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PASSPORT SERIES
4YOUR SAY… Readers’ rants, raves and views on the January issue of JR.
6 WHAT’S NEW Bevis Marks’ new centre; Willesden’s Pre-Raphaelite tomb; art of chaos and hope from Israel.
10 FEATURE George Floyd – a year on. Edie Friedman assesses how the Jewish community is tackling racism.
12 FEATURE The confines of the Covid pandemic and wartime internment are the subjects for two new archive projects explored by Noa Lessof Gendler.
14PASSPORT Ireland – north and south: uncover the history of Belfast; take a walk around historic Cork; learn about the radical artists of the 1930s and meet the poets, writers and musicians of the community on both sides of the border.
28 MUSIC Danielle Goldstein meets the Israeli-Persian musician, Liraz.
30 THEATRE Judi Herman speaks to the creators of The Unicorn and Joe, the play that reopens the Arcola in June.
32 FILM Ian Black on a new film about evangelical Christians and the Israeli right; Hella Pick on The Sound of Music.
34 ART Monica Bohm-Duchen explores a clutch of new books on art and wartime resistance.
36 BOOKS David Baddiel meets Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur; Shalom Auslander’s tale of modern-day cannibals; a new book on Howard Jacobson; the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle; the story of the rabbi and the alphabetician.
44 THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that uncovers the YIVO archive. This issue: Gulliver in Yiddishland.
45 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE Ali Shakir on translating a Baghdadi Jewish memoir into Arabic; a Bristol Mizrachi food project; the writer Gabriel Josipovici remembers Egypt.
52 WHAT’S HAPPENING Our threemonth guide to art, books, film, music, theatre and other cultural events in the UK, Europe and Israel.
65 FAMILY A new book uncovers the Jewish folktales of Britain and Ireland.
66 MEET THE READER Dolf Mogendorff in Moortown, Leeds.
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