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Aviva Dautch
October 25, 2023
Opinion

Urgent Voices: Amy Rosenthal on felines, her father and an artist's responsibility

Aviva Dautch
October 25, 2023
Opinion
Urgent Voices: Amy Rosenthal on felines, her father and an artist's responsibility

In the scheme of things, I realise this is a first-world problem; but I don’t know what to do with my cat photos. In normal times, I have a steady online presence and a…

Tagged: Israel-Hamas War, Gaza strip, op ed, Amy Rosenthal, Urgent Voices

Aviva Dautch
October 25, 2023
Opinion

Urgent Voices: Diti Ronen on missiles and words and grief

Aviva Dautch
October 25, 2023
Opinion
Urgent Voices: Diti Ronen on missiles and words and grief

I can’t sleep. When I close my eyes, I see the beautiful face of the girl with the blue eyes who was kidnapped. Or the Kutz family from Kfar Aza: the mother, the father and their three grown up children standing proudly, smiling…

Tagged: Israel-Hamas War, Gaza strip, op ed, Urgent Voices

Danielle Goldstein
October 18, 2023
Opinion

Urgent Voices: Henrique Goldman on the beginning of a sad end

Danielle Goldstein
October 18, 2023
Opinion
Urgent Voices: Henrique Goldman on the beginning of a sad end

On a Saturday morning, half a century ago, I see my reflection in the mirror of my room. I'm 12 years old and in a foul mood because my mother has forced me to wear clothes I detest and go to the dullest place in the Milky…

Tagged: Israel-Hamas War, Gaza strip, op ed, Urgent Voices

Danielle Goldstein
October 17, 2023
Reviews, Art

Philip Guston at the Tate Modern

Danielle Goldstein
October 17, 2023
Reviews, Art
Philip Guston at the Tate Modern

The expansive, stunning Philip Guston exhibition at Tate Modern enables us to follow the development of this prolific and important artist. Born in Canada in 1913 to refugee parents who had fled persecution in Ukraine, Guston (then Goldstein) was the youngest of seven…

Tagged: art reviews, Philip Guston, Tate Modern, London art, London exhibitions

Danielle Goldstein
October 13, 2023
Opinion

Urgent Voices: Julia Pascal's 7/10 Diary

Danielle Goldstein
October 13, 2023
Opinion
Urgent Voices: Julia Pascal's 7/10 Diary

The phone did not ring. The emails did not arrive. I have a large network of colleagues and friends who know that I am Jewish. I have written plays about Israel. And have worked with many artists on these projects. Not one contacted me after the invasion of Israel by Hamas on 7 October…

Tagged: op ed, Israel-Hamas War, Gaza strip, Urgent Voices

Danielle Goldstein
October 6, 2023
Reviews, Theatre

These Demons ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein
October 6, 2023
Reviews, Theatre
These Demons ★★★★

Truman Productions’ mission statement is to develop and amplify new, female-led contemporary Jewish writing. Its latest show, These Demons by Rachel Bellman, is a warm, funny and properly hair-raising drama that ticks all those boxes and more. In a run-down cottage in the woods…

Tagged: Jewish theatre, theatre reviews, London theatre

Danielle Goldstein
October 4, 2023
Reviews, Theatre

The White Factory ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein
October 4, 2023
Reviews, Theatre
The White Factory ★★★★

The Łódź Ghetto, established by the Nazis in Poland, was always on the infamous list of places where Jews were confined before eventual deportation (for most) to the death camps. This partly fictionalised account of its inception is all too plausible. That the Russian writer…

Tagged: Jewish theatre, theatre reviews, London theatre

Danielle Goldstein
October 4, 2023
JR Tours, Opinion

One night in Stratford-upon-Avon

Danielle Goldstein
October 4, 2023
JR Tours, Opinion
One night in Stratford-upon-Avon

On Wednesday 27 September, a group of Jewish Renaissance readers met at Golders Green station and set off for an overnight stay in Stratford-upon-Avon. While this was not the most far flung of the trips run by JR, it was certainly an interesting experience. That evening…

Tagged: Shakespeare, Startford-upon-Avon

Danielle Goldstein
September 25, 2023
Reviews, Theatre

Ruby Wax: I'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein
September 25, 2023
Reviews, Theatre
Ruby Wax: I'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was ★★★★

Shortly before the breakout of World War II, Ruby Wax's parents, both of whom were Jewish, fled Vienna and arrived in America in 1938. Less than two decades later, Wax was born in Evanston, Illinois. But she has never felt truly…

Tagged: Ruby Wax, Jewish comedy, Jewish theatre, theatre review

Danielle Goldstein
September 19, 2023
Reviews, Art

Bichos and Bichitos: The Art of Gego

Danielle Goldstein
September 19, 2023
Reviews, Art
Bichos and Bichitos: The Art of Gego

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…

Tagged: Gertrud Goldschmidt, Gego, Guggenheim, Jewish art, emigre artists

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