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The Glass Island

Listen to this review We are beset with stories of war. Pervasive and shocking, our world seems to revolve around the Middle East, Ukraine, refugees escaping tyranny. How do we...
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The sixth Jewish Literary Festival will see a stellar line-up of authors

The 2027 Cape Town literary calendar is soon to be rolled out, but be first in line for...
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A life across continents: from Asia to Europe to Africa

By RABBI NAFTALI Y. SILVER, Rabbi, Sephardi Hebrew Congregation Some books preserve history. The finest ones remind us that...
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The Shock of the Light

Listen to this review: I was broken by the time I finished reading this book.  Lori Inglis Hall’s debut novel...
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Podcast review: Episode 310. DAVID BADDIEL

Recommended by Matthew Berman, a World War II history enthusiast British Jewish writer and comedian David Baddiel has explored...

Jonathan Freedland at JLF 2025!

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As a kick off to the Jewish Literary Festival we will host Jonathan Freedland, award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster (on zoom from the UK)...

The JLF 2025 programme is out!

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The month of the Jewish Literary Festival is finally here, and our much-anticipated schedule of sessions is available. It’s not too late to buy...

Read to enhance your life!

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JACQUI RODGERS, Director.  The Jacob Gitlin Library is thrilled to be a partner of the Jewish Literary Festival on 28 April. The books featured...

What’s on at the Jewish Literary Festival 2025

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You don’t have to have read the books – or be a reader at all – to attend and love the Jewish Literary Festival!...

Book Mitzvah!

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Book Talk World-renowned Jewish Capetonian photographer, author and publisher, Marc Hoberman, has recently made a generous donation of his book collection to the Jacob Gitlin...

Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

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By EDITOR Hadley Freeman, a well-known British-American Jewish journalist, wrote an autobiographical account of her own struggle with the eating disorder, Anorexia Nervosa, in the...
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