Jewish Quarterly - Contemporary writing, politics and culture

Above all, Ida is a film about a society haunted by its past. Its director Pawel Pawlikowski was born in Poland in 1957. Like his central character Anna, he has a divided past. His…
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Writing in 2014, it is easy to view Jewish nationalism as exclusively associated with Zionism. But in the first four decades of the 20th century there were several non-territorial…
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Calling all Jewish Quarterly readers to come to our own exclusive screening of the first episode of brand new series Hostages at the upcoming UK Jewish Film Festival, accompanied…
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Introducing 11 year-old James Cosgrove - on the biggest commentators of our day, the YouTubers. On Sunday 26 October, nine celebrities who you've probably never heard of collided…
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The poet, author, doctor and playwright Dannie Abse, who died in September 2014, was a long-standing contributor to Jewish Quarterly. We will miss him and his words. Here is the…
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“I’m a philosemite”, explains Martin Amis. “I’m attracted to the Jews. My wife is half Jewish, my daughters are a quarter Jewish; the fact that they have one Jewish grandparent …
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In 2009 the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester approached me to write a work for their whiz-bang Children’s Choir. My answer was an immediate “yes” and an idea followed swiftly. I had…
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It's the BBC's first-ever Israeli language tv series, and it's so good that the US film giant Jerry Bruckheimer commissioned a US remake, before the original Israeli series had…
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Patrick Modiano, the French Sephardic novelist, is the first Jewish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature  since Harold Pinter in 2005, yet his work is hardly visible in the UK.
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