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Ben Helfgott at the Sydney Olympics, 1956
Ferrara: Internal courtyard of the synagogue building in Via Mazzini
Chinese Jews beside a memorial stone embedded in a house in Kaifeng
Christopher Nupen
You don't have to say anything
by Ceija Stojka
Comedian Ivor Dembina
Schmoozers by Arthur Szyk
THE
JR INTERVIEW
MORE THAN SURVIVING
Golda Zafer-Smith interviews Ben Helfgott: Auschwitz survivor, Olympic
weight-lifter and inveterate campaigner
CROSSING
CULTURES
UNIQUE EVENTS – COMMON EXPERIENCES
Mary Kayitesi-Blewitt, of the Ruandan Survivors' Fund, and Karen Pollock
of the Holocaust Educational Trust explain what they have learnt from
each other
IDENTITY
BEING A JEWISH WOMAN IN 'NOT NORTH' LONDON
Joanna Pearl reports on meeting of women of disparate traditions and views
but much in common
HERITAGE
ITALIAN DELIGHTS
David Clark is reminded by a new guidebook of the rich Jewish heritage
of Emilia Romagna
THE JEWS OF CHINA
TIMELINES FOR CHINA'S MAIN JEWISH COMMUNITIES
plus:
KAIFENG
Reports on visits in 1906 (Oliver Bainbridge) and Alexander Knapp (1996)
Ilana Tahan on how Kaifeng Torah scrolls came to the British library
NANJING
Karen Primack profiles Professor Xu Xin, champion of Judaism
HARBIN, MANCHURIA
Between rock and a hard place: Mara Moustafine on her family’s experiences
SHANGHAI
Michael Pollack reviews Maisie Mayer's book on the Baghdadi community
Jack Lukeman on the miracles which saved the Yeshiva of Mir, and the strange
story of 'Two Gun Cohen', bodyguard to Sun-Yatsen
TIANJIN AND BEIJING
Zvia Bowman on a childhood interrupted by the Red Guards Ron Gluckman
profiles Sidney Shapiro, the oldest Jew in China
HONG KONG
The modern community
FIND OUT MORE
Places to visit, websites to surf and books to read
MUSIC
DESTINATION UNKNOWN
Lena Stanley-Clamp attends the Krakow première of a work by a young
Polish Jew
OF MUSIC AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT
Malcolm Miller talks to Christopher Nupen about how he revolutionised
TV films about music and about his new DVD We Want the Light
REALISING THE IMPOSSIBLE
Laoise Davidson reports on the launch of the Milken Archive of Jewish
Music
EAST MEETS WEST
Lawrence Joffe on a colloquium about Jewish and Arab music
ART
WHY DID WE BUY IT?
Mike Hill explains the Ben Uri’s new purchase of David Bomberg's Racehorses
CEIJA STOJKA – SURVIVOR FROM A DIFFERENT WORLD
The Jewish Museum Vienna exhibits the art of a Roma survivor
TV/THEATRE/COMEDY
BBC HOLOCAUST DAY COVERAGE
GETTING STAGED
Opportunities for playwrights and performers
IVOR DEMBINA
The Deborah Smith watches stand-up
BOOKS
Suite Française Irène Némirovsky
Futurizing Jews Tsvi Bisk & Moshe Dror
A Middle Eastern Affair Ellis Douek
Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust Leon I Yudkin
Arthur Szyk Joseph P Ansell
The Devil’s Arithmetic Jane Yolan
POETRY
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan chooses poems by Pamela Lewis and Jo Ezekiel
POETRY REVIEW
Michael Baron reviews Stevie Krayer
FOOD
Chicken Kiev à la Harbin – A recipe from China
Simon Falush reviews the Kaifeng Restaurant, Hendon
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM AN 'IRBUTZ'
Jeremy Aron on life in the new urban kibbutz movement
LAST
WORDS
BIBLICAL BORROWINGS
Michael Gillis