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benuri.org A New Era David Bomberg (1890-1957) Ghetto Theatre, 1920 © Ben Uri Collection courtesy of the David Bomberg estate The First Full Scale Virtual Museum & Research Institution 40+ online & 3D exhibitions 50+ exhibition catalogues & research papers 60+ podcasts & ‘brief lives’ 100+ films & ‘60 second insights’ 100+ art & health interventions 200+ school learning programmes 400+ artist biographies 500+ archival exhibition records since 1925 1,400+ artworks 10,000+ pages of archives from 1915 The Ben Uri Research Unit formalises the 15 year Ben Uri study of the Jewish and Immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900. The Ben Uri Arts and Health Institute formalises the11 year Ben Uri engagement in researching and evaluating the effects of different art interventions for older people living in social isolation or with dementia. Covid-19 allowing, we hope to reopen to the public our extended art reference and archive library, research centres and focused exhibition gallery in London’s St. John’s Wood by the end of October. The transformation to the digital arena as Ben Uri’s permanent principal public engagement model was central to the Sustainability and Public Benefit Strategy published in October 2018. It is accessible in full on benuri.org benuri.org Open 24/7 | Free Entry | admin@benuri.org
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CONTENTS OCTOBER 2020 WWW.JEWISHRENAISSANCE.ORG.UK JR 16 ; I O N C O L L E C T G O L D E N B E R G A N N A M U S E U M I S H J E W O F ; C O U RT E SY I G I TA L G R E C A P T H E O F ; C O U R T E SY ; © R O B , G L A S G O W M A RY C O M M O N S I V E I C R E AT I K ; W I N E T E M C H I C H A E L ; M A RY I S T A RT T H E C O U RT E SY I M AG E – I S E N B AU M : M C OV E R NI Z A ; © A L T H E O N I S TO C K 38 32 28 47 WASHINGTON DC PASSPORT SERIES 4YOUR SAY… Readers’ rants, raves and views on the July issue of JR. 6 WHAT’S NEW Vladislav Davidzon finds past and present collide in Belarus; Berlin’s museum of exile. 10 FEATURE Rebecca Taylor speaks to the American novelist Joshua Cohen about the troubled state of his nation. 13 FEATURE Which statues should be pulled down? Samantha Baskind debates how we remember our dead. 16PASSPORT Washington DC: hear the story of the Civil War Jews; discover Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s favourite DC places; and meet the politicians, filmmakers, artists and activists who live and work in this dynamic capital city. 28 FILM Michael Rosen reviews When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; Michael Etherton: the film that changed my life. 30 THEATRE Judi Herman speaks to Dame Hermione Lee about her new biography of Tom Stoppard. 32 ART How Zoom is helping Mexican artist Aliza Nisenbaum to create her new paintings of Liverpool’s keyworkers. 34 MUSIC Beethoven and the 19th century culture wars. 36 BOOKS On the centenary of the birth of poet Paul Celan, Anne Michaels reflects on his relationship with the German language; George Prochnik on a new voice from Vienna; Moris Farhi’s last novel; Oxford’s illuminated glories; David Abulafia reviews a new history of the ghetto. 46THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that uncovers the YIVO archive. This issue: Songs of the suffragettes. 47 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE The Scribe is back!; Jonathan Kaufman on the Shanghai families who built modern China; a childhood in Alexandria. 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 A new book by Michael Rosen and Quentin Blake explores what it means to be a refugee. 66 MEET THE READER Esther Robinson Wild in Oxford. OCTOBER 2020 JEWISHRENAISSANCE.ORG.UK 3 C O N T E N T S

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benuri.org A New Era

David Bomberg (1890-1957) Ghetto Theatre, 1920 © Ben Uri Collection courtesy of the David Bomberg estate

The First Full Scale Virtual Museum & Research Institution

40+ online & 3D exhibitions 50+ exhibition catalogues & research papers 60+ podcasts & ‘brief lives’ 100+ films & ‘60 second insights’ 100+ art & health interventions

200+ school learning programmes 400+ artist biographies 500+ archival exhibition records since 1925 1,400+ artworks 10,000+ pages of archives from 1915

The Ben Uri Research Unit formalises the 15 year Ben Uri study of the Jewish and Immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900.

The Ben Uri Arts and Health Institute formalises the11 year Ben Uri engagement in researching and evaluating the effects of different art interventions for older people living in social isolation or with dementia.

Covid-19 allowing, we hope to reopen to the public our extended art reference and archive library, research centres and focused exhibition gallery in London’s St. John’s Wood by the end of October.

The transformation to the digital arena as Ben Uri’s permanent principal public engagement model was central to the Sustainability and Public Benefit Strategy published in October 2018. It is accessible in full on benuri.org benuri.org Open 24/7 | Free Entry | admin@benuri.org

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