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Review: Beyond the Balfour Declaration

Leslie Turnberg's new book is dangerously simplistic, says Geoffrey Alderman

By Geoffrey Alderman

1 min read

Review: Beyond the Balfour Declaration

Book review: A Boy in Winter

Book review: A Boy in Winter

Stoddard Martin says Rachel Seiffert's new book would make a great film

By Stoddard Martin

2 min read

Keeping it in the family

Keeping it in the family

Our columnist Jonathan Freedland has a new thriller out. Who better to interview him, we thought, than his proud dad, Michael Freedland?

By Michael Freedland

5 min read

Siblings and others

Siblings and others

Angela Kiverstein's round up of this month's children's books

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

Town and country, turmoil and crime

Amanda Craig's new novel is really three books in one, says Keren David

2 min read

Making it again

Norman Podhoretz's memoir was sensational in 1967 - but now seems very dated, says Robert Low

2 min read

The thinking man’s anti-Zionist

For George Steiner a Jew is “someone who, when reading a book, pencil in hand, is convinced he will write a better one”. Gerald Jacobs enjoys a book which captures Steiner's compelling conversations.

By Gerald Jacobs

3 min read

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My refugee book inspired by two batmitzvahs

Sita Brahmachari's new book links the Jewish refugee experience with the present day

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VI Warshawski goes to Kansas

Sara Paretsky's PI heroine is still a refreshing read, 18 books on, says Alan Montague

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Translators come out of the shadows

Two Israeli novels are up for the Man Booker International Prize. Susan Reuben spoke to translators Jessica Cohen and Nicholas de Lange.

By Susan Reuben

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Translators come out of the shadows

Akiva, the shepherd who became a sage

Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud By Barry Holtz, Yale University Press, £16.99

By Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski

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Akiva, the shepherd who became a sage

Football’s greatest comeback

David Bolchover's new book examines the life and legacy of legendary football coach Bela Guttmann

By David Bolchover

6 min read

Football’s greatest comeback

A Jewish country life

'Better one day in London than a thousand years with the sheep' says a character in Amanda Craig's new novel - and he's (half) Jewish. But does he represent a truthful stereotype?

By Amanda Craig

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A Jewish country life

Cacophony and community, psalms and honey

Owen Lowery reviews two collections of poetry

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Cacophony and community, psalms and honey

Flowers, violence and resistance

Peter Lawson reviews four recent verse collections

By Peter Lawson

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Flowers, violence and resistance

Refugee roots link past and present

Jonathan Dean grew up in leafy Surrey, but his grandfather and great-grandfather were refugees. His new book delves into his family history of migration and persecution.

By Jennifer Lipman

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Refugee roots link past and present

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