Jews Don’t Count: A Times Book of the Year 2021
About the Author
DAVID BADDIEL is a writer and comedian. He lives in London. He is also, would you believe, a Jew.
Praise for
Jews Don’t Count
‘Jews Don’t Count is a supreme piece of reasoning and passionate, yet controlled, argument. From his first sentence, the energy, force and conviction of Baddiel’s writing and thinking will transfix you … as readable as an airport thriller … a masterpiece’
‘I don’t think I have ever been so grateful to anyone for writing a book. Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count is incisive, urgent, surprisingly funny and short. It’s also a beautiful piece of publishing. It needs to be read’
‘Brilliant, furious, uncomfortable, funny. Essential reading’
‘I’m about a quarter of the way into this thus far and it’s very well argued and written. It’s a book you know the author HAD to write, and those are the best books’
‘I only big up work I really believe is good and this is extraordinarily good. And important’
‘This is brilliant — funny and furious, mostly at the same time’
‘A convincing and devastating charge sheet’
‘It is so gripping — I read it in a single sitting’
‘A fascinating book, I urge you to read it’
‘I really think it’s a great book … the real triumph is its tone, its straightforwardness, and its spectacular tact and wit’
‘This short and powerful book shows, with remarkable humanity and humour, that no contemporary conversation about racism is complete without confronting antisemitism. An essential read — and a compulsory one too, if I had my way’
‘Funny, complex and intellectually satisfying — a really good piece of work’
‘Just so brilliantly argued and written, I was completely swept along’
‘David Baddiel is a brilliant thinker and writer. Even when I disagree with him — especially when I disagree with him — I feel profound gratitude for his intellectual and moral clarity. This is a brave and necessary book’