Jewish Renaissance

Jewish Renaissance is a quarterly magazine that focuses on Jewish culture, arts, and communities both in the UK and internationally. Established in October 2001, it is currently edited by Rebecca Taylor, who previously served as the News Editor at Time Out London.

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Alan Yentob 1947-2025 — Jewish Renaissance

1 week ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

The BBC broadcaster has died aged 78. David Herman looks back at his influential career in TVAlan Yentob was one of the key figures in the golden age of BBC television in the late 20th century. He joined the organisation as a trainee in 1968. By 1973 he was working on BBC1’s flagship arts documentary series Omnibus. He produced his breakthrough film Cracked Actor in 1975, about the musician David Bowie.
The Crucible ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

1 week ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

Seven decades on and Arthur Miller's thriller based on the Salem Witch Trials still hits a pertinent nerveArthur Miller’s 1953 drama may be set in late 17th-century Massachusetts, but it’s no secret that he uses the Salem witch trials – which led to the imprisonment and even hanging of innocent men and women – as a metaphor for McCarthyism. The campaign of political repression named for the Senator who instigated it was ignited by fear of Communism spreading in the USA.
The Most Precious of Cargoes ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

2 weeks ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

An extraordinary feat of animation that offers perspectives from the heart – and heartless – amid the horrors of the HolocaustWe are deep in a forest during wartime, a world of grinding poverty, cold and hunger. An ageing woodcutter’s wife is stumbling through the snow to find wood.
House of Games ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

3 weeks ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

A well-rounded thriller of an adaptation of David Mamet's film of the same nameForget daytime TV quiz shows, we're delving deep into the criminal underworld in this revival of Richard Bean's adaptation of David Mamet's 1987 film noir House of Games. Deception is very much at the heart of play here, whether it's during literal gaming or metaphorically as a con unfolds.
Here We Are ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

3 weeks ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

Stephen Sondheim bids a dreamlike farewell in this colourful posthumous musicalAre the couple sweeping the stage part of the show or management making sure it’s spic and span for performance, I wonder. So convincingly diligent yet laid back were the pair that it took me time to realise they were Tracie Bennett and Denis O’Hare, designated in the programme simply as ‘Woman’ and ‘Man’ – the staff of the wealthy couple about to take their friends for lunch.
Faygele ★★★★ - Jewish Renaissance

1 month ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

A touching tale of an impossible dilemma, shared with empathy and sensitivityAs the lights go up onstage and fade on the audience, we are aware of the lively, unpredictable presence of a young man loping from auditorium to stage. At one side, we see a portrait on an easel, clearly of the young man, in a black hat, suit and tie, looking rather younger than the live wire in tight black casuals who stands in front of us. This is Ari. Centre-stage sits a box on a table draped with a prayer shawl.
Exploring the Channel Islands' complex wartime history — Jewish Renaissance

1 month ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

Take a look back at our tour to Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney, which marked 80 years since the end of World War IILast week, JR Tours set off on a trip to the Channel Islands to mark the end of World War II. Eighty years ago, on 8 May, Germany acquiesced and signed the German Instrument of Surrender, a legal document ending the war in Europe.
Riefenstahl ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

1 month ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

Andreas Veiel's new documentary about the contentious German filmmaker is a discomfiting but insightful watchCan one separate the art from the artist? Is such a distinction even possible? Or desirable? The complexity of these questions is explored in a new documentary about the controversial German filmmaker and Nazi sympathiser Leni Riefenstahl. Born in Berlin in 1902, Riefenstahl went on to a career in acting. Her success led to her directorial debut, The Blue Light, which was released in 1932.
Keith Kahn-Harris: Everyday Jews ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

1 month ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

The London-based writer and sociologist issues a captivating call for more of the mundaneIt was on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland in Spring 2023 that Keith Kahn-Harris had a revelation. Though he was interested to visit the camps, ghettos and places where his ancestors had once lived, he became very irritated by the way the trip failed to connect with “everyday Polish life”.
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

2 months ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

Bad puns, fab comedy! Or it is in the case of this Broadway hit making its British debutI’ve always loved small-cast shows with everyone getting to switch roles. It’s a dead cert for comedy. So here, just five actors get to rotate characters, chameleon-like. And if I reveal that Sebastien Torkia plays not just hero(ine) and vampire prey Mina Westfeldt, but also vampire hunter Van Helsing, you’ll have more than half a clue that there’s a satisfactory abundance of gender-bending pansexuality too.