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4YOUR SAY… Readers’ rants, raves and views on the spring issue of JR.
6 WHAT’S NEW Taking JR into the future; a new German synagogue – in a hospital; Kaunas’s Jewish heritage; the Acre chef serving up coexistence.
12FEATURE: 100 YEARS OF MODERNISM Head back with us to 1922, as we shift the story of modernism eastwards. Visit Vitebsk’s radical art school; hear about a pioneering Dybbuk in Moscow; discover the forgotten women artists of Lodz and meet the experimental poets and musicians of Lviv, Warsaw and St Petersburg in this story of revolutionary cultural upheaval.
27 ART Adrian Whittle reviews an Amsterdam exhibition on the bold designs of Dutch artist Fré Cohen.
30 MUSIC Danielle Goldstein meets Nani to hear about her new album of original Ladino songs.
32 THEATRE The musical The Band’s Visit hits London. Judi Herman speaks to Itamar Moses, one of the team behind this life-affirming show.
34 FILM Shtetl meets prairie in an unlikely story of Wild West pioneers; Steven Berkoff on The Fountainhead.
36 BOOKS Anne Sebba speaks to Charlotte Philby about her novel on the spy “grandma”; David Herman profiles Odesa-born translator and poet Boris Dralyuk; Simon Parkin’s book on internment; Vivian Hassan-Lambert on the children of Holocaust survivors; and the story of the Munich students who tried to topple Hitler.
46THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that uncovers the YIVO archive. This issue: TS Eliot’s kosher bedbugs.
47 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE Rebecca Taylor speaks to the co-author of a book on the Jews of Islamic lands; the story of Iraqi architect Julian Sofaer, who rebuilt his life in London.
54WHAT’S HAPPENING Our three-month guide to art, books, film, music, theatre and other cultural events in the UK, Europe and Israel.
65 FAMILY The best activities to keep the children happy over the summer.
66 MEET THE READER Lionel Gordon in Esher.
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