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SPRING 2003

  WHAT'S NEW

LJCC CULTURAL AWARDS
COMPANY OF ANGELS
NEW DIRECTOR AT THE BEN URI GALLERY
JMI DOES IT AGAIN

  SOAP BOX

SECULAR JUDAISM - THE WAY FORWARD?
Felix Posen puts the case for secularism; Clive Lawton eloquently argues that it is not an acceptable alternative

  THE JR INTERVIEW

THE TIME OF HIS LIFE
Golda Zafer-Smith finds out about the formative years and unusual views about religion, art and music of Whitbread Award winner and Evening Standard Arts critic, Norman Lebrecht

  JUDAISM AND...

JUDAISM AND BIRTH
Michele Klein, author of an award winning book on Jewish childbirth, explains how rituals and customs have helped parents in the past and are seeing a current renaissance

  HERITAGE

ART OF THE HAGGADAH
Erica Gordon investigates the origins of the Haggadah and how styles of illustration have developed over the centuries. She also talks to facsimile creators, Linda and Michael Falter, about the techniques of their craft

  THE JEWS FROM EGYPT

FROM EXODUS TO EXODUS
Alec Nacamuli relates the history and the contribution of the Jews in Egypt, from their return under Roman rule to the second Exodus in the 1950s
THE CAIRO GENIZA
Maurice Maleh on the amazing record of medieval Jewish life that is now housed at Cambridge University
THE GOOD SUMMER
Ellis Douek recreates the atmosphere of Farouk’s Egypt as experienced on a family holiday
A LEAVENED PASSOVER
Teddy Nahmias recalls celebrating an unusual Passover on his own exodus from Egypt
VICTOR ARWAS
An exotic tale featuring fabulous riches, gorgeous objects and larger than life characters
EGYPT IN ISRAEL
Victor Sanua with stories of the problematic return of Egyptian Jews to Israel
JEWISH ALEXANDRIA
Roger Bilboul on the history and present plight of the community
THE EGYPTIAN DIASPORA
Manuela Kleeman explores how the Jews from Egypt fared in the countries in which they settled
GILBERT DE BOTTON
Alain de Botton recalls his remarkable father. Janet Levin describes how Gilbert not only revolutionised fund management for the wealthy, but was also a learned bibliophile and benefactor of the arts

  ART

A CULTURAL OBSESSION
Israeli artist Oz Almog explains what is behind his project of painting portraits of a hundred Jews
TRYING TO BE 20 IN JERUSALEM
Photographer Dinu Mendrea tells how he chose his images of life in Jerusalem
CHAGALL IN PARIS
Chagall expert, Monica Bohm-Duchen, sees a hidden agenda behind the exhibition at the Grand Palais

  MUSIC

BERTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT
Bernard Keeffe on the life and work of the composer whose centenary is celebrated this year
YASMIN LEVY
Gabriela Pomeroy on the Israeli Ladino singer with the extraordinary voice

  BOOKS

THE HORSEMAN OF MONTREAL
Victor Ramraj on Modechai Richler

REVIEWS

Jewish Writers of the 20th Century
Janet Levin reviews the long awaited volume. A sample essay (Victor Ramraj on Mordechai Richler) is reprinted and a special offer made to JR subscribers.

THREE WOMEN IN SEARCH OF THEIR PAST
Judith Mirzoeff compares first novels by Kate Taylor, Jane Spiro and W Tarleton Klein

ONE MAN, TWO LIVES Robert Gordon highlights the different approaches of the biographies of Primo Levi by Ian Thomson and Carol Angier

BITES FROM BOOK WEEK
Highlights from this year's event

  POETRY

MEIR WIESELTIER
Riasa Domb introduces the Israeli poet

POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan chooses from readers' submissions

  YOUNG READERS

Young reviewers read All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

  FOOD

MY EGYPTIAN PASSOVER
Claudia Roden recalls her childhood experiences and gives family recipes

  LETTER FROM ISRAEL

THE CHEF'S VIEW
Susan Lourenço visits Lechem Erez and talks to owner/chef Erez Komarovsky about the revolution in Israeli food

  LAST WORDS

LADINO
Hilary Pomeroy gives a history of the language and explains the origin of some well-used words