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The Wolf of Baghdad
The Finns have a word – kaukokaipuu - which means a feeling of homesickness for a place you’ve never been to. I’ve been living in two places all my life; the England I was born in,…
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Linda Grant on Amos Oz
Amos Oz, who died in December, once laid to rest the difficult definition of literary fiction. A thriller, he said, might be a day in the life of a Mossad agent, but literary…
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Connecting with X-Men
As we begin a new year, my iPhone is very keen I remember new years past. ‘You have a new memory,’ it tells me, insistently, like an automated pensieve conjuring up old dinner…
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Israeli filmmaker Rama Burshtein meets JQ
Rama Burshtein traverses two worlds like an ethereal being. She is, on one hand, an international jet-setting director, competing at film festivals and picking up awards; on the…
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JQ Wingate 2019 Long List announced
Themes of identity, history, faith and family run through the 2019 JQ Wingate Literary Prize long list. This year’s 13-strong list includes two rediscovered works…
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Men As Zebras
In August, I had the honour of appearing on a panel with Sjón, the brilliant – in the old-fashioned, glitteringly genius sense of the word – Icelandic writer at Edinburgh…
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Fiddler On The Roof Voted ‘Best Ever Jewish Film’ at UK Jewish Film Festival
Since its first performance on stage in New York in 1964, the musical adaptation of Sholem Aleichem’s 1894 short stories about Tevye and his daughters has maintained its status as…
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My Father The Forgotten Soldier
In January 2017, a seven-minute black and white film surfaced on the internet. Filmed in 1939, it captures the wedding of Mimi Dwinger and Barend Boers, a young Dutch couple in the…
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‘Jewish’ highlights at London Film Festival
Twelve days of screenings and many metres of red carpet filled London cinemas for the recent 62nd BFI London Film Festival. The Festival emphasised diversity and inclusion, with…
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The Elephant and the Jewish Question: Autumn JQ 2018
When I came to live in London in 1994 my friend Bob Tashman offered to fill me in on the local scene. “There are two kinds of Jews” he told me. “Loud. And quiet. You and I are both…
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