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Yiddish music

The beautiful song I’ll sing for my dear Marj on her ascent to heaven

Why I am playing a musical tribute to my late partner during Jewish Book Week

By Mark Glanville

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The beautiful song I’ll sing for my dear Marj on her ascent to heaven

They Were Good Germans Once review: ‘the trials of the yekke’

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How Jewish music helped me find my voice again

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"A cold, clear look at things": acclaimed screenwriter and novelist Frederic Raphael

‘Why still write? What is there better to do?’

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The Glatstein Chronicles by Jacob Glatstein review: A portrait of a Jewish world in its twilight years

One of the foremost 20th century Yiddish poets, Glatstein emigrated from Lublin to New York in 1914

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February 1, 2024 16:55

Poet Jacob Glatstein founded the Inzikhist (Introspectivist) literary movement. Photo: Yiddish Book Centre

The Fate of Yaakov Maggid review: Joyous but realistic celebration of a lost Jewish world

First-class translation of Ludovic Bruckstein's Yiddish short story collection proves a timely panacea in these dark times

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November 23, 2023 13:33

The Fate of Yaakov Maggid review: Joyous but realistic celebration of a lost Jewish world

On Czesław Miłosz - Visions from the Other Europe review: Piercing insights into being an outsider

Timely reflections on the Jewish condition are unsettlingly relevant to our own times

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November 6, 2023 13:30

On Czesław Miłosz - Visions from the Other Europe review: Piercing insights into being an outsider

Singing songs of defiance in my ancestors' home town

Singer Mark Glanville only realised his poignant link to Kutno in Poland thanks to a chance post on Facebook

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October 26, 2023 15:05

Singing songs of defiance in my ancestors' home town

Time’s Echo review: The music that helps us reflect the terrible traumas of the past

Jeremy Eichler has written a fascinating examination of the power of music in memorial

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October 18, 2023 15:49

Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) in the audience at the Royal Albert Hall, London. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Osip Mandelstam: A Biography review - The poet who dared to criticise Stalin

Sympathetic grasp of artistic genius behind some of the greatest poetry of the 20th century

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August 17, 2023 15:41

Osip Mandelstam: A Biography review - The poet who dared to criticise Stalin

Book review: Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety - Too confident, where’s the angst?

An unconvincing survey of modern British Jews, much of which was gleaned from conversations conducted over Zoom during lockdown

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November 10, 2022 13:56

Book review: Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety - Too confident, where’s the angst?

Licoricia of Winchester Book review: A fascinating look at the richest woman in medieval England

The story of this remarkable woman reads like a blueprint for many later expulsions and destructions of Jewish communities

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August 19, 2022 11:00

Licoricia of Winchester Book review: A fascinating look at the richest woman in medieval England

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

English translation of the first novel of a writer whose work elicits profound truths about human nature and its motivations

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August 11, 2022 09:54

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

The Girl in the Green Jumper book review: Portrait of a needy genius

An enthralling account of a muse’s life with troubled artist Cyril Mann

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June 23, 2022 15:33

The Girl in the Green Jumper book review: Portrait of a needy genius

The Books of Jacob book review: Overlong and leaves us with little more than undigested historical research

Countless characters pass the reader by, underdeveloped and unrealised, their inner lives unexplored

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May 12, 2022 15:15

The Books of Jacob book review: Overlong and leaves us with little more than undigested historical research

My half-sister is part of my family again - after 78 years

Mark Glanville never thought he would meet the sister his mother was forced to have adopted. But a few weeks ago he received a life-changing email

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April 28, 2022 11:11

Old vintage photo with retro photo frames isolated on white background.