Books The Scrapbook by Heather Clark review: ‘I wanted to know what his grandfather had done in the war’This is a beautiful and powerful debut novel examining intergenerational trauma, inherited guilt and all-consuming loveBy Lianne Kolirin 1 min read
BooksThe Age of Hitler review: What's next for the West? And will it be good for the Jews?This is an incisive and persuasive account of how the story of the Second World World has been the West’s defining narrative of the past 80 years. But when the author predicts the resurgence of a Christian tradition, his polemic becomes vaporousBy David Bennun2 min read
Books Marseille 1940 by Uwe Wittstock: one hack’s mission to save Jewish intelligentsia from the NazisThis is a gripping account of young and unassuming American journalist Varian Fry’s mission to save the literary and artistic greats of his dayBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read
Books The Third Reich of Dreams review: ‘surreal testimonies to a nightmarish reality’This is a fascinating piece of work about people’s dreams in Nazi GermanyBy Alun David 2 min read
BooksBest-selling Liz Kessler on her new Emily Windsnap novelThe children’s writer says she thinks of her character Emily as her ‘better and braver part’By Angela Kiverstein4 min read
BooksThe Propagandist review: ‘a devastating account of Vichy France’Historian Cécile Desprairies’ debut novel is a dark and powerful account of the French men and women who eagerly embraced evilBy David Herman2 min read
BooksGertrude Stein: An Afterlife review – her work, letters and shopping listsThis forensically researched and lengthy tome uses previously unearthed documents that throw light on Stein’s personal relationships and her attitude to her work and legacyBy Monica Porter3 min read
The Director by Daniel Kehlmann review: ‘everyone is a collaborator’This fictionalised portrait of Austrian film-maker GW Pabst and his moral struggles under the Nazis immerses us in a world thick with fear, corruption and self-deceptionBy David Bennun1 min read||June 19, 2025 16:18
Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker, review: ‘a Bloomsday treat’This is a fascinating tribute to Richard Ellmann, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and James Joyce’s greatest biographerBy David Herman1 min read||June 13, 2025 15:48
‘Why my Zionist novel shows the pull of the Jewish state and not the push of Jew-hate’By David Isaacson3 min read||June 13, 2025 12:14
Israeli-born author of ‘The Safekeep’ wins Women’s Prize for FictionYael van der Wouden’s bold debut novel charts the emotional aftermath of the Holocaust in a post-war NetherlandsBy Eliana Jordan2 min read||June 12, 2025 18:30
Year of the Rat review: ‘proof the threat to British Jews from the far right never went away’This report on the new face of the far right is timely and frightening in equal measureBy David Bennun3 min read||June 11, 2025 16:29
Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil review: ‘Tangled up in clues’This new book about the search for the real Dylan could be more enlighteningBy Jenni Frazer2 min read||June 8, 2025 22:33
The Jewish Pedlar review: ‘Anglo-Jewry’s only mass murderer’This is a fascinating account of a terrible murder by a Jewish pedlar in eighteenth century England and an excellent example of historian Tony Kushner’s important work documenting the life and culture of Jews in BritainBy David Herman2 min read||June 8, 2025 19:38
Is your child anxious? Vanessa Feltz’s daughter can helpSaskia Joss on her new book and why we are our children’s security guardBy Jennifer Lipman7 min read||June 6, 2025 13:41
Chutzpah review: ‘The strictly Orthodox rebel who had every reason to leave her community, but who chose to stay’In her new memoir, Yehudis Fletcher writes compellingly about arranged marriage, parental neglect and sexual abuse in Charedi JudaismBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read||June 5, 2025 14:14
