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AUTUMN 2001

  ON COURSE

Ray Keenoy on why he is learning Yiddish

  COMMUNITY

THE JEWS OF IRAQ

THE BABYLONIAN HERITAGE
The history of Iraqi Jews from the exile to Babylon to today
Charlemagne and his role in the Sephardi/Ashkenazy split

NAIM DANGOOR - EXILARCH
We talk to the community leader

SWEET AND SOUR
Claudia Roden on Iraqi cooking traditions - plus recipes

WHEN THE GREY BEETLES TOOK OVER BAGHDAD
Award winning novel by Mona Yahia reviewed by Maureen Lipman

  IDENTITY

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE.... BUT IF YOU ARE WHO ARE YOU?
A view of current Jewish identity from Judy Ironside, Director of Brighton Jewish Film Festival

  INTERVIEW

Eminent figures talk about their work and their Jewish identity

Janet Suzman - Actor and anti-racism campaigner interviewed by Gerald de Groot

  A DUMMY'S GUIDE TO.....

KABBALAH
Jeremy Rosen answers some basic questions

  WE WERE REFUGEES

WE TOO WERE MALIGNED
Edie Friedman compares the reception given to refugees in 1901 and 2001

  EVOKING THE PAST

REMEMBERING LUBOML
Theo Richmond on the highlights of the exhibition at the London Jewish Museum

  THE ARTS

ART BEGINS AT 85
Milly Pulver is exhibiting nationally at the age of 91, having only started painting when she was 85. Irene Wise talks to her and her teacher David Dunbar at Jewish Care's Stamford Hill Community Centre.

ARTS IN ISRAEL

The work of Jerusalem paper cut artist Archie Granot is in the collections of many museums including the Victoria & Albert in London. His works revive a traditional Jewish art but are also innovative. The artist, originally from England, is interviewed by Diane Wyshogrod Zlotogorski.

  MUSIC

THWARTED VOICES
MUSIC SUPPRESSED BY THE THIRD REICH
Michael Haas suggests that the course of Western music could have been very different if composers such as Franz Schreker had not had their careers so violently interrupted.

  YOUNG READERS

Young readers are invited to review books and ask questions of the authors

OUT OF THE HITLER TIME
Judith Kerr's trilogy which begins with the favourite: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

  LETTER FROM ISRAEL

THREE LONG YEARS
A personal view, by 22 year old Yonatan Koevary, of his service in the Israeli army and how it has impacted on his life

  AS OTHERS SEE US

KOSHER AND CHINESE
"How many people could have a one to one with their Rabbi...to be in this man's company is to be extremely privileged". Irene Wise speaks to Norman Han who runs a kosher restaurant and has absorbed Jewish culture - but he has also made sure his children speak Chinese.

  CITY SPOTLIGHT

BERLIN

SPACE THAT DEFIED BEING FILLED
Controversy has raged on what to exhibit in Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum without detracting from the emotional impact of the building itself. Jude Bloomfield writes about problems faced by the exhibit's creators; David Clark reports from the grand opening.

A FLAVOUR OF JEWISH BERLIN
Rabbi Walter Rothschild, who now lives and works in Berlin, describes its unusual Jewish community and advises the visitor on what must be seen.
PLUS VISITOR FACT FILE

  DIFFERENT WAYS OF BEING JEWISH

THE SAATCHI EXPERIMENT
As a second Saatchi synagogue is planned, Roy Rubenstein writes about why the first was set up and just what is different about this innovative congregation.

  FOOD

RESTAURANT REVIEW
Simon Falush reviews ART 2 HEART, the new restaurant plus art gallery in Golders Green

RECIPES
Traditional Iraqi cooking

  WEB SITE REVIEW

Aviva Dautch tells you how to explore the international Jewish world

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