Foreword to Neil Cornwell, The Life, Times and Milieu of V. F. Odoyevsky 1804–1869 (London, 1986: Athlone Press), ix–x

Contribution to ‘Greetings’, Secular Humanistic Judaism no. 1 (February 1986), 2

(with others) ‘Polish-Jewish Studies’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 30 January 1986, 44

‘Plamenatz, John Petrov (1912–1975)’, in Lord Blake and C. S. Nicholls (eds), The Dictionary of National Biography 1971–1980 (Oxford, 1986: Oxford University Press), 671–3

‘Spender’s “Journals” ’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 7 March 1986, 247

‘On Yitzhak Sadeh’ (in Hebrew translation), Davar, 5 September 1986, 17

• incorporated into Bib.214, ‘Yitzhak Sadeh’, Midstream 39 no. 4 (May 1993)
• trans. Russian

‘A Personal View of Super-Titles’, in Glyndebourne Touring Opera 1986 (programme) ([Glyndebourne, 1986: Glyndebourne Festival Opera]), 54–6

‘A Personal Tribute to Adam von Trott (Balliol 1931)’, Balliol College Annual Record 1986, 61–2

‘Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion’, Jewish Quarterly 33 (1986) no. 3 (123), 6–9

‘Martin Cooper: In Memoriam’, in programme for memorial concert by Lindsay String Quartet, 29 June 1986, 2 pp.