 INTERVIEW
AN ARTIST DEFIES HITLER
Leda Eizenberg talks to German
Jewish painter Katja Meirowsky as she celebrates
her 90th birthday
PHILANTHROPY
DIFFERENT FACES OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPY
Abigail Green on the charitable activity
of Sir Moses Montefiore
David Russell talks to Dame Hilary
Blume and examines the attitudes to charity in rabbinic
literature
Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
see Jewish philanthropy as a model for other minorities
MUSIC
JEWS IN JAZZ
Excerpts from Mike Gerber’s new book
on the role of Jews in the history of jazz
Lee Norman reviews Jazz Jews
by Mike Gerber
CD REVIEW
Ralph Cohen looks at an unusual example of
Jewish religious jazz from the 1960s
Sentir: Malcolm Miller
attends the launch of Yasmin Levy’s
new CD
HERITAGE
MUSEUM-MAKERS’ MASTERPIECES
Judi Herman visits the newly renovated Jewish Museum
THE
JEWS OF PROVENCE
TIMELINE
An overview of Provencal Jewish history by Agi Erdos
THE SCHOLARS OF PROVENCE
Chaim Weiner finds out who were the greatest
medieval rabbis of the region
THE POPE’S JEWS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS
Jules B Farber discovers why the best-protected
Jews in France were those who lived in papal lands
THE WAR YEARS
A story of Camp des Milles, the
WWII internment camp in Provence, by Vesna Domany
Hardy
David Bernheim on the Alpine village of St
Martin Vesubie which served as A Temporary
Refuge in the war years
Charlotte Salomon in Nice: Judi
Herman tells the tragic story of the young artist
who died in Auschwitz
RENAISSANCE
Janet Levin and Vesna Domany Hardy
find a reborn vitality
FINDING COMMON GROUND
Jews and other minorities live together in peace in the south
of France
MARSEILLE MELTING POT
Janet Levin looks at the backgrounds of the
population of this multicultural city
BALAGAN IN CANNES, SALAMIS IN NICE
Linda Nissen Samuels visits two synagogues
FOOD
A TASTE OF PROVENCE
Elizabeth Gabay looks at the Jewish history
in Provençal cuisine and gives a recipe for ragout
morue. Janet Levin talks to
Marc Berdah, chef at the Aix-en-Provence
Jewish Community Centre, and Jocelyne Akoun
of La Cigale et La Fourmi guest house, about the north African
elements of the cuisine
LAST
WORDS
SHUADIT
Was Judeo-Provençal a separate language or just a phantom?
Agi Erdos considers the evidence
FILM
THE INFIDEL
David Baddiel talks to Judi Herman
about his new comedy, in which a Muslim man discovers his
Jewish roots
ART
JUDAIC TWIST – INNOVATIONS IN JUDAICA DESIGN
Angela Levine reports on the provocative
new exhibition at Beit Hatfutsot
COMING TO NORTH-WEST ENGLAND
Dorothy Bohm’s photography in a new
exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery
PICASSO, THE PEACE ACTIVIST
Estelle Lovatt introduces the artist from
a new angle, based on a forthcoming exhibition of his post-war
works at the Tate Liverpool
BOOKS
ARGUING FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD?
Agi Erdos meets Rebecca Goldstein,
atheist author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God,
and reviews The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
REVIEWS
Mike Peters revisits the classic Growing
Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
Mourning and Celebration, a controversial and moving
story of being gay in a 19th-century shtetl by K David
Brody, is reviewed by Andrew Barnett
David Herman reviews Koestler: The Indispensable
Intellectual by Michael Scammell and
The Escape of Sigmund Freud by David Cohen
Judith Mirzoeff reviews World Cup Wishes
by Eshkol Nevo
YOUNG READERS
Sophie Owen reviews David’s Story
by Stig Dalager
POETRY
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan picks poems by Robert
Hirschfield
POETRY REVIEW
A Small Gateway by Jude Rosen
Please click HERE for details
of how to submit poems to JR
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