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The Elephant and the Jewish Question: Autumn JQ 2018
When I came to live in London in 1994 my friend Bob Tashman offered to fill me in on the local scene. “There are…
In The Echo Chamber: Writing about the Holocaust
E.M. Forster calls it the echo chamber. No writer exists in a void – we share an echo chamber with writers who have…
Revue
National Lottery Cinema Day
Sundays never lose that bittersweet feeling, when you savour the freedom of the weekend while fighting off that…
Bernstein Bash
Bernstein is back in London. At the BBC Proms this Bank Holiday weekend his centenary is being celebrated with…
In the Mag
The Elephant and the Jewish Question: Autumn JQ 2018
When I came to live in London in 1994 my friend Bob Tashman offered to fill me in on the local scene. “There are…
The Darkrooms Of Edith Tudor-Hart
What was Edith Tudor-Hart really like? What are my ties to her besides that we are relatives? She was 17 when she…
Books
The Clown of Kabbalah
One afternoon in 1980, the American writer Cynthia Ozick called on Gershom Scholem, the magisterial scholar of…
Clive Sinclair (1948-2018): The Forgotten Revolutionary
Clive Sinclair spent most of his life in search of his “inner cowboy”. He grew up in North London, in the 1950s as…
