Books The Jewish Renoir girls who were betrayed by FranceCatherine Ostler’s new book explores the fate of the children in the painter’s famous work Pink and Blue, one of whom was murdered at AuschwitzBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
BooksAcerbic verse from a ‘cantakerous’ Yiddish poetAnyone with an interest in Yiddish culture, or simply first-class poetry, will relish this excellent selectionBy Mark Glanville2 min read
Books The Tribe review: ‘a brilliantly told story of a once gilded Sephardi family’This epic set in Jewish Salonica is full of ideas, marvellously rich in detail and its people feel realBy David Bennun2 min read
Books Shushu review: ‘Motherhood, warts and all, beautiful, ugly and true’This graphic novel by a Jewish writer is a gift for a woman who is out the other side but can still see those moments in the rear windowBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read
Books Meet the world’s first fascistThis is a revelatory biography about the Frenchman who almost fought Dreyfus in a duelBy Robert Low3 min read
BooksWill Self: What inspired me to write this book? The Glasto crowd chanting ‘Death to the IDF’Twenty years on from his public resignation as a Jew, the novelist explains where he stands nowBy David Bennun6 min read
Books A useful handbook on the Israel-Palestine deadlock...until it turns to NetanyahuColin Shindler’s historical guide is erudite and concise but perhaps guilty of wishful thinking when it describes a Tel Aviv rally as Bibi’s ‘Ceaușescu moment’By Robert Low3 min read
Howard Jacobson’s brilliant new book on the moral insanity unleashed by October 7Howl is the first major British novel to address why so many in this country have been driven mad with hatred for IsraelBy David Herman2 min read||March 11, 2026 16:33
‘Our social enterprise gives people work experience and the confidence to go into the big, wide world’To mark World Book Day, the JC joined Kisharon Langdon members at its huge second-hand books warehouse in HarrowBy Ben Conway4 min read||March 9, 2026 14:21
Jewish Book Week draws record-breaking crowds on 75th anniversaryLondon’s oldest literary festival dates back to 1952By Daniel Ben-David1 min read||March 4, 2026 10:39
How landlord Rachman’s name became a household word for the worst reasonsNeil Roots has written a well-researched if lightly-edited biography about a man whose deeds were indefensibleBy Robert Low3 min read||February 27, 2026 12:03
Making the Cut review: razor-sharp tips on how to become an observant JewThis entertaining memoir does an excellent job of steering the non-Jewish, or less informed Jewish, reader through the maze of Orthodox JudaismBy Jenni Frazer2 min read||February 26, 2026 10:48
Eli Sharabi memoir ‘Hostage’ named Book of the Year at National Jewish Book AwardsThe book is ‘my testimony, a story of my survival, written so others could bear witness,’ the author saidBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read||February 20, 2026 17:15
New tales from the GhettoYou may think we know everything we need to about the world’s first ghetto and its Jews, but this remarkable history proves otherwiseBy Jenni Frazer1 min read||February 20, 2026 12:44
Meet the Holmes (and Watson) of pre-war East European JewryThe non-literary Yiddish tales of Spitzkopf and his assistant Fuchs display an appealing sense of Jewish invincibility and as such provide an insight into the minds of the Jews on the eve of their destructionBy Mark Glanville2 min read||February 19, 2026 15:09
Sex, lies and terroristsEllie Levenson’s thriller is a twisty page-turner with an intriguing concept that grabs from the get-goBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read||February 13, 2026 12:13
