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Growing up middle class in Nazi Germany

Alun David reviews an account of a wartime childhood

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German village children in Eger giving the Nazi salute as Hitler takes over the Sudetenland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Leo Baeck, the rabbi who resisted tyranny

Leo Baeck, the rabbi who resisted tyranny

Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times, Michael A Meyer, University of Pennsylvania Press, £50

By Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild

1 min read

Review: Käsebier Takes Berlin

Review: Käsebier Takes Berlin

This novel, written in the 1930's, is about the media, celebrity and fake news, and therefore remarkably topical today

By David Herman

2 min read

Review: Take Arms Against a  Sea of Troubles

Review: Take Arms Against a  Sea of Troubles

Harold Bloom's last book is an urgent, posthumous self-elegy to a career-long love affair with poetry

By Stoddard Martin

2 min read

Review: The Light at the End of the Day

Wasserberg seems drawn to the divide between darkness and light in the world, and the deceptive tales people tell in order to survive through illusion

By Madeleine Kingsley

2 min read

Review: Britain and Europe in  a Troubled World

Bogdanor is at his most incisive when analysing the cultural shift that took anti-European sentiment from the fringes of UK politics into the mainstream

By Martin Bright

2 min read

Review: Concealed

This is a landmark book, uncovering the history of a scarcely known Jewish community while bringing to life an unforgettable family

2 min read

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Review: Shimon Peres

Avi Gil has given a real portrait of the former Israeli prime minister, warts and all

By Vernon Bogdanor

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Review: Shimon Peres

A kinder way to start thinking about God

Putting the ‘o’ in God — In search of a Liberal Jewish theology, Pete Tobias, Lulu Press, £6.99

By Simon Rocker

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A kinder way to start thinking about God

Review: Women

A modern translation of a 1933 collection of four connected stories

By David Herman

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Review: Stanley Kubrick - American Filmmaker

David Mikics tracks Kubrick’s progress with the assiduity of a scholar and the warmth of a fan

By Stoddard Martin

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Review: Stanley Kubrick - American Filmmaker

Review: To Be a Man

The Holocaust looms large and Israel looms even larger, though not an Israel at war.

By David Herman

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Review: To Be a Man

Oceans of emotions

Andrew Rosemarine assesses David Abulafia’s two major accounts of seafaring life, death and trade through the ages

By Andrew Rosemarine

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Oceans of emotions

Review: Secret Letters - A Battle of Britain Love Story

This weekend marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. This book is a worthy memorial to these young heroes and to the modest intelligence officer who recorded their triumphs and tragedies

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Review: Secret Letters - A Battle of Britain Love Story

Review: The Hitler Conspiracies

An excursion through five episodes of the Nazi period by the distinguished Cambridge historian, Sir Richard Evans

By Colin Shindler

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Review: The Hitler Conspiracies

Review: Kracauer, a biography

This book it is much more than just a biography - it engages with the substantial intellectual disputes in which Kracauer participated

By Professor David-Hillel Ruben

2 min read

Review: Kracauer, a biography

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