Danielle Goldstein

October 2, 2019

News

New London Holocaust Memorial: yay or nay?

Danielle Goldstein

October 2, 2019

News

New London Holocaust Memorial: yay or nay?

What began as a sincere effort to create a new memorial to those murdered by the Nazis has spiralled into a dogged back-and-forth about whether or not it should be built and where. Announced by David Cameron in January 2014…

Danielle Goldstein

September 30, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Youth Without God ★★★

Danielle Goldstein

September 30, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Playwright and novelist Ödön von Horváth’s last novel, Youth Without God, written in 1937, is his message from the past written to the future – a shocking evocation of life under fascism before World War II. Born in what is now Croatia, von Horváth moved to Germany and then…

Danielle Goldstein

September 30, 2019

Interviews, Theatre

Der Silbersee: A meeting of revolutionary musical minds

Danielle Goldstein

September 30, 2019

Interviews, Theatre

Der Silbersee: A meeting of revolutionary musical minds

The German composer Kurt Weill is best known for his edgy collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, but his work with the playwright Georg Kaiser, with whom he shared deep social convictions, also inspired serious compositions. Their last collaboration was Der Silbersee (The Silver Lake)…

Danielle Goldstein

September 26, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

The Escape Act: A Holocaust Memoir ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

September 26, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Israeli writer and theatre artist Stav Meishar presents her rich narrative of a Jewish circus family’s ordeal in Hitler’s Germany as a new direction in her ongoing Jewish education work. An adept performer, Meishar…

Danielle Goldstein

September 25, 2019

Obituaries, Books & Poetry

Poet Elaine Feinstein dies age 88

Danielle Goldstein

September 25, 2019

Obituaries, Books & Poetry

In her 2010 collection, Cities, the poet Elaine Feinstein writes of being an undergraduate at Cambridge in 1949. She sees herself as she “teeters…on high heels over the cobbled street…the music of wartime dance bands still inside her”. Born in Liverpool in 1930, she won an…

Danielle Goldstein

September 23, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Old Stock ★★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

September 23, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

In the early 20th century, Canada took in thousands of Jews fleeing pogroms in Europe, just as in this century its government continues to welcome refugees from brutal persecutions worldwide. This powerful, beautiful show, the story of the founders of one little Jewish dynasty in…

Danielle Goldstein

September 23, 2019

Interviews, Theatre

Truth to Power Cafe

Danielle Goldstein

September 23, 2019

Interviews, Theatre

Who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?” Jeremy Goldstein asks the audience during an evening at Truth to Power Café, the interactive theatrical forum he started in 2016 and which is touring the UK over the next year. In a new twist on agit-prop theatre…

Danielle Goldstein

September 19, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Amsterdam ★★★

Danielle Goldstein

September 19, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

This is a real conundrum. At first sight, Maya Arad Yasur’s Amsterdam is a theatre piece with a disturbing story to reveal, confronting the dark and complicated history of The Netherlands during the Nazi occupation, told through the prism of the present. A heavily pregnant Israeli violinist…

Danielle Goldstein

September 19, 2019

News, Family

Shakespeare by numbers

Danielle Goldstein

September 19, 2019

News, Family

In a new adaptation from the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Merchant of Venice is being brought to a fresh audience: one aged 7-13. Directed by Robin Belfield, this 'First Encounters' production has been edited into an energetic 90 minutes about the way communities…

Danielle Goldstein

September 18, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Falsettos ★★★

Danielle Goldstein

September 18, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

With opening number ‘Four Jews in a Room Bitching’ and two of 35 songs mentioning bar mitzvah in the title, it's fair to say that Falsettos has a firm footing in Jewish culture. Sondheim collaborator James Lapine is responsible for the book and his own collaborator of choice, William Finn…

Danielle Goldstein

September 11, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

STYX ★★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

September 11, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

One of the cruellest diseases that can afflict an individual is Alzheimer’s, gradually erasing memory, sense of self and awareness of the bonds of love and friendship. My own mother, almost 94 now, has had dementia for some years, so I speak from personal experience. One of the closest…

Danielle Goldstein

September 10, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Torch Song ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

September 10, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Harvey Fierstein’s hugely influential Torch Song Trilogy began life back in 1978, the year in which the opening scene is set. In Fierstein’s streamlined shorter revival (down to two and a half hours from over four) his autobiographical account of the complicated love life of Jewish drag…

Danielle Goldstein

September 9, 2019

Features, Opinion

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Between the Moon and the Desk

Danielle Goldstein

September 9, 2019

Features, Opinion

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Between the Moon and the Desk

The first Israeli spacecraft reached the moon on 11 April 2019, shortly after the publication of the final results of the Israeli elections. The spacecraft was launched from Israel in February, in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin…

Danielle Goldstein

September 2, 2019

Interviews, Music

Klezmer in the Park at 10

Danielle Goldstein

September 2, 2019

Interviews, Music

WINNING THE MILLENNIUM AWARD In the year 2000, [JMI founder] Geraldine Auerbach and I applied to the National Lottery Millennium Awards Scheme and we got funding for the Jewish Music Institute, which changed the whole scene in Britain. It allowed us to fund different…

Danielle Goldstein

August 28, 2019

Previews, Walks

21 must-see properties in Open House London 2019

Danielle Goldstein

August 28, 2019

Previews, Walks

21 must-see properties in Open House London 2019

Each September one of the most exciting architectural events returns to the capital: Open House London. Across an entire weekend (21-22 September this year) hundreds of homes, offices, historic landmarks, museums and more…