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THE
JR INTERVIEW
LINDA GRANT
Usually putting herself in the background while she interviews others,
the eminent writer reveals much about her own background, values and Jewish
identity to Beverley Cohen
DEBATE
ANTISEMITISM - ARE WE OVER-REACTING?
Antony Lerman and Golda Zafer-Smith give different views
JEWS
AND .....
JEWS AND SHOPPING
Judi Herman reports on an unusual conference in London where athropologists,
sociologists and historians give a new slant on Jewish consumerism
HUMOUR
SQUEEZING THE LEMON
The best jokes about Jews and money
THE
JEWS OF BULGARIA
TIMELINE
Jack Lukeman summarises the history of this mainly sephardic community
and looks at the controversy about who saved the Bulgarian Jews
RUSSE
Elias Canetti's description of his boyhood and Milena Borden's 1996 visit
to the place of his birth
SO FAR FROM SPAIN
Tilda Molho on the endurance of Ladino
WELCOME FOR A BABY
Luiza Molho on a delightful custom that endured the communist years
RENAISSANCE
Ema Mezan describes the remarkable resurgence in community activity post-1989
A NEW WORLD OPENING
Tilda Molho, who was 13 in 1989, describes what it was like to find out
about her heritage
FOR VISITORS
Contact details for synagogues and community centres
JUDAISM
MOURNER'S KADDISH
Cecil Bloom explores the origins of this best-known of Jewish prayers
COMEDY
FOOLING ON THE FRINGE
David Russell talks to four comics who will be in Edinburgh this year
FILM
PAPER CLIPS
David Russell reviews an unusual film about school children in America’s
heartland finding out about the Holocaust
MUSIC
NEW SONGS IN AN AGE-OLD LANGUAGE
Laoise Davidson talks to the Israeli singer Mor Karbasi who writes her
own Ladino songs
FROM NOAH TO NINOTCHKA
Malcolm Miller on the life and works of composer Joseph Horovitz
LAURIE RUBIN IN LONDON
Malcolm Miller reports on the debut of the American singer and on her
sponsor, the Kohn Foundation
ART
ISRAELI ARTISTS COME TO LONDON
Angela Levine gives the background to artists Avigdor Arikha and Tamy
Ben-Tor whose work is currently on show in London
SPARKLING WITH HUMANITY
Philip Vann reviews the life, philosophy and work of naïve artist
Dora Holzhandler
"JE SUIS MODIGLIANI, JUIF"
Monica Bohm-Duchen explores just how Jewish was the artist who now has
a major exhibition at the Royal Academy
BOOKS
CLASSIC CHOICE
David Herman kicks off a new series on Jewish classics with a review of
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
REVIEWS
Deborah Smith on Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson; Marge Clouts
on A Woman in Jerusalem by A B Yehoshua, Erica Gordon on The
Orientalist by Tom Reiss, David Clark on books about Lithuania, Cuba
and the East Europe of klezmer; Peter Falush on re-issues of three of
the most important books relating to the Holocaust; Malcolm Miller on
The Sephardic Songbook and its publisher, Peters Edition.
YOUNG READERS
Winning Poems in the JR competitio "Aspects of Jewish Identity 2006"
Review of Home Number One
POETRY
Liz Cashdan selects poems by Rhoda Hodes and Jo Ezekiel from readers'
submissions and reviews a new collection by Michelene Wandor
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
FOOD
A TASTE OF BULGARIA
Luiza Molho describes typical Jewish Bulgarian cuisine and gives some
recipes
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM HAIFA UNIVERSITY
Miriam Brill gives a insight into the workings of a multi-ethnic social
work department
LAST
WORDS
GO ON, READ THIS, DAVKA
Michael Gillis on a word that is difficult to pin down