Books The Melted Pot review: ‘Why has this intolerance been tolerated?’Harry Saul Markham’s sure-footed exploration of the forces of extremism which threaten Britain, and its Jews in particular, will alarm moderates, but it also offers a way aheadBy Ben Felsenburg1 min read
Books Worlds Apart review: How a terrible childhood can last a lifetimeThis is beautifully written and translated autofiction by an author desperate to make sense of her bleak start in life2 min read
Books A medic’s front-line accounts of battlefield salvationsA former British Army officer is moved by a new book on military medicine and the ingenuity and humanity of those who adminster itBy Andrew Fox1 min read
Books High and Low by Amanda Craig review: ‘A thoroughly moreish state-of-the-nation novel’If half a century from now you were to be asked what it was like to live in Britain in 2026, this is the book you should hand over in answerBy Ben Felsenburg2 min read
Books What made Osip Mandelshtam tick?This book is a fascinating introduction to one of the great modern poetsBy David Herman1 min read
BooksHimmler’s Curtains: How my survivor mother ended up living in a Nazi leader’s houseThis beautifully written memoir is full of startling vignettes, but using a psuedonym in this age of disinformation and denial feels a disservice to the readerBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read
Books The Jewish Renoir girls who were betrayed by FranceCatherine Ostler’s new book explores the fate of the children in the painter’s famous work Pink and Blue, one of whom was murdered at AuschwitzBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
Acerbic verse from a ‘cantakerous’ Yiddish poetAnyone with an interest in Yiddish culture, or simply first-class poetry, will relish this excellent selectionBy Mark Glanville2 min read||April 10, 2026 12:39
The Tribe review: ‘a brilliantly told story of a once gilded Sephardi family’This epic set in Jewish Salonica is full of ideas, marvellously rich in detail and its people feel realBy David Bennun2 min read||April 7, 2026 15:21
Shushu review: ‘Motherhood, warts and all, beautiful, ugly and true’This graphic novel by a Jewish writer is a gift for a woman who is out the other side but can still see those moments in the rear windowBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read||April 1, 2026 11:50
Meet the world’s first fascistThis is a revelatory biography about the Frenchman who almost fought Dreyfus in a duelBy Robert Low3 min read||March 31, 2026 15:39
Will Self: What inspired me to write this book? The Glasto crowd chanting ‘Death to the IDF’Twenty years on from his public resignation as a Jew, the novelist explains where he stands nowBy David Bennun6 min read||March 25, 2026 13:59
A useful handbook on the Israel-Palestine deadlock...until it turns to NetanyahuColin Shindler’s historical guide is erudite and concise but perhaps guilty of wishful thinking when it describes a Tel Aviv rally as Bibi’s ‘Ceaușescu moment’By Robert Low3 min read||March 13, 2026 13:18
Howard Jacobson’s brilliant new book on the moral insanity unleashed by October 7Howl is the first major British novel to address why so many in this country have been driven mad with hatred for IsraelBy David Herman2 min read||March 11, 2026 16:33
‘Our social enterprise gives people work experience and the confidence to go into the big, wide world’To mark World Book Day, the JC joined Kisharon Langdon members at its huge second-hand books warehouse in HarrowBy Ben Conway4 min read||March 9, 2026 14:21
Jewish Book Week draws record-breaking crowds on 75th anniversaryLondon’s oldest literary festival dates back to 1952By Daniel Ben-David1 min read||March 4, 2026 10:39
