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Book review: All This Could be Yours

Attenberg suggest that a wholesome life is not always a straightforward choice

By Madeleine Kingsley

2 min read

Book review: All This Could be Yours

Book review: The Slaughterman’s Daughter

Book review: The Slaughterman’s Daughter

Iczkovits is a born storyteller and has done his research for this historical novel

By David Herman

2 min read

Book review: The Anointed

Book review: The Anointed

'Michael Arditti is one of the few writers able to convey the experience of being religious, without apology or explanation'

By Kate Saunders

2 min read

Book review: Edith Halpert and Rachel Feinstein

Book review: Edith Halpert and Rachel Feinstein

Two books that tell the lives of two women who cracked the masculine world of art

By Julia Weiner

2 min read

Book review: Sweet Noise - Love in Wartime

American photographer Max Hirshfeld, tells the tale of his Shoah survivor parents in a unique way

By Johnny Belknap

3 min read

A journey to the heart of Chabad

Hasidism Beyond Modernity - Essays in Habad Thought and History, Naftali Loewenthal, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation, £39.50

By dr harris bor

1 min read

Book review: The Heartless Traffic

This book continues Jeremy Robson’s remarkable renaissance and shows just how prolific he has become

By Peter Lawson

2 min read

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Book review: A Thousand Kisses

In this excellent book, Raphael's life and verse become as fresh and relevant as the day they were lived and penned

By Mark Glanville

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Book review: A Thousand Kisses

Book review: The State of Disbelief

Rosenfeld is brutally honest about her experiences and the book is often painful to read

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Book review: The State of Disbelief

Book review: A Whole Scene Going On

Barry Fantoni, a British jack-of-a-lot-of-trades, was there in the 1960's and remembers plenty about the era

By Michael Knipe

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Book review: A Whole Scene Going On

Book review: House of Glass

Freeman writes beautifully and, although she evokes the historical context, she doesn’t allow it to overload her story

By Jennifer Lipman

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Book review: House of Glass

Book review: Well Worth Saving

A thought-provoking book — collaboration takes many forms, says Colin Shindler

By Colin Shindler

2 min read

Book review: Well Worth Saving

Book review: The Kindertransport - Contesting Memory

Jennifer Craig-Norton explodes the myths of the successful outcomes, the easy settling, and the general warm welcome for the Kindertransport children

By Rabbi Julia Neuberger

2 min read

Book review: The Kindertransport - Contesting Memory

Book review: Takes One to Know One

Though it gets off to a slow start, this thriller picks up the pace for an exciting climax

By Alan Montague

1 min read

Book review: Takes One to Know One

Book review: The Tunnel

A B Yehoshua's most recent novels are about characters approaching old age. His latest deals with the onset of dementia.

By David Herman

1 min read

Book review: The Tunnel

Guilty but only of being very, very funny

Stephen Pollard reviews Woody Allen's autobiography, Apropos of Nothing

By Stephen Pollard

2 min read

Guilty but only of being very, very funny

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