Why the English country house was also often Jewish
The book I have co-edited confronts uncomfortable ideas about Jewish money, power and antisemitism head on
Meet the Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok sensation
Gidon Lev, who has over 500,000 social media followers, spent his early years in a concentration camp but refused to let the experience define him
The enduring appeal of Nora Ephron, and the golden age of rom-coms
A new book about the Jewish writer and director’s filmography brings nostalgia for the era of When Harry Met Sally style rom-coms
The Viennese-born snapper who recorded social injustice in Britain
Edith Tudor Hart was an immensely talented documentary photographer whose work deserves to be better known. This biography-in-the-round will help
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
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