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

6 WHAT’S NEW Dreyfus returns to haunt the French election race; Harwich marks its Kindertransport history; how the end of the Tests Act opened up universities to British Jews.

12 FEATURE The beards of our affliction: beware the hirsute evangelists, says novelist Shalom Auslander.

17 FEATURE Twenty arts activists who are set to take the future by storm.

18PASSPORT Afghanistan: Explore the history of this turbulent country; meet the Jewish Afghans in London; discover the synagogues of Herat; and hear about the dramatic rescue of 167 Afghans in a topsecret Israeli mission.

29 THEATRE The Terezín opera Brundibár is re-imagined in a northern English village.

30 MUSIC David Fligg uncovers the story behind the 1952 recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Vienna.

32 ART The glorious rag rugs of Manchester artist Lynne Stein.

34 FILM Peter Watts on a new film about the astonishing piece of wartime espionage, Operation Mincemeat; Adam Lenson on West Side Story.

36 BOOKS Tamar Yellin on being a Jew in Brönteland; George Szirtes on The Books of Jacob; Alexander Hamilton’s Jewish heritage; how a horse dealer came to collect some of Europe’s greatest art; Ruth Padel on Crete’s dark secrets.

46THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that explores the YIVO archive. This issue: Back to nature.

47 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE Michael Vatikiotis on his Ottoman family; the eastern charms of Bubala; Viviane Bowell’s life before Suez.

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 Five fun ways to celebrate the festival of Purim.

66 MEET THE READER Alf Borman in Henlys Corner, London.

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