Jonathan Freedland Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Jonathan Freedland is a journalist. Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy with @leviyonit. Author: THE ESCAPE ARTIST
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan ThrallJonathan Freedland...deeply affecting and, in its concluding chapters, as tense as a thriller. It takes a single episode and it constructs not only a meticulously detailed account of that one event but perhaps the clearest picture yet of the reality of daily life in the occupied territories.
Hardcover, 2023
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Ben Helfgott: The Story of One of the Boys
Michael FreedlandJonathan FreedlandYou can read all about Ben Helfgott’s remarkable life in this book - which, incidentally, was the last one written by my late father, Michael Freedland https://t.co/2M1SFbySmu
Hardcover, 2018
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A Tranquil Star: Stories
Primo LeviJonathan FreedlandIt’s my first non-fiction for 17 years and the most important book I’ve written. It’s about Rudolf Vrba - who I believe deserves to be ranked alongside Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler and Primo Levi as one of the stories that define the Holocaust https://t.co/GQtDqO05Vo
Paperback, 2008
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Midnight's Children
Salman RushdieJonathan FreedlandHeading home from @edbookfest, where each session is beginning with that session's speaker reading a line from Salman Rushdie. My one was from Midnight's Children:
Paperback, 2006
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The Escape Artist
Brad MeltzerJonathan Freedland"With strong, clear prose and vivid details...The Escape Artist is riveting history, eloquently written, and scrupulously researched. This book can be read, like Rosenberg and Wetzler’s report, as a warning to the world." Delighted by this @StarTribune review
Paperback, Mass Market, 2019
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookBen Helfgott: The Story of One of the Boys
Michael FreedlandJonathan FreedlandMy father, Michael Freedland, died nearly five years ago - but he has a byline in today's Guardian. It's an obituary of the extraordinary man who was the subject of his last book: Sir Ben Helfgott https://t.co/QzxwyFkS1V
Hardcover, 2018
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Jonathan FreedlandJonathan FreedlandThrilled that today's @nytimes answers the question 'What to read?' with this: 'The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland, tells of Auschwitz’s horrors — and the multitudes who refused to listen.' https://t.co/mFx9QhkLI9
Paperback, 2023
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale Part I: My Father Bleeds History (Maus #01)
Art SpiegelmanJonathan FreedlandVery much looking forward to this: Art Spiegelman's Maus is a genuine masterpiece, in the first rank of accounts of the Shoah https://t.co/vgsWDZAQ6r
Hardcover, 1986
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Antisemitism: Here and Now
Deborah E. LipstadtJonathan FreedlandDeborah Lipstadt is the woman who stood up to David Irving and won. She’s now Joe Biden’s special envoy on antisemitism @StateSEAS. On the Unholy podcast she told me and @LeviYonit what to make of Kanye West’s latest remarks https://t.co/DwFuE98WM9
Hardcover, 2019
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