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DOES THIS OFFEND?
Naked walls adorned only with nails. A desolate student library, chairs tucked neatly under desks, a ghoulish sculpture wrapped head to toe in cloth at its centre. An empty…
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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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City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement
Sara Yael Hirschhorn approaches the subjects of her book, City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement, with some sympathy. She wants us to see American-Jewish…
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The Art Of Anni Albers
This autumn, the artist Anni Albers will be the focus of a new exhibition at Tate Modern. It will be the first major retrospective of her work to be held in Britain and on show…
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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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A Moment Of Disobedience
In the stark opening moments of Disobedience , the film adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s 2006 debut novel, a weighty question is posed: What does it mean to have free will?.
In an…
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The Blind Man And The Elephant
Has any subject ever been better a fit for the parable of the blind men and the elephant than the Israel-Palestine conflict? You know the one. Several blind men inspect an…
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22nd UK Jewish Film Festival: A Guide
What makes a film Jewish? Does it need a Jewish mother? It’s easy to find a Jewish person involved at some stage in the production of a great many Hollywood films – and certainly…
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Death of the King and Other Poems
If you want to know what it feels like to be a child of survivors, read this slim and vital poetry collection. Holocaust literature rarely features the trauma reverberating in the…
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Still My Word Sings
Avrom Sutzkever, one of the great Yiddish writers of the 20th century, was born in 1913 in Smorgon, now Belarus, and died in 2010 in Tel Aviv. He grew up in Siberia, where the…
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