides 'an immersive Jewish atmosphere' say inspectors

The new siddur that wants to get teens thinking

The Koren NCSY Siddur —Tribe Edition, £24.99

By Jamie Peston

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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: Hunky Dory (Who Knew?)

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

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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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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

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The story teller of Auschwitz

Review: The Age of Football

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

By David Winner

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Review: Ducks, Newburyport

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

By Stoddard Martin

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Review: Ducks, Newburyport

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

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Getting in the right mood for the High Holy Days

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

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Review: A Life in a Poem

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

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Review: Ghetto: The History of a Word

Review: Fly Already

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

By David Herman

2 min read

Review: Fly Already

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