This book is a rigorously documented history of wartime resistance in Norway
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The journalist’s bestseller combines reportage from inside Israel, Gaza and Lebanon and should open minds to the precarious position we find ourselves in the West
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This new portrait of Krautrock shows how the country’s rare Jewish survivors were central to its development
By David Bennun
This thoroughly researched book explains why a place in the death camp’s only women’s orchestra was sought after, and the moral dilemmas that came with it
By Monica Porter
This is a remarkable novel about how everyday Europeans faced up to life as war drew to a close
By David Herman
A new book claims Jewish scholars guided the Tudor king in his row with Rome
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Jenni Daiches’s family saga is on the longlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction
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Two authors, a sociologist and an academic, have written books about the modern Jewish experience. One is partisan, the other is rigorously methodical...
By Alun David
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This year’s Wingate winner on her tragicomedy Lublin and lost family history
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Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav was one of the great Chasidic writers of the early modern period, and this Pushkin Press translation of his tales of rabbis, robbers, princes and paradoxes is a treasure
This is a monumental biography of Fritz Bauer, the German-Jewish lawyer who went back to Deutschland to see justice done
Yes, we’re often brilliant but we can also be desperately mediocre…
By Keith Kahn-Harris
From RAF pilots and members of the resistance risking their lives, to Jewish refugee nurses caring for the desperately wounded, this American playwright’s first novel is packed with twists and turns
Readers must decide for themselves if this challenging novel is a valid response to the nihilism inherent in the Holocaust
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