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
Books 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
BooksEllmann’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
Books ‘Why my Zionist novel shows the pull of the Jewish state and not the push of Jew-hate’By David Isaacson3 min read
BooksIsraeli-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
Books 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
BooksBob 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
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
The Einstein Vendetta, review: ‘the tragic fate of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin’This terrible war crime story does an enormous service to the Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s wider familyBy Jenni Frazer2 min read||May 21, 2025 16:12
This man knows how you can talk to your children about IsraelIsrael’s former ambassador to the UK Daniel Taub, is a man who thinks he’s cracked how to disagree respectfullyBy Simon Rocker6 min read||May 20, 2025 13:56
My rootsy schmootsy journey to the Jewish East End that wasFor my latest novel I studied the east London of my forebears. This is what I foundBy Andrew Sanger3 min read||May 15, 2025 16:32
Does the brave new world of AI utterly baffle you? Then this is the book for youThis is an invaluable, clear and rather terrifying account for lay readers of the history, development and possible future of artificial intelligenceBy Robert Low2 min read||May 13, 2025 13:36
The Jewish Children's Book Awards launch their final competitionGreen Bean Books’ prize celebrates exciting new work by Jewish writers and illustrators working in the UK and EuropeBy Elisa Bray2 min read||May 12, 2025 14:31
Noble Fragments by Michael Visontay, review: ‘two stories in one book’This gripping expedition into an arcane world of book collectors and their eccentric passions papers over an even more intriguing yarn about family historyBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read||May 9, 2025 13:33
