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WHAT'S
NEW
News items include a report on the JR trip to China, an account of a Sabbath spent in Tehran and the boost to Jewish tourism in Germany
DIVERSITY
A MILKMAN’S INSIGHT
Elkan Presman sets out the essentials of the different
varieties of Judaism practised in Britain.
THE
JR INTERVIEW
A FAMILY OF THESPIANS
Golda Zafer-Smith talks to actors Clive Swift
(famous as Hyacinth Bucket’s husband), David Swift
(Henry Davenport in Drop the Dead Donkey) and Paula Jacobs,
on the road from their Liverpool childhood to stage and screen
THE
JEWS OF LIVERPOOL
Celebrating Liverpool’s year as European City of Culture
TIMELINE
Jack Lukeman summarises the history of the community
BEHIND BARBED WIRE
Claus Moser on his experiences at the Huyton internment
Camp
MEMORABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
The Samuels family – from watchmaker to High Commissioner;
the Lewis family, founder of stores for the people; rabbis,
conventional and eccentric and a roll call of other distinguished Liverpudlians
AT THE ADELPHI
An exclusive extract from Norma Cohen’s hilarious
upcoming novel 1956: Saying Goodbye
GROWING UP IN LIVERPOOL
Jennifer Henley, Edwina Currie and Linda
Grant write about what the city means to them
ARCHITECTURAL GEMS
Sharman Kadish on the exceptional qualities of the Princes
Road and Greenbank synagogues
VIEW FROM THE SIXTH FORM
Nathan Blank and Tilly Rosenblatt, students
at King David High School, talk to Janet Levin about
their school and their city
JEWISH EDUCATION IN LIVERPOOL
The journey from the Hebrew School in Hope Place to the state of the art
new King David development planned for 2009
A BINDING FORCE
Michael Swerdlow on the history of Harold House, a very
special youth club
CHICKEN SOUP AND SCOUSE
Norma Cohen reviews the film on the Liverpool Jewish
community by Michael Swerdlow and Arnold Lewis
NEIGHBOURLY VIEWS
How the community is seen by Laura Finn, Janette
Porter and Louise O’Brien
THREE SISTERS OF MERSEYSIDE
Diane Samuels talks to Judi Herman about
Three Sisters of Hope Street, the play she has written with Tracy-Ann
Oberman that sets Chekov’s masterpiece in the post-War
Liverpool Jewish community
STEPPING FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE
Michael Swerdlow with an upbeat view of the city and
the community
ART
CHAIM AS I SAW HIM
Judy Bermant’s personal view of her husband Chaim
Bermant, a much-loved columnist who was also the British Jewish
community’s "Licensed Heretic"
MASTERPIECES FROM MOSCOW
Monica Bohm-Duchen on the work of early 20th century
Russian Jewish artists being exhibited in Amsterdam
ISRAEL'S
IDENTITY AND THE ARTS
Marking Israel’s 60th Birthday, how Israel’s changing
identity is reflected in the arts
SIDEWAYS
Tsila Ratner on developments in the Israeli Novel
FROM HORA TO HIP-HOP
Abigail Wood on developments in popular music in Israel
THROUGH THE EYES OF STUDENTS
Anne Joseph sees award-winning shorts by students of
the Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University
POLITICAL THEATRE FROM ISRAEL
Samuel Warshaw samples powerful Israeli drama by Tamir
Greenburg, Ilan Hatsor and Taher Najib
at London’s National Theatre
BOOKS
CLASSIC CHOICE
Richard Jaffa on Magnolia Street, Louis
Golding’s novel set in the North of England
NOSES PRESSED AGAINST THE WINDOW
Maureen Kendler on the British-Jewish novel of the 1970s/80s,
featuring the work of Frederic Raphael, Jack Rosenthal, Howard
Jacobson and Anita Brookner
HISTORY THROUGH THE CRIME NOVEL
Michael Berkovitz on how effective the crime novel can
be in illuminating the past, with particular reference to Philip
Kerr’s Berlin Noir trilogy
DISTURBED HOMES
Judith Mirzoeff reviews Eshkol Nevo’s
prize-winning first novel Homesick and Sandra Levi’s
Rites and Wrongs based on her own Manchester childhood.
THE GREATEST CRIME
Marge Clouts reviews two Holocaust novels The Seventh
Well by Fred Wander and Refusal by Soazig
Aaron
YOUNG READERS
Dor Barak of JFS reviews Hana’s Suitcase
HISTORY THROUGH IMAGES
Erica Gordon on Ilana Tahan’s
Hebrew Manuscripts
Angela Levine on David Rubinger’s autobiography, Israel Through My Lens
POETRY
POETRY REVIEW
Liz Cashdan reviews Lotte Kramer’s
new collection: Kindertransport, Before and After: Elegy and Celebration
POETRY CHOICE
Poems by Lotte Kramer and Sue Stern
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
FROM
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
LETTER FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE
David Russell
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM A GRANDDAUGHTER
Naama Eliraz
FOOD
KEEPING KOSHER IN CHINA
Gloria Deutsch
LAST
WORDS
ONE BAGEL, TWO BAGEL, THREE BAGEL
Dovid Katz