Linda Grant & Rachel Lichtenstein

“Jews live in time, not space…we have, and are, a story, not a plot of territory”. So says Linda Grant’s character Jossel in The Story of the Forest. From Latvia to Liverpool and post-war Soho, she tells the story, based in part on her own family’s experiences, of one Jewish family through the tumultuous 20th […]

Yiddish Winterreise – A Song Cycle

Vocalist Mark Glanville and pianist Marc Verter present Yiddish Winterreise. First performed in 2007, it is a cycle of mostly traditional Yiddish songs inspired by Schubert’s Winterreise. Described by the former German Ambassador to the Court of St James’s as ‘both a celebration and a cry of anguish’, this extraordinary song cycle reflects the mental […]

Torah & Tradition in an Age of Doubt

In these fast-changing, uncertain, and divided times, this new book from Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum is most welcome. In Questioning Belief: Torah and Tradition in an Age of Doubt, runner-up in this year’s Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Sacks Book Prize, Zarum presents thorough, reasoned responses, based on Torah and tradition, to some of Judaism’s most challenging […]