Two authors, a sociologist and an academic, have written books about the modern Jewish experience. One is partisan, the other is rigorously methodical...
By Alun David
This year’s Wingate winner on her tragicomedy Lublin and lost family history
By Jennifer Lipman
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav was one of the great Chasidic writers of the early modern period, and this Pushkin Press translation of his tales of rabbis, robbers, princes and paradoxes is a treasure
By David Herman
Yes, we’re often brilliant but we can also be desperately mediocre…
By Keith Kahn-Harris
In his daring new biography, Anthony Julius portrays a divided patriarch
By Simon Rocker
The predominance of Zionism continues to pose challenges for Judaism, Oxford’s professor of Israel studies argues in his new book
From RAF pilots and members of the resistance risking their lives, to Jewish refugee nurses caring for the desperately wounded, this American playwright’s first novel is packed with twists and turns
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Journalist Adam LeBor’s latest book quotes a wide range of newly revealed diaries and letters, and relates some remarkable tales of Jews being rescued
By Monica Porter
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Wendy Holden has brought Fredy Hirsch, a young gay man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi depredations, to life
By Jenni Frazer
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
This new study on contemporary antisemtism is a welcome addition to the canon
By Robert Low
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
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
By Karen Glaser
The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemies
This personal and very painful book should disabuse anyone of the notion that there are easy answers for the Jewish state
