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‘My Holocaust book was cancelled after I refused editor’s demand to slur Israel’

‘Accusing Israel of genocide is a lie, and requiring a Holocaust scholar to denounce Israel in order to publish his book is antisemitic bullying’ said Rafael Medoff

By Daniel Ben-David

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A group of activists protest a poetry book presentation by Marcos-Ricardo Barnatán, forcing the event to be cancelled (Credit: X)

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Spanish anti-Israel mob blocks Jewish poet's book launch

By Daniel Ben-David

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London's calling: V2 rocket arriving at Trafalgar Square, London, in 1945

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Stealing Hitler’s Rocket review: ‘The only problem may be that no one will believe it’

By Robert Low

3 min read

Obdurate insistence: the writer Vasily Grossman, and Jews arriving at Treblinka in August 1942

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From the Front Line review: Vasily Grossman gives us an unrivalled picture of the war

By David Bennun

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Diversity: (left to right) Toby Lloyd, Howard Jacobson and Francesca Simon (Photos: Helen Giles,Suzie Howell)

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What do the preoccupations of our novelists say about Anglo-Jewry and wider society?

By Leon Craig

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(Left to right) Adam LeBor, Hilary Freeman, Max Olesker and Hadley Freeman, together with Steph Thwaites and Larry Finlay, co-chairs of the Jewish Publishing Circle

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JPC party gives ‘strength’ to Jewish publishers and authors facing racism post October 7

By Elisa Bray

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Death

‘Judaism and heavy metal teach us how to live – and what it means to die well’

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

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Judy Blume’s story, told lovingly and in exhaustive detail – but without her input

This is a lovingly delivered portrait but it feels too often like a sanitised version of the writer’s life

By Jennifer Lipman

2 min read

June 4, 2026 15:00

Secrets and lies: Victoria Redel’s new novel, I Am You, imagines the world of a woman artist in 17th century Amsterdam

The Jews who fled from Portugal to the Netherlands play a key part in the story

By Keren David

5 min read

May 27, 2026 11:20

Secrets and lies: Victoria Redel’s new novel, I Am You, imagines the world of a woman artist in 17th century Amsterdam

Stay Alive by Ian Buruma review: ‘a meticulously researched war history’

In his understated matter-of-fact style, Buruma tells the extraordinary stories of the Berliner Jews who evaded arrest by the Gestapo

By Robert Low

3 min read

May 22, 2026 19:30

Something Might Fall review: Portrait of a woman on the edge and a marriage on fire

David Flusfeder’s modernist novella is full of unresolved sentences and unlikeable characters

By Jenni Frazer

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May 21, 2026 15:39

Something Might Fall review: Portrait of a woman on the edge and a marriage on fire

The songs of anguish they wrote and sang in the Polish ghettos and camps

This book of songs from the Shoah was conceived and written in passion, and the unsparing efforts of the authors to trace their composers is laudable

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

May 14, 2026 18:03

Words for horror: lyricists Shmerke Kaczerginski (far left) and Abraham Sutzkever (second left) with two other survivors in a portrait taken in Moscow after the war

The Inspired review: ‘Reminds us that comfort can always be found in music’

James Inverne’s debut novel conveys the turmoil of a person under huge political pressure and is imbued with a musicality honed from decades of experience as a music journalist

By Ethan Daws

1 min read

May 13, 2026 14:37

The Inspired review: ‘Reminds us that comfort can always be found in music’

The Melted Pot review: ‘Why has this intolerance been tolerated?’

Harry Saul Markham’s sure-footed exploration of the forces of extremism which threaten Britain, and its Jews in particular, will alarm moderates, but it also offers a way ahead

By Ben Felsenburg

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April 29, 2026 15:30

Sobering times: the march against antisemitism in November 2023, and (right) Markham's new book

Worlds Apart review: How a terrible childhood can last a lifetime

This is beautifully written and translated autofiction by an author desperate to make sense of her bleak start in life

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April 29, 2026 11:31

Worlds Apart review: How a terrible childhood can last a lifetime

A medic’s front-line accounts of battlefield salvations

A former British Army officer is moved by a new book on military medicine and the ingenuity and humanity of those who adminster it

By Andrew Fox

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April 24, 2026 12:30

A medic’s front-line accounts of battlefield salvations

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‘My Holocaust book was cancelled after I refused editor’s demand to slur Israel’

Spanish anti-Israel mob blocks Jewish poet's book launch

Stealing Hitler’s Rocket review: ‘The only problem may be that no one will believe it’

From the Front Line review: Vasily Grossman gives us an unrivalled picture of the war

What do the preoccupations of our novelists say about Anglo-Jewry and wider society?

JPC party gives ‘strength’ to Jewish publishers and authors facing racism post October 7

‘Judaism and heavy metal teach us how to live – and what it means to die well’

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