Gerald Jacobs

Ronnie Scott, jazz’s coolest Jew

The famous London club owner who brought Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and lokshen soup together

The refugee’s philosopher

Anne Michaels’s first novel, Fugitive Pieces, created a literary sensation. Twelve years on, her second work is ready

Interview: Reina James

Joyous, exciting and rarely there: my dad Sid James

Amoz Oz's 'anger' at mother for suicide

Secular and selfish — Amos Oz's Israel

Lobbied into the net

He survived Auschwitz, now he judges mass murderers

Thomas Buergenthal is a top UN human rights lawyer whose childhood experience of Nazi persecution has defined his career.

Book Week 2009 unveils an illustrious guest-list

Literary giants headline at February book festival

Jewish Book Week 2009 will begin and end with generous helpings of the cream of Israeli literature, Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua.

Squalor, liquor and love: my life with the satire elite

Elisabeth Luard on her marriage to the co-owner of Private Eye magazine.

Interview: Denis Norden

Clips from the life of a comedy king.

Interview: Howard Jacobson

'The one thing I can’t forgive Jews for…'

Spa-studded and stately

Budapest is dazzling, but there's more to Hungary than just its capital