Autumn 2005 issue

Tea at the Hotel Splendid
Sylvia Paskin follows Trotskys footsteps
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Quoting Caravaggio
Samuel Klein decodes the work of controversial Israeli photographer
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Imagined Communities
Matthew J. Reisz joins the debate on identity at the Jewish Museum in New York
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The artist as provocateur
David Katz confronts the controversial work of David Lurie
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Bearing witness
Julia Weiner explores the background to Susan Hiller's J. Street Project
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Artistic harvest
Sally Berkovic meets a woman offering a personal response to the Bible
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Beware, joker
Atar Hadari on why Lenny Bruce still matters
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Ever so easy-going
Carl Hoffman challenges the stereotype of irritable Israelis
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On becoming a Jewish aunt
Sharon Garfinkel resists the pressure to conform
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The day my heart broke
Sam Boardman-Jacobs commemorates the Jews of Corfu
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The spirit of Habonim
Michael Coveney looks at the influences of Mike Leigh's new play
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Praying from Julius Caesar
Atar Hadari reflects on why Israel needs Shakespeare
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Words on fire
Farideh Dayanim Goldin celebrates the literature of Iranian Jewish women
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Pining for La Goulette
Lyn Julius explores lost Jewish life in Tunisia
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Repressive measures
Jonathan Fishburn reads the newspapers produced by Irgun fighters held in British detention camps in Africa
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Editorial
by Matthew J. Reisz
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New year, New Community?
Sasha Frieze on a moving commitment ceremony
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Letter from Jerusalem
Benjamin Balin waxes lyrical on the sounds of the holy city
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OPINION
Walter Rothschild offers an insider's analysis of Jewish life in Germany today
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POETRY
A Cemetry in Vienna by Herbert Kuhner
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FICTION
Lianne Kolirin: Short Stay Parking
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REVIEWS
David Herman on Nicole Kraus and Jonathan Safran Foer More...
Samantha Ellis on the Orientalist More...
Sue Vice on children and the Holocaust More...
Bernard Kops on Michael Kustow on Peter Brook More...

The last word...
Irma Kurtz on the joy of kvetching
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