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4 YOUR SAY… Readers’ rants, raves and views on the summer issue of JR.

6 WHAT’S NEW David Herman asks if money for the Holocaust memorial should be used to fund a museum instead.

8 FEATURE A new exhibition explores the role of Jewish tailors, designers and retailers in creating London’s fashion legacy.

10 FEATURE Rafael Behr on Brexit, Corbyn and Jewish identity.

12 FEATURE Helga Abraham tours the new National Library of Israel.

15 PASSPORT Germany’s east: delve into the Jewish history of the country’s eastern region, from bourgeois 19th-century Dresden to GDR Berlin to life in rural Brandenburg today.

30 FILM The story of New York’s Ladino-speaking porn queen; a new short on Liverpool’s antisemitic riots.

32 ART From the KKK to Kafka: the unflinching eye of Philip Guston.

34 THEATRE Aviva Dautch speaks to Lemn Sissay and Scott Graham about their new staging of Metamorphosis.

36 MUSIC Judi Herman reviews a new novel on the Italian Renaissance composer Salamone Rossi.

38 BOOKS Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Eshkol Nevo: we are proud to be Israeli; new fiction from Israel; Andrew Pulver on Mel Brooks; Michelene Wandor rounds up the latest poetry writing.

48 THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that uncovers the YIVO archive. This issue: We wish you a merry nitl.

49 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE A new film tells the story of Egyptian singer Souad Zaki; Hephzibah Anderson meets Iraqi artist Michael Rakowitz, whose Gateshead show features hanging gardens – and food packaging.

55 WHAT’S HAPPENING Our threemonth guide to art, books, film, music, theatre and other cultural events in the UK, Europe and Israel.

65 FAMILY Girl power in Liz Kessler’s new wartime book.

66 MEET THE READER Michael Sharp in Bowdon, Manchester.

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