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Meet Sarit Yishai-Levi, the bestselling queen of Jerusalem

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Writer Ben Okri: Jews and black people share a past of unjust suffering

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Participants pose with rainbow handfans during the first Tel Aviv pride event since before the Covid-19 pandemic on June 25, 2021 even as officials urged marchers to wear masks amid a surge in infections. - Organisers called it the "largest parade of its kind held worldwide since the outbreak of Covid-19. "The last Tel Aviv Pride in 2019 drew a quarter of a million revellers, who danced on colourful floats under rainbow banners in the beachside city. This year's celebration will be more subdued as Israel remains largely closed to tourists due to the coronavirus. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Meet the activist who wants Jews to be proud

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Historian, presenter and author, Simon Sebag Montefiore speaks to Jewish Chronicle writer Tanya Gold. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 12/10/2022

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The man who wrote The World: Tanya Gold meets Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Book review - Chapters of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir - Evocative portrait of a long-gone era

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Book review: Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good - Feeling blue: one man’s plan for the party's future

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SÃO PAULO, SP, BRASIL, 25.07.18 - O escritor e jornalista britânico Simon Sebag Montefiore, autor de livros sobre a história russa, na Flip (Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty), em Paraty, no Rio de Janeiro. (Foto: Marcus Leoni/Folhapress)

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Two Jewish authors lead colourful debates at book festival

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The teen who tried to warn the world about Auschwitz

Jonathan Freedland's new book details the extraordinary tale of the first Jewish prisoner to escape the Nazi death camp

By Georgia L Gilholy

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Book review: Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth - A doomed, drunk wandering genius

Keiron Pim's biography of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century is a dark story, movingly told

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Book review: Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth - A doomed, drunk wandering genius

By Tanya Gold

Boy in The Striped Pyjamas author sinks to new low with the melodramatic sequel

Jews in John Boyne's work are reduced to landscape rather than real characters

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Boy in The Striped Pyjamas author sinks to new low with the melodramatic sequel

The Finchley talent factory: Trio from same shul win national recognition for their artistic achievements

Jaren Ziegler, Dora Fidler and Isaac Reuben, all 17, have been shortlisted for writing and music awards

By Karen Glaser

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October 13, 2022 10:36

The Finchley talent factory: Trio from same shul win national recognition for their artistic achievements

No secrets, no shanda - the feminist pioneer who’s not scared to uncover family scandals

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, the founder of America’s flagship feminist Ms magazine, has written a wonderfully uncompromising book

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No secrets, no shanda - the feminist pioneer who’s not scared to uncover family scandals

Book review: Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters - When Covid ruled us

It’s hard to disagree with human rights lawyer Adam Wagner when he writes in his new book that 'British society became as close to a police state as in living memory' when coronavirus struck

By Robert Low

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Book review: Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters - When Covid ruled us

Book review: The Story of Russia - Russia’s story always excluded Jews

Orlando Figes' new work is a truly incisive and important dissection of this country's troubled past

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Our battle to tell the world about Babyn Yar

Widow, 89, reveals how the pair unveiled the full, uncensored story of the massacre to the world

By Nic North

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October 6, 2022 11:27

Sylva Rubashova, from Golders Green, helped to edit the book Babyn Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel, by her friend, novelist and Russian defector Anatoly Kuznetsov. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 08/11/2022

Book review: The English GI - A soldier’s graphic story

Moving story told in pictures mixing maps, drawings and moving family photographs

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Book review: The English GI - A soldier’s graphic story

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Meet Sarit Yishai-Levi, the bestselling queen of Jerusalem

Writer Ben Okri: Jews and black people share a past of unjust suffering

Meet the activist who wants Jews to be proud

The man who wrote The World: Tanya Gold meets Simon Sebag Montefiore

Book review - Chapters of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir - Evocative portrait of a long-gone era

Book review: Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good - Feeling blue: one man’s plan for the party's future

Two Jewish authors lead colourful debates at book festival

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