The filmmaker’s debut is as Jewish as can be and a wonderful evocation of New York
By David Herman
The Hebrew teacher in Maya Arad’s latest novel is a heroine for our times
He tells the story of the courageous groups of Germans who risked their lives to defy Hitler with all the flair of the seasoned thriller writer that he is
By Robert Low
British-American writer Ben Markovits’s new Booker-longlisted novel leaves this reviewer cold
This fascinating account of Israeli counterterrorism is based on unique access to a huge cache of original documents
The author’s new book about a Jewish family in post-war exile employs an unconventional format and elements of the supernatural to illustrate the disarray of grief
By Eliana Jordan
The prose is beautiful, but this novel about how the Holocaust has shaped our modern lives is sometimes so hard to follow in a linear fashion, it becomes bewildering
By Jennifer Lipman
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Mikołaj ŁoziNski’s fifth novel is a masterpiece of foreshadowing and, surely, a future Pushkin Press classic
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The description for The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion on Apple’s website reads: ‘Truth or hoax...read and decide by yourself.’
By Jacob Jaffa
Sylvie Weil’s unusual work is an interminable search of a resolution to life’s meaning, recalling the prototype of the wandering Jew of medieval lore
By Amanda Hopkinson
In his latest book, James Bloodworth immerses himself in the so-called manosphere and finds a world that closely resembles, and frequently crosses over with, the far right. Not least in its attitudes to Jews
By David Bennun
From the viewpoints of its three protagonists, ‘The Unworthy’ is a credible depiction of its tough working-class world
Author Frederic Raphael argues that Judaism emerges as the only one of the three major religions to leave ‘middle ground... uncluttered by predetermined dogma’
By Mark Glanville
You don’t need to be going abroad to be transported to distant shores with our pick of the summer’s best holiday reads. From courtroom dramas to wartime love stories, Jennifer Lipman has you covered.
This book about the spy who came to regret his double life inside Argentina’s Jewish world is a structural mess
The Israeli writer’s latest short story collection features dating, sex, relationships – and deep wells of loneliness in contemporary Israel
