RENAISSANCEJewish
VOLUME 5 ISSUE 4 JULY 2006
2 LETTERS/WHATS NEW 3 FROM THE EDITOR 4 WHAT’S NEW
THE JR INTERVIEW 6 Linda Grant interviewed by Beverley Cohen DEBATE 8 Antisemitism - Are we over-reacting?
Antony Lerman and Golda ZaferSmith give different views JEWS AND... 10 Jews and Shopping
Judi Herman reports on an unusual conference in London HUMOUR 12 Squeezing the Lemon
Jokes about Jews and money
THE JEWS OF BULGARIA 14 Timeline Jack Lukeman 15 Who saved the Bulgarian Jews? 16 Ruschuk 1911 An extract from Elias
Canetti’s autobiography Russe 1996 Milena Borden visits Canetti’s birthplace 17 Prominent Bulgarian Jews 18 So Far From Spain
Tilda Molho on the endurance of Ladino 19 W elcome for a Baby Luiza Molho on a
Bulgarian Jewish tradition 20 Renaissance Ema Mezan on post 1989
developments 21 A New World Opening
Janet Levin talks to Tilda Molho For Visitors Contact details in Bulgaria
JUDAISM 20 Mourner’s Kaddish
Cecil Bloom tells the story of the prayer COMEDY 29 Fooling on the Fringe
David Russell talks to four comics FILM 30 Paper Clips
David Russell reviews the new film
JEWS and SHOPPING PAGE 10
JEWS OF BULGARIA PAGE 13
MODIGLIANI PAGE 36
MOR KABASI PAGE 30
MUSIC 30 New songs in an age-old language
Laoise Davidson talks to Mor Kabasi 31 From Noah to Ninotchka
Malcolm Miller on the life and works of composer Joseph Horovitz 32 Laurie Rubin in London
Malcolm Miller on the American singer and the Kohn Foundation ART 33 Israeli Art comes to London
Angela Levine on Avigdor Arikha and Tamy Ben-Tor 34 Sparkling with Humanity
Philip Vann reviews the life and work of Dora Holzhandler 36 “Je suis Modigliani, Juif”
Monica Bohm-Duchen explores the artist’s Jewish identity BOOKS 38 Classic Choice
David Herman on Call it Sleep 39 Deborah Smith on Kalooki Nights;
Marge Clouts on A Woman in Jerusalem 40 Erica Gordon on The Orientalist 41 David Clark reviews three travel companions 44 Peter Falush on re-issues about the
Holocaust; Malcolm Miller on The Sephardic Songbook YOUNG READERS 42 Winning Poems in the JR competition
Review of Home Number One 45 POETRY
Poems by Rhoda Hodes and Jo Ezekiel; review of collection by Michelene Wandor FOOD 46 A Taste of Bulgaria
Luiza Molho on Jewish Bulgarian cuisine LETTER FROM ISRAEL 47 View from Haifa University
Miriam Brill 48 LAST WORDS
Go on, Read this, Davka Michael Gillis
WHAT’S HAPPENING
PAGES 23-28 THREE MONTH GUIDE TO EVENTS IN THE UK AND BEYOND
