6-706: Jewish Renaissance is a quarterly cultural magazine, founded in October 2001, covering Jewish culture , arts and communities in Britain and beyond. It is edited by Rebecca Taylor, a former News Editor at Time Out London . 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
12-598: A Jewish child rescued on the Kindertransport and subsequently adopted by the family of Richard and David Attenborough . In July 2012, on the eve of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, it interviewed Israeli Paralympic rower Moran Samuel . In October 2013 it interviewed Dame Vivien Duffield . It interviewed violinist Irmina Trynkos in January 2015 and author Howard Jacobson in January 2016. In January 2017
18-719: Is a 10–16 page illustrated feature (now called Passport ) on a different Jewish community around the world, drawing on historical material, contemporary interviews, and a cultural events listing, among other content. The October 2012 issue, for instance, looked at the Jewish community in Brazil, in January 2014, Jews in Kraków , Poland, in April 2016, the community in Brighton and, in July 2017,
24-628: The Jews of Gibraltar . 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 National Theatre production of his 2005 play Two Thousand Years , Glasgow artist Hannah Frank and philanthropists Elizabeth Sackler of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation and Nasser David Khalili . The magazine published an interview with Helga Bejach,
30-421: The magazine interviewed British surgeon and cochlear implant pioneer Ellis Douek . The magazine is independent and is financed by subscriptions, advertising and grant funding. It is published by Renaissance Publishing, a registered charity , whose Executive Director is poet, academic and arts curator Dr Aviva Dautch . Jewish Renaissance was founded by Janet Levin who edited the magazine from 2001 to 2014 and
36-585: Was Chief Executive until early 2019. Individuals from the British Jewish community who sit on its editorial advisory board include the educator Clive Lawton ; actress Maureen Lipman ; Ben Barkow , Director of the Wiener Library ; and Alex Brummer , City Editor of UK national newspaper the Daily Mail ; the music historian David Conway is a member of the editorial committee. David Dangoor
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