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The Teacher of Auschwitz review: ‘he helped Jewish children survive hell’

Wendy Holden has brought Fredy Hirsch, a young gay man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi depredations, to life

By Jenni Frazer

2 min read

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February 7, 2025 09:10

The Teacher of Auschwitz review: ‘he helped Jewish children survive hell’

The non-Jewish Italian who saved Primo Levi

A new biography sheds light on an unsung hero consigned to work at the death camp where the great author was interned

By Amanda Hopkinson

2 min read

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January 31, 2025 09:21

The non-Jewish Italian who saved Primo Levi

This columnist is derided and even hated, but she is usually right

In her latest polemic Melanie Phillips takes on the ruin of Western civilisation

By Stephen Pollard

3 min read

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January 31, 2025 08:59

Vital voice: Melanie Phillips and her new book

The Power and the Glory review: ‘Jews who wished they were to the manor born’

This literary tour through the flamboyant Jewish-owned stately homes of the turn of the 20th century is highly entertaining

By Jenni Frazer

3 min read

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January 22, 2025 16:51

The Power and the Glory review: ‘Jews who wished they were to the manor born’

East Broadway to Whitechapel, review: ‘stirring snapshots of a bygone world’

David Katz’s short stories are a moving evocation of the Jewish world of Brooklyn and the East End, but also the world of Yiddish literature

By David Herman

2 min read

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January 17, 2025 14:34

East Broadway to Whitechapel, review: ‘stirring snapshots of a bygone world’

Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’

The music reverberates from the pages of this feminist journalist’s debut novel

By Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

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January 13, 2025 17:44

Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’

Why the longest hatred isn’t going anywhere soon

This new study on contemporary antisemtism is a welcome addition to the canon

By Robert Low

2 min read

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January 10, 2025 15:43

Big question: why did the left excuse Hamas's actions on October 7?

2024 in review: Jewish books

From the Shoah to the screwed-up elite, the five stand-out Jewish books of the year are a mix of eviscerating fiction, assiduously researched history and memoir

By Claire Allfree

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December 24, 2024 16:17

British-born author wins Sacks book prize

Talmud teacher Gila Fine received the accolade for The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

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December 18, 2024 12:29

33 Place Brugmann review: ‘secrets, betrayal and courage in occupied Brussels’

A Fool’s Kabbalah review: ‘Is comedy a valid response the Shoah?’

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

Do the affluent and over-educated have problems?

The German Jew who fought his way through Europe to find his parents at Theresienstadt

The crisis of faith: Recasting Judaism as a religion is destroying Jewish identity

The Last Days of Budapest review: ‘intrigue, horror and heroism in the Casablanca of central Europe’

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The crisis of faith: Recasting Judaism as a religion is destroying Jewish identity

The Last Days of Budapest review: ‘intrigue, horror and heroism in the Casablanca of central Europe’

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