UK literary festivals in financial crisis after Baillie Gifford drop all sponsorships

Pressure from Fossil Free Books forced the investment firm to severe sponsorship deals

An unexpectedly Jewish treasure island sure to keep you completely hooked on the beach this summer

Book review: Peering into the black hole and dirty soul of the Weimar Republic

This is a fascinating study of inter-war Germany, but there are big Jewish gaps

The writer who wept at his daughter’s bat mitzvah

Memories of his own boyhood in apartheid-era South Africa cast a shadow on Danis Hirson’s own coming of age

Book review: Sufferance ‘A book which haunts me’

Book review: Reassessing Kafka 100 years on

The New York rabbi giving Bridgerton a Yiddishe twist

Jo David has drawn on her experience delivering High Holy Day sermons to write a Regency romance

What to read next? Ask the Matzah Ball book club

A social media book group is spreading Jewish joy. Lizzie Kapren meets the women picking the must-reads every month to share with its members

Sally Rooney, Naomi Klein join calls threaten to boycott literary festivals over links to Israel

Writers critical of Israel say summer festival season ‘can expect escalation and disruption’

Cafe nostalgia: the coffeehouses that tell Europe’s story

A Jewish man set up the first cafe in England – and in Europe coffee houses were central to Jewish culture, as Monica Porter’s new book details

Literary sorcerer focused on the instability of life

Our writer pays tribute to Paul Auster who died this week

Ancient barbecues and other tasty morsels of archaeology

This brief and breezy guide to Israel’s ancient sites is an impressive achievement

Society of Authors rejects ‘one-sided’ Gaza motion

Jewish writers relieved as union votes against ‘divisive’ anti-Israel motion

Chaim Wiezmann: ‘I am now convinced that without him there would be no state of Israel’

The brilliant chemist used acetone to advance Zionism in the same way Herzl used journalism, says the co-author of a magisterial new biography of the leader

Our Palestine Question, review: An ode to Jews who uttered difficult words in dark times

Knife by Salman Rushdie, review: What about the other victims of the new fundamentalism?

This book is a deeply moving account of a devastating attack and its consequences, but it is also guilty of sins of omission