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PASSPORT SERIES

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

6 WHAT’S NEW It was 20 years ago today… JR founder Janet Levin celebrates two decades of a unique magazine; Tsitsit fringe festival; Hatzalah.

11 FEATURE Sonya Barber speaks to singer Jessie Ware about her Clapham childhood, passing on her love of lox and her upcoming adult batmitzvah.

14 FEATURE Happy birthday, JR! We kick-off our 20th celebrations with 20 musicians, artists, writers, actors and activists at the forefront of UK Jewish culture. Grab a drink and join the party…

24PASSPORT South London: uncover a wealth of culture from 18th-century Sephardi Richmond to Amy Levy’s Victorian Clapham and Brixton’s Windrush photographer.

36 FILM A new film asks why so many Nazis escaped justice. Kurdish director Mano Khalil on the Czech film, The Shop on Main Street.

38 MUSIC Dorian Lynskey explores Serge Gainsbourg’s Jewish roots.

40 THEATRE Judi Herman speaks to Cordelia Lynn, whose explosive new play opens at the Donmar Warehouse.

42 ART Frédéric Brenner turns his lens on Jewish life in Berlin.

45 BOOKS Jessica Cohen and Sasha Dugdale on the art of translation; 20 years of an American writing revolution; Daniel Snowman’s memoir; the Habima artist; Sue Vice on a Sheffield family saga.

56THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that uncovers the YIVO archive. This issue: The postcard craze.

57 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE A new film tells the story of Morocco’s Jews; musician Ana Silvera returns to her Manchester roots.

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

73 FAMILY Meet DC Comics’ first Jewish superhero in over 40 years.

74 MEET THE READERS We hear from our readers across the world.

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