 ALTERNATIVES
WHY COOL COMMUNITIES ARE HOT
David Russell talks to the initiators of the new radical
communities for young Jews growing up world-wide; Naomi Soetendorp
of Wandering Jews, David Cygielman of Moishe House and
Benny Bailey of Jewish Salons. Agi Erdos
visits New York’s Cholent centre for ultra-Orthodox dropouts
FINANCE
AND ETHICS
HIGH FLYING IN HIGH FINANCE – CONSISTENT WITH JEWISH VALUES?
Bill Benjamin, property investor, and Seth Freedman,
ex-stockbroker and now a Guardian Israel reporter, put opposing
points of view
CHAMPION OF BUSINESS ETHICS
Jeremy Rosen tells the story of the 17th century business
woman, Glückel of Hameln
THE
JEWS OF CROATIA
TIMELINE
Jack Lukeman summarises Jewish life in Croatia from the
Romans, through Hungarian, Hapsburg, Venetian, Ottoman dominance to Ustaša
atrocities, Tito’s partisans and finally to the contemporary community
ONE WOMAN’S WAR
In extracts from her autobiography, Eva Grlic describes
her experience of the year 1941
ARTISTS GALORE
Croatian artists, Oscar Nemon, Oskar Herman,
Rafael Talvi, Stella Skopal, Ivo
Rein, Peter Weiss, Toni Franovic,
Vera
Dajht-Kralj
Alfred Pal profiled by Tomislav Zaja
...AND ARCHITECTS
Leo Hönigsberg, Julius Deutsch,
Rudolph Lubinsky, Ignjat Fischer and
Slavko Löwy – designers and builders of Zagreb’s
distinctive skyline
THE COMMUNITY NOW
Vesna Domany Hardy describes the thriving cultural life
of Croatia’s Jewish community now
Writers Mirko Mirkovic, Zora Dirnbach,
Jasminka Domaš, Slavko Goldstein,
Branko Polic, Ivo Goldstein
NEW SPIRIT DEFIES NEW BORDERS
Vesna Domany Hardy joins a meeting of the communities
of the former Yugoslavia and considers the impact of the wars of the 1990s
FIGHTING NEO-FASCISM
The work of Slavko and Ivo Goldstein and the Margel Institute
THEATRE
BRINGING HAMPSTEAD TO EDINBURGH
Judi Herman talks to Brian Daniels who
has celebrated the New End Theatre’s 35th birthday by bringing 12
shows to the Edinburgh Festival
Natalie Wood reviews Dr Korczak’s Example
ART
WHITECHAPEL REBORN
Monica Bohm-Duchen visits the Gallery and David
Russell the Idea Store
TRACES OF MEMORY
Kate Craddy on the Galicia Jewish Museum exhibition now
at the London Jewish Cultural Centre
JACQUES LIPCHITZ AND HIS JEWISH IDENTITY
Julia Wiener gives background to the exhibition of Lipchitz
drawings currently at the Ben Uri Gallery
DOWN TO EARTH
Angela Levine talks to Micha Ullman,
Israel’s prize laureate for sculpture
ANATOLY KAPLAN
Rachel Bayvel tells the story of the artist and illustrator
of Sholom Aleichem stories who survived the Stalin years
YIDDISH
A BEACON FOR YIDDISH
Helen Beer on why Yiddish thrives in Paris
BOOKS
DEALING WITH COMPLEXITY
Avi Pitchon looks at the book of the film Waltz with
Bashir and considers the cultural impact of the work in Israel
REVIEWS
Sharman Kadish reviews Belisario: Sketches of Character
by Jackie Ranston
Judith Mirzoeff reviews The Sea of Azov, edited
by Anne Joseph
Golda Zafer-Smith reviews Smugglers by Oyzer
Warshavsky,
David Herman reviews Kahn & Engelman by
Hans Eichner
YOUNG READERS
Isabel Benjamin reviews The Red Dress by Gaby
Halberstam
POETRY
POETRY REVIEW
George Gömöri celebrates the Hungarian poet
Radnóti
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan chooses poems by Witold Henryk Gutt
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
POETRY REVIEW
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
BUSINESS TURNS TEENAGERS AROUND
Michele Klein on an innovative way of helping problem
youngsters through business enterprise
FOOD
TASTES FROM CROATIA
Vesna Domany Hardy on the country’s mix of Ashkenazi
and Sephardi cuisine
Recipes for salmon on a bed of lemon and sholet eggs
LAST
WORDS
SAYING IT TWICE
Tamar S. Drukker on Hebrew double words
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