David Herman

David Herman

David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer

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How Jewish refugees changed British childhood

This is an extraordinary collection of essays about some extraordinary emigré artists and writers

By David Herman

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How Jewish refugees changed British childhood
Protesters hold placards during a demonstration to protest against antisemitism, in central London on November 26, 2023 (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

These books about hate are already out of date

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Man Booker Prize-winning novelist and journalist Howard Jacobson. Photo: John Nguyen/JNVisual

What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review: How smart word play can conceal an inner emptiness

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The details of concentration camp life are brought to terrifying life

The details of concentration camp life are brought to terrifying life

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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon review: Getting personal with a literary giant

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December 14, 2023 18:21
Arad, ISRAEL: (FILES)-Israeli writer and peace activist Amos Oz posses 26 February 2007 at his home in Arad in southern Israel. Israeli writer Amos Oz has been awarded Spain's high-prestige Prince of Asturias award for literature, organisers said 27 June 2007. Oz was born in 1939 in Jerusalem. AFP PHOTO/RELI AVRAHAMI-ISRAEL OUT (Photo credit should read RELI AVRAHAMI/AFP via Getty Images)

Obituary: Tobias Hill

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November 16, 2023 14:30
Obituary: Tobias Hill

The Book of Paradise review: Moonlit nights, pious Jews and demons

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September 22, 2023 12:04
The Book of Paradise review: Moonlit nights, pious Jews and demons

The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories review - Dark tales of Orthodox life with a feminist twist

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July 27, 2023 15:12
The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories review - Dark tales of Orthodox life with a feminist twist

Isaiah Berlin: A Life review - A fine account intellectual's Jewishness and Englishness

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July 21, 2023 08:44
Philosopher and historian of ideas, Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909 - 1997, standing) chairing a 'musical discussion' at the Bath International Music Festival, 4th June 1959. On the panel are (left to right) violinist, Yehudi Menuhin (1916 - 1999), composer and writer, Nicolas Nabokov (1903 - 1978), Berlin, and music critic and BBC Controller of Music, William Glock (1908 - 2000). The event was organised by Menuhin in his first year as the festival's director. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cameraman review: Suspense in short supply in evocation of the Thirties

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June 15, 2023 16:29
The Cameraman review: Suspense in short supply in evocation of the Thirties

The very Jewish legacy of the non-Jewish Martin Amis

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May 24, 2023 15:14
The very Jewish legacy of the non-Jewish Martin Amis

Book review: August Blue - A musical mystery stuck in a minor key

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May 12, 2023 12:58
Book review: August Blue - A musical mystery stuck in a minor key

Clive Sinclair: The gunslinger armed with a pen

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April 28, 2023 12:09
Clive Sinclair: The gunslinger armed with a pen

Ukraine re-discovers its Jewish writers

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March 23, 2023 13:50
Ukraine re-discovers its Jewish writers

The next generation of Holocaust memoir is equally as powerful

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March 10, 2023 15:40
The next generation of Holocaust memoir is equally as powerful

Why Saul Bellow was the best US Jewish writer of his generation

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February 23, 2023 13:46
Why Saul Bellow was the best US Jewish writer of his generation
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