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Year in Review: Books in 2019

Bookish morsels from the JC critics in 2019

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Year in Review: Books in 2019

Review: From Miniskirt to Hijab

Review: From Miniskirt to Hijab

This story is as old as Pharaoh, but Jacqueline Saper tells it afresh, says Madeleine Kingsley

By Madeleine Kingsley

2 min read

Review: Becoming Eve

Review: Becoming Eve

This book takes you into a different world, and leads you to despair, writes Julia Neuberger

By Rabbi Julia Neuberger

2 min read

Review: Bitter Reckoning

Review: Bitter Reckoning

Porat’s book carefully traces, in close detail, eight landmark cases which, he says, mark important milestones in the development of the kapo trials

By Jenni Frazer

2 min read

Review: Be Strong and of Good Courage

The worst thing about this book is its title, which gives the impression that it consists of campaign biographies — it's far more sophisticated, writes Vernon Bogdanor

By Vernon Bogdanor

2 min read

Review: About Time

This book is well-observed, humane, and very funny, writes Alun David

1 min read

Review: The Accusation — Blood Libel in an American Town

This eye-opening and timely book includes weaving into a local story the larger history of the European blood libel, says Howard Cooper

By Rabbi Howard Cooper

2 min read

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Sipora Levy on Rosemary Schonfeld's 'moving' memoir

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Review: Lives Reclaimed

Roseman’s book is a brilliant, humane and timely historical study, writes Alun David

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Review: Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries

A work of painstaking scholarship, exhibited in 130 pages of endnotes, writes Bernard Wasserstein

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Review: Dissident Rabbi

This definitive study illuminates ways in which Sasportas’s text and conservative stance 'came to serve as a stand-in for a habit of mind that rejected novelty', writes Howard Cooper

By Rabbi Howard Cooper

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Review: The Fighting Jew

Wheldon’s passion for his subject shines through, writes Daniel Sugarman

By Daniel Sugarman

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Review: Russia in Flames

This is a familiar story, but one that is meticulously researched and told with the coherence and clarity, writes Mark Glanville

By Mark Glanville

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Ancient feminism

Jennifer Lipman reviews Simon’s Wife by L. M. Affrossman

By Jennifer Lipman

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Review: Berlin to London

Saraga tells the story not only of who was left behind in Berlin, but also of what, says David Herman

By David Herman

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Review: The Boxer’s Story

Nathan Shapow's memoir tells one man’s extraordinary story of heroism, defiance and fortitude that touched the lives of many others, says Ahron Bregman

By Ahron Bregman

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