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LETTERS
Readers respond to Golda Zafer-Smith’s plea that ‘Jewish’ should be an ethnic category
DIFFERENT
WAYS OF BEING JEWISH
UNDER ONE ROOF
Ros Abramsky on the Oxford which is home to services
from Orthodox to Liberal
ORTHODOX
CREATIVITY
BREAKING THE SILENCE
Abigail Wood explores Orthodox women’s creativity
in song
Judi Herman interviews artist Gitl Braun
and Golda Zafer-Smith talks to artist Anna Finchas
JEWS
OF VIENNA
TIMELINE
History of the Jews of Vienna from the Middle Ages to the present
ANSCHLUSS
First-hand memories by refugees Otto Deutsch and Stella
Mann
WHY SO TALENTED?
Philipp Blom explains the reasons for the phenomenal
Jewish contribution to Viennese and European culture
STEPHAN ZWEIG ON THEODOR HERZL
The impact of the new concept of Zionism on the Jews of Vienna
SALOMON SULZER
Malcolm Miller on the Father of Synagogue music and one
of the greatest cantors ever
THE KORNGOLDS
Father and son, both composers
FREUD’S JEWISH COMMUNITY
Stephen Frosh on the unexpected community links of the
religious sceptic
A COMMUNITY WITH A FUTURE
Doron Rabinovici paints a picture of the new Jews of
Vienna
IN VIENNA NOW
Janet Levin talks to Chief Rabbi Chaim Eisenberg,
Warren Rozenzweig of the Jewish Theatre of Vienna, actress
Inge Maux, historian Eleonore Lappin, editor
Joanna Nittenberg and student leader Yvonne Feiger
RESTITUTION AT LAST
Janet Levin on the latest situation regarding the return
of stolen property
YOUNG AUSTRIANS MAKE AMENDS
Irene Newton attends an anniversary at the London Jewish
Cultural Centre
THE EPHEMERALITY OF HISTORY IN HOLOGRAMS
Ian Lancaster on the unique use of holograms in Vienna’s
Jewish Museum
FOR VISITORS
Practical Information on Jewish Vienna
THEATRE
SHYLOCK FOR TODAY
Judi Herman talks to Julia Pascal, Arnold
Wesker and Henry Goodman on whether and how
the Merchant of Venice should be presented to a contemporary audience
FAMILY CONNECTIONS
Judi Herman talks to Candida Cave, author
of Lotte’s Journey, the new play about Charlotte Salamon
and Alfred Urhy who wrote the play on which the hit musical
Parade is based
ISRAELI THEATRE AT THE NATIONAL
Golda Zafer-Smith talks to Hannah Eidinow
about Coflicts and Confrontations
ART
DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL
Angela Levine on the changing face of feminist art as
shown in a recent Haifa exhibition
BOOKS
CLASSIC CHOICE
David Herman on Portnoy’s Complaint and
its impact
ADRIFT, MISUNDERSTOOD, DYSFUNCTIONAL
Maureen Kendler reviews British-Jewish Writing in the
1960s, including the work of Bernice Rubens and Muriel
Spark
REVIEWS
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay,
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth; the book of essays:
Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred and Motifs of Curaçao
by Suzanne Perlman
YOUNG READERS
My Guardian Angel reviewed by Nancy-Luz Toff
POETRY
POETRY REVIEW
Barry Davis reviews All my Young Years, a collection
of poems by Avrom Stencl
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 A MUSIC TEACHER
Melody Amsel-Arieli tells of the lives of her ultra-Orthodox
women pupils
FOOD
VIENNESE BAKERY
Tomi Komoly finds the recipes for Linzer Torte and Sacher
Torter that he used to help his grandmother make
LAST
WORDS
A LITTLE MESHUGGAS
By Julian Sinclair, author of Let’s Schmooze