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WHAT’S
NEW
News on the Duffield projects for JCC in London and grants for activities
elswehere in UK.
Jewish Book Week and the new Encyclopedia Judaica
edition
THE
JR INTERVIEW
Mmmmm!
Miriam Margolyes reveals more than she ever has before
HOLOCAUST
COMMEMORATION
A NEW MAXWELL CHAPTER
Elisabeth Maxwell talks about the new Holocaust commemoration
project she is undertaking with her grandson and tells the history of
her involvement with this subjects
KORCZAK
Golda Zafer-Smith writes about the heroic children’s
champion
CROSSING
CULTURES
ON FIRST VISITING A SYNAGOGUE
Taniya Hussain writes with warmth and enthusiasm about
attending a rabbi’s ordination
THE
JEWS OF JAMAICA
by Joanna Newman
TIMELINE
From 1492 to 2006
CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Poet Daniel Lopez Laguna, artist Isaac Belissario and the Gleaner newspaper
Wartime Refugees
The story of Gibraltar Camp
THE COMMUNITY TODAY
How a community of around 200 manages to survive
THE ART OF ANNA RUTH HENRIQUES
The work of an artist who speaks for all the diasporas of Jamaica
THE DIASPORA
Loyal Jamaican Jews – black and white
MUSIC
BRIDGING GENRES
Lawrence Joffe reviews Blue Suede Jews and Mosaic
Menachem Wiesenberg on his new work for classical and
klezmer violin
CANDLELIT AT BEVIS MARKS
Malcolm Miller reviews an evening of music and drama
JEWISH AND VERY BRITISH
Malcolm Miller tells how composers have combined Jewish
themes with British life from 1700s till today
HALÉVY AND LA JUIVE
Peter Falush on the history of the opera and its composer
ART
CONCENTRATED EMOTION AND DIVINE COLOUR
Estelle Lovatt on the paintings of Martin Bloch
STOPPING TIME IN ITS TRACKS
Monica Bohm-Duchen considers the work of her mother,
photographer Dorothy Bohm
REMBRANDT’S JEWS
Angela Levine visits the Amsterdam Exhibition which challenges
a myth
FILM
"PEACE IS CREATED BY FATIGUE AND EXHAUSTION"
Judi Herman talks to controversial Israeli film-maker
Amos Gitai
BOOKS
CLASSIC CHOICE
David Herman on Saul Bellow’s
breakthrough work The Adventures of Augi March
FICTION
Judith Mirzoeff reviews short story collections Missing
Kissinger by Etgar Keret and Unused Language
by Jennifer Wingate; Marge Clouts reviews
The Violin Loverel by Susan Glickman
UK HERITAGE SPEAKS VOLUMES
David Clark reviews Treasures of Jewish Heritage:
The Jewish Museum London and Jewish Heritage in England: An Architectural
Guide by Sharman Kadish
Erica Gordon reviews Mackerel at Midnight Ethel
Hofman’s story of her Shetland childhood
YOUNG READERS
Jacob Engelberg on Mendel’s Daughter by
Martin Lemelman
POETRY
Liz Cashdan chooses Against the Odds by Penny
Feinstein
POETRY REVIEW
Liz Cashdan reviews a collection by Ruth Fainlight;
Marge Clouts reviews Prague Winter by Gerda
Mayer
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
FOOD
A TASTE OF JAMAICA
Marilyn Delevante
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM A FATHER
Avinoam Shiran on his late son
LAST
WORDS
A TROUBLESOME TRANSLATION
Michael Gillis