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Emma Barnett’s kids’ colouring book features Jewish sites and landmarks across the UK

By Louisa Walters

Broadcaster and her husband Jeremy Weil will launch their book at Jewish Book Week

February 26, 2025, 4:56 pm

Emma Barnett’s kids’ colouring book features Jewish sites and landmarks across the UK

Broadcaster and her husband Jeremy Weil will launch their book at Jewish Book Week

By Louisa Walters

One of Britta Teckentrup’s illustrations for The House on the Canal

January 22, 2025, 4:49 pm

How does one tell children about the Holocaust?

Two new books use simple visuals to help little ones understand what happened during WW2

By Jenni Frazer

December 17, 2024, 12:11 pm

Chanukah reading is a children’s miracle

Cute seasonal stories and clever ones to make sense of bullying and mental health issues are among the choices to read with your kids during the holidays

By Louisa Walters

December 15, 2024, 10:08 pm

Books to help children understand who they are

Author Talya Bruck simplifies your kids' concerns and PJ Library magics up Chanukah

By Brie Bailey

The site of the old cemetery in Pikelai (left) and the site of the town's old synagogue

November 28, 2024, 11:31 am

The Jews of Lithuania – book review: an enticing history of a once vibrant community

In a concise narrative backed by meticulous research Nick Sayers tells the story of the community his great-grandfather left behind when he emigrated to Cork

By Antony Lishak

July 11, 2024, 5:12 pm

Is this the solution to ‘angry’ politics?

Centrist politics is the focus of an anthology of essays collated by British-Israeli political adviser Yair Zivan.

By Jenni Frazer

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas author John Boyne with Lauren Laverne as he appears on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

May 26, 2024, 10:01 am

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author: Don’t read Holocaust novels for facts

John Boyne responds to criticism about his book, which explores the fictional friendship between the son of an SS officer and a Jewish boy

By Jewish News Reporter

April 8, 2024, 4:02 pm

Waterstones denies claims of anti-Israel bias in book display at flagship store

Of four recommended books on display for reading on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, three are written by anti-Zionist authors Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky.

By Lee Harpin

March 19, 2024, 1:08 pm

Wingate prizewinner’s mother didn’t want to be featured in her daughter’s books

Elizabeth McCracken found a way to write about her mum while adhering to her wishes

By Francine Wolfisz

The books have been donated by several Israel book publishers.

December 27, 2023, 11:03 am

Bookmobile spreads joy to displaced Israeli children, page by page

The National Library of Israel initiative will tour the country, visiting evacuees at 40 centres serving those moved from southern and northern border communities.

By Jenni Frazer

October 5, 2023, 6:07 pm

Men can write romantic novels – and they can be funny, too

Netflix show The Queen's Gambit inspired Paul A Mendelson's new book (but it's not about chess)

By Alex Galbinski

September 21, 2023, 3:44 pm

“When I think back on my life I see a picture of my mother”

Holocaust survivor Ivor Perl was sent to Auschwitz aged eight. He tells all in a poignant memoir

By Sarah Miller

September 11, 2023, 2:00 pm

Meet the chefs sharing their family’s Mediterranean cooking in new recipe books

Samantha Ferraro and Limor Chen's dishes are full of flavour

By Angie Jacobs

A Zoom Rockman illustration from the book.

August 2, 2023, 3:37 pm

Children’s literature comes of age with Ivor Baddiel’s bonkers new book

Everything that could possibly go wrong at a bar mitzvah does go wrong in the author's madcap new novel.

By Candice Krieger

July 28, 2023, 8:53 am

Funnyman Nigel Planer gets serious about his Jewish heritage

The not-so-young-one is playing two Jewish grandfather sin the next few weeks. Oh, and he's written a book

By Brigit Grant

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