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Debating the Debate
Debating the Debate
‘Anglo-Jewry finds its voice’, trumpeted the front page of the Jewish Chronicle during the harrowing days of the Gaza bombardment. What voice exactly was this? What was it saying? More importantly, for whom was it…
[Read more]Essays
Putting the Id back in Yid by Stephen Frosh
The Freudian century began in Vienna but found its eventual home in America. There it was that most psychoanalysts wound up and entered the blood stream of the culture so that Freudian speech and American speech —... [Read more]
Walking to Hollywood by Will Self
In Empire of Their Own, a worthy, scrupulous and curiously dull account of how immigrant Jews founded the state of mind known as ‘Hollywood’— first in America, then latterly throughout the wider world — its author,... [Read more]
Art
The Persistence of Memory: Text and Image in the Art of Arnold Daghani
According to those who knew him best, the artist Arnold Daghani (1909–1985) had...
Radicalism and Conformity: Jewish Collectors of New Art
Storeroom (Project 2) by David Breuer-Weil, oil on canvas, 200 x 400cm I was asked...
Opinion
Why Anti-Semitism Matters by Denis Macshane
The first political pamphlet I ever wrote was in 1978. It revealed and denounced...
Communal Singing
These days, when only the mentally ill, the professionally hired and the irrepressibly...
