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Hagit Mendellevich
and Nonie Darwish
Michael Kustow
Sarah Aaronsohn
Jewish girls, Tillit 1930s
Moroccan sugar merchant,
20th century
Reuven Rubin, Self Portrait,
oil on canvas, 1922
Imre Kertesz
MOVERS
AND SHAKERS
Gavin Gross, Michal Hasson, Hagit Mendellevich and Nonie Darwish
WHAT’S
NEW
Poznan Festival, Jewdas and ‘Our Brick Lane’
THE
JR INTERVIEW
MICHAEL KUSTOW AND FRIENDS
The theatre and television director talks revealingly to Golda Zafer-Smith
about himself and close friends, Harold Pinter and Peter Brook
CROSSING
CULTURES
CHOOSING TO BE JEWISH
Sonia Soltani, who had a Muslim father and a Catholic mother, tells why
she embarked on an Orthodox conversion
JUDAISM
AND .....
JUDAISM AND PILGRIMAGE
Michele Klein traces the history of Jewish pilgrimage from its origins
in Biblical times to contemporary Jewish journeys
HERITAGE
A TRAGIC HEROINE: SARAH AARONSON
Cecil Bloom on the young Israeli woman who died working for British Intelligence
JEWS
OF THE MOROCCO
TIMELINE
Jack Lukeman
SCHOOLED TO BE OUTSIDERS
Cheryll Berrebi on the influence of the Alliance Israelite Universelle
SCRATCH A BERBER...
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman tells how intertwined is Berber and Jewish history
ARTEFACTS TO BE PROUD OF
A few of the wonderful costumes and pieces of jewellery that have been
lovingly conserved by Paul Dahan
ANDALUSI MUSIC
Hilary Pomeroy describes the origins of a genre of music that came from
Spain to Morocco and is now a contemporary hit
TRADITIONS LIKE NOWHERE ELSE
Yvan Berrebi on customs particular to Morocco
HILLOULA
Cheryll Berrebi meets a family of contemporary pilgrims in southern Morocco
THE STRANGE STORY OF THE JEWISH SAINT WHO BECAME A SNAKE
Carol Shields was with the Jewish Renaissance group that met the last
Berber Jew in Ourika tending the tomb of a saint
FIND OUT MORE
Websites, books and community addresses
SIMCHAT TORAH IN FEZ
Golda Zafer-Smith on a very special celebration of the festival
MEETING IN MARRAKECH
Jacky Kadoch, the head of the Marrakech community talks to JR visitors
VIEW FROM THE DIASPORA
Sydney S Assor on the very special feeling Moroccan Jews have for the
place of their birth
ANDRÉ AZOULAY
Yvan Berrebi finds out about the Jewish banker at the Moroccan court
MUSIC
GOLIJOV
Malcolm Miller on the Argentinean composer who has been hailed at the
first great composer of the 21st century
ART
BOXING CLEVER
Judi Herman on the finalists of the Alix de Rothschild competition
THE LONG JOURNEY OF ISRAEL’S ARTISTS
On the occasion of an exhibition of the work of Boris Schatz, Angela Levine
reveals how, since he founded the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Israeli art
has changed according to political and social realities
GLENN SUJO: THE ARTIST AS HISTORY’S CARETAKER
Monica Bohm-Duchen on the work, life and Jewish journey of the artist
who was also warden of West London Synagogue
THEATRE
NEW AT THE NEW END
Janet Levin previews three world premières
BOOKS
LIVE FROM BOOK WEEK
A taste of the book week sessions and reviews of the latest books by David
Grossman, Linda Grant and Adam Lebor, and Imre Kertesz (reviewed by eminent
poet George Szirtes)
Also reviews of: Journey from the Land of No, Writer
at War, The Jewish Community of Salonika, Jewish Resistance in Wartime
Greece, Tea with Einstein
YOUNG READERS
Hitler’s Canary Sandi Toksvig
POETRY
Liz Cashdan chooses from readers’ submissions
Michael Baron reviews The Same Country
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
FOOD
A TASTE OF MOROCCO
With Claudia Roden recipes
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM AN AGRONOMIST
Gerry Kelman
LAST
WORDS
BE A FOOL AND YOU’LL WIN
Yvan Berrebi