Stephen Applebaum
Stephen Applebaum is a widely published UK-based writer with more than 25 years' of experience contributing to newspapers and glossies at home and abroad
Putting the British Jewish community on the big screen
Stephen Applebaum meets the people behind two new short films with a local Jewish flavour
Meet the ‘Jewish American hero’ whose bookstore is improving the world
The story is the focus of a warm and quirky documentary released this week
The gripping story of Reality Winner, as told by its Jewish director
Tina Satter's powerful directorial debut presents a dramatic true story
Meeting the other Spielberg sibling
The great director's sister Nancy is behind a new film about the lasting trauma suffered by witnesses to terrorist atrocities
A Small Light: The story of the woman who helped Anne Frank
The makers of a new TV drama about the doomed teenager tell of how they approached the story from a new angle
From boxing to baking: the joy of learning new things
Adam Gopnik’s new books celebrates the mastery of skills, something that is sadly neglected in the education of children
Meet the menschiest man in publishing
Treating his authors well, whether they write bestsellers or not, is publisher Richard Charkin’s business philosophy
Painting her life — the tragic story of Charlotte Salomon
Keira Knightley stars in a new animated biopic of the extraordinary artistic talent who died aged 26 in Auschwitz. We meet the makers...
A Jewish community frozen on the eve of destruction
The Jews of a small Polish town were filmed in 1938, before the Nazi invasion brought disaster. The director of a new film about them talks about how it was made
The shtetl that rewinds time
Ady Walter’s discusses his new film about Jewish life in Ukraine before the Nazi invasion
My Hollywood father: Paul Newman’s daughter on the silver screen icon’s struggles with fame
As the star's posthumous memoir is published, Melissa Newman discusses his feelings on his celebrity status — and his Jewish heritage
A new film about Adolf Eichmann's trial sees the event through the eyes of Israel
Jake Paltrow’s June Zero offers a new take on the historic legal proceedings, by exploring them through the experiences of three disparate characters — a boy, a prison guard and a Holocaust survivor
Jewish identity explored in a tale of love among the etrogs
For Stéphane Freiss, the writer and director of this new French film, this was a deeply personal project
Back to Berlin to confront the dark secrets of the past
A fascinating new documentary traces two friends travelling to Germany to face up to very different tales from their families’ past, as its director explains
Hallelujah! The inside story of a masterpiece
A new film celebrates Leonard Cohen’s classic song - and how it evolved from an obscure album track to an international anthem
‘I love playing villains; I try to understand them’ says actress Isabelle Fuhrman
The American reprises the shocking character of Esther, a young Estonian girl adopted by an American family, in prequel Orphan: First Kill
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