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Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade, review: ‘a lost world comes to life’

A deeply affecting portrait of a pious family’s trials and turmoil in an eastern Europe on the brink of collapse

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

Chaim Grade and the new translation of his novel Sons and Daughters

The Assault review: ‘return of a classic war novel’

The Assault review: ‘return of a classic war novel’

First published in 1982, this book about the choices of ordinary people in war sold more than 200,000 copies and inspired an Oscar-winning film. Now it has been republished with a new introduction

By David Herman

2 min read

Murderous CV: Walther Rauff in his SS days before he fled to Pinochet's Chile, and Philippe Sand's new boook

38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review: Pinochet and the Nazis

The human rights lawyer’s latest book reveals the links between the notorious Chilean dictator and the Nazi inventor of the ‘gas vans’

By Jenni Frazer

3 min read

Shoah survivor Kai Feinberg and Robert Ferguson's book

How heroes outwitted collaborators in Nazi-occupied Norway

This book is a rigorously documented history of wartime resistance in Norway

2 min read

‘Douglas Murray’s latest book must be read even by those of us who think we know exactly what is going on’

The journalist’s bestseller combines reportage from inside Israel, Gaza and Lebanon and should open minds to the precarious position we find ourselves in the West

By Nicole Lampert

6 min read

The Jewish influence on Germany’s post-war avant grade music

This new portrait of Krautrock shows how the country’s rare Jewish survivors were central to its development

By David Bennun

2 min read

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz review: ‘they played for their lives’

This thoroughly researched book explains why a place in the death camp’s only women’s orchestra was sought after, and the moral dilemmas that came with it

By Monica Porter

2 min read

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Manya Wilkinson: ‘I wanted to write an edgy novel about the shtetl’

This year’s Wingate winner on her tragicomedy Lublin and lost family history

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The Chasidic stories that anticipate the parables of Franz Kafka

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav was one of the great Chasidic writers of the early modern period, and this Pushkin Press translation of his tales of rabbis, robbers, princes and paradoxes is a treasure

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The Chasidic stories that anticipate the parables of Franz Kafka

The Prosecutor review: ‘the Jew who put his country on trial’

This is a monumental biography of Fritz Bauer, the German-Jewish lawyer who went back to Deutschland to see justice done

By Jenni Frazer

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Driven: Jewish judge Fritz Bauer (centre) in Frankfurt in 1964 and the biography about him

Jewish Book Week 2025

The Friday Night Dinner writer on his latest ‘mad creative adventure’

Jewish sitcom supremo Robert Popper’s most recent work is about a 104-year-old widow who cannot stop writing letters

By Imogen Garfinkel

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Jewish sitcom writer Robert Popper will be speaking at Jewish Book Week tomorrow about his new comedy book 'The Elsie Drake Letters'

Children's books

The best new books for toddlers, teens and those in between

From a children’s tale set in Burma to a Purim board book, our pick of the best new releases for children

By Angela Kiverstein

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The best new books for toddlers, teens and those in between

Jewish Book Week 2025

Israeli writers under siege reflect on the world since October 7

Yossi Klein Halevy, Amir Tibon and Ayelet Tsabari are speaking at Jewish Book Week on March 2

By Lianne Kolirin

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Ayelet Tsabari

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