Two new books dissect the Arnhem offensive
By Colin Shindler
A social media book group is spreading Jewish joy. Lizzie Kapren meets the women picking the must-reads every month to share with its members
By Elizabeth Karpen
Angela Kiverstein asks children’s author Jodie Lancet-Grant about her latest picture book
By Angela Kiverstein
Writers critical of Israel say summer festival season ‘can expect escalation and disruption’
By Jane Prinsley
Hong Kong-based children’s author Erica Lyons writes books with a very distinct Jewish flavour
By Judith Zerdin
Our writer pays tribute to Paul Auster who died this week
By David Herman
This brief and breezy guide to Israel’s ancient sites is an impressive achievement
By Robert Low
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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
This book is a deeply moving account of a devastating attack and its consequences, but it is also guilty of sins of omission
This is a sweeping work of storytelling bravado
By Jenni Frazer
Our critic relishes a novel about a formidable feminist
By Amanda Hopkinson
Angela Kiverstein’s pick of this week’s new Jewish books
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
