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COMMUNITY
THE JEWS OF NEW YORK POST SEPTEMBER 11
New Yorkers and visitors give their perspective
2001 production of Julia Pascal's play Woman in the Moon
(photo by Ian Coles)
IDENTITY
WOMAN - PLAYWRIGHT - JEWISH
Four women playwrights tell Sharon Garfinkel why they chose Jewish themes
INTERVIEW
Eminent figures talk about their work and their Jewish identity
Bernice Rubens, writer, interviewed by Sharon Garfinkel
A DUMMY'S GUIDE TO.....
TALMUD
Jeremy Rosen answers some basic questions
REMEMBERING
A RIGHTEOUS GUERNSEYMAN
Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain this year is dedicated to "Britain and the Holocaust". Professor Tony Kushner profiles the Reverend Dr James Parkes, much of whose life was devoted to "making the world safe" for Jews.
Jerusalem February 1997
by Dorothy Bohm
THE ARTS
DOROTHY BOHM
The distinguished photographer is interviewed by Lucille Grant
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING
Jewish Renaissance makes its choice from the finalists in the recent British JEWISH ARTISTS OF THE YEAR awards
MUSIC
THE KLEZMER REVIVAL
Laurence Joffe and Jonathan Walton look at the different manifestations of the astonishing revival in Klezmer music
Illustration by Irene Wise
FESTIVAL
A taste of some of the events at the November 2001 London JC Festival of Jewish Arts and Culture
BOOKS
REVIEWS
Vera Gissing's memoir Pearls of Childhood
Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation by Vera Gissing and Muriel Emanuel
Passionate Voices Anthology of poetry by British Jews
Virtually Jewish Analysis of contemporary Jewish culture and Eastern Europe by Ruth Gruber
20TH CENTURY WRITERS
Austrian Nationalist - Jewish Writer Philip Roth
YOUNG READERS
Young readers are invited to review books and ask questions of the authors
Speed of Light (Winter Issue) Sybil Rosen's novel about a girl growing up in 1950s America
LETTER FROM ISRAEL
A KIBBUTZNIK'S VIEW
Reggie Pearlson on life on a Kibbutz in Galilee
AS OTHERS SEE US
THE CHINESE VIEW
Zhou Xun's Chinese Perceptions of Jews and Judaism reviewed by Dr Zvia Bowman, whose family were the last of the Jewish community to leave China
The Venice Ghetto bordering the canal (photo: Ray Keenoy)
CITY SPOTLIGHT
JEWISH VENICE
Ray Keenoy on Jewish Venice from medieval times to the present
A DAY IN THE GHETTO
David Clark takes a stroll
PLUS VISITOR FACT FILE
Mordecai M Kaplan
(courtesy of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College PA, USA)
DIFFERENT WAYS OF BEING JEWISH
RECONSTRUCTIONISM
Elkan Presman argues that the first Rabbi to be excommunicated in American history was also America's most influential Jewish thinker
FOOD
RESTAURANT REVIEW
Julie Reichman reviews The Gate, the Hammersmith vegetarian restaurant which now also has a branch in Belsize Park
RECIPE
Plaintain Fritters with Coconut Chutney