The entire community of the eastern Ukraine city have either fled the country or are holed up in Kyiv
By Paul Cainer
Jonathan Freedland discussed his best-selling book The Escape Artist and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore quizzed experts on Vladimir Putin's war at fifth annual Cliveden Literary Festival
By Georgia L Gilholy
From the JC archive on October 12, 1973
By Keren David
At the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February, Kyiv's Central Synagogue was packed to the gunnels with human misery. Today, the shul is near-normal, as Kyiv bustles almost as busily as before the war started
By John Sweeney
Works of art are being transported out of Ukraine to Poland by brave volunteers led by Alina Viatkina, 26, who fled her homeland after the Russian invasion
By Ben Bloch
Fascinating chronicle of the Nazi-occupied French capital shows how the most everyday issues seem more important than the biggest historical issues of the day
By David Herman
A gripping chronicle of Soviet life in wartime and an indispensable companion piece to the author's other works
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Heroic war veteran who risked German capture to nurse her 'wonderful' American GI soldiers
By Peter Rapaport
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Writing duo behind One Man, Two Guvnors have created another rollickingly good farce
By John Nathan
Moti Kahana, renowned for his operations in saving refugees in Syria and Afghanistan, has launched a humanitarian service to bring vital supplies in and out of Ukraine.
By Jenni Frazer
The information young Londoner Jack Nissenthall gathered on a daring mission in Nazi-occupied Normandy played a vital role in D-Day planning
He saw piles of the dead but also watched survivors grow strong again, as babies were born, barmitzvahs and marriages were celebrated and his people came back to life
By Howard Parker
Security expert Jonathan Spyer discovers the real reason why soldiers are serving on the Donbas battlefields
By Jonathan Spyer
Suggestions that Ukraine should offer to cede territory in return for peace are greeted with scorn
Author David Flusfeder explores his family's history in this fascinating study of fortune
By David Conway
The sinking of a Russian warship has been immortalised in a stamp conceived by Ukraine’s Jewish postal chief, Igor Smelyansky
