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
Books 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
Books 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
BooksChutzpah 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
Books 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
TalmudThis 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
BooksMy 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
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 14:36
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 15:31
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 14:33
Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade, review: ‘a lost world comes to life’A deeply affecting portrait of a pious family’s trials and turmoil in an eastern Europe on the brink of collapseBy Mark Glanville2 min read||May 9, 2025 13:56
The Assault review: ‘return of a classic war novel’First published in 1982, this book about the choices of ordinary people in war sold more than 200,000 copies and inspired an Oscar-winning film. Now it has been republished with a new introductionBy David Herman2 min read||May 2, 2025 16:23
38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review: Pinochet and the NazisThe human rights lawyer’s latest book reveals the links between the notorious Chilean dictator and the Nazi inventor of the ‘gas vans’By Jenni Frazer3 min read||May 2, 2025 10:35
How heroes outwitted collaborators in Nazi-occupied NorwayThis book is a rigorously documented history of wartime resistance in NorwayBy Robert Low2 min read||April 20, 2025 22:12
‘Douglas Murray’s latest book must be read even by those of us who think we know exactly what is going on’The journalist’s bestseller combines reportage from inside Israel, Gaza and Lebanon and should open minds to the precarious position we find ourselves in the WestBy Nicole Lampert6 min read||April 18, 2025 14:04
The Jewish influence on Germany’s post-war avant grade musicThis new portrait of Krautrock shows how the country’s rare Jewish survivors were central to its developmentBy David Bennun2 min read||April 16, 2025 13:36
