David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer
A modern translation of a 1933 collection of four connected stories
The Holocaust looms large and Israel looms even larger, though not an Israel at war.
Refugee who brought the best of inter-war Vienna to British art publishing
The 1970s BBC drama showcase launched many careers. David Herman looks back.
Death looms large in this collection of essays
Really part novel, part memoir, it is not difficult to decide which part is better. The novel is too long, largely dull and should have been better edited
Louise Glück has been publishing poetry for more than 60 years
Key figure in mad, mad, mad world of post-war American-Jewish humour
This terrific, gripping book is, first, the story of sons haunted by their fathers and the terrible times they all lived through
This is a dark thriller, which picks up pace as it goes along, says David Herman
Iczkovits is a born storyteller and has done his research for this historical novel
A B Yehoshua's most recent novels are about characters approaching old age. His latest deals with the onset of dementia.
David Herman lists the Jewish books you probably always meant to get round to
What unites such different writers as Bellow and Bruno Schulz, Roth and Primo Levi? With Jewish Book Week approaching, it's time to ask what makes a writer a 'Jewish writer'?
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