This brief and breezy guide to Israel’s ancient sites is an impressive achievement
By Robert Low
Sheila Brill tells how she recovered from the terrible effect hospital staff’s incompetence had on her family and how she campaigning to improve practices
By Hilary Freeman
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
By Stephen Pollard
By Colin Shindler
This book is a deeply moving account of a devastating attack and its consequences, but it is also guilty of sins of omission
By David Herman
This is a sweeping work of storytelling bravado
By Jenni Frazer
Our critic relishes a novel about a formidable feminist
By Amanda Hopkinson
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Angela Kiverstein’s pick of this week’s new Jewish books
By Angela Kiverstein
A consummate communicator, Zarum tackles medieval thinkers with a light touch
By Harry Freedman
Elizabeth McCracken on the restlessly shape-shifting novel that won her the literary award for the best book to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader
By Claire Allfree
A rigorous trawl through Venetian archives yields a work that begs for a lavish film adaptation
This is an extraordinary collection of essays about some extraordinary emigré artists and writers
This is insightful on the guilt, complicity and collaboration of the Third Reich’s fellow German travellers, including the author’s own grandfather
This book reads like a thriller, and if that encourages people to pick it up, good: 79 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, living memories are fading
By Jennifer Lipman
The appearance of this book could not be more timely, nor its message more urgent
The writer on the insider-outsider status of being a Jew, and why she enjoys confounding prejudice in her fiction and in life
By Amanda Craig
