Danielle Goldstein

January 23, 2024

Reviews, Art

The Sassoons: A remarkable Jewish family

Danielle Goldstein

January 23, 2024

Reviews, Art

The Sassoons: A remarkable Jewish family

When Alfred Ezra Sassoon, father of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon, became the first member of his family to marry outside his faith, relatives were appalled. Alfred’s mother was disconsolate, his grandmother visited a…

Danielle Goldstein

December 7, 2023

Reviews, Art

The Museum and Laboratory of the Jewish Comic Experience

Danielle Goldstein

December 7, 2023

Reviews, Art

The Museum and Laboratory of the Jewish Comic Experience

"There are, of course, other stereotypes in all ethnic groups that warrant consideration," said Will Eisner in a 2003 interview on his graphic novel, Fagin the Jew. "The Jewish ones have been used to hurt, so there is an emergency to…

Danielle Goldstein

September 19, 2023

Reviews, Art

Bichos and Bichitos: The Art of Gego

Danielle Goldstein

September 19, 2023

Reviews, Art

The dates and cities stamped on artist Gego’s passport read like a readymade, some Duchampian object in which many parts of her story are implied without needing to be stated outright. She was born Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt in Hamburg, Germany, in 1912, and fled the country in…

Danielle Goldstein

August 4, 2023

News, Art

Open call to artists for Holocaust survivors project

Danielle Goldstein

August 4, 2023

News, Art

Open call to artists for Holocaust survivors project

How does the past inform our actions in the present? And how has the Holocaust shaped our understanding of genocide, ethnic persecution and human rights? These are questions posed by the Holocaust Centre North (HCN)…

Danielle Goldstein

March 8, 2023

My Master Bialik – My Dear Agnon

Danielle Goldstein

March 8, 2023

Shai Agnon and Hayim Nahman Bialik are the two Ukrainian heavyweights of modern Hebrew literature, the former in prose – in fact Agnon remains the only Hebrew author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature – and the latter in poetry. Far from being in competition, they…

Danielle Goldstein

February 28, 2023

News, Art

Meet David Breuer-Weil's SISTER

Danielle Goldstein

February 28, 2023

News, Art

A sphere of polished stainless steel shines proudly in London’s late-winter sun, reflecting the greenery and buildings of the slice of London that surorunds it. The piece is known as SISTER, a new installation by Jewish Londoner David Breuer-Weil, and it sits in Hanover Square, where…

Danielle Goldstein

January 31, 2023

News, Art

An open call for unique items by Jewish designers

Danielle Goldstein

January 31, 2023

News, Art

An open call for unique items by Jewish designers

This autumn the Museum of London (MoL) in Docklands is launching Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style, a brand new exhibition about the capital's pivotal fashion makers, designers and retailers throughout…

Danielle Goldstein

January 9, 2023

News, Art

Revisiting opens in London this week

Danielle Goldstein

January 9, 2023

News, Art

For the past two decades, commercial and editorial portrait photographer Rob Greig – a regular JR contributor – has committed the who’s who of popular culture and beyond to the page. From Tracey Emin to Tim Minchin, David Attenborough to David Cameron, Neil Gaiman to…

Danielle Goldstein

December 20, 2022

News, Art

Fruits of the Spirit: A new virtual exhibition at The National Gallery

Danielle Goldstein

December 20, 2022

News, Art

Fruits of the Spirit: A new virtual exhibition at The National Gallery

inspired by Saint Paul’s description of themes in the Christian Bible, The National Gallery has paired nine pictures from their collection with nine from partner institutions in a new virtual exhibition entitled Fruits of…

Danielle Goldstein

September 14, 2022

News, Art

What happened to Israel’s 'diasppeared children'?

Danielle Goldstein

September 14, 2022

News, Art

What happened to Israel’s 'diasppeared children'?

During the 1940s and 1950s, as hundreds of thousands of Jews made aliyah to the newly founded State of Israel, a number of infants went missing. Most of them were from Yemen, but also the Middle East, North Africa and the…