ZionismProgressive Movement launches new book on ZionismCollection of 40 essays by rabbis and activists intended to encourage discussion and debateBy Simon Rocker1 min read
ZionismGrappling with ‘the challenge of our time’ – the relationship between Judaism and IsraelThe co-editor of a new collection of essays from the Progressive movement explains what motivated it4 min read
Progressive JudaismWhy three is better than two in Jewish thinkingRabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah challenges the ‘tyranny’ of binary divisions on gender, Israel and other topics in a new bookBy Simon Rocker4 min read
Books The horror behind Hayim Bialik’s most feted poemOn the Slaughter is considered the Russian-Jewish poet’s masterpiece, as well as his most controversial workBy David Herman1 min read
folkloreKosher monster: the return of the golemWe take a look at the legend behind Dan Brown’s new thrillerBy Simon Rocker3 min read
BooksThe case for surrealism: ‘Rooms for Vanishing’ author Stuart Nadler on writing catastrophe in our senseless eraThe 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 griefBy Eliana Jordan3 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
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
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
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
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 12:56
The 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||April 10, 2025 10:51
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
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
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
