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A new biography brings to life Thomas Kendrick, described recently in this newspaper as 'The British Shindler'

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The women in the shadows: The secret lives of the Rothschild women

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Israeli writers don’t need a Sally Rooney lecture

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Israeli writers don’t need a Sally Rooney lecture

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F63M1D Robert Peston meets Nick Robinson at Cheltenham Literature Festival Featuring: Robert Peston Where: Cheltenham, United Kingdom When: 10 Oct 2015

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Robert Peston: the outsider who wants to include us all

By Keren David

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Review: Is Chesterton exposé  an act of atonement?

By Daniel Johnson

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Memories of the Med

Claudian Roden's latest cookery book is her most personal yet

By Victoria Prever

5 min read

September 9, 2021 13:46

Claudia Roden photographed for Waitrose magazine at home in London

By Andrew Pessin

What can we do about campus hate? I’ve written a satirical novel

Using my experience as an academic philosopher, I have written a book that sends up cancel culture and its ideology

5 min read

September 9, 2021 10:17

What can we do about campus hate? I’ve written a satirical novel

How does Judaism view other religions?

The controversy over Jonathan Sacks's book, The Dignity of Difference, written as a response to 9/11, has left lingering questions about Judaism's attitude towards other faiths

By Simon Rocker

3 min read

August 27, 2021 12:37

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: (SEPTEMBER 11 RETROSPECTIVE) Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images)

Review: Pursuit of purpose

Sipora Levy finds this guide to living a more fulfilling life inspiring

By Sipora Levy

1 min read

August 26, 2021 13:05

The fictionalising of Auschwitz

There's been a huge publishing boom in books about the Holocaust - often told in the form of a novel. Is this a good thing?

By Jenni Frazer

7 min read

August 18, 2021 20:03

From Top Gear to a thriller

TV director Brian Klein's lockdown project was the thriller about Hitler he'd always wanted to write - and now it's been published.

By Jenni Frazer

6 min read

August 18, 2021 14:26

A grandson’s zany Polish adventures

Menachem Kaiser's quest to find out about his grandfather's life in Poland led him to some unexpected places...and people

By Jennifer Lipman

6 min read

August 12, 2021 15:30

Review: In the Shadows of Enigma

Mathilde Frot reads some factual fiction

By Mathilde Frot

1 min read

August 5, 2021 11:19

ECEBAC The Nazi German Enigma cipher machine used during World War II to develop nearly unbreakable codes for sending messages. The Enigma's settings offered 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible solutions. Allied efforts based in Bletchley Park, England were eventually able to crack the code using the worldOs first electromagnetic computers.

Review: Essential Prose

Mark Glanville welcomes a new translation of one of the great Yiddish writers.

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

August 5, 2021 11:16

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Review: Spymaster: The Man who Saved MI6

Review: The Frequency of Us

Review: The Whistleblower

The women in the shadows: The secret lives of the Rothschild women

Israeli writers don’t need a Sally Rooney lecture

Robert Peston: the outsider who wants to include us all

Review: Is Chesterton exposé an act of atonement?

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