Reading list: Our pick of the best Jewish books over the last year
The new year is upon us but have you read the best of 5783?
The Book of Paradise review: Moonlit nights, pious Jews and demons
Poet Itzik Manger creates in prose a biblical fantasia, full of references to King David, Solomon and the Psalms
The Maniac review: Huge ideas spread too thin
There are lively moments but this fictionalised account of 20th-century polymath John von Neumann will disappoint many readers
How a best-selling children's author beat Long Covid to write a book about Jewish heroines
Liz Kessler's new book is about two brave Jewish sisters who join the resistance in wartime Amsterdam
London Jewish mum and daughter team up to create children's book
Joanna Gutkin, 36, from Hendon wrote The Elephant and the Goldfish while her daughter, Maya, eight, did the illustrations
Why is there a dearth of Jewish children's books in the UK?
'There are some true gems, but the vast majority are unimpressive', says author Michael Leventhal
The Wolf Hunt review: How well do you really know the people you love?
A lovely novel overall but Gundar-Goshen may have wrapped up the plot all too rapidly and expediently
The editor's story: Jake Wallis Simons on what Israelophobia means to him
Former JC editor Stephen Pollard interviews his successor about his Orthodox childhood, life as a foreign correspondent and his new book
The Soviet spin doctors who sowed the seeds of left-wing Israelophobia
A week after liberal rabbis called Israel an ‘apartheid regime’, JC editor Jake Wallis Simons, in a third extract from his new book, reveals how the trope is rooted in Soviet propaganda
Why the descendants of one Jewish family destroyed by Holocaust are still living with the trauma
Karen Kirsten discovered her family had been lying to her for years
State of Halakha - Israel’s History in Jewish Law review: Examining Israeli history through the eyes of halakha
Rabbi and educator Aviad Tabory explores watershed events and major issues in modern Israeli history through the lens of halakha
The pursuit of unity is a religious ideal we must not forsake
A more than timely work from the chairman of World Mizrachi, Rabbi Doron Perez
The Israeli author on a quest to find out how well she knows her family
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s latest novel explores how well we know the people we love
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation review
Former protégé of leading historian Norman Davies has written a crucial addition to Holocaust bibliography
How to Love Your Daughter review: Psychologically brilliant on a mother’s primal fear
Hila Blum's novel is a book that becomes part of you and helps you understand the world around you
How the ‘progressive’ left became a global wellspring of Israelophobia
In the second of three weekly extracts from his new book, JC editor Jake Wallis Simons digs into its ideological origins
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