Books

Review: Lives Reclaimed

Roseman’s book is a brilliant, humane and timely historical study, writes Alun David

Review: Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries

A work of painstaking scholarship, exhibited in 130 pages of endnotes, writes Bernard Wasserstein

Review: Dissident Rabbi

This definitive study illuminates ways in which Sasportas’s text and conservative stance 'came to serve as a stand-in for a habit of mind that rejected novelty', writes Howard Cooper

Review: The Fighting Jew

Wheldon’s passion for his subject shines through, writes Daniel Sugarman

Review: Russia in Flames

This is a familiar story, but one that is meticulously researched and told with the coherence and clarity, writes Mark Glanville

Ancient feminism

Jennifer Lipman reviews Simon’s Wife by L. M. Affrossman

Review: Berlin to London

Saraga tells the story not only of who was left behind in Berlin, but also of what, says David Herman

Review: The Boxer’s Story

Nathan Shapow's memoir tells one man’s extraordinary story of heroism, defiance and fortitude that touched the lives of many others, says Ahron Bregman

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