Gerald Jacobs

A funeral with confetti and fireworks

The funeral for writer Sue Margolis was both the least Jewish of Jewish funerals and the most Jewish, says Gerald Jacobs

Scholarship, scandal and satire

Gerald Jacobs reports on the first Cliveden Literary Festival

Adam Kay: This is going to hurt

Adam Kay's new book tells the story of his move from medicine to comedy.

A very Jewish literary festival at Cliveden

Simon Schama and Hannah Rothschild are on the programme for a brand new literary event

The thinking man’s anti-Zionist

For George Steiner a Jew is “someone who, when reading a book, pencil in hand, is convinced he will write a better one”. Gerald Jacobs enjoys a book which captures Steiner's compelling conversations.

The joy of fatherhood

It's Father's Day on Sunday. Three JC writers reflect on the experience of being a Jewish dad

Grossman wins Man Booker International Prize

The £50,000 prize is shared with the book’s English translator, Jessica Cohen

A knight at the theatre

'I want to make up my own mind', says the eminent playwright.

So what have they done to our very Yiddish so?

The word 'so' used to have a Yiddish feel about it, says Gerald Jacobs. So what went wrong?

Who has the last laugh?

Is it acceptable to make jokes about the Holocaust? That's the question asked in Ferne Pearlstein's new documentary, The Last Laugh

A literary coming of age party

Jewish Book Week 2017 provoked debate and delight, says Gerald Jacobs. But where were the under 40s?

Washing the laundry not hands