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Wendy Holden has brought Fredy Hirsch, a young gay man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi depredations, to life
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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
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This new study on contemporary antisemtism is a welcome addition to the canon
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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
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This visual guide to the Arab-Israeli conflict between 1917 and 1949 is enthralling
The shortlist will be announced next month and the winner in February
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The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemies
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This personal and very painful book should disabuse anyone of the notion that there are easy answers for the Jewish state
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I talk to the author of a new book about a group of mid-century Jewish writers who hold a mystique to this day
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