booksAn unexpectedly Jewish treasure island sure to keep you completely hooked on the beach this summerBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read
booksBook review: Peering into the black hole and dirty soul of the Weimar RepublicThis is a fascinating study of inter-war Germany, but there are big Jewish gapsBy Harry Freedman2 min read
booksThe writer who wept at his daughter’s bat mitzvahMemories of his own boyhood in apartheid-era South Africa cast a shadow on Danis Hirson’s own coming of ageBy Gaby Koppel4 min read
BooksThe New York rabbi giving Bridgerton a Yiddishe twistJo David has drawn on her experience delivering High Holy Day sermons to write a Regency romanceBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
BooksWhat to read next? Ask the Matzah Ball book clubA social media book group is spreading Jewish joy. Lizzie Kapren meets the women picking the must-reads every month to share with its membersBy Elizabeth Karpen5 min read
Sally Rooney, Naomi Klein join calls threaten to boycott literary festivals over links to IsraelWriters critical of Israel say summer festival season ‘can expect escalation and disruption’By Jane Prinsley2 min read||May 16, 2024 13:12
Cafe nostalgia: the coffeehouses that tell Europe’s storyA Jewish man set up the first cafe in England – and in Europe coffee houses were central to Jewish culture, as Monica Porter’s new book detailsBy Monica Porter4 min read||May 15, 2024 09:00
Literary sorcerer focused on the instability of lifeOur writer pays tribute to Paul Auster who died this weekBy David Herman1 min read||May 8, 2024 20:03
Ancient barbecues and other tasty morsels of archaeologyThis brief and breezy guide to Israel’s ancient sites is an impressive achievementBy Robert Low2 min read||May 8, 2024 19:58
Society of Authors rejects ‘one-sided’ Gaza motionJewish writers relieved as union votes against ‘divisive’ anti-Israel motionBy Jane Prinsley1 min read||May 5, 2024 11:21
Chaim Wiezmann: ‘I am now convinced that without him there would be no state of Israel’The brilliant chemist used acetone to advance Zionism in the same way Herzl used journalism, says the co-author of a magisterial new biography of the leaderBy Stephen Pollard5 min read||May 3, 2024 13:52
Our Palestine Question, review: An ode to Jews who uttered difficult words in dark timesBy Colin Shindler2 min read||April 26, 2024 15:35
Knife by Salman Rushdie, review: What about the other victims of the new fundamentalism?This book is a deeply moving account of a devastating attack and its consequences, but it is also guilty of sins of omissionBy David Herman2 min read||April 26, 2024 15:33
Society of Authors ‘hijacked by extremists’ after Gaza motion omits HamasJewish writers voiced fears that if the motion passes, the next stop may be boycott of ‘Zionists’ themselvesBy Jane Prinsley6 min read||April 22, 2024 13:54
