This gripping expedition into an arcane world of book collectors and their eccentric passions papers over an even more intriguing yarn about family history
By Jennifer Lipman
A deeply affecting portrait of a pious family’s trials and turmoil in an eastern Europe on the brink of collapse
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
This new portrait of Krautrock shows how the country’s rare Jewish survivors were central to its development
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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
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This is a remarkable novel about how everyday Europeans faced up to life as war drew to a close
By David Herman
A new book claims Jewish scholars guided the Tudor king in his row with Rome
By Jenni Frazer
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
This year’s Wingate winner on her tragicomedy Lublin and lost family history
YA author Gayle Forman on her latest book which explores a teenage death
By Angela Kiverstein
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav was one of the great Chasidic writers of the early modern period, and this Pushkin Press translation of his tales of rabbis, robbers, princes and paradoxes is a treasure
This is a monumental biography of Fritz Bauer, the German-Jewish lawyer who went back to Deutschland to see justice done
