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Yaniv Iczkovits, author of 'The Slaughterman's Daughter.' (Photo by Eric Sultan)
May 16, 2021, 5:48 am
Israeli Wingate prizewinner’s novel brings female empowerment to the shtetl
Set in a 19th-century Pale of Settlement, Yaniv Iczkovits’s ‘The Slaughterman’s Daughter’ sees a woman trained to perform a job reserved for men bring her sister justice
By Anne Joseph
Left: a portrait of Golda Meir in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market by Solomon Souza (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI); Right: Dame Maureen Lipman (Jay Brooks)
February 11, 2021, 3:37 am
Golda Meir given posthumous encore in debut of newly rediscovered musical
Celebrated UK actress Maureen Lipman to sing ‘Next Year in Jerusalem,’ title song in a never-seen show about the female Israeli PM, for Jewish Music Institute’s online gala Feb. 11
By Anne Joseph
The 'Library of Exile' installation by Edmund de Waal at the British Museum. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)
September 12, 2020, 3:07 pm
‘Library of Exile’ exhibit opens at British Museum before resettlement in Iraq
Interactive display launched in tandem with London museum’s reopening is inspired by author Edmund de Waal’s Austrian Jewish grandparents, who lost their books to Nazis
By Anne Joseph
Left, cover of 'Bitesize Resilience,' by author Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, right, October 2015; (Courtesy)
July 4, 2020, 9:01 am
UK Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner’s book on resilience could hardly be more timely
Newly released ‘Bitesize Resilience’ draws on author’s personal and professional experiences to offer Jewish-themed guidance on dealing with crisis, trauma, and COVID-19 life
By Anne Joseph
Esther Safran Foer holds a black and white photo of her father, Louis, top left, and the family that hid him during the war. (Courtesy)
May 20, 2020, 4:10 am
Safran Foer matriarch joins author kids with her first book, on Holocaust roots
Esther Safran Foer releases postwar memoir detailing her birth in a DP camp, the midlife discovery of a murdered sister, and her investigative journey back to Ukraine
By Anne Joseph
Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua's new book, 'The Tunnel,' talks about a one-state solution. (Courtesy/ Rafaela Fahn Schoffman)
May 3, 2020, 5:45 am
Peace activist author A.B. Yehoshua now pushes for a one-state solution
In conversation with ToI to mark release of new book, ‘The Tunnel,’ the writer says, ‘We have to integrate the Palestinians into Israel, by the right or the left’
By Anne Joseph
Josef Herman sketching underground. (Llew E. Morgan/ Flowers Gallery)
January 6, 2020, 12:33 pm
Holocaust survivor who took his political art underground sees daylight in UK
On exhibit in London through January 25, the works of Josef Herman, whose family perished in the Warsaw Ghetto, focus on the old country before shifting to the British proletariat
By Anne Joseph
Israeli filmmaker Dekel Berenson. (Courtesy)
December 3, 2019, 12:35 am
British Independent Film Award marks new chapter in Israeli filmmaker’s career
Traveling writer and director Dekel Berenson looks to parlay the recent BIFA win for his third and latest short film, ‘Anna,’ into funding for a feature-length collection
By Anne Joseph
A still from director Elise Otzenberger's film, 'My Polish Honeymoon.' (Courtesy Rectangle Productions/ NJJ Entertainment)
November 6, 2019, 1:37 am
Dramedy takes couple on ‘romantic’ getaway to rediscover buried roots in Poland
Opening the UK Jewish Film Festival on Wednesday, ‘My Polish Honeymoon’ tells a resonant story about the transmission of memory and how contemporary Jewry relates to the Holocaust
By Anne Joseph
Illustrative: In this photo taken on Thursday, July 28, 2016, two Syrian refugees, left, concentrate during an English lesson with a volunteer teacher in London. As the UK struggles to implement its commitment to resettle more than 20,000 Syrians, the government is counting on charities and community groups to help the newcomers adjust to life in Britain. The Home Office has for the first time set up a program to allow local organizations to sponsor refugees and the agency’s website directs volunteers to migrant charities that need their help. (AP Photo/Adela Suliman)
August 7, 2019, 4:05 am
UK Jewish organization honored for helping Syrian refugees find long-term jobs
Looking for more than stopgap measures, World Jewish Relief’s STEP program provides a warm and immersive environment while giving new arrivals the tools to find sustainable work
By Anne Joseph
A Rolleiflex self-portrait of a young Harold Feinstein. (Courtesy)
June 24, 2019, 3:54 am
Once one of New York’s top prodigies, this photographer died in near obscurity
A fleeting London exhibit on Harold Feinstein hopes to go on the road and showcase his striking photos of life in the Big Apple, and get the artist his posthumous due recognition
By Anne Joseph
Detail from a boy stepping off the curb, by photographer Diane Arbus. (Diane Arbus exhibition, London)
April 20, 2019, 11:45 pm
Exhibit exposes fleeting career of female photographer who captured NY’s margins
‘Diane Arbus: In the Beginning’ provides a snapshot of the wealthy Jewish shutterbug who sympathized with the Big Apple’s downtrodden, calling them ‘aristocrats’
By Anne Joseph
Benjamin Markovits, author of 'A Weekend in New York.' (Courtesy)
March 12, 2019, 7:07 pm
In his 8th book, Benjamin Markovits writes what he knows: Jewish and complicated
Before speaking at London’s Jewish Book Week, the author opens up to ToI about how his newest novel, ‘A Weekend in New York,’ is informed by his mixed-faith upbringing
By Anne Joseph
Detail from Haifa, 1959, photograph by Dorothy Bohm, mother of Monica Bohm-Duchen, who conceived of the 'Insiders/Outsiders' festival celebrating contributions to British society by refugees from Nazi Europe. (Courtesy)
March 2, 2019, 9:03 am
Year-long UK arts fest celebrates contributions of refugees from Nazi Europe
Curator of ‘Insiders/Outsiders,’ opening March 2, says Jews fleeing persecution produced influential music, art, writing and design in their adopted country
By Anne Joseph
Poster for 'Rosenbaum's Rescue,' a new play by Alexander Bodin Saphir. (Courtesy)
January 4, 2019, 11:12 am
Play depicts new details of alleged Nazi self-sabotage in rescue of Danish Jews
Opening in London next week, playwright Alexander Bodin Saphir’s ‘Rosenbaum’s Rescue’ dramatizes the miraculous overnight escape of Jewish Danes to Sweden
By Anne Joseph
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