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Twelve title contenders: it’s time to get reading

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Twelve title contenders: it’s time to get reading

Dr Seuss’s legacy

Dr Seuss’s legacy

Angela Kiverstein reviews four children's books

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

Review: Single Journey Only

Review: Single Journey Only

Now in her eighties but as vigorous as ever, Ursula Owen details her rich and satisfying career as a significant figure in the progressive politics of the late 20th century

1 min read

Review: Einstein on the Run

Review: Einstein on the Run

This book tells the story of how the great Albert Einstein was rescued from the clutches of the Nazis by an Englishman

By Monica Porter

2 min read

Review: Learning From the Germans

America, Neiman feels, can and should learn from the Germans, a thesis she examines at length, says Daniel Snowman

By Daniel Snowman

2 min read

Review: A State at Any Cost

A long but inspiring account of the life and times of David Ben-Gurion, says Colin Shindler

By Colin Shindler

2 min read

The history of a heavenly love song

The Song of Songs, Ilana Pardes, Princeton University Press, £20

By Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild

1 min read

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Josephus, the priestly historian who divided critics

Josephus’s The Jewish War, Martin Goodman, Princeton, £20

By Dr Harris Bor

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Josephus, the priestly historian who divided critics

Review: Josephus’s The Jewish War, a Biography

Goodman’s work is clear, precise, and a pleasure to read, writes David Ruben

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Review: Josephus’s The Jewish War, a Biography

My father's 13,000 mile escape

A new book tells the extraordinary story of the Jewish children who travelled 13,000 miles through Siberian gulags and central Asia to escape the Holocaust

By Jennifer Lipman

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My father's 13,000 mile escape

The new siddur that wants to get teens thinking

The Koren NCSY Siddur —Tribe Edition, £24.99

By Jamie Peston

1 min read

The new siddur that wants to get teens thinking

Harold Bloom, an irreplaceable genius of criticism

Kate Maltby reflects on her old teacher, 'a man unashamed to preach that poems should be beautiful, rather than merely worthy'

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Harold Bloom, an irreplaceable genius of criticism

Review: We Are The Weather

This book gives a stark overview of what we are doing to the environment.

1 min read

Review: We Are The Weather

Review: On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

Conversion is at the core of this book, says Anne Garvey

By Anne Garvey 

2 min read

Review: On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

Review: Hunky Dory (Who Knew?)

An engaging story about a Jewish kid from Finsbury Park who made good, says Johnny Belknap

By Johnny Belknap

2 min read

Review: Hunky Dory (Who Knew?)

Review: This Tilting World

There is little higher praise than to say that this short book is a perfect example of a small moral choice exquisitely realised.

By Amanda Hopkinson

1 min read

Review: This Tilting World

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