Jewish Renaissance Magazine
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We publish Jewish cultural events throughout the UK, Europe and Israel. Jewish Renaissance presents the best of Jewish culture in a vibrant, intelligent and accessible way.
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A new platform launches tonight to offer resources and an online community for Jewish fiction writers and those writing literature of Jewish interest around the world. The Global Jewish Literary Alliance aims to encourage more ..read more
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I discovered Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work when it first came out. It’s a brilliantly-made film by RickiStern and Anne Sundberg that looks at this comedian of a certain age, at a time in her life when she’s trying to stay relevant ..read more
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As you know, last year we announced that JR were Keep Britain Tidy’s official ambassadors to the Jewish community and we’re taking on that role once again for the Great British Spring Clean 2023. This annual campaign to get ..read more
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‘Immersive' and 'moving' are adjectives that one might use figuratively to describe a theatrical experience. I’m using them literally here. As a promenader following the action around the ever-shifting levels on the interconnected hydraulic platforms of designer Bunny Christie’s flexible ..read more
Jewish Renaissance Magazine
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When I was five years old, I found a song-thrush nest. Gleaming blue eggs with tiny black flecks in a clay-white cup. It was in a small bush in the churchyard that lay across the road from our family house at the edge of Sheffield ..read more
Jewish Renaissance Magazine
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The poems in Jeremy Robson’s eighth book of poetry, Chagall’s Moon, range from the heat of Alabama to a cool night in London, from a universe where Chagall’s lovers fly in a cloudless sky to a place where Beethoven, Picasso and Billie Holiday rub shoulders. Written in the aftermath of ..read more
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It is unlikely many Iranian Jewish women are involved in the ongoing protests in Iran. Historically they have been silent and invisible and there has always been an almost total absence of literature by Jewish women in Iran because it endangered the community. But in exile there has been ..read more
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A sphere of polished stainless steel shines proudly in London’s late-winter sun, reflecting the greenery and buildings of the slice of London that surorunds it. The piece is known as SISTER, a new installation by Jewish Londoner David Breuer-Weil, and it sits in Hanover Square, where ..read more
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For actor Tracy-Ann Oberman and director Brigid Larmour, this radical reimagining of the Shakespeare classic has been years in the making (including a two-year delay thanks to the pandemic). Indeed, Oberman herself said it's been "a lifelong dream of mine to bring this play to the stage ..read more
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Shai Agnon and Hayim Nahman Bialik are the two Ukrainian heavyweights of modern Hebrew literature, the former in prose – in fact Agnon remains the only Hebrew author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature – and the latter in poetry. Far from being in competition, they ..read more