Jewish Renaissance

Jewish Renaissance
Editor Rebecca Taylor
Categories Jewish culture
Frequency Quarterly
Publisher Renaissance Publishing Ltd
Founder Janet Levin
First issue October 2001
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Website www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk
ISSN 1476–1769

Jewish Renaissance is a quarterly cultural magazine, founded in October 2001,[1][2] covering Jewish culture, arts and communities in Britain and beyond. It is edited by Rebecca Taylor.[3]

Scope and content

The magazine focuses on the arts – visual arts and architecture, music, cinema, theatre and literature in Europe and in Israel – as well as on Jewish identity and relations with other cultures and religions. In each issue there is a 10–16 page illustrated feature on a different Jewish community around the world, drawing on historical material, contemporary interviews, and a cultural events listing, among other content.[4][5][6] The January 2014 issue, for instance, focused on the Jews of Krakow, Poland.[7][8]

The magazine also contains in-depth interviews of people of interest from a Jewish historical or cultural viewpoint. For example, it interviewed Mike Leigh prior to the Royal National Theatre production of his 2005 play Two Thousand Years,[9] Glasgow artist Hannah Frank[10] and philanthropists Elizabeth Sackler of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation[11] and Nasser David Khalili.[12] The magazine published an interview with Helga Bejach, a Jewish child rescued on the kindertransport and subsequently adopted by the family of Richard and David Attenborough.[13] In July 2012, on the eve of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, it interviewed Israeli Paralympic rower Moran Samuel.[14] In January 2015 it interviewed violinist Irmina Trynkos.[15]

The magazine also contains articles on such contemporary subjects as how the Jewish community is responding to climate change.[16]

Organisation

The magazine is independent and is financed by subscriptions, advertising and grant funding. It is published by Renaissance Publishing, whose chief executive is Janet Levin (Jewish Renaissance's founder, who edited the magazine from 2001 to 2014). Notable individuals from the British Jewish arts world who sit on its editorial advisory board include the actress Maureen Lipman; Director of the Wiener Library, Ben Barkow; City Editor of London's Daily Mail, Alex Brummer; and playwright Arnold Wesker.[17]

Awards

The magazine won the awards for the Best Non-Synagogue Magazine and for the Best Professional Article in the Board of Deputies of British Jews Awards in 2002.

References

  1. ↑ Kahn-Harris, Keith; Gidley, Ben (2010). Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today. London/New York: Continuum Books. p. 128. ISBN 978 1 8471 4476 8.
  2. ↑ "Jewish renaissance: magazine of Jewish culture". Stanford University Libraries. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "2015 Festival: Bright Star in a Dark Chamber". Jewish Book Week. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Jews of Rome" (PDF). Jewish Renaissance: pp. 14–22. October 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "History of the Jews in Liverpool". Chicken Soup and Scouse. August 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  6. ↑ "Jews of Jamaica: The art of Anna Ruth Henriques" (PDF). kosherdelight.com. January 2007. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  7. ↑ "Jewish Krakow and a Reflection on Jewish Places". Jewish Heritage Europe. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "JCC Krakow in UK's Jewish Renaissance magazine". Events. Jewish Community Centre of Krakow. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  9. ↑ Zafer-Smith, Golda (October 2005). "Mike Leigh Comes Out". Jewish Renaissance (17): pp. 6–8. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  10. ↑ Levin, Janet (Winter 2003). "Critical Acclaim about Hannah Frank: Article from Jewish Renaissance magazine". Hannah Frank: A Glasgow Artist 1908 – 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  11. ↑ "The Matron of Feminist Art". The Social Enterprise. 13 October 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  12. ↑ "The Benefactor". The Social Enterprise. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  13. ↑ Brooks, Richard (30 November 2008). "The Attenborough Sisters who escaped Hitler". The Times (London). Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  14. ↑ Price-Gibson, Eetta (July 2012). "Inspiration from Israel". Jewish Renaissance: pp.14–15. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  15. ↑ Levin, Janet (January 2015). "Taking strings to heart" (PDF). Jewish Renaissance. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  16. ↑ "Green and Jewish" (PDF). Jewish Renaissance. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  17. ↑ "Who We Are". Jewish Renaissance. Retrieved 2 September 2012.

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