This fictionalised portrait of Austrian film-maker GW Pabst and his moral struggles under the Nazis immerses us in a world thick with fear, corruption and self-deception
By David Bennun
This is a fascinating tribute to Richard Ellmann, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and James Joyce’s greatest biographer
By David Herman
By David Isaacson
Yael van der Wouden’s bold debut novel charts the emotional aftermath of the Holocaust in a post-war Netherlands
By Eliana Jordan
This report on the new face of the far right is timely and frightening in equal measure
This new book about the search for the real Dylan could be more enlightening
By Jenni Frazer
This is a fascinating account of a terrible murder by a Jewish pedlar in eighteenth century England and an excellent example of historian Tony Kushner’s important work documenting the life and culture of Jews in Britain
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In her new memoir, Yehudis Fletcher writes compellingly about arranged marriage, parental neglect and sexual abuse in Charedi Judaism
By Jennifer Lipman
From means girls and ill-fated crushes to swashbuckling seagoing sagas, here are the three best new books for kids aged nine and over
By Angela Kiverstein
This terrible war crime story does an enormous service to the Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s wider family
For my latest novel I studied the east London of my forebears. This is what I found
By Andrew Sanger
This is an invaluable, clear and rather terrifying account for lay readers of the history, development and possible future of artificial intelligence
By Robert Low
This gripping expedition into an arcane world of book collectors and their eccentric passions papers over an even more intriguing yarn about family history
A deeply affecting portrait of a pious family’s trials and turmoil in an eastern Europe on the brink of collapse
By Mark Glanville
First published in 1982, this book about the choices of ordinary people in war sold more than 200,000 copies and inspired an Oscar-winning film. Now it has been republished with a new introduction
The human rights lawyer’s latest book reveals the links between the notorious Chilean dictator and the Nazi inventor of the ‘gas vans’
This book is a rigorously documented history of wartime resistance in Norway
The journalist’s bestseller combines reportage from inside Israel, Gaza and Lebanon and should open minds to the precarious position we find ourselves in the West
By Nicole Lampert
This new portrait of Krautrock shows how the country’s rare Jewish survivors were central to its development
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
This is a remarkable novel about how everyday Europeans faced up to life as war drew to a close
Jenni Daiches’s family saga is on the longlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Two authors, a sociologist and an academic, have written books about the modern Jewish experience. One is partisan, the other is rigorously methodical...
By Alun David
