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Review: West Side Story. The Jets, the Sharks, and the making of a classic

This book is full of nutty detail, says John Nathan

2 min read

Review: West Side Story. The Jets, the Sharks, and the making of a classic

Review: Artifact

Review: Artifact

It is a meandering tale, graphic and shocking at times and meditative at others, which doesn’t so much reach a conclusion as simply end

By Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

Review: Life Should Be Transparent

Review: Life Should Be Transparent

This volume introduces us to the life and work of Irena Veisaite, an academic, theatre critic and long-time chair of the Open Lithuania Fund board

1 min read

Review: Antkind

Review: Antkind

Kaufman’s genius makes me wonder if his book is a giant parody, writes Anne Joseph

2 min read

Review: New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

They are the heroes of a book that flits between colourful accounts of its protagonists’ world and clinical analyses of the music they played, a reflection of the author’s own double life as performer and academic

By Mark Glanville

1 min read

Karma and Kabbalah: reincarnation reconsidered

The Soul Survivor: Reincarnation – based on the Writings of the Zohar, Leonard Book, Tuchams Publishing House, £16.99

By Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski

1 min read

Book review: People Like Us

Holocaust novel is a fiction too far

By Anne Garvey 

2 min read

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Book review: Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

This terrific, gripping book is, first, the story of sons haunted by their fathers and the terrible times they all lived through

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Powerfully reclaimed — and imagined — reality

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Book review: What Are Jews For?

If there was a prize for Best Book Title of the Year, Adam Sutcliffe’s latest work would surely walk off with it.

By Rabbi Howard Cooper

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Book review: A Delayed Life

Death, destruction and, eventually, happiness

By Johnny Belknap

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Book review: 'Franci's War' and 'Paris Fashion and World War Two'

Rescued and mesmerising

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Book review: Darke Matter

Finely crafted tale of a magnificent curmudgeon

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Book review: The Murder of Professor Schlick

An enjoyable journey on the Circle line

By David Conway

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Book review: Growing Up for Beginners

This vastly enjoyable read is about the importance of knowing yourself and living with confidence

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Book Review: Three

This is a dark thriller, which picks up pace as it goes along, says David Herman

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