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This is the one of the best books written about the Shoah by Bullets, an often overlooked aspect of the Holocaust
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Despite its plethora of Yiddishe names, it is difficult to see Self’s latest novel as a reckoning with his Jewish identity and the writing is also a long way from the rhythms of Bellow, Roth and Nicole Krauss
Half of the six authors shortlisted for the prestigious literary award are Jewish, and five are women – the most in Booker Prize history
These are fascinating portraits of an extraordinary family few now remember
By Jenni Frazer
This is an important book about the plight of reporters and activists, many of them Jewish, under Putin
By Colin Shindler
The extraordinary lives of these ordinary people are utterly fascinating
These literary short stories skewer the pretensions of the elite excruciatingly well, but they also feel terribly dated
Guardian journalist Julian Borger has written an emotionally disturbing family memoir that sets out some of the facts and figures of the Shoah in absorbing display
Miriam Gold talks to me about the multimedia biography she has created that tells the remarkable tale of her granny Elena, who by the age of 17, had already escaped Stalin and Hitler to become a doctor in the UK
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