Mark Glanville
Review: New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
They are the heroes of a book that flits between colourful accounts of its protagonists’ world and clinical analyses of the music they played, a reflection of the author’s own double life as performer and academic
Sephardi music of a vanished world plays again
A new collection of the music of Alberto Hemsi casts light on the songs of a lost community
Book review: A Thousand Kisses
In this excellent book, Raphael's life and verse become as fresh and relevant as the day they were lived and penned
New play Indecent tells the story of an 'obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure' Yiddish drama
Paula Vogel speaks to the JC about her play about a play
Review: Russia in Flames
This is a familiar story, but one that is meticulously researched and told with the coherence and clarity, writes Mark Glanville
A crazy attitude to mamaloshen
Mark Glanville responds to James Inverne's recent piece in which he said he 'turned off' to a Yiddish rendition of Fiddler on the Roof songs, and 'all those that think like him' about the Yiddish language
Review: 'Stalingrad' and 'Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century'
The brilliant and the barbaric: Mark Glanville reviews Vasily Grossman
‘She beat Hitler’ – pupil’s tribute to harpsichord idol
Mahan Esfahani praises Czech player Zuzana Růžičková, who died last week
He scores emotions
Review: Comedy in a Minor Key
Being ordinary amid the tumult
Review: The Road
Slaughter’s reporter
Review: Everything Flows
Heart of Soviet darkness
Interview: Simon Keenlyside
The British opera star who’s quietly Jewish.
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