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Questioning Belief, by Raphael Zarum – review: An essential resource that helps integrate Judaism with modernity

A consummate communicator, Zarum tackles medieval thinkers with a light touch

By Harry Freedman

2 min read

Rabbinical scholars: Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum, Louis Jacobs, Joseph Hertz and David Nieto. Far left: Rabbi Dr Zarum’s book

Wingate winner Elizabeth McCracken: ‘My fear is being boring in the service of accuracy’

Wingate winner Elizabeth McCracken: ‘My fear is being boring in the service of accuracy’

By Claire Allfree

5 min read

Back to the wall: Venice Ghetto (Photo: Felix Pope)

Review: Shylock’s Venice – An unimprovable book

By Jenni Frazer

3 min read

Fury over ‘sickening’ LRB article saying Israel leverages Shoah to ‘slaughter children’

Fury over ‘sickening’ LRB article saying Israel leverages Shoah to ‘slaughter children’

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

How Jewish refugees changed British childhood

How Jewish refugees changed British childhood

By David Herman

2 min read

Final Verdict by Tobias Buck review: ‘Would I have climbed down the watchtower and walked away?’

Final Verdict by Tobias Buck review: ‘Would I have climbed down the watchtower and walked away?’

By Colin Shindler

2 min read

A love affair in the shadows of the gas chambers

A love affair in the shadows of the gas chambers

By Jennifer Lipman

2 min read

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The Fleet Street hack who hobnobbed with Hitler before becoming a spy

The appearance of this book could not be more timely, nor its message more urgent

By Jenni Frazer

3 min read

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March 8, 2024 10:47

Inside story: 'Daily Express' journalist Sefton Delmer after the war Credit: Getty

Literary agent claims ‘Half of British publishers will not take books that have any Jewish content’

Writer also told a mention of her book was dropped over the 'hassle' involved in mentioning Jews or Judaism

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

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March 4, 2024 12:42

Writer Gillian Freedman was told by a website that they could not mention her book, Jews Milk Goats, because it was Jewish

How I told my family’s history through the words of early Zionists

Rachel Cockerell’s genre-bending debut book ‘Melting Point’ about the search for a Jewish homeland blends the history of Zionism with her own family story

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February 28, 2024 17:18

How I told my family’s history through the words of early Zionists

These books about hate are already out of date

David Herman finds much of interest in two timely essay collections about antisemitism — but why is there so little emphasis on Iran or immigration?

By David Herman

4 min read

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February 8, 2024 16:20

Protesters hold placards during a demonstration to protest against antisemitism, in central London on November 26, 2023 (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Best-selling author Freya North on the first book inspired by her Jewish family background

The author visited her great-grandparents’ graves to inspire her

5 min read

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February 8, 2024 13:06

Freya North

Kate Maltby

Alice Walker’s open Jew hate is simply ignored

There is a jarring collective amnesia around the views of the author of The Color Purple

3 min read

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January 11, 2024 10:47

The cast of 'The Color Purple' . (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images)

Book review: Eight Bright Lights

SaraGibbs’ debut novel is very readable and very Jewish

2 min read

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December 8, 2023 16:26

juliet mckee photography

Growing up middle class in Nazi Germany

Alun David reviews an account of a wartime childhood

2 min read

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December 8, 2023 15:39

German village children in Eger giving the Nazi salute as Hitler takes over the Sudetenland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Fate of Yaakov Maggid review: Joyous but realistic celebration of a lost Jewish world

First-class translation of Ludovic Bruckstein's Yiddish short story collection proves a timely panacea in these dark times

By Mark Glanville

1 min read

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November 23, 2023 13:33

The Fate of Yaakov Maggid review: Joyous but realistic celebration of a lost Jewish world

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