American historian Eddy Portnoy's new book is about the Jews that reviewer Jonathan Margolis calls "the lobbesses"
By Jonathan Margolis
The story of Holocaust survivor Nelly Ben-Or
By Sipora Levy
Robert Philpot reviews a posthumous publication by journalist Charles Krauthamme
By Robert Philpot
Franz Kafka's work captured the modern state of being - and yet if the author's dying wish had been respected, all his manuscripts would have been destroyed. J P O'Malley interviews the author of a new book about Kafka's legacy
By J P O'Malley
Striving for Perfection, Colin Jaque, Shieldcrest, £8.29
By Colin Jaque
Memoir from the creator of the TV show Transparent
By Alun David
Our pick of the best books for children - big and small
By Angela Kiverstein
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Exile, culture and intellect
By Amanda Hopkinson
Crazy title, great book, prompted by crazy Soviet life
By Anne Garvey
Amanda Hopkinson praises a distinguished career.
Madeleine Kingsley is moved by stories of mental anguish.
By Madeleine Kingsley
Hester Abrams enjoys a mixed-media memoir about a publishing gamekeeper who turned poetic poacher
By Hester Abrams
Stoddard Martin admires an account of travails over Kafka’s legacy.
By Stoddard Martin
A former US ambassador, the author has drawn on his experience in this book
By Marina Gerner
A book that debunks the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
By howard cooper
Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy, Chaim Waxman, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/Liverpool University Press, £29.95
By Dr Harris Bor