“The Shoah, Israel and family are recurring leitmotifs – but if there’s one overriding theme it is identity: national, cultural and psychological.
“The Jewish experience – with its long history, complex diaspora and vexed relationship with place – is perhaps particularly well-suited to current, often ugly debates about citizenship, migration and belonging.”
The JQ Wingate 2018 long list
A Land Without Borders by Nir Baram
Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen
The Mighty Franks by Michael Frank
The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others by Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
The Trial of Adolf Hitler by David King
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
Do I Belong? Reflections From Europe by Antony Lerman
Small Pieces: A Book of Lamentations by Joanne Limburg
Judas by Amos Oz
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem by George Prochnik
The Holocaust by Laurence Rees.
