 WHAT'S
NEW
SOAS Shows its Esteem for Jewish Studies
Stars of Limmud – The Palestinian Awwad brothers
Ben Uri Breaks New Ground
European Survey on Antisemitism
BRIDGING
CULTURES
HINDUS AND JEWS AND WHAT THEY SHARE:
Nachas Nepali Style: Gill and Hirsh Cashdan on their
experiences of living in a Hindu home
From Mothers to Mysticism: Clive Lawton explains the
similarities and differences of Jewish and Hindu theology, practice and
traditions
DIFFERENT
WAYS OF BEING JEWISH
HOW IT IS TO BE GAY AND JEWISH
David Rubin writes about his own experiences, talks to
Rabbi Hillel Athias-Robles and Rabbi Elizabeth
Tikvah Sarah, discusses the gay scene in Israel and provides
a list of books and contacts
THE
JEWS OF MUNICH
TIMELINE
Jack Lukeman
ZIONISM, SOCIALISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM
Michael Brenner on Munich’s role in German and
world Jewish history
LION FEUCHTWANGER
The writer whom no-one took seriously
MUNICH MY HEIMAT?
Bea Green left Munich on the Kindertransport and returns
for 9 November 2008
GROWING UP IN POST-WAR MUNICH
Ellen Presser tells of her experiences
ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE
Munich’s Ohel Jacob synagogue and new Jewish community centre
QUEEN OF JEWISH GERMANY
The story of Charlotte Knobloch
NURTURING THE COMMUNITY
Jewish community life in Munich now
THE YOUTH LEADER
Ilya Krasnov
NEW LIBESKIND SHUL IN PROSPECT
Munich’s Liberal congregation
THE MUSICAL ELEMENT
Malcolm Miller on Ben Haim’s oratorio and synagogue
music – as performed in Munich November 2008
SO, WHAT’S IT LIKE BEING A JEW IN GERMANY?
Novelist Lena Gorelik, Rachel Salamander
of Literaturshandlung, Florian Gleibs of the restaurant
Schmock , tour guide Chaim Eytan and lawyer Uri
Siegel give their views
A MUSEUM THAT ENGAGES
Munich’s new Jewish Museum and the cartoons of Jordan B
Gorfinkel
ART
SURVIVING AS A SOVIET ARTIST
Rachel Bayvel on Natan Altman
BREAKING HIS SILENCE
Julia Weiner talks to artist Roman Halter
about his paintings in the Imperial War Museum exhibition Unspeakable
and his more recent water colours
A NEW VISION: THE 1980S IN ISRAELI ART
Angela Levine on the work of such artists as Yitzhak
Golombek, Motti Mizrachi and Moshe Gershuni
FILM
REVISITING THE HOLOCAUST
Golda Zafer-Smith on Holocaust related films shown at
the UK Jewish Film Festival
AMERICAN JEWS ARE PUSHY: BRITISH JEWS ARE TOUCHY
Nathan Abrams gives a talk on the differences between
Jewish film in Britain in the US and his audience express their views
THEATRE
HUMANISING THE CONFLICT
Judi Herman talks to the Israeli creators of the shows
Plonter and Dai
BOOKS
REVIEWS
Houses of Life by Joachim Jacobs; The Lazarus
Project by Aleksandar Hemon; Man in the White
Sharkskin Suit, Lucette Lagnador’s memoir;
memoirs by Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen, Cirla Lewis
and Andrew Merkler and Out of the Shadows, François
Maspero’s biography of Gerda Taro
YOUNG READERS
Review of Then by Maurice Gleitzman
POETRY
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan chooses poems by Sue Stern
and Sue Schraer
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
POETRY REVIEW
Fluttering Hands by Stephen Wilson
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM A TRAILBLAZER
Yadin Roman on the Israel Trail
LETTER
FROM NEW YORK
FAREWELL TO THE LOWER EAST SIDE
David Russell sends his last letter
FOOD
KNEIDLACH AND FELAFEL IN MUNICH
Reviews of the city’s Jewish-style restaurants
LAST
WORDS
SHALÓM, SHÓLEM, SHÓLEM-ALÉYKHEM...
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