Autumn 2022
LITHUANIA // VOICES OF HOPE
With the world's eyes on the Baltic region, we head to Lithuania to explore its long and distinctive Jewish history. We take a walking tour of Vilnius, hear about the Vilna ghetto's brave Paper Brigade and meet the activists who are breathing new energy into the country's current community. Elsewhere, Daniel Snowman celebrates the BBC at 100 with a spotlight on the émigrés who helped build it; we explore artist Lucian Freud's intimate family portraits; and look at November's UK Jewish Film Festival. We've also got novelist Joan Silber on the author and campaigner Grace Paley, Dorian Lynskey on Holocaust justice, Omer Friedlander in conversation with his grandfather, historian Saul Friedlander, plus much more.
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Grace Paley and Gloria Steinem addressing a demonstration in support of Iranian women at the Rockefeller Center, New York, March 1979. Photo copyright © Diana Mara Henry / www.dianamarahenry.com
“What would Grace make of this world we’re in?”
The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, the acclaimed writer Grace Paley grew up in the Bronx in New York in the 1920s. On the centenary of her birth, her friend and one-time student Joan Silber reflects on the influences that shaped her fiction and committed political activism. Photo copyright © Diana Mara Henry / www.dianamarahenry.com
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YOUR SAY… Readers’ rants, raves and views on the summer issue of JR.
WHAT’S NEW New culture hubs for Brighton and Melbourne; Peter Falush; Israel’s ‘disappeared’ children.
FEATURE Where are our British Jewish novelists? David Herman and Aviva Dautch on the Wingate Prize.
FEATURE Daniel Snowman on the émigrés who helped shape the BBC.
PASSPORT Lithuania and Kaliningrad: uncover the saga of a Kaunas family album and the story of the ghetto book smugglers; join a Vilnius city walkabout and meet the writers, artists and activists of a community finding new energy.
FILM UKJFF is back! Pamela Howard reviews the animation film Charlotte; Peter Watts speaks to Orit Fouks Rotem, the director of Cinema Sabaya.
MUSIC The violinist György Pauk has written his memoir, which is also a history of the violin, says David Conway.
THEATRE Judi Herman spotlights the best shows to see at this autumn’s Tsitsit festival; Julia Pascal on the radical – and cartwheeling – Eleanor Marx.
ART Martin Gayford investigates the deeply personal family paintings of Lucian Freud.
BOOKS Omer and Saul Friedlander in conversation; Joan Silber on the writer and activist Grace Paley; Dorian Lynskey on a Latvian war mystery; Lucy Raitz on Proust’s Jewish identity; and little-known tales from the Yiddish East End.
THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that uncovers the YIVO archive. This issue: The ‘zamler’ network.
SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE Ira Klein on his new Ladino project; Helga Abraham reviews Karaoke, a film that takes the lid off Israeli Sephardi life.
WHAT’S HAPPENING Our three-month guide to art, books, film, music, theatre and other cultural events in the UK, Europe and Israel.
FAMILY Peter Watts reports on the Jewish Children’s Book Awards.
MEET THE READER Lawrence Collin in Westcliff-On-Sea, Essex.
