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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Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

4 weeks 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.
Lili Ország: Wanderings / Bolyongások — Jewish Renaissance

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

An impressive retrospective of the Hungarian modernist artist in suitably stunning surroundsLili Ország (1926-1978) was a highly intellectual modernist painter, whose primary interests were religion, faith and spiritual revelation. It's fitting then that Wanderings / Bolyongások takes place in a deconsecrated Baroque church that's part of the Kiscelli Museum in Budapest; fulfilling a lifelong dream that the Hungarian artist had to exhibit her paintings in such a place.
Interview: Alex Waldmann — Jewish Renaissance

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

As he takes on the title role in Farewell Mister Haffmann, a wartime drama set in Nazi-occupied Paris, Alex Waldmann tells us how it feels to lead the popular French playThough lesser-known here, Farewell Mister Haffmann is one of France’s most successful, longest running plays. It's won four Molière Awards and was made into a gripping, suspenseful film in 2022.
White Rose: The Musical ★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

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

Celebrating the true story of young people with the courage to stand up to a notoriously cruel regime, whatever the costUpon entering Marylebone Theatre’s welcoming, intimate auditorium, I was struck by the youthfulness of the audience and atmosphere of excited anticipation. I even asked some of them if they were a drama school group, but they assured me they were not.
Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception — Jewish Renaissance

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

As a number of cinemas celebrate the work of radical filmmaker Chantal Akerman, Julia Wagner picks five films from the artist's canon that you won't want to missBelgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) was one of the most significant Jewish artists of a generation. The daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, Akerman imbued her films – from slow-paced documentary to vivid musical – with expressions of the silences and absences that marked her family’s life.
The Passenger ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

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

Gripping drama centring around one Jew’s attempts to flee the Nazis by train – with a series of uncertain destinationsGerman Jewish author Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote The Passenger, the novel on which Nadya Menuhin bases this adaptation, when he was just 23. After the Nazis murdered his uncle, he fled Germany with his mother in haste, only to be interned in Britain and sent to Australia. He tragically lost his life aged 27 when his ship returning to Britain was attacked by a U-boat.
Learning ★★★★ - Jewish Renaissance

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

An effective and affecting musical charting the meeting and melting points of a Jewish couple over a period of yearsFrom the moment the lights go up on a woman tossing her long curly locks as she passionately sweeps the keys of a piano, a young man leaning intently over her, the atmosphere in the room is heightened. There is a sense, an anticipation, that anything might happen…Indeed, Debs and Jonathan are a couple as mutually attracted as they are opposed.
A Complete Unknown ★★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance

Jan 23, 2025 | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

James Mangold portrays musical legend Bob Dylan faultlessly in his new biopicIs there a musician more deeply ingrained into popular culture than Bob Dylan? His abstract, poetic lyrics sung out between gritted teeth are so iconic that you could probably play the first few bars of 'Like a Rolling Stone' anywhere in the world and people would recognise it.
The Brutalist ★★ — Jewish Renaissance

Jan 22, 2025 | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

Brady Corbet's new film may be as epic as its architectural namesake, but it proves more than a little polarisingAs an architectural style, Brutalism is renowned for its divisiveness. To its proponents, it represents boldness and modernity – buildings as philosophy. To its detractors, it is ugly, unsubtle and hubristic. The Brutalist, the latest offering from director Brady Corbet, has already proven similarly controversial among critics and audiences.
In conversation: Frankie Thompson — Jewish Renaissance

Dec 9, 2024 | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

"It's a very loaded moment to be doing a Jewish work…but the overall message is of coming together and celebrating Jewish traditions" After the success of London’s first ever Jewish panto last year, which had everyone from babies to bubbas in fits of giggles, it’s only right that the family fun returns for a second season.