Books 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
BooksThe 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
Books38 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
Books How heroes outwitted collaborators in Nazi-occupied NorwayThis book is a rigorously documented history of wartime resistance in NorwayBy Robert Low2 min read
Books‘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
BooksThe 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
Jewish booksThe Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz review: ‘they played for their lives’This thoroughly researched book explains why a place in the death camp’s only women’s orchestra was sought after, and the moral dilemmas that came with itBy Monica Porter2 min read
The ordinary choices of ordinary people in post-war GermanyThis is a remarkable novel about how everyday Europeans faced up to life as war drew to a closeBy David Herman3 min read||April 4, 2025 10:02
How Henry VIII turned to rabbis to divorce wife No1A new book claims Jewish scholars guided the Tudor king in his row with RomeBy Jenni Frazer5 min read||March 28, 2025 12:27
My novel shows that Jews and Scots have more in common than you may thinkJenni Daiches’s family saga is on the longlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize for FictionBy Jenni Frazer5 min read||March 26, 2025 12:53
Are we really so special? Two new works take on the great Jewish identity debateTwo authors, a sociologist and an academic, have written books about the modern Jewish experience. One is partisan, the other is rigorously methodical...By Alun David 5 min read||March 18, 2025 12:12
Manya Wilkinson: ‘I wanted to write an edgy novel about the shtetl’This year’s Wingate winner on her tragicomedy Lublin and lost family historyBy Jennifer Lipman6 min read||March 13, 2025 12:59
‘Judaism gets how to keep people alive after they die’YA author Gayle Forman on her latest book which explores a teenage deathBy Angela Kiverstein4 min read||March 11, 2025 14:11
The Chasidic stories that anticipate the parables of Franz KafkaRabbi Nachman of Bratslav was one of the great Chasidic writers of the early modern period, and this Pushkin Press translation of his tales of rabbis, robbers, princes and paradoxes is a treasureBy David Herman1 min read||March 7, 2025 12:51
The Prosecutor review: ‘the Jew who put his country on trial’This is a monumental biography of Fritz Bauer, the German-Jewish lawyer who went back to Deutschland to see justice doneBy Jenni Frazer2 min read||March 7, 2025 12:12
Why aren’t Jews allowed to just be ordinary?Yes, we’re often brilliant but we can also be desperately mediocre…By Keith Kahn-Harris3 min read||March 5, 2025 16:19
