David Herman

David Herman

David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer

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The Jewish war novelist who told the stories of soldiers, not officers

The republishing of Alexander Baron’s books is a reminder of just how outstanding his fiction is

By David Herman

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The Jewish war novelist who told the stories of soldiers, not officers
Do opportunities knock twice in life? Two men who might just know

Do opportunities knock twice in life? Two men who might just know

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Keeping Kafka buzzing

‘Kafka was deeply interested in many aspects of his Jewishness, including the then new Zionist movement’

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Nicolas Mahler's Kafka cartoons

Book review: Reassessing Kafka 100 years on

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Literary sorcerer focused on the instability of life

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May 8, 2024 20:03
Playful: Paul Auster

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

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April 26, 2024 15:33
Knife by Salman Rushdie, review: What about the other victims of the new fundamentalism?

My father risked his life making fun of Hitler

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April 4, 2024 17:36
My father risked his life making fun of Hitler

How Jewish refugees changed British childhood

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March 12, 2024 19:15
How Jewish refugees changed British childhood

These books about hate are already out of date

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February 8, 2024 16:20
Protesters hold placards during a demonstration to protest against antisemitism, in central London on November 26, 2023 (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review: How smart word play can conceal an inner emptiness

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February 1, 2024 17:05
Man Booker Prize-winning novelist and journalist Howard Jacobson. Photo: John Nguyen/JNVisual

The details of concentration camp life are brought to terrifying life

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January 19, 2024 11:47
The details of concentration camp life are brought to terrifying life

Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon review: Getting personal with a literary giant

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December 14, 2023 18:21
Arad, ISRAEL: (FILES)-Israeli writer and peace activist Amos Oz posses 26 February 2007 at his home in Arad in southern Israel. Israeli writer Amos Oz has been awarded Spain's high-prestige Prince of Asturias award for literature, organisers said 27 June 2007. Oz was born in 1939 in Jerusalem. AFP PHOTO/RELI AVRAHAMI-ISRAEL OUT (Photo credit should read RELI AVRAHAMI/AFP via Getty Images)

Obituary: Tobias Hill

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November 16, 2023 14:30
Obituary: Tobias Hill

The Book of Paradise review: Moonlit nights, pious Jews and demons

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September 22, 2023 12:04
The Book of Paradise review: Moonlit nights, pious Jews and demons

The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories review - Dark tales of Orthodox life with a feminist twist

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July 27, 2023 15:12
The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories review - Dark tales of Orthodox life with a feminist twist

Isaiah Berlin: A Life review - A fine account intellectual's Jewishness and Englishness

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July 21, 2023 08:44
Philosopher and historian of ideas, Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909 - 1997, standing) chairing a 'musical discussion' at the Bath International Music Festival, 4th June 1959. On the panel are (left to right) violinist, Yehudi Menuhin (1916 - 1999), composer and writer, Nicolas Nabokov (1903 - 1978), Berlin, and music critic and BBC Controller of Music, William Glock (1908 - 2000). The event was organised by Menuhin in his first year as the festival's director. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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