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Review: Those Who Come After

This is an absolute firecracker of a book, says Julia Neuberger

By Rabbi Julia Neuberger

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Review: Those Who Come After

Review: The Drama of Celebrity

Review: The Drama of Celebrity

Sharon Marcus’s book is tour de force and the author a total star, says Jonathan Margolis

By Jonathan Margolis

2 min read

Review: Refugee Tales Volume III

Review: Refugee Tales Volume III

A heartfelt and compelling form of protest, a setting down as evidence of the experiences of those whom the media so often vilify and reject, says Rabbi Johnathan Wittenberg

By Johnathan Wittenberg

2 min read

Review: Life and Love in Nazi Prague

Review: Life and Love in Nazi Prague

This book is one more remarkable piece in the unknowable and uncompletable jigsaw of European Jewry in the 1940s, says Jenni Frazer

By Jenni Frazer

2 min read

Review: The Volunteer

Jack Fairweather has the rare gift of describing vividly the daily, mounting horrors of Auschwitz, says Daniel Snowman

By Daniel Snowman

2 min read

Review: 'Stalingrad' and 'Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century'

The brilliant and the barbaric: Mark Glanville reviews Vasily Grossman

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

Book Review: The Convert by Stefan Hertmans

A writer’s romantic and historic journey

By Amanda Hopkinson

1 min read

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Three cheers for welcome revival

David Herman acclaims Alexander Baron, a novelist whose work is being revisited

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A witness and his masterpieces

Anthony Rudolf, Levi's first publisher of his poetry in English marks next week’s 100th anniversary of his birth

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Deborah Levy shortlisted for Booker Prize with novel that is not yet published

The Man Who Saw Everything will be published by Hamish Hamilton on August 29

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The mental health of biblical heroes

The Hidden Psychiatry of the Old Testament, Dr George Stein,Hamilton Books, £42.95

By Rabbi Howard Cooper

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The mental health of biblical heroes

The author offers detailed, scholarly explorations of the biblical texts themselves and finds multiple opportunities for relating their language and themes to modern clinical diagnoses.

By Rabbi Howard Cooper

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The mental health of biblical heroes

Book review: Live a Little

This novel about relationships between mothers and sons is fast and clever

By David Herman

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Book review: Live a Little

Book review: Taking Pictures, Making Painters

Putting ‘Mr O’Keeffe’ prominently in the picture

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Book review: Taking Pictures, Making Painters

Is this the female Philip Roth?

Debut novelist Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written a book about a middle-aged Jewish doctor - and the plaudits are coming in thick and fast

By Jennifer Lipman

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Is this the female Philip Roth?

Book review: The Book of Sarah

An artist’s graphic and confessional biblical footnote

By Julia Weiner

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Book review: The Book of Sarah

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