Books No Road Leading Back review: ‘hell and real heroism’This is the one of the best books written about the Shoah by Bullets, an often overlooked aspect of the HolocaustBy David Herman2 min read
Books Elaine review: ‘Jew lite-ville’Despite its plethora of Yiddishe names, it is difficult to see Self’s latest novel as a reckoning with his Jewish identity and the writing is also a long way from the rhythms of Bellow, Roth and Nicole KraussBy David Herman2 min read
Booker PrizeBooker Prize 2024 shortlist includes three Jewish authorsHalf of the six authors shortlisted for the prestigious literary award are Jewish, and five are women – the most in Booker Prize historyBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
Books The Shapiro Family review: ‘portraits of a forgotten dynasty’These are fascinating portraits of an extraordinary family few now rememberBy Jenni Frazer2 min read
Books Goodbye to Russia review: ‘the journalists who don’t make old bones’This is an important book about the plight of reporters and activists, many of them Jewish, under PutinBy Colin Shindler2 min read
Books Jewish Nonagenarians review: ‘triumph over adversity’The extraordinary lives of these ordinary people are utterly fascinatingBy David Herman2 min read
Books An Absence of Cousins review: ‘it does Segal a disservice’These literary short stories skewer the pretensions of the elite excruciatingly well, but they also feel terribly datedBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read
I Seek a Kind Person review: ‘the British small ads that saved Jews from the Nazis’Guardian journalist Julian Borger has written an emotionally disturbing family memoir that sets out some of the facts and figures of the Shoah in absorbing displayBy Jenni Frazer3 min read||August 28, 2024 17:33
My grandmother’s handmade lifeMiriam Gold talks to me about the multimedia biography she has created that tells the remarkable tale of her granny Elena, who by the age of 17, had already escaped Stalin and Hitler to become a doctor in the UKBy Anne Joseph6 min read||August 28, 2024 14:59
Sophie Says: the children’s books making a differenceThe self-published book series by Esther Marshall has so far sold more than 25,000 copiesBy Elisa Bray3 min read||August 28, 2024 12:01
Remembering the golden age of the New York Jewish intellectual maleI talk to the author of a new book about a group of mid-century Jewish writers who hold a mystique to this dayBy David Cohen4 min read||August 22, 2024 17:01
NYC bookstore owner blames staffer for cancelling Jewish book event over ‘Zionist’ rabbiPowerHouse Books in Brooklyn cancelled the launch of Joshua Leifer’s book Tablets Shattered, claiming they ‘would not permit a Zionist on the premises’By Eliana Jordan5 min read||August 21, 2024 16:59
The Writers’ Castle review: ‘gripping portrait of the reporters at Nuremberg’This is a fascinating account of the hacks who reported on the post-WW2 trialsBy Robert Low2 min read||August 14, 2024 16:06
Hitler’s People review: ‘an important book’Sobering and incisive commentary on the men who persuaded ordinary Germans to become mass murderersBy Colin Shindler2 min read||August 14, 2024 15:55
Going Home by Tom Lamont review: ‘The significance of duty’He writes sharply about the web of obligation and Judaism, conveniently, provides a clear framework for such a lifeBy Felix Pope2 min read||August 1, 2024 11:37
Two Hours by Alba Arikha review: ‘I read it twice’This is the only time I have finished a novel and then turned straight back to the first pageBy Amanda Hopkinson1 min read||August 1, 2024 11:24
