The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’
Booker and Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarcuk’s latest work falls slightly short of her previous literary achievements
The Thinking Heart review: ‘David Grossman’s dream for Israel omits certain details’
The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemies
Over 1,000 authors including Sally Rooney sign ‘discriminatory’ boycott letter
UK Lawyers for Israel claimed similar anti-Israel boycotts have faced legal action
By Any Other Name review: ‘Shakespeare’s Marrano sister’
In bestselling Jodi Picoult’s latest book some of the Bard’s most famous works were written by a Jewish woman who observes Friday night and Yom Kippur and sits a version of shiva when her friend dies
The feted scholar who fears for Israel’s soul
Even if you don’t fully agree with his views, Holocaust survivor Saul Friedländer’s centrality to Israeli history makes his analysis of the country vital
‘My fiction shows the truth of what’s going on in northern Israel’
Sarah Sultoon on how her experience reporting on Hezbollah and Lebanon steered her approach to writing her novel Dirt
Gaza ‘military jihadism’ is justified, says GCSE school textbook
Publisher withdraws 'extremely disturbing' religious studies textbook, which has been in use for five years
‘I’ve created a Jewish version of Sherlock Holmes’
Aron Goldin’s first book thrusts his intrepid East End protagonist on the trial of a serial killer in the intriguing setting of a 19th-century Constantinople
The Gates of Gaza review: ‘why Israel is where it is’
This personal and very painful book should disabuse anyone of the notion that there are easy answers for the Jewish state
The Vagina Business: Taking the stigma out of women’s health
Marina Gerner’s new book uncovers myriad health innovations for women, offering eye-opening solutions to the ways our medical system snubs female pain
The man who brought high fashion to New York
Jewish businessman Henri Bendel rose from running a plantation store in the deep south to becoming a Manhattan retail king
The Hebrew Teacher review: ‘big questions about the future of Israel’
Maya Arad’s trio of widely feted novellas examine the familial and professional challenges facing Jews in California and in the Jewish state
Placeholders review: An Irish-Jewish romance marred by loss and longing
James Roseman’s debut novel explores American Jewish identity and grief
No Road Leading Back review: ‘hell and real heroism’
This is the one of the best books written about the Shoah by Bullets, an often overlooked aspect of the Holocaust
Elaine review: ‘Jew lite-ville’
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
Booker Prize 2024 shortlist includes three Jewish authors
Half of the six authors shortlisted for the prestigious literary award are Jewish, and five are women – the most in Booker Prize history
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