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
By David Herman
Half of the six authors shortlisted for the prestigious literary award are Jewish, and five are women – the most in Booker Prize history
By Eliana Jordan
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
By Jennifer Lipman
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
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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
By Anne Joseph
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The self-published book series by Esther Marshall has so far sold more than 25,000 copies
By Elisa Bray
I talk to the author of a new book about a group of mid-century Jewish writers who hold a mystique to this day
By David Cohen
PowerHouse Books in Brooklyn cancelled the launch of Joshua Leifer’s book Tablets Shattered, claiming they ‘would not permit a Zionist on the premises’
This is a fascinating account of the hacks who reported on the post-WW2 trials
By Robert Low
Sobering and incisive commentary on the men who persuaded ordinary Germans to become mass murderers
He writes sharply about the web of obligation and Judaism, conveniently, provides a clear framework for such a life
By Felix Pope
This is the only time I have finished a novel and then turned straight back to the first page
By Amanda Hopkinson
I was bowled over by this rediscovered work of master novelist Antal Szerb
