CULTURE
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My Name is Rachel Corrie ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
Now, two decades later, My Name… has been revived by an (almost) all-Jewish team willing to brave the potential backlash,…
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Brigadoon ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
The principals, the airmen, their new loves and their families are all excellent. The chorus – the corps de ballet…
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Autumn reads — Jewish Renaissance
My Name is Stramerby Mikołaj Łoziński, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Pushkin Press, £18.99) In his third novel, the Polish writer and…
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Disaster is My Muse ★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
Maus took 13 years – “a long-term disease”, as Spiegelman puts it – and inevitably exacted a huge emotional toll.…
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Memory, loss and resilience in the 80th year since the liberation of Bergen-Belsen — Jewish Renaissance
Sunday’s commemoration brought together survivors and their descendants, including those born in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, alongside international dignitaries. Their…
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NIUSIA ★★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
As the scenes shift, Beth takes on the role of her grandmother at various points in her life, seamlessly morphing…
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Inappropriate ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
A well-orchestrated hour of gut-clenching comedy You don’t expect to find a front row full of children at a comedy…
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Haus of Dy-lan ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
The self-professed ‘Jewponese’ comic makes a fun-filled, glamorous and amusing song and dance of his Fringe debut As if it…
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The Daughter of Time ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
Marta Hallard, friend (and more) to Grant, is the glamorous actor playing Elizabeth of York. Not only was Elizabeth wife…
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The Safekeep ★★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
It is apparent is that Isabel has a very intense, even strange, relationship with the home she grew up in.…
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