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Were the Nazis inherently evil? - The Jewish Chronicle

2 months ago | thejc.com | Jennifer Lipman |John Nathan |Nicole Lampert |Elisa Bray

Is being ambitious just about getting ahead, or a sign of an impaired brain? What is the neurological basis of gluttony? Is apathy down to our frontal lobes? Is it all in the genes, or determined from the womb? Is pride a moral failing, or the product of our brains being moulded in childhood?
Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’

Jan 13, 2025 | thejc.com | Sarah Seltzer |Jennifer Lipman

Life & Culture Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’ The music reverberates from the pages of this feminist journalist’s debut novel The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer Piatkus, £9.99 By the end of Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel I could almost hear the music reverberating from the pages, performed by the talented, battle-scarred women at its heart. Judie and Sylvia Zingerman, two nice Jewish girls who become 1960s folk music stars, may be fictional, but in...
Meet the Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok sensation

Nov 13, 2024 | thejc.com | Jennifer Lipman

When Gidon Lev is out and about in Israel, he is sometimes stopped by people who recognise him from social media. But he’s no glossy influencer; he’s an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, prominent thanks to his TikTok videos, in which he talks about his experiences and optimistic life philosophy. His biggest fanbase (he has almost 500,000 followers) is in America, and he even has celebrity fans; after using a Kinks song to soundtrack a video, the band’s singer, Ray Davies, got in touch.
By Any Other Name review: ‘Shakespeare’s Marrano sister’

Oct 22, 2024 | thejc.com | Jodi Picoult |Jennifer Lipman

Jodi Picoult was for years queen of the twisty courtroom saga. An impossible ethical choice? An unwinnable case? A dilemma tearing a family apart? Think organ donation drama My Sister’s Keeper, or Nineteen Minutes, about a school shooting – books that turned her into a global brand, the go-to for women wanting readable, thoughtful fiction. After 28 books, this might be her most controversial plot line yet, since it tackles the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays.
Lore Segal: ‘her subject was her life’

Oct 16, 2024 | thejc.com | Jennifer Lipman

Lore Segal: 1928-2024 Mourning someone who lived to the full into their nineties seems to miss the point, and you get the sense Lore Segal would have agreed. The Pulitzer-nominated novelist and short story writer was genial but acerbic when I interviewed her 18 months ago; I got the sense that she had no truck with fools. Segal, who died last week aged 96, lived a colourful life of many chapters.
‘I’ve created a Jewish version of Sherlock Holmes’

Oct 8, 2024 | thejc.com | Jennifer Lipman

The phrase 19th-century British Jews tends to bring to mind images of families fleeing pogroms and cramped East End tenements. Less so detectives skipping across Europe to thwart coups and dine with royalty. But debut novelist Aron Goldin is determined to push back against the stereotype. The hero of his debut novel, Murder in Constantinople, is a young man of action whose Jewishness acts more as a superpower than an impediment.
The Gates of Gaza review: ‘why Israel is where it is’

Oct 2, 2024 | thejc.com | Jennifer Lipman

Like many, in the weeks after October 7, I could barely tear myself away from the stories of tragedy and survival shared by those who had been witness to the terror. Amid so many devastating accounts, I remember being gripped by an article by Ha’aretz journalist Amir Tibon in The Atlantic. It documented how he hid with his wife and two daughters under five in their safe room for hours before finally being rescued by his father, Noam, a retired army general who once commanded forces in Lebanon.
An Absence of Cousins: ‘it does Segal a disservice’

Aug 29, 2024 | thejc.com | Lore Segal |Jennifer Lipman

An Absence of Cousins by Lore Segal Sort Of Books, £9.99 Reviewed by Jennifer Lipman Lore Segal is a largely unsung doyenne of American literature. The 96-year old came to prominence with her novel Her First American in 1984, having previously written the gripping Other People’s Houses, a fictionalised account of her own experience escaping Nazi Germany as a ten-year-old and ending up in England.
From our diaspora perches, many of us are appalled at the splintering of Israeli society

Aug 14, 2024 | thetablet.co.uk | Jennifer Lipman

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The best books with which to hit the beach

Jul 25, 2024 | thejc.com | Jennifer Lipman

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Viking, £16.99) V A claustrophobic tale of an unwanted guest, a potentially agoraphobic host and a crumbling family home in a rural postwar Dutch village may not sound like an ideal beach read, but van der Wouden’s debut will stay with you long after the sun goes down.