Explore the Wingate Prize Longlist

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December 11, 2024

Enjoy the Wingate Prize Longlist with JLF Player

Looking for winter reads to add to your bookshelf? Our partner The Wingate Prize has you sorted with its newly revealed longlist of seven novels and seven non-fiction titles. With all interrogating what it means to be Jewish in their unique way, read on further for what the longlist has to offer.

Excited by a particular author? Our JLF Player is the online archive for you to dive deeper into their work and minds. From Ian Buruma and Sara Gibbs to David Baddiel and Toby Lloyd,
watch events with these authors on JLF Player for free:

Ian Buruma on the life and mind of Spinoza (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/baruch-spinoza-a-life)

Sara Gibbs and Helen Lederer on the importance of funny books (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/laugh-lines-helen-lederer-sara-gibbs-vimeo)
David Baddiel on The God Desire (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/david-baddiel-the-god-desire)

Toby Lloyd on his novel Fervour (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/fervour)

THE WINGATE PRIZE LONGLIST

The Postcard:

Anne Berest

A tale of family survival devastated by the Holocaust

My Family:

David Baddiel

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir

Long Island Compromise:

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

A wealthy family down on its luck struggles with past trauma

Final Verdict:

Tobias Buck

A story of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany

Time’s Echo:

Jeremy Eichler

A stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history

Fervour:

Toby Lloyd

A family in turmoil when they suspect their daughter is a witch

The Safekeep:

Yale van Der Wouden

A tale of family survival devastated by the Holocaust

Spinoza:

Ian Buruma

A deep-dive into the life and death of the renowned thinker

Eight Bright Lights:

Sara Gibbs

A comic tale of a Jewish wedding veering off course

Sufferance:

Charles Pallier

Charts a family entangled in world heading towards Dystopia

Lublin:

Manya Wilkinson

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir

Cold Crematorium:

József Debreczeni

A lost classic of Holocaust literature (trans. Paul Olchvary)

Elena: A Hand Made Life

Miriam Gold

A heartfelt memoir of love, family, and fearless women

Alfred Dreyfus:

Maurice Samuels

The heroic survival of Dreyfus, victim of French antisemitism

Shortlist announced…

Late January…stay tuned!

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