Why in the Middle East, a cartoon can be worth a thousands words

This visual guide to the Arab-Israeli conflict between 1917 and 1949 is enthralling

The Writers’ Castle review: ‘gripping portrait of the reporters at Nuremberg’

This is a fascinating account of the hacks who reported on the post-WW2 trials

Ancient barbecues and other tasty morsels of archaeology

This brief and breezy guide to Israel’s ancient sites is an impressive achievement

A tale of two dissidents: Alexei Navalny’s moving letters from jail to Natan Sharansky

The Russian opposition leader was inspired to write to the Israeli former refusenik after reading his Soviet prison memoir

BBC Spanish-language service releases report featuring classic tropes about Jewish wealth

The broadcaster is currently embroiled in controversy in the UK over its reporting of the Hamas invasion

Playing tennis with Martin Amis

Martin was unflashy and quietly spoken but on court he could display the occasional McEnroe-esque burst of bad temper

The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to Covid-19

A deep dive into a world of medieval superstition

Book review: Architect of Terror - When Franco ruled and hatred spread

Revealing account of the shocking antisemitism that underpinned the 1936 nationalist uprising that led to Spain's civil war

Sidney Reilly book review: The mysterious agent of his own downfall

Brilliantly told espionage story with a very elusive protagonist

Muppets in Moscow Book review: When Kermit and Miss Piggy went to the Kremlin

A fascinating account of how an American TV classic was exported to Russia

Book review: Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters - When Covid ruled us

It’s hard to disagree with human rights lawyer Adam Wagner when he writes in his new book that 'British society became as close to a police state as in living memory' when coronavirus struck

Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control book review - We have ways of making you believe what we want

A fascinating and chilling history of mind manipulation

Book review: Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview and Other Conversations - A portrait of a very private woman

Author and journalist Janet Malcolm is an icon to young females - quite an achievement for a reserved type in what was and still is a tough, male-dominated trade

Book review: Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties

A book which holds German big brands to account for their Nazi links

Review: Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave

Jewish Renaissance has sustained twenty years of Jewish cultural craftwork

Review: Escape from the Ghetto