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David Herman

David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer

Latest from David Herman

The next generation of Holocaust memoir is equally as powerful

The children of survivors are well placed to offer an attempt at answers, along with detailed research and recollections

By David Herman

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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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Arabesques Book review: Twisting time and place and politics

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Obituary: Edith Pearlman

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More from David Herman

Who Is Mr. Poliakoff? Book review: A Jewish answer to a Le Carré thriller

Short novel packed full of history, from the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union to secret agents in Israel, is full of twists and turns

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January 12, 2023 17:59

Who Is Mr. Poliakoff? Book review: A Jewish answer to a Le Carré thriller

‘Deep feelings and a wild imagination’ - a tribute to the short-story queen Grace Paley

To mark the centenary of her birth, a celebration of a writer whose work focused on the roles of men and women

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November 17, 2022 15:24

‘Deep feelings and a wild imagination’ - a tribute to the short-story queen Grace Paley

Ignore the naysayers, we’re living in a golden age of Jewish writing

Modern diaspora fiction is going through a period of growth and Israeli fiction is booming

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October 20, 2022 13:29

Ignore the naysayers, we’re living in a golden age of Jewish writing

Book review - Chapters of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir - Evocative portrait of a long-gone era

Literary memoir by one of the great Anglo-Jewish writers, whose best work focused on working-class life in London

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October 20, 2022 12:13

Book review - Chapters of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir - Evocative portrait of a long-gone era

Book review: Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth - A doomed, drunk wandering genius

Keiron Pim's biography of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century is a dark story, movingly told

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October 14, 2022 14:11

Book review: Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth - A doomed, drunk wandering genius

Book review: The English GI - A soldier’s graphic story

Moving story told in pictures mixing maps, drawings and moving family photographs

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September 29, 2022 14:28

Book review: The English GI - A soldier’s graphic story

Book review: Clouds over Paris - the banal life of an occupier

Fascinating chronicle of the Nazi-occupied French capital shows how the most everyday issues seem more important than the biggest historical issues of the day

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September 22, 2022 13:07

Book review: Clouds over Paris - the banal life of an occupier

Did The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas need a sequel?

Critics attacked John Boyne's 2006 novel for obscuring the historical reality of the Holocaust. Now he's back with a follow-up

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September 15, 2022 13:59

Did The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas need a sequel?

Book review: The People Immortal - A final war novel from a Russian master

A gripping chronicle of Soviet life in wartime and an indispensable companion piece to the author's other works

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September 13, 2022 09:40

Book review: The People Immortal - A final war novel from a Russian master

Book review: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - The monster who hid from justice

A dark and disgusting story of how Germans, Catholics and Americans helped countless Nazis find refuge during the Cold War, including some of the most infamous figures from the Holocaust

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September 1, 2022 09:31

Book review: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - The monster who hid from justice

Book review: The Incandescent Threads - Mystic hokum or a popular classic?

The latest in author's Sephardic Cycle begins begins by portraying the relationship between a Jewish-American artist and his father, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw

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August 5, 2022 14:48

Book review: The Incandescent Threads - Mystic hokum or a popular classic?

Book review: The Only Daughter by A.B. Yehoshua - Italian swansong of an Israeli Master

The final book by one of the last of that great generation of Israeli writers born in the 1930s is a wonderful farewell from a great literary master

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July 8, 2022 09:23

Grand canal on sunny day in Venice, Italy