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
AntisemitismApple 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
BooksThe 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
BooksLost 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
Books 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
BooksThe 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
Books 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
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
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||July 11, 2025 17:11
The 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||July 11, 2025 12:26
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||July 2, 2025 16:03
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||June 27, 2025 15:26
Best-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||June 27, 2025 13:55
The 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||June 27, 2025 13:05
