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Bobowa photo by Chris Schwartz Traces of Memory Exhibition,
Krakow
Stephen Berkoff
Rudolph Rodker
Jackie “Kid” Berg, 2002, Oil on linen, 18 X 20in, by Charles Miller,
www.jewishboxers.com
In the Synagogue oil on canvas by Alfred Walmark, 1906
New Synagogue, Dresden, Germany, 1997-2001
Linda Grant at Hay-on-Wye
Moses acrylic by poet and painter Rhoda Hodes
WHAT'S
NEW
Innovative new museums open in Copenhagen and Krakow; new discoveries of Jewish music announced in Potsdam. Must Jewish heritage be owned by Jews? – report on discussion at Prague conference.
SOAP
BOX
SELF-HATING JEW. ME?
Deborah Smith, a "comfortably affiliated, marrying-in, eating out kind
of Jew" deplores intolerance of Guardian readers
DEBATE
BELIEF IS NOT IMPORTANT
Clive Lawton claims that it is what we do that matters. Rabbi Sybil Sheridan
disagrees
THE
JR INTERVIEW
TESTING THE LIMITS
Golda-Zafer Smith finds out what is behind Steven Berkoff's belligerent
personality and captures some cogent comments on literature and life
JUDAISM AND...
JUDAISM AND DRESS
Jack Lukeman finds out what a Scotsman in a kilt and a chassid have in
common, and discovers what is law and what is lore in customs of dress
EAST END JEWS
TIMELINE
Key dates and facts of Jewish settlement in the East End
RUDOLPH ROCKER
Erica Gordon on the German radical who learnt Yiddish to champion Jewish
workers
STARS OF THE YIDDISH THEATRE
David Mazower’s photo-story
FIRST LADY – AND LAST
Anna Tzelniker, the last star of the Yiddish theatre, relives a past world.
Nicola Taylor listens enthralled.
INDELIBLE STENCL
Derek Reid reminisces about the poet who devoted his life to championing
Yiddish
I WAS THERE...
Ubby Cowan gives a first-hand report of what happened at the Battle of
Cable Street, on the streets and on the roof
MAJER BOGDANSKI
The 92 year-old singer and composer tells Barry Davis a remarkable story
of survival and self-education
IN THE RING
Howard Fredrics on East End boxing champions – and the opera he
is creating about them
SETTLING BACK IN
David Russell finds out from film-maker Elliott Tucker why he has chosen
to live in the East End
VISIBLE ECHOS OF A JEWISH PAST
The unexpected stories behind buildings still to be seen on East End streets
HIDDEN OASES
Julian Litten explores the history of the burial grounds
CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATION
Rachel Lasserson reviews Stenclmusic
FIND OUT MORE
Organisations, books, websites
ART
FROM WHITECHAPEL BOY TO POST-IMPRESSIONIST
Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall explain Alfred Wolmark’s conversion
from painter of Jewish scenes to post-impressionist
AT THE EYE OF THE CYCLONE
Britta Jürgs on why and how Jewish artists are making their presence
felt in today’s Berlin
ARTS IN ISRAEL
IGAEL TUMARKIN – BAD BOY OF ISRAELI ART
Angela Levine talks to the controversial winner of the Israel Prize
EXHIBITION
ARCHITECTURE SPEAKS OUT
Judy Jaffe-Schagen reviews Yibaneh! Jewish Identity in Contemporary
Architecture, the exhibition which will be touring Europe
FILM AND THEATRE REVIEW
Reviews of the films My Architect and Almost Peaceful and the play The Arab-Israeli Cookbook
MUSIC
TALISMAN
Michael Miller previews a new work by Brian Elias which is based on the
Hebrew text of a 19th century amulet
BOOKS
REALITY BREAKS INTO AN ENGLISH PARADISE
Janet Naim hears forceful words from Israeli Etgar Keret, Palestinian
Samir El-Youssef and Britain’s Wesker at the Hay Festival
FABULOUS MORALITY
Meshal Haqadmoni Erica Gordon reviews a remarkable new translation
of medieval morality tales told as animal fables
SURVIVING IN EASTERN EUROPE
Judith Mirzoeff reviews film-maker Mira Hamermesh’s memoir The River
of Angry Dogs; Peter Falush finds many gems in Contemporary Jewish
Writing in Hungary
HIDING BEHIND THE CAMERA
Michael Mail’s Exposure, a novel about photography, set in today’s
East End, reviewed by Marge Clouts
YOUNG READERS
Wondrous Oblivion reviewed by Alexander Newton
POETRY
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan selects poems by Penny Finestein and Lynette Craig
POETRY REVIEW
Anthologies by Rhoda Hodes and Naomi Jaffa
FOOD
RECIPE AND RESTAURANT REVIEW
Simon Falush eats at Bevis Marks the Restaurant and acquires the recipe
of one of the dishes he enjoyed
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM A BEDOUIN
Ishmael Khaldi explains his community’s point of view
LAST
WORDS
YINGLISH
Derek Reid finds a Yiddish argot in the music halls