This is the one of the best books written about the Shoah by Bullets, an often overlooked aspect of the Holocaust
By David Herman
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
Half of the six authors shortlisted for the prestigious literary award are Jewish, and five are women – the most in Booker Prize history
By Eliana Jordan
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
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These literary short stories skewer the pretensions of the elite excruciatingly well, but they also feel terribly dated
By Jennifer Lipman
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
Sobering and incisive commentary on the men who persuaded ordinary Germans to become mass murderers
From Moses’s birth through the eyes of his big sister, to a spider-and-skull festooned tale of maritime mayhem, our pick of the season’s kids’ fiction
He writes sharply about the web of obligation and Judaism, conveniently, provides a clear framework for such a life
By Felix Pope
This is the only time I have finished a novel and then turned straight back to the first page
By Amanda Hopkinson
I was bowled over by this rediscovered work of master novelist Antal Szerb
