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Jews and the curse of Munich Book review

Colin Shindler looks back at the city that bred Nazism

By Colin Shindler

2 min read

Aerial image of Munich, Germany with Christmas Market and Christmas decoration during sunset.

Homage and exposure: Two titanic German-Jewish women of letters

Homage and exposure: Two titanic German-Jewish women of letters

By Daniel Ben Ami

1 min read

WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 01/02/2022 - Programme Name: This Is Going To Hurt - TX: n/a - Episode: This Is Going To Hurt - Generics (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Adam (BEN WHISHAW) - (C) Sister - Photographer: Ludovic Robert

This is Going to Hurt TV review: My diagnosis? A painful lack of medical mirth

2 min read

Bestselling author Walter Mosley: My black and Jewish heritage

Bestselling author Walter Mosley: My black and Jewish heritage

By James Mottram

6 min read

Me & You - Adele & Jenny Geras

Me & You: ‘You don’t get nasty surprises with Jenny!’

By Jenni Frazer

4 min read

Smiling female teenager is on sill, holding disclosed volume

Miri’s on a mission

2 min read

Homemade roast beef sandwich

Why eating a pastrami sandwich is a mitzvah

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

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Vampires, Vikings and a dybbuk too

Traditional folklore inspires debut author Leon Craig

4 min read

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February 17, 2022 11:44

Vampires, Vikings and a dybbuk too

David Aberbach

By David Aberbach

How Joyce’s Ulysses bloomed out of Austro-Hungary’s Jews

Modernist masterpiece published 100 years ago is a rare exception to the prevailing literary antisemitism of the era

5 min read

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February 11, 2022 10:43

Irish ten punt banknote depicting a sketch of the face of James Joyce (novelist). The bank note is stuffed into a tin can.

A very Jewish romance - with a Yiddish flavour

A new novel tells the story of a Jewish fashionista struggling with her identity - and finding true love

By Karen Glaser

4 min read

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February 4, 2022 01:00

A very Jewish romance - with a Yiddish flavour

Book review: Dohany Street

This pacy police thriller set in Budapest might put the capital back on the city break map

By Alan Montague

1 min read

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January 30, 2022 20:55

"The Great Synagogue is located in the 7th district of Budapest. It is the largest synagogue in Europe and the fifth largest in the world seats 3,000 and is a centre of Neolog Judaism."

Book review: The Memory Monster

Yishai Sarid's dark satire exposes the bleak underbelly of Israeli Shoah remembrance

By Rabbi Howard Cooper

2 min read

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January 30, 2022 20:38

Book review: The Memory Monster

Danya Kukafka: Notes on a young writer

Kukafka's career took off when she was just a student

By Jennifer Lipman

6 min read

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January 28, 2022 10:00

Danya Kukafka: Notes on a young writer

Wingate Literary Prize short list released

The works cover topics from the Holocaust and Jewish life, to politics, gender, family

1 min read

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January 27, 2022 10:47

Wingate Literary Prize short list released

I read 250 books for the JC - these are the best

In 40 years, David Herman has reviewed the cream of Jewish literature. To mark his 250th review, he's picked out his favourite reads

By David Herman

6 min read

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January 20, 2022 09:51

I read 250 books for the JC - these are the best

Book review: The Matzah Ball

Mathilde Frot is entertained by a joyfully romantic debut novel

By Mathilde Frot

1 min read

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December 17, 2021 13:34

Book review: The Matzah Ball

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