'My mum was rounded up by Hitler's henchmen whilst games were being played in local parks'
Tory peer Daniel Finkelstein tells of the harrowing stories of camps and gulags in his book
The Jewish family broigus that makes Succession look tame
A new book uncovers the feuding within the Redstones, the family behind one of America’s biggest media empires. We meet its author
The very Jewish legacy of the non-Jewish Martin Amis
Unlike his father, the novelist had an abiding interest in the Holocaust and the great modern Jewish-American writers
Politics: A Survivor’s Guide review: Is Britain sleepwalking into populism?
A columnist’s view of post-Brexit politics and the impact it has had on him
Simon Schama: The forgotten Jewish hero who developed immunisation
In lockdown, the historian researched the history of humanity’s fight against disease and now he talks about his new book with the JC.
‘From Corbyn to Brexit, UK politics gave me a heart attack’
Guardian political columnist Rafael Behr on the impact upheavals in Westminster had on his life
Book review: August Blue - A musical mystery stuck in a minor key
Deborah Levy's new novel about a gifted pianist is a slow burner but takes off in the final 200 pages
The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to Covid-19
A deep dive into a world of medieval superstition
Book review: Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond
The wizardry of Oz comes through in a book of essays about the writer who ‘led where rabbis fear to tread'
Book review: Romantic Comedy - From meet-cute to happily ever after
Curtis Sittenfeld's latest features an appealingly flawed character, uncomfortable in her own skin, wary of introspection and keen to deflect any compliment
How a man rescued his Down's syndrome brother from a care home in lockdown
Manni Coe set off from his home in Spain after receiving a troubling text from Reuben
Clive Sinclair: The gunslinger armed with a pen
A critic's fond memories of a writer with a love of Westerns
The God Desire Review: Judaism doesn't count in David Baddiel's new book
The comedian's latest publication shows he needs to widen his outlook on the Divine
Film review: The Portable Door - A Potteresque mystery
Adaptation of the first book of Tom Holt’s J.W. Wells & Co. book series is fun but has too much going on all the time to fully work
Theatre review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - the hunted's revenge
Poland’s Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's eco-thriller is brought to brilliant life in Simon McBurney's production
Book review: Architect of Terror - When Franco ruled and hatred spread
Revealing account of the shocking antisemitism that underpinned the 1936 nationalist uprising that led to Spain's civil war
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