JULY 2008

  DEBATE

MULTICULTURALISM – A MISTAKE?
Sir Jonathan Sacks responds to a challenge to his condemnation of multiculturalism in The Home We Build Together

  THE JR INTERVIEW

TEA WITH OONA KING  
Golda Zafer-Smith talks to the former MP about her family background and her Jewish and Black identities

  THE JEWS OF SPAIN

TIMELINE
Michael Alpert summarises Spain’s Jewish history from Roman times to the present
THE GOLDEN AGE
Marion Nina Amber celebrates a period when “coexistence was a fact of life”
MUSIC AND POETRY  
Judith Cohen on the Jewish musicians, minstrels and poets of medieval Spain
POET AND GENERAL
Menashe Tahan on the extraordinary multi-talented HaNagid
INQUISITION 
Michael Alpert tells the history of the terror which affected thousands of lives
CONVERSOS ON TRIAL
David Gitlitz and Linda Davidson unearth personal stories from Inquisition records
CATHOLIC JEWS  
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer on a community in Mallorca which retains a direct link with the Jews of Medieval Spain
JEWS IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Ross Bradshaw shows the significance of the Jewish contribution
WHOSE HERITAGE?
Janet Levin talks to Dominique Tomasov Blinder about her campaign to put the Jewish voice into heritage conservation decisions in Barcelona
THE TALE OF ONE CITY
Lyn Julius hears about Valencia’s Jewish past and meets Alba Toscano, the leader of its newest congregation
ON THE COSTA DEL SOL
Radio star Maurice Boland and the Marbella Beth El synagogue
FOR VISITORS
Places to see and sources of information

  THEATRE

ON STAGE THIS SUMMER
Interviews with Katy Lipson and Giles Rowe, creators of Turkish Delight the Opera and Lionel Goldstein, author of Halpern and Johnson and previews of The Arab, the Jew and the Chicken by Conflict Relief and the Buxton Festival Samson

  MUSIC

SOUNDING THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM
Abigail Wood on how music is breaking barriers between diverse neighbours in the city of Jerusalem

  ART

TEDDY AND ISRAEL
Judi Herman on the Ben Uri exhibition, Through Teddy’s Eyes

REAL TIME
Angela Levine views the exhibition of contemporary art at the Israel Museum
YEHUDA PEN
Rachel Bayvel discovers the long-hidden work of the Russian painter who was a teacher of Chagall

  BOOKS

REFUGEE VOICES
Beverley Cohen talks to Jennifer Langer, founder of Exiled Writers INK with Predrag Finci from Bosnia and Bart Wolffe from Zimbabwe
Reviews of If Salt Has Memory edited by Jennifer Langer and Reluctant Refuge edited by Edie Friedman and Reva Kein
CLASSIC CHOICE
Tsila Ratner rereads S Y Agnon’s Only Yesterday
MODERN MARRANOISM
Maureen Kendler looks at diaspora writers’ ambivalence towards Israel
REVIEWS
Credit Draper by J David Simons and Dance to Your Daddy by Gail Levy
Barbarism & Civilization: A History of Europe In Our Time by Bernard Wasserstein and Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman and Auschwitzby Angela Morgan Cutler
The Last Jews of Kerala by Edna Fernandes and Jewish Heritage in Gibraltar by Sharman Kadish

YOUNG READERS
Alice Hoffman’s Incantation reviewed by Liina Otsalu

  POETRY

Liz Cashdan reviews collections by Arnold Wesker and Rhoda Hodes and selects poems by Stephen Wilson and Carol Burns
Please click HERE for details of how to submit poems to JR

  LETTER FROM ISRAEL

VIEW FROM AN ANAESTHETIST
Carolyn Weiniger

  FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

VIEW FROM RWANDA
David Russell on Jewish involvement in helping survivors

  FOOD

A TASTE OF SPAIN
Spanish Jewish Cooking Ancient and Modern
Recipes from A Drizzle of Honey by David Gitlitz and Linda Davidson and New Flavours of the Jewish Table by Denise Phillips

  LAST WORDS

HOW ESPAÑOL BECAME LADINO
Michael Alpert  

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