Summer 2006 Issue

Couscous or gefilte fish?
Claudia Roden celebrates the changing faces of Israeli cuisine
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1656 and all that
Eliane Glaser and Stephen Massil debate what did - or did not - happen when Cromwell 'readmitted' the Jews
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A time for rebuilding
Alex Stein takes the plunge into Israeli life
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Unspeakable love
Brian Whitaker on the gay Palestinians who have taken refuge in Israel
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Begging to differ
Atar Hadari on the variety of Jerusalem types who come asking for money
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The Jews who fought alongside the Germans
Rachel Bayvel reveals the extraordinary story of the survival of the Jewish community in Finland
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The forgotten genocide
Margaret Brearley on the little-known links between Armenian massacres and the holocaust
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Collecting against the grain
Vera Grodzinski explores French Impressionism, modernism and Jewish patronage in Imperial Germany
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Secrets of the forest and river
Samuel Klein assesses the thought-provoking work of Yehudit Sasportas
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No Hollywood movie
Jonathan Fishburn on the Cypriot detention camps where Jews prepared for life in Palestine
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The Jerusalem Eruv
Sophie Calle's installation at the Jewish Museum in Paris
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Calligraphy, chess players and ceramic tents
Matthew Reisz on two contrasting exhibitions at the British Museum
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Birds of ill omen?
Peter Bebergal reflects on crows, hawks and the loss of her mother
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The darkness within
David Herman on the hidden undercurrents of Billy Wilder's long career
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A shoe story
Lesley Chamberlain on Derrida, postmodernism and the Holocaust
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The JQ-Wingate Literary Prize, 2006
Oona King files a Judges report
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Editorial
by Matthew J. Reisz
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Do we have a dragon to slay?
Sasha Frieze on the dark side of Nationalism
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Letter from Jerusalem
Vivian Eden wonders what lessons we should be drawing from Holocaust Memorial Day
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The view from New York
David Katz describes how to reach bagel nirvana
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OPINION
Nidra Poller on rising racial tension in Paris
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POETRY
Snake in a bottle, Tea in a glass
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FICTION
Jam
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REVIEWS
David Brauner on Philip Roth More...
Linda Grant on Andrea Dworkin More...
Francesca Segal on The Earl of Petticoat Lane More...
Jonathan Freedland's thriller debut More...

The last word...
Vivian Eden takes a ticket to ride
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