This book reads like a thriller, and if that encourages people to pick it up, good: 79 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, living memories are fading
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The appearance of this book could not be more timely, nor its message more urgent
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Writer also told a mention of her book was dropped over the 'hassle' involved in mentioning Jews or Judaism
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David Herman finds much of interest in two timely essay collections about antisemitism — but why is there so little emphasis on Iran or immigration?
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The author visited her great-grandparents’ graves to inspire her
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There is a jarring collective amnesia around the views of the author of The Color Purple
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Alun David reviews an account of a wartime childhood
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First-class translation of Ludovic Bruckstein's Yiddish short story collection proves a timely panacea in these dark times
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The superstar’s mother of all memoirs is hilariously replete with self-congratulation
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British poet and novelist inspired by London’s immigrant life
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Timely reflections on the Jewish condition are unsettlingly relevant to our own times
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