CONTENTS
AUTUMN 2022 WWW.JEWISHRENAISSANCE.ORG.UK
JR
I C T U R E S /
PI O N
: E L E VAT
I N H
T R
; TOA N
; C O N T E N T S
B O H M
H E N RY
M A R A
I A N A
; D O R OT H Y
; © D
LO N D O N
P H OTO G R A P H Y
I T VA K
M U S E U M
F R E U D
T H E
LF O R
O F
I O N
C E N T R E
I O N A L
; I N T E R N AT
I M AG E S /C O L L E C T
I D G E M A N
R E S E A R C H
I S H
J E W
F O R
I T U T E
I N S T
2 0 2 2 / B R
R E S E R V E D
I G H T S
R. A L L
I V E
I VO
YT H E
O F
A R C H
F R E U D
I V E S
A R C H
T H E
; F R O M
I E L D
I A N
LU C
; © T H E
I VA L
F E S T
I L M
S C H O F
I C H A R D
FI S H
J E W
U K
O F
: R
C OV E R
T H E
O N
C O U RT E SY
I M AG E
16
51
36
30
39
LITHUANIA
PASSPORT SERIES
4YOUR SAY… Readers’ rants, raves and views on the summer issue of JR.
6 WHAT’S NEW New culture hubs for Brighton and Melbourne; Peter Falush; Israel’s ‘disappeared’ children.
10 FEATURE Where are our British Jewish novelists? David Herman and Aviva Dautch on the Wingate Prize.
12 FEATURE Daniel Snowman on the émigrés who helped shape the BBC.
16PASSPORT 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.
30 FILM UKJFF is back! Pamela Howard reviews the animation film Charlotte; Peter Watts speaks to Orit Fouks Rotem, the director of Cinema Sabaya.
32 MUSIC The violinist György Pauk has written his memoir, which is also a history of the violin, says David Conway.
34 THEATRE Judi Herman spotlights the best shows to see at this autumn’s Tsitsit festival; Julia Pascal on the radical – and cartwheeling – Eleanor Marx.
36 ART Martin Gayford investigates the deeply personal family paintings of Lucian Freud.
39 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.
50 THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that uncovers the YIVO archive. This issue: The ‘zamler’ network.
51 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE Ira Klein on his new Ladino project; Helga Abraham reviews Karaoke, a film that takes the lid off Israeli Sephardi life.
56 WHAT’S HAPPENING Our three-month guide to art, books, film, music, theatre and other cultural events in the UK, Europe and Israel.
65 FAMILY Peter Watts reports on the Jewish Children’s Book Awards.
66 MEET THE READER Lawrence Collin in Westcliff-On-Sea, Essex.
AUTUMN 2022 JEWISHRENAISSANCE.ORG.UK 3
C O N T E N T S
