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How Henry VIII turned to rabbis to divorce wife No1

A new book claims Jewish scholars guided the Tudor king in his row with Rome

By Jenni Frazer

5 min read

Marital issues: Jerry Rabow and his book

Displacement theme: Jenni Daiches and her new book

My novel shows that Jews and Scots have more in common than you may think

5 min read

Driven: Jewish judge Fritz Bauer (centre) in Frankfurt in 1964 and the biography about him

The Prosecutor review: ‘the Jew who put his country on trial’

2 min read

The Teacher of Auschwitz review: ‘he helped Jewish children survive hell’

2 min read

More from Jenni Frazer

The Power and the Glory review: ‘Jews who wished they were to the manor born’

This literary tour through the flamboyant Jewish-owned stately homes of the turn of the 20th century is highly entertaining

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January 22, 2025 16:51

The Power and the Glory review: ‘Jews who wished they were to the manor born’

Does the world really need another Leonard Cohen biography?

The late, great singer’s life story has been committed to print in some 30 books, and this latest publication is one too many

2 min read

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December 13, 2024 12:59

Does the world really need another Leonard Cohen biography?

The Shapiro Family review: ‘portraits of a forgotten dynasty’

These are fascinating portraits of an extraordinary family few now remember

2 min read

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September 11, 2024 17:46

The Shapiro Family review: ‘portraits of a forgotten dynasty’

I Seek a Kind Person review: ‘the British small ads that saved Jews from the Nazis’

Guardian journalist Julian Borger has written an emotionally disturbing family memoir that sets out some of the facts and figures of the Shoah in absorbing display

3 min read

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August 28, 2024 17:33

Welsh refuge: (clockwise from top left) Nans Bingley, Reg Bingley; Reg's mother Mary Bingley, Robert Borger, Jimmy Bingley and Erna Bingley pictured at the Bingleys' house in Caernarvon in about 1950. Above: Julian Borger's book

The Piano Player of Budapest review: A beautifully performed Holocaust symphony

Roxanne de Bastion has written an extraordinary Shoah memoir

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June 20, 2024 16:14

The Piano Player of Budapest review: A beautifully performed Holocaust symphony

The Curse of Pietro Houdini, review: Riveting wartime art-heist tale plus philosophy

This is a sweeping work of storytelling bravado

1 min read

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April 19, 2024 13:36

The Curse of Pietro Houdini, review: Riveting wartime art-heist tale plus philosophy

Review: Shylock’s Venice – An unimprovable book

A rigorous trawl through Venetian archives yields a work that begs for a lavish film adaptation

3 min read

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March 21, 2024 10:44

Back to the wall: Venice Ghetto (Photo: Felix Pope)

The Fleet Street hack who hobnobbed with Hitler before becoming a spy

The appearance of this book could not be more timely, nor its message more urgent

3 min read

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March 8, 2024 10:47

Inside story: 'Daily Express' journalist Sefton Delmer after the war Credit: Getty

Adama review: The land and the blood have the last say

Everyone gets what’s coming to him or her in Lavie Tidhar's new work - a novel all Israeli politicians should read

1 min read

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September 29, 2023 15:49

Adama review: The land and the blood have the last say

The shameful story of art stolen by the Nazis, and the long fight to get it back

Twenty-five years since a landmark conference on looted treasures, Jenni Frazer asks why it has been so hard to get justice

18 min read

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September 19, 2023 16:29

The shameful story of art stolen by the Nazis, and the long fight to get it back

Witness to the Warsaw ghetto: The brave woman who chronicled its horrors and survived

A new initiative will translate the works of Rachel Auerbach, part of a group who bore witness in the ghetto

6 min read

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September 18, 2023 10:28

Witness to the Warsaw ghetto: The brave woman who chronicled its horrors and survived

The Wolf Hunt review: How well do you really know the people you love?

A lovely novel overall but Gundar-Goshen may have wrapped up the plot all too rapidly and expediently

2 min read

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September 8, 2023 11:30

The Wolf Hunt review: How well do you really know the people you love?