books

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker, review: ‘a Bloomsday treat’

This is a fascinating tribute to Richard Ellmann, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and James Joyce’s greatest biographer

‘Why my Zionist novel shows the pull of the Jewish state and not the push of Jew-hate’

Israeli-born author of ‘The Safekeep’ wins Women’s Prize for Fiction

Yael van der Wouden’s bold debut novel charts the emotional aftermath of the Holocaust in a post-war Netherlands

Year of the Rat review: ‘proof the threat to British Jews from the far right never went away’

This report on the new face of the far right is timely and frightening in equal measure

Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil review: ‘Tangled up in clues’

This new book about the search for the real Dylan could be more enlightening

The Jewish Pedlar review: ‘Anglo-Jewry’s only mass murderer’

This is a fascinating account of a terrible murder by a Jewish pedlar in eighteenth century England and an excellent example of historian Tony Kushner’s important work documenting the life and culture of Jews in Britain

Is your child anxious? Vanessa Feltz’s daughter can help

Saskia Joss on her new book and why we are our children’s security guard

Chutzpah review: ‘The strictly Orthodox rebel who had every reason to leave her community, but who chose to stay’

In her new memoir, Yehudis Fletcher writes compellingly about arranged marriage, parental neglect and sexual abuse in Charedi Judaism

The Einstein Vendetta, review: ‘the tragic fate of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin’

This terrible war crime story does an enormous service to the Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s wider family