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Danielle Goldstein
May 9, 2025
JR Tours

Exploring the Channel Islands' complex wartime history

Danielle Goldstein
May 9, 2025
JR Tours
Exploring the Channel Islands' complex wartime history

Take a look back at our tour to Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney, which marked 80 years since the end of World War II…

Tagged: Channel Islands history, Jersey history, Guernsey history, Alderney, world war II, WWII, Liberation Day, VE Day

Danielle Goldstein
May 8, 2025
Film & TV, Reviews

Riefenstahl ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein
May 8, 2025
Film & TV, Reviews
Riefenstahl ★★★★

Andreas Veiel's new documentary about the contentious German filmmaker is a discomfiting but insightful watch…

Tagged: Jewish film, Jewish filmmaker, Jewish director, Leni Riefenstahl, Nazi propaganda, Quentin Tarantino, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Madonna

Danielle Goldstein
May 8, 2025
Books & Poetry, Reviews

Keith Kahn-Harris: Everyday Jews ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein
May 8, 2025
Books & Poetry, Reviews
Keith Kahn-Harris: Everyday Jews ★★★★

The London-based writer and sociologist issues a captivating call for more of the mundane…

Tagged: book review, Jewish books, Jewish author, Jewish writers

Danielle Goldstein
April 29, 2025
News, Theatre

JR debuts a play in Guernsey about the Nazi deportations from the island

Danielle Goldstein
April 29, 2025
News, Theatre
JR debuts a play in Guernsey about the Nazi deportations from the island

JR is proud to have helped stage a reading in Guernsey of Theresa, Julia Pascal’s play about a Jewish woman from the Channel Islands who was handed over to the Nazis by local authorities…

Tagged: theatre news, Jewish theatre, Guernsey theatre, Channel Islands, Guernsey, WWII, World War II, Holocaust

Danielle Goldstein
March 26, 2025
Reviews, Theatre

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein
March 26, 2025
Reviews, Theatre
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors ★★★★

Bad puns, fab comedy! Or it is in the case of this Broadway hit making its British debut…

Tagged: Jewish theatre, London theatre, theatre reviews, London theatre review, Dracula, Bram Stoker, vampires

Danielle Goldstein
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Lili Ország: Wanderings / Bolyongások

Danielle Goldstein
March 17, 2025
Reviews, Art
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An impressive retrospective of the Hungarian modernist artist in suitably stunning surrounds…

Tagged: Jewish art, Jewish artist, art reviews, exhibition review

Danielle Goldstein
March 14, 2025
Reviews, Theatre

Farewell Mister Haffmann ★★★★★

Danielle Goldstein
March 14, 2025
Reviews, Theatre
Farewell Mister Haffmann ★★★★★

A drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat and not just because there are Nazis invited to dinner…

Tagged: Jewish theatre, London theatre review, London theatre, West End theatre, theatre review

Danielle Goldstein
March 12, 2025
Interviews, Theatre

Interview: Alex Waldmann

Danielle Goldstein
March 12, 2025
Interviews, Theatre
Interview: Alex Waldmann

As he takes on the title role in Farewell Mister Haffmann, a wartime drama set in Nazi-occupied Paris, Alex Waldmann tells us how it feels to lead the popular French play…

Tagged: Jewish theatre, London theatre, theatre review, London theatre review, French theatre, Farewell Mister Haffmann, Adieu Monsieur Haffmann

Danielle Goldstein
March 10, 2025
Reviews, Theatre

White Rose: The Musical ★★★

Danielle Goldstein
March 10, 2025
Reviews, Theatre
White Rose: The Musical ★★★

Celebrating the true story of young people with the courage to stand up to a notoriously cruel regime, whatever the cost…

Tagged: Jewish theatre, London theatre, West End theatre, theatre review, London theatre review, White Rose movement, Wisse Rose, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl

Danielle Goldstein
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Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception

Danielle Goldstein
March 4, 2025
Features, Film & TV
Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception

As a number of cinemas celebrate the work of radical filmmaker Chantal Akerman, Julia Wagner picks five films from the artist's canon that you won't want to miss…

Tagged: Jewish film, London film, BFI, Chantal Akerman, film review, Jewish filmmaker, Jewish artist

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