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

6 WHAT’S NEW JR’s young journalism prize; the Polin museum under attack; China’s Muslim internment camps.

10 FEATURE Jews, Christians, Hindus and Muslims on being LGBT+.

12PASSPORT The Caribbean: discover the stories of pirates and sugar planters; meet the activists keeping the region’s communities alive; uncover Jewish Cuba; and hear about the refugees who found a tropical haven from Hitler.

26 MUSIC Yallah celebrates JudeoArabic music across the globe; Peter Watts on a new concert inspired by Canada’s Blackfoot tribe.

29 ART John Hyatt explores an exhibition of John Heartfield’s striking anti-Nazi posters.

32 THEATRE The Last Cyclist was written by an inmate of Terezin concentration camp but never performed. Now it will be staged at Newcastle’s Brundibár festival. Judi Herman tells its tragic story.

34 FILM As a new film is released on Fiddler on the Roof, David Herman explores why the show still resonates today.

36 BOOKS Nicola Christie on the new wave of Israeli children’s fiction; Richard Rampton QC interviews former Supreme Court judge John Dyson; travels around Latin America; a new novel about Varian Fry; Marlene Hobsbawm’s memoirs; David Benmayer on The Legacy of Empire.

46THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that uncovers the YIVO archive. This issue: The Holocaust dictionary.

47 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE Joel R Hart on Palestinian flavours in Jerusalem; Mikhal Dekel uncovers the story of the Central Asian refugees; Naomi Pope’s dramatic voyage on board the Exodus.

54WHAT’S HAPPENING Our three-month guide to art, books, film, music, theatre and other cultural events in the UK, Europe and Israel.

65 FAMILY Don’t miss the children’s events at this year’s Jewish Book Week.

66 MEET THE READER Giovanni Ratti in Cremona, Italy.

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