A consummate communicator, Zarum tackles medieval thinkers with a light touch
By Harry Freedman
Elizabeth McCracken on the restlessly shape-shifting novel that won her the literary award for the best book to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader
By Claire Allfree
A rigorous trawl through Venetian archives yields a work that begs for a lavish film adaptation
By Jenni Frazer
This is an extraordinary collection of essays about some extraordinary emigré artists and writers
By David Herman
This is insightful on the guilt, complicity and collaboration of the Third Reich’s fellow German travellers, including the author’s own grandfather
By Colin Shindler
This book reads like a thriller, and if that encourages people to pick it up, good: 79 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, living memories are fading
By Jennifer Lipman
The appearance of this book could not be more timely, nor its message more urgent
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The writer on the insider-outsider status of being a Jew, and why she enjoys confounding prejudice in her fiction and in life
By Amanda Craig
By Angela Kiverstein
A new biography tells an extraordinary story of courage
By Amanda Hopkinson
The American writer is pushing back against the ‘woke’ identity theories that fuel antisemitism
By David Rose
The (particularly Jewish) question at the heart of all this is how much we should revisit the past, says Felix Pope
By Felix Pope
Oscar-winner Frederic Raphael is still writing at 92. He tells Mark Glanville how how work has helped him survive tragedies
By Mark Glanville
Amanda Hopkinson is impressed by a novel about dislocation across the generations
David Herman finds much of interest in two timely essay collections about antisemitism — but why is there so little emphasis on Iran or immigration?
David Herman relishes the comic energy of Jacobson’s new novel
