Books

Hype can be beautiful. It can bring a writer from obscurity to being hailed as “one of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century” in a matter of months. Such has been the case…
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What happens to a 16th century Jewish Venetian merchant who has been humiliated in court, sentenced to forced conversion, and has lost his only daughter to apostasy? Shakespeare…
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Mihail Sebastian, born Iosef Hechter, was a Romanian Jew who, having survived the war and the Holocaust, died at the age of 38 in 1945 when he was hit by a truck while crossing the…
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Karim Miské’s literary thriller, Arab Jazz, which explores religious extremism, murder and multicultural unrest in Paris’s north-eastern neighbourhoods, was published in French,…
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Dr. Eitan Green has a perfect life: a talented, ambitious young neurosurgeon, he is married to the beautiful Liat, with whom he has two healthy children. They live in a shiny new…
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Since 2010, Yale have published more than twenty books in their Jewish Lives series. The books, aimed at the general reader, are brief introductions to their subjects, a mix of…
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From the early twentieth century to the present, people have speculated on the death of the novel. Nonetheless, the novel as a literary form has grown, with tens of thousands of…
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Feet of Clay, by Beatrice Baltuck Garrard (pictured above), has won the first ever Amy Levy Prize - a new award given to a writer under the age of 30, addressing a Jewish theme. …
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Perhaps one day in the not-too- distant future, British-Jewish young adult novels will be commonplace enough for reviews to focus solely on the books. Today, however, the…
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By Alexander Goldberg. “Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis”. Maurice White’s novel ‘Keep Breathing Out’ is a welcome addition to the…
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