BooksNashville book shop cancels Jewish author’s launch after antizionist backlashThe outlet’s owner cited security concerns, but the writer claimed she had been targeted because of her Jewish identityBy Gabrielle Apfel2 min read
Books Wine, women and ignoring the genocideIt is the first time this disturbing war portrait has been published in EnglishBy David Herman1 min read
Books Eyewitness accounts of the Nazi war machineRichard Hargreaves’s superb history of Hitler’s 1942 bid to rule the world is the product of 15 years’ researchBy Robert Low3 min read
BooksSummer 2026 reading: the hottest booksTake your imagination far away with our best holiday reads. From a middle-aged woman cruise with the idols of her youth to the story behind the Brooklyn Bridge, here are our best picksBy Jennifer Lipman4 min read
BooksThe forgotten European football stars who were murdered for being JewishDavid Bolchover’s book about the doomed players who were once celebrated for their brillianceBy David Bennun3 min read
Holocaust‘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 MedoffBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read
SpainSpanish anti-Israel mob blocks Jewish poet's book launchAn organiser of the protest described Jewish writer Marcos-Ricardo Barnatán as a ‘Zionist who says Palestine does not exist’ and helps ‘whitewash’ Israel’s imageBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read
Stealing Hitler’s Rocket review: ‘The only problem may be that no one will believe it’The extraordinary story of how the Polish underground sent the world’s first cruise missile to UK scientists is superbly reconstructed by Guy WaltersBy Robert Low3 min read||July 3, 2026 11:42
From the Front Line review: Vasily Grossman gives us an unrivalled picture of the warDavid Bennun is mesmerised by the Soviet Jewish journalist’s articles, and what they reveal about himBy David Bennun5 min read||June 26, 2026 12:06
What do the preoccupations of our novelists say about Anglo-Jewry and wider society?What stories are the People of the Book writing and reading about themselves?By Leon Craig6 min read||June 17, 2026 12:08
JPC party gives ‘strength’ to Jewish publishers and authors facing racism post October 7Guests at the event heard a panel chaired by Hadley Freeman with writers Adam LeBor, Max Olesker and Hilary FreemanBy Elisa Bray2 min read||June 11, 2026 14:39
‘Judaism and heavy metal teach us how to live – and what it means to die well’Lecturer Keith Kahn-Harris’s new book ‘The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne’ celebrates the life and death of the Prince of Darkness, whose music shares profound similarities with Judaism, he arguesBy Daniel Ben-David3 min read||June 5, 2026 12:26
Judy Blume’s story, told lovingly and in exhaustive detail – but without her inputThis is a lovingly delivered portrait but it feels too often like a sanitised version of the writer’s lifeBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read||June 4, 2026 15:00
Secrets and lies: Victoria Redel’s new novel imagines the world of a woman artist in 17th century AmsterdamThe Jews who fled from Portugal to the Netherlands play a key part in the storyBy Keren David5 min read||May 27, 2026 11:20
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 GestapoBy Robert Low3 min read||May 22, 2026 19:30
Something Might Fall review: Portrait of a woman on the edge and a marriage on fireDavid Flusfeder’s modernist novella is full of unresolved sentences and unlikeable charactersBy Jenni Frazer2 min read||May 21, 2026 15:39
