R enaissance
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 3 SPRING 2003
2 LETTERS 3 FROM THE EDITOR
WHAT'S NEW 2 LJCC Cultural Awards
Company of Angels 4 New Director at the Ben Uri Gallery
JMI does it again SOAP BOX 6 Secular Judaism - The Way Forward?
Felix Posen and Clive Lawton argue fo r and against THE JR INTERVIEW 8 The Time o f his Life
Golda Zafer-Smith talks to Norman Lebrecht JUDAISM AND... 11 Judaism and Birth
Michele Klein takes a look at customs and rituals HERITAGE 13 Art o f the Haggadah
Erica Gordon on the most illustrated book in Jewish religious use Faultless Facsimiles The work o f Linda and Michael Falter
15 THE JEWS FROM EGYPT 16 From Exodus to Exodus
A le c Nacamuli 17 The Cairo Genizah
Maurice Maleh 18 The Good Summer
Ellis Douek reminisces 19 A Leavened Passover
Teddy Nahmias 20 Victor Arwas
Janet Levin interviews the art collector extraordinaire 21 Egypt in Israel V ic tor Sanua 27 Jewish Alexandria
Roger Bilboul 28 The Egyptian Diaspora
Manuela Kleeman 29 Gilbert de Botton Janet Levin 30 Find out more
GILBERT DE BOTTON PAGE 29
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JUDAISM AND BIRTH PAGE 11
NORMAN LEBRECHT PAGE 8
ART 31 A Cultural Obsession
Oz Almog on his exhibition at the Ben Uri 32 Trying to be 20 in Jerusalem
Images of youth captured by Dinu Mendrea 34 Chagall in Paris
Monica Bohm-Duchen reports on the major retrospective MUSIC 36 Berthold Goldschmidt
Bernard Keeffe on the life and work of the composer 38 Yasmin Levy
Gabriella Pomeroy hears the Israeli Ladino singer BOOKS 39 The Horseman of Israel
Victor Ramraj on Mordechai Richler 4 0 Jewish Writers ot the 20th Century
Ed.: Dr. Sorrel Kerbel 4 0 Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Kate Taylor Nothing i Touch Stands Still Jane Spiro Listening For Nightingales W. Tarleton Klein 41 Primo Levi: A Biography Ian Thomson
The Double Bond - Primo Levi: A Biography Carole Angier 42 Bites from Book Week
H igh lig h ts from th is yea r ’s event POETRY 44 Meir Wieseltier Raisa Domb introduces the Israeli poet 44 Liz Cashdan chooses from readers'
submissions Ram’s Horn Theresa Turk 45 Young Readers
AII-of-a-Kind Family Sydney Taylor FOOD 46 Recipes
Claudia Roden's Egyptian Passover LETTER FROM ISRAEL 47 The Chef's View
Susan Lourengo visits Lechem Erez and its owner/chef Erez Komarovsky LAST WORDS 48 Ladino Hilary Pomeroy
C entre S ection: pages 23-26
T hree Month Guide to Events in the UK and B eyond