The Song of Songs, Ilana Pardes, Princeton University Press, £20
By Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild
Josephus’s The Jewish War, Martin Goodman, Princeton, £20
By Dr Harris Bor
Goodman’s work is clear, precise, and a pleasure to read, writes David Ruben
By David Ruben
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
The Koren NCSY Siddur —Tribe Edition, £24.99
By Jamie Peston
Kate Maltby reflects on her old teacher, 'a man unashamed to preach that poems should be beautiful, rather than merely worthy'
By Kate Maltby
This book gives a stark overview of what we are doing to the environment.
By Ben Weich
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Conversion is at the core of this book, says Anne Garvey
By Anne Garvey
An engaging story about a Jewish kid from Finsbury Park who made good, says Johnny Belknap
By Johnny Belknap
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
Heather Morris hit the bestseller lists with her fictionalised account of a Holocaust survivor's life, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Now she's written a controversial sequel.
By Angela Kiverstein
This book mixes searing detail with laconic wit, says David Winner
By David Winner
Stoddard Martin hails a major new work as possibly today’s ‘Great American Novel’
By Stoddard Martin
Big Questions, Brief Intentions, Edited by Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum,London School of Jewish Studies
By Simon Rocker
There is a spiritual intensity here which pervades both the poetry and the prose of this memoir, says Peter Lawson
By Peter Lawson
An authoritative survey of how this most malleable of words was understood in different ways over the centuries, says Howard Cooper
By howard cooper