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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Exploring the Channel Islands' complex wartime history — Jewish Renaissance

1 week 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 week 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 week 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

1 month 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

Feb 12, 2025 | 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.