David Herman

The Hebrew Teacher review: ‘big questions about the future of Israel’

Maya Arad’s trio of widely feted novellas examine the familial and professional challenges facing Jews in California and in the Jewish state

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 Holocaust

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 Krauss

Jewish Nonagenarians review: ‘triumph over adversity’

The extraordinary lives of these ordinary people are utterly fascinating

The Pendragon Legend, review: Upper-class chomps and femmes fatales pitched into dark country-house thriller

I was bowled over by this rediscovered work of master novelist Antal Szerb

The Jewish war novelist who told the stories of soldiers, not officers

The republishing of Alexander Baron’s books is a reminder of just how outstanding his fiction is

Do opportunities knock twice in life? Two men who might just know

In which I admire a literary critic and psychoanalyst’s work

‘Kafka was deeply interested in many aspects of his Jewishness, including the then new Zionist movement’

A hundred years after his death, a new exhibition looks at the man behind the legend, bringing us closer to the literary icon than ever before

Book review: Reassessing Kafka 100 years on

Literary sorcerer focused on the instability of life

Our writer pays tribute to Paul Auster who died this week

Knife by Salman Rushdie, review: What about the other victims of the new fundamentalism?

This book is a deeply moving account of a devastating attack and its consequences, but it is also guilty of sins of omission

My father risked his life making fun of Hitler

The defiance of a Jewish artist and poet in hiding in wartime Holland is explored in a deeply moving new exhibition in the German capital