We take a look at the legend behind Dan Brown’s new thriller
By Simon Rocker
The author’s new book about a Jewish family in post-war exile employs an unconventional format and elements of the supernatural to illustrate the disarray of grief
By Eliana Jordan
Yael van der Wouden’s bold debut novel charts the emotional aftermath of the Holocaust in a post-war Netherlands
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 Britain
By David Herman
For my latest novel I studied the east London of my forebears. This is what I found
By Andrew Sanger
This gripping expedition into an arcane world of book collectors and their eccentric passions papers over an even more intriguing yarn about family history
By Jennifer Lipman
A deeply affecting portrait of a pious family’s trials and turmoil in an eastern Europe on the brink of collapse
By Mark Glanville
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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 it
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Two 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
This year’s Wingate winner on her tragicomedy Lublin and lost family history
Rabbi 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 treasure
Yes, we’re often brilliant but we can also be desperately mediocre…
By Keith Kahn-Harris
In his daring new biography, Anthony Julius portrays a divided patriarch
The predominance of Zionism continues to pose challenges for Judaism, Oxford’s professor of Israel studies argues in his new book
From RAF pilots and members of the resistance risking their lives, to Jewish refugee nurses caring for the desperately wounded, this American playwright’s first novel is packed with twists and turns
Journalist Adam LeBor’s latest book quotes a wide range of newly revealed diaries and letters, and relates some remarkable tales of Jews being rescued
