BooksHappy New Years review: ‘another fine novel by one of Israel’s best writers’The Hebrew teacher in Maya Arad’s latest novel is a heroine for our timesBy David Herman1 min read
Books The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review: ‘a beautifully constructed book’He tells the story of the courageous groups of Germans who risked their lives to defy Hitler with all the flair of the seasoned thriller writer that he isBy Robert Low2 min read
Books The Rest of Our Lives review: ‘It’s not clear why this novel should matter to anyone’British-American writer Ben Markovits’s new Booker-longlisted novel leaves this reviewer coldBy David Herman2 min read
BooksOperation Wrath of God review: ‘A reminder of the sad need for Mossad – then and now’This fascinating account of Israeli counterterrorism is based on unique access to a huge cache of original documentsBy Robert Low3 min read
BooksThe case for surrealism: ‘Rooms for Vanishing’ author Stuart Nadler on writing catastrophe in our senseless eraThe author’s new book about a Jewish family in post-war exile employs an unconventional format and elements of the supernatural to illustrate the disarray of griefBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
BooksRooms for Vanishing review: ‘bogged down by its ambitious concept’The prose is beautiful, but this novel about how the Holocaust has shaped our modern lives is sometimes so hard to follow in a linear fashion, it becomes bewilderingBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read
Books My Name is Stramer review: ‘One of the great east European novels of our time’Mikołaj ŁoziNski’s fifth novel is a masterpiece of foreshadowing and, surely, a future Pushkin Press classicBy David Herman2 min read
Apple Books selling reviled antisemitic conspiracy text for 49pThe description for The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion on Apple’s website reads: ‘Truth or hoax...read and decide by yourself.’By Jacob Jaffa2 min read||August 11, 2025 15:03
The Wanderings of Isaac André Gedalia review: ‘deeply affecting memoir of loss and grief’Sylvie Weil’s unusual work is an interminable search of a resolution to life’s meaning, recalling the prototype of the wandering Jew of medieval loreBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read||August 8, 2025 13:14
Lost Boys review: ‘a useful guide to masculinity’In his latest book, James Bloodworth immerses himself in the so-called manosphere and finds a world that closely resembles, and frequently crosses over with, the far right. Not least in its attitudes to JewsBy David Bennun2 min read||August 7, 2025 10:24
The Unworthy review: A story of boy criminals in Nazi-occupied Norway told with convincing verisimilitudeFrom the viewpoints of its three protagonists, ‘The Unworthy’ is a credible depiction of its tough working-class worldBy David Bennun1 min read||July 31, 2025 10:08
The World’s Game review: A guide for the perplexed on countering the false certainties of totalitarianismAuthor Frederic Raphael argues that Judaism emerges as the only one of the three major religions to leave ‘middle ground... uncluttered by predetermined dogma’By Mark Glanville2 min read||July 31, 2025 09:51
Summer 2025 reading: the hottest booksYou don’t need to be going abroad to be transported to distant shores with our pick of the summer’s best holiday reads. From courtroom dramas to wartime love stories, Jennifer Lipman has you covered.By Jennifer Lipman4 min read||July 25, 2025 10:16
Iosi, the Remorseful Spy review: ‘it all ends badly’This book about the spy who came to regret his double life inside Argentina’s Jewish world is a structural messBy Robert Low2 min read||July 20, 2025 12:02
Autocorrect by Etgar Keret review: ‘thirty-three troubling short stories’The Israeli writer’s latest short story collection features dating, sex, relationships – and deep wells of loneliness in contemporary IsraelBy David Herman1 min read||July 18, 2025 16:20
The Jewish Literary Foundation launches a new prize for translated worksThe winning translator will receive a £3,000 cash award and be invited to speak at Jewish Book Week 2026By JC Reporter1 min read||July 18, 2025 09:40
