Two astonishing books, at once intimate family stories and epic explorations of European Jewry, asking how the Shoah happened and why, nine decades on, antisemitism is resurgent.

In Burgenland, David Joseph covers the full arc of the Jewish experience in central Europe over the last 300 years, with particular reference to an Austrian farming village from where his family originated. The Last Train is Peter Bradley’s profoundly moving account of his family’s fate,
trying to understand why his grandparents’ fellow citizens allowed their murder, while his father gained a UK visa, only to be shipped to a Canadian internment camp. David and Peter discuss with Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger.

An event from Jewish Book Week 2024