David Herman
David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer
Why Not Let the Leaning Tower Collapse review: ‘big questions on history and morality’
Daniel Snowman is an engaging historian who brings a wide range of subjects to life in this new book of essays
The Thinking Heart review: ‘David Grossman’s dream for Israel omits certain details’
The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemies
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
How Jewish refugees changed British childhood
This is an extraordinary collection of essays about some extraordinary emigré artists and writers
These books about hate are already out of date
David Herman finds much of interest in two timely essay collections about antisemitism — but why is there so little emphasis on Iran or immigration?
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