I take the attack on a Manchester synagogue where I’ve fasted on Yom Kippur personally, writes the novelist Howard Jacobson: it’s an assault on my person and my culture, and as pure an expression of J ...

Literary critics have called him the British Philip Roth, but Howard Jacobson prefers to think of himself as a "Jewish Jane Austen." His books are... Howard Jacobson: Finding Humor In Jewish Nerves ...

In Howard Jacobson’s bleak new post-apocalyptic world, a letter of the alphabet – J – has been outlawed. If speaking, a person puts two fingers across his mouth while saying a word starting with J. In ...