Jonathan Freedland Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jonathan 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.

Jonathan Freedland

You 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

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It’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

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Heading 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:

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"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

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My 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

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Thrilled 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

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Very 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

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Deborah 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