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The Ben Uri Gallery The London J ewish Museum of Art T he T ortoise and the H are An exhibition of works by William Roberts and J acob Kramer 7 J uly - 7 September 2003 The Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, in conjunction with Leeds University Art Gallery, is delighted to announce the third exhibition in the series The Whitechapel Boys that focuses on the Jewish ardsts who were part o f the early twentieth-century cultural outpouring emerging from London’s East End. The exhibition chronicles the two artists’ visual development and divergence, encompassing classically-inspired works from the Slade period through to their unique and individual responses to abstraction during the 1910s and 1920s. It examines their abiding interest in ‘family’ as subject-matter, as well as portraiture in a wider context; Kramer’s search for the spiritual in his art, versus Roberts’ dedication to recording daily life in London, and the influence ot the First World War. Monday Thursday 10.00am - 5.50pm Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm Sunday 12.00pm - 4.00pm Admission Charges: Adult £ 4 , Concession £ 3 , Friends and NACF members Free 108A Boundary Road St. John’s Wood, London NWS ORH Tel: 020 7604 5991 Fax: 020 7604 3992 Email: info@benuri.org.uk W ebsite: www.benuri.com
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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 7 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

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The Ben Uri Gallery

The London J ewish Museum of Art

T he T ortoise and the H are An exhibition of works by William Roberts and J acob Kramer

7 J uly - 7 September 2003

The Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, in conjunction with Leeds University Art Gallery, is delighted to announce the third exhibition in the series The Whitechapel Boys that focuses on the Jewish ardsts who were part o f the early twentieth-century cultural outpouring emerging from London’s East End.

The exhibition chronicles the two artists’ visual development and divergence, encompassing classically-inspired works from the Slade period through to their unique and individual responses to abstraction during the 1910s and 1920s. It examines their abiding interest in ‘family’ as subject-matter, as well as portraiture in a wider context; Kramer’s search for the spiritual in his art, versus Roberts’ dedication to recording daily life in London, and the influence ot the First World War.

Monday Thursday 10.00am - 5.50pm Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm Sunday 12.00pm - 4.00pm Admission Charges: Adult £ 4 , Concession £ 3 , Friends and NACF members Free

108A Boundary Road St. John’s Wood, London NWS ORH

Tel: 020 7604 5991 Fax: 020 7604 3992 Email: info@benuri.org.uk W ebsite: www.benuri.com

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