CULTURE
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US scholar David Nirenberg wins the 2026 Balzan Prize — Jewish Renaissance
“The way he yokes together archival research, literary criticism and philosophy to construct complex and nuanced theoretical positions that engage…
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“Brian fancied the hell out of The Beatles” — Jewish Renaissance
Brian was discharged from the army, probably because he was gay. He went to drama school, got caught cottaging and…
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Adam Kammerling — Jewish Renaissance
You’ve been working on Seder for quite a while. When did it start? The show started in the pandemic, in…
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Ukraine Unbroken ★★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
Pressures build to an almost unbearable level in David Greig’s Wretched Things, which is set on the front line, where…
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Agnieszka Holland — Jewish Renaissance
There’s a scene where a tour guide takes a group to a restaurant called Kafka Burger, where they order the…
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JDAL Sings! ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
The Jewish Dramatic Association of London (stylised as JDAL, pronounced “Jay-Dal”) was founded in 2024 as a safe space for…
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Here There Are Blueberries ★★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
As with Glazer’s film, the play is really about the chilling ease with which normality sits alongside horror – Hannah…
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Winter reads — Jewish Renaissance
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller (Saqi, £14.99) Jewish journalist…
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See Jeff Goldblum live this summer — Jewish Renaissance
Come the 1990s, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra was born and named after a friend of Goldblum’s mother. “I thought that…
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Noah’s Woods — Jewish Renaissance
This thread of natural destruction is interwoven with the devastation and trauma of 7 October, offering a further, metaphorical, layering.…
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