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Glatstein Chronicles

The Glatstein Chronicles by Jacob Glatstein review: A portrait of a Jewish world in its twilight years

One of the foremost 20th century Yiddish poets, Glatstein emigrated from Lublin to New York in 1914

By Mark Glanville

1 min read

Poet Jacob Glatstein founded the Inzikhist (Introspectivist) literary movement. Photo: Yiddish Book Centre

Clumsy blast through literary history

Engineers of Human Souls

Clumsy blast through literary history

Alun David is underwhelmed by a book about literary thinkers

1 min read

How Britain let butchers of the Holocaust to escape scot-free

Safe Haven: Nazi collaborators

How Britain let butchers of the Holocaust to escape scot-free

Colin Shindler is fascinated by a study into a failure of justice

By Colin Shindler

2 min read

Nicholas Winton’s daughter speaks out

Nicholas Winton’s daughter speaks out

Jennifer Lipman welcomes an intriguing account of the Jewish stockbroker’s extraordinary life

By Jennifer Lipman

2 min read

Jewish Book Week

Read all about it: Jewish Book Week 2024 has a new name

Now billed the Jewish Literary Foundation’s Book Week, or Bookweek24, it has an eclectic line-up including Booker Prize nominee Sarah Bernstein

4 min read

Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

Milton Friedman – the last conservative?

A new biography of the great economist and public intellectual is also a masterly account of post-War US history

3 min read

Fiction review of the year

Our critics’ favourite novels, from a sweetly satirical rom-com to a study in middle-class complicity in the Third Reich

By Karen Glaser

2 min read

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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon review: Getting personal with a literary giant

David Herman applauds a memoir that examines the life of Amos Oz

By David Herman

2 min read

Arad, ISRAEL: (FILES)-Israeli writer and peace activist Amos Oz posses 26 February 2007 at his home in Arad in southern Israel. Israeli writer Amos Oz has been awarded Spain's high-prestige Prince of Asturias award for literature, organisers said 27 June 2007. Oz was born in 1939 in Jerusalem. AFP PHOTO/RELI AVRAHAMI-ISRAEL OUT (Photo credit should read RELI AVRAHAMI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store book review: Communities come together in Pennsylvania

Jennifer Lipman enjoys a tale of neighbourly harmony in 1930s America

By Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store book review: Communities come together in Pennsylvania

Growing up middle class in Nazi Germany

Alun David reviews an account of a wartime childhood

2 min read

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

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

Leo Baeck, the rabbi who resisted tyranny

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: Käsebier Takes Berlin

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: Take Arms Against a  Sea of Troubles

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: The Light at the End of the Day

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: Britain and Europe in  a Troubled World

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

Review: Concealed

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