Books Does the world really need another Leonard Cohen biography?The late, great singer’s life story has been committed to print in some 30 books, and this latest publication is one too manyBy Jenni Frazer2 min read
Books Why in the Middle East, a cartoon can be worth a thousands wordsThis visual guide to the Arab-Israeli conflict between 1917 and 1949 is enthrallingBy Robert Low2 min read
Books Were the Nazis inherently evil?Do we have free will, or is it all written in the womb? The neurologist-author of new book looks at the science behind our actionsBy Jennifer Lipman4 min read
Books The 2025 Wingate Prize longlist is announcedThe shortlist will be announced next month and the winner in FebruaryBy Karen Glaser4 min read
BooksThey Were Good Germans Once review: ‘the trials of the yekke’This is a welcome memoir on the German Jews who were ashamed of being JewishBy Mark Glanville1 min read
Books Why Not Let the Leaning Tower Collapse review: ‘big questions on history and morality’Daniel Snowman is an engaging historian who brings a wide range of subjects to life in this new book of essaysBy David Herman2 min read
Books Why the English country house was also often JewishThe book I have co-edited confronts uncomfortable ideas about Jewish money, power and antisemitism head onBy Abigail Green4 min read
Meet the Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok sensationGidon Lev, who has over 500,000 social media followers, spent his early years in a concentration camp but refused to let the experience define himBy Jennifer Lipman5 min read||November 13, 2024 11:12
The enduring appeal of Nora Ephron, and the golden age of rom-comsA new book about the Jewish writer and director’s filmography brings nostalgia for the era of When Harry Met Sally style rom-comsBy Eliana Jordan3 min read||November 12, 2024 14:23
The Viennese-born snapper who recorded social injustice in BritainEdith Tudor Hart was an immensely talented documentary photographer whose work deserves to be better known. This biography-in-the-round will helpBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read||November 8, 2024 13:55
The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’Booker and Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarcuk’s latest work falls slightly short of her previous literary achievementsBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read||November 1, 2024 16:06
The Thinking Heart review: ‘David Grossman’s dream for Israel omits certain details’The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemiesBy David Herman2 min read||November 1, 2024 16:02
Over 1,000 authors including Sally Rooney sign ‘discriminatory’ boycott letterUK Lawyers for Israel claimed similar anti-Israel boycotts have faced legal actionBy Imogen Garfinkel2 min read||October 28, 2024 15:48
By Any Other Name review: ‘Shakespeare’s Marrano sister’In bestselling Jodi Picoult’s latest book some of the Bard’s most famous works were written by a Jewish woman who observes Friday night and Yom Kippur and sits a version of shiva when her friend diesBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read||October 22, 2024 15:01
The feted scholar who fears for Israel’s soulEven if you don’t fully agree with his views, Holocaust survivor Saul Friedländer’s centrality to Israeli history makes his analysis of the country vitalBy Felix Pope2 min read||October 16, 2024 10:22
‘My fiction shows the truth of what’s going on in northern Israel’Sarah Sultoon on how her experience reporting on Hezbollah and Lebanon steered her approach to writing her novel DirtBy Natalie Goldwater3 min read||October 16, 2024 09:26
