Aron Goldin’s first book thrusts his intrepid East End protagonist on the trial of a serial killer in the intriguing setting of a 19th-century Constantinople
By Jennifer Lipman
This personal and very painful book should disabuse anyone of the notion that there are easy answers for the Jewish state
Marina Gerner’s new book uncovers myriad health innovations for women, offering eye-opening solutions to the ways our medical system snubs female pain
By Elisa Bray
Maya Arad’s trio of widely feted novellas examine the familial and professional challenges facing Jews in California and in the Jewish state
By David Herman
James Roseman’s debut novel explores American Jewish identity and grief
By Eliana Jordan
This is the one of the best books written about the Shoah by Bullets, an often overlooked aspect of the Holocaust
Despite its plethora of Yiddishe names, it is difficult to see Self’s latest novel as a reckoning with his Jewish identity and the writing is also a long way from the rhythms of Bellow, Roth and Nicole Krauss
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Half of the six authors shortlisted for the prestigious literary award are Jewish, and five are women – the most in Booker Prize history
These are fascinating portraits of an extraordinary family few now remember
By Jenni Frazer
This is an important book about the plight of reporters and activists, many of them Jewish, under Putin
By Colin Shindler
From black and Jewish alliance in a world of white-only tennis tournaments and clubs to a modern midrash about Eden, we select the most exciting fiction and non-fiction for kids
By Angela Kiverstein
The extraordinary lives of these ordinary people are utterly fascinating
These literary short stories skewer the pretensions of the elite excruciatingly well, but they also feel terribly dated
Guardian journalist Julian Borger has written an emotionally disturbing family memoir that sets out some of the facts and figures of the Shoah in absorbing display
I talk to the author of a new book about a group of mid-century Jewish writers who hold a mystique to this day
By David Cohen
This is a fascinating account of the hacks who reported on the post-WW2 trials
By Robert Low