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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz review: ‘they played for their lives’

This thoroughly researched book explains why a place in the death camp’s only women’s orchestra was sought after, and the moral dilemmas that came with it

By Monica Porter

2 min read

Anne Sebba's new book and images of some of the orchestra members

Focus on the unremarkable: Rachel Seiffert and her latest novel

The ordinary choices of ordinary people in post-war Germany

By David Herman

3 min read

Marital issues: Jerry Rabow and his book

How Henry VIII turned to rabbis to divorce wife No1

By Jenni Frazer

5 min read

Displacement theme: Jenni Daiches and her new book

My novel shows that Jews and Scots have more in common than you may think

By Jenni Frazer

5 min read

Are we really so special? Two new works take on the great Jewish identity debate

Are we really so special? Two new works take on the great Jewish identity debate

5 min read

Fable-like tragicomedy: Manya Wilkinson and her book

Manya Wilkinson: ‘I wanted to write an edgy novel about the shtetl’

By Jennifer Lipman

6 min read

May memories be blessings: Gayle Forman and her latest book

‘Judaism gets how to keep people alive after they die’

By Angela Kiverstein

4 min read

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The Chasidic stories that anticipate the parables of Franz Kafka

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The crisis of faith: Recasting Judaism as a religion is destroying Jewish identity

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