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SOAPBOX
‘JEWISH’ SHOULD BE AN ETHNIC CATEGORY
argues Golda Zafer-Smith
THE
JR INTERVIEW
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
The world famed sociologist interviewed by David Russell
HERITAGE
AN ANCIENT ART IN MODERN HANDS
Judi Herman talks to Josh Baum about
the work of the Torah scribe
CROSSING
CULTURES
WHEN CHRISTIANS EMBRACED JUDAISM
Eliane Glaser on the Jewish practices of Christians in
17th century Britain
THE
JEWS OF DENMARK
TIMELINE
by Jack Lukeman
A MINORITY OF MINORITIES
Heidi Laura on the Contemporary Communities and their
Roots
THE JEWS OF DENMARK’S GOLDEN AGE
Harriet Lyall on links with Kierkegaard
and Hans Andersen
LITERARY CELEBRITIES
Meir Aaron Goldschmidt, Georg Brandes
and Henri Nathansen
WARTIME RESCUE
Joanna Newman on a miraculous escape
THE RIGHT THING TO DO
Sandi Toksvig tells a family story
‘ENEMY OF THE FATHERLAND’
Ruth Beloff on the life of Victor Borge
THE HENRIQUES FAMILY AND THE MELCHIOR FAMILY
Two famous dynasties
MEETING THE MACHERS
Janet Levin meets Stefan Izaak, community
president in Copenhagen and Sandra Kviat, trainee rabbi,
in London
ART TO BE DECODED
Contemporary Jewish artists in Denmark: Tal R, Thomas
Poulson and Jeanne Goldschmidt Kempinski
FOR VISITORS
Information on sites and food
MITZVAH MUSEUM
The Libeskind designed Danish Jewish Museum
THEATRE
SO WHAT IS JEWISH THEATRE?
Deborah Freeman attends a theatre festival in Vienna
MUSIC
ERNEST BLOCH
Alexander Knapp on the composer and his ambivalent attitude
to his Jewish identity
SHOFAR ... AND FURTHER
Malcolm Miller explores the role of the shofar on the
classical platform
HIP SPIRITUALITY
Marge Eiseman on contemporary religious music in America
ART
CAVE PAINTINGS FOR THE MODERN SOUL
Monica Bohm-Duchen sees the newest monumental works of
David Breuer-Weil
FACING THE MIRROR
Angela Levine views an exhibition paying homage to Israeli
cartoonist Dosh
SACRED
Diane Lukeman visits the British Library exhibition
BOOKS
CLASSIC CHOICE
David Herman reviews Mike Gold’s
Jews without Money
PEERING ABOVE THE PARAPET
Maureen Kendler on Anglo-Jewish writing in the 1950s
REVIEWS
Charlotte Mendelson’s When we were Bad,
Philippe Grimbert’s Secret, Walter
Isaacson’s Einstein and Ruth Ellen Gruber’s
Jewish Heritage Travel in Eastern Europe
YOUNG READERS
Anna Jordan reviews Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
by John Boyne
POETRY
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan selects a poem by Wendy Barford and
reviews The Music of the Prophets by Michelene Wandor
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM THE TENNIS COURT
Jane Krivine tells of her father’s mission to get
Arab and Jewish chilldren playing together
GEMS
OF ISRAEL
Nitza Felix visits Beit Lechem Bagalil
FOOD
A TASTE OF DENMARK
Heidi Laura
LAST
WORDS
THE LINKS OF HEBREW AND ENGLISH
Michael Gillis