RENAISSANCEJewish
VOLUME 7 ISSUE 3 APRIL 2008
2 LETTERS 3 FROM THE EDITOR
WHAT’S NEW 4 Making volunteering easy 4 A five-year mission accomplished 5 A reason to cross the bridge 6 Leon Greenman
BUILDING BRIDGES 7 Hand-in-Hand
Susan Lowenthal-Lourenço 8 Other Bridging Projects 9 Now they Listen to Me
Judi Herman 11 Judaism and the Comic Strip
Bryan Schwartz
13 THE STORY OF ROSH PINAH 14 Timeline
Nadav Keller 15 Baron Edmund de Rothschild 15 A Rosh Pinah Childhood
Shoshana Sharkey Stories of the Villagers Nitza Felix 16 Josef Friedman 17 The Keller Family 18 Rebecca Gottfried 19 Yehoshua Ben Aria
A School to Lead the World 20 Arab Neighbours - What
Happened Janet Levin 21 Restoration and Renaissance
MUSIC 32 The Road of Israel’s Composers
Malcolm Miller 34 Passover Songs
Malcolm Miller ART 35 One Page that Tells so Much
Eli Abt 36 A Very Different Germany
Ruth Taylor Jacobson
ONE PAGE THAT TELLS SO MUCH
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ROSH PINAH PAGE 16
DANI KARAVAN PAGE 38
38 Dani Karavan - Sculptor of Light and
Memory Angela Levine 40 Poet Painter Isaac Rosenberg
Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall BOOKS 41 Found in Translation
Golda Zafer-Smith interviews Nicholas de Lange 43 S Y Yizhar in Brief Janet Levin 44 Who are the Heroes Now
Book Week quotes 45 Classic Choice
Golda Zafer-Smith revisits Exodus 46 Through Israeli Eyes
Beverley Cohen reviews three novels 47 Looking for the Road to Peace
Geoffrey Paul reviews Colin Shindler’s A History of Modern Israel 48 Promising Debuts
David Herman and Marge Clouts on first novels by Keith Gessen and Anne Landsman 49 Questions of Truth and Morality
Peter Falush on two books about Rezsö Kasztner; Deborah Brooks on Frederic Raphael’s Lindmann 50 Recommended
Books in Brief Judith Mirzoeff 51 Young Readers
The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo 51 Poetry Review
Collections by AdamTaylor, Joanna Ezekiel and Penny Feinstein 52 Poetry Choice
Liz Cashdan selects poems by Theresa Turk and Barbara Saalfeld-Edwards 53 LETTER FROM THE LOWER
EAST-SIDE David Russell LETTER FROM ISRAEL 54 View from a Community Advocate
Barbara Epstein FOOD 55 Pesach in Israel Melody Amsel-Arieli
LAST WORDS 56 The Creation of Modern Hebrew
Tamar Drukker
CENTRE SECTION: PAGES 23-31
THREE MONTH GUIDE TO EVENTS IN THE UK AND BEYOND
KAIFENG VOUCHER PAGE 56
