APRIL 2005


















Papercut mizrach by Marta Golab incorporating Psalm 125


'Storyteller David Bash
 

Detail from cover of 'For Generations – Jewish Motherhood'


Recipe ingredients

  WHAT'S NEW

MUSEUM TAKES A STAND

JEWISH SCULPTOR COMMEMORATES FOLEY

INCLUSIVENESS IS NEW SCHOOL'S WATCHWORD

  THE JR INTERVIEW

JONATHAN FREEDLAND
The high profile and controversial Guardian journalist, is proud of his Jewishness but profoundly annoys many fellow Jews. Janet Levin finds out more about the man, his formative years and his hopes for the future

  JUDAISM AND...

JUDAISM AND THE VISUAL IMAGE
Elliott Tucker puts forward some challenging ideas on the way forward for Jewish art

  HERITAGE

THE MYSTERY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Angela Levine recalls the sensational history of the discovery of these incomparably important scrolls and reports on the latest controversy

  MUSIC

THE POWER OF SYNAGOGUE MUSIC
Stephen Glass waxes lyrical on the role of music in the synagogue and explains why a renaissance is necessary

PARIS KLEZMER
Cyril Robinson talks to some of the players in the Jewish music scene in Paris and provides a guide as to where to go to hear the stars

  THE JEWS OF LIBYA

HISTORY
Janet Naim tells the story of the community that began in the days of the Roman Empire

THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Aldo Habib tells his own personal experience of living through the years of Italian fascism, British administration, and an increasingly hostile environment culminating in exile in 1967

HERBERT PAGANI
The story of the artist/writer/poet/film-maker and his Letter to the Colonel

EVERYDAY LIFE
Life as it was lived in the heyday of the community, in words and pictures

PASSOVER TRADITIONS
Raphael Luzon details the traditions that are specific to the Libyan community

LOVE AND MARRIAGE
Mali Tayar Zekeria and Janet Naim on the colourful betrothal customs

IN LIBYA NOW
Raphael Luzon on the glimmers of hope as negotiations with Colonel Gadhaffi begin

RUNNING RISKS FOR THE RECORD
The story of the photographers who took illicit photos of the current state of synagogues and cemeteries

THOSE WHO STAYED
Pedazur Benatti on the last Jewish residents

FIND OUT MORE
Books and websites for further information

  ART

POLISH ARTISTS INSPIRED BY JEWISH TRADITION
Henryk Halkowski talks to papercut artist Marta Golab; Lena Stanley-Clamp views the installation of Janusz Marciniak

MARK CHAGALL AND THE BIBLE
Monica Bohm-Duchen on the background to the forthcoming Ben Uri exhibition

AMSTERDAM MUSEUM SHOWS OFF ITS SYNAGOGUES
Judy Jaffe-Schagen reports

   ARTS IN ISRAEL

FROM THE DYBBUK TO BEST FRIENDS
Linda Ben Zvi tells the story of theatre in Israel

  STORYTELLING

STRANDS OF STORYTELLING
Derek Reid celebrates a key part of the fabric of Jewish cultural life

MIRIAM'S CUP
Maria Bywater on a new addition to the telling of the Passover story

  BOOKS

Kate McLoughlin reviews the latest Cynthia Ozick novel
Judith Mirzoeff reads and hears Einstein's own words
Lynda Harris on an anthology about motherhood
Paul Gross reviews two books that search out the real Israelis
Marge Clouts on the last of Richard Zimler's trilogy
JR Young Readers: The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls

  POETRY

POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan chooses poems by Ruth Trilling and Esta Leftonl

POETRY REVIEW
Songs from Bialik

  FOOD

THE LIBYAN JEWISH KITCHEN
Mali Tayar Zakeria

  LETTER FROM ISRAEL

FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN
Golda Zafer-Smith pays a return visit

  LAST WORDS

LIBYAN JUDEO-ARABIC
Raphael Luzon