Review: Life and Love in Nazi PragueThis book is one more remarkable piece in the unknowable and uncompletable jigsaw of European Jewry in the 1940s, says Jenni FrazerBy Jenni Frazer2 min read
Review: The VolunteerJack Fairweather has the rare gift of describing vividly the daily, mounting horrors of Auschwitz, says Daniel SnowmanBy Daniel Snowman2 min read
Review: 'Stalingrad' and 'Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century'The brilliant and the barbaric: Mark Glanville reviews Vasily GrossmanBy Mark Glanville2 min read
Book Review: The Convert by Stefan HertmansA writer’s romantic and historic journeyBy Amanda Hopkinson1 min read
Three cheers for welcome revivalDavid Herman acclaims Alexander Baron, a novelist whose work is being revisitedBy David Herman2 min read
A witness and his masterpiecesAnthony Rudolf, Levi's first publisher of his poetry in English marks next week’s 100th anniversary of his birthBy Anthony Rudolf3 min read
Deborah Levy shortlisted for Booker Prize with novel that is not yet publishedThe Man Who Saw Everything will be published by Hamish Hamilton on August 29By JC Reporter1 min read
The mental health of biblical heroesThe Hidden Psychiatry of the Old Testament, Dr George Stein,Hamilton Books, £42.95By Rabbi Howard Cooper1 min read
The mental health of biblical heroesThe author offers detailed, scholarly explorations of the biblical texts themselves and finds multiple opportunities for relating their language and themes to modern clinical diagnoses.By Rabbi Howard Cooper1 min read
Book review: Live a LittleThis novel about relationships between mothers and sons is fast and cleverBy David Herman2 min read
Book review: Taking Pictures, Making PaintersPutting ‘Mr O’Keeffe’ prominently in the pictureBy Alun David 1 min read
Is this the female Philip Roth?Debut novelist Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written a book about a middle-aged Jewish doctor - and the plaudits are coming in thick and fastBy Jennifer Lipman6 min read
Book review: The Book of SarahAn artist’s graphic and confessional biblical footnoteBy Julia Weiner 2 min read
Book review: Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and DissentBuber biography follows facts but avoids analysisBy David Ruben2 min read
Book review: Julia Neuberger and Keith Kahn-Harris on antisemitismHelpful handbooks on hatredBy howard cooper2 min read
A colourful, pacy history of the KabbalahKabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul, Harry Freedman, Bloomsbury, £18.99By Dr Harris Bor1 min read