A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON JEWISH CULTURE
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Festival of Britain
When we asked for your memories of the seminal celebration of post-war creativity that was the 1951 Festival of Britain, we were inundated with recollections of everything from the sci-fi-style Skylon to the thrill of eating tri-coloured ice cream. To mark the festival’s 75th anniversary, we’re exploring the work of the many Jewish émigré artists, designers and scientists who contributed to its cutting edge content. Hear from Naomi Games, the daughter of Abram Games, who created the event’s enduring ‘Britannia’ symbol; refugees participating in arts programmes at St John’s Waterloo, the “official church” of the 1951 festival; and, of course, our readers (including Michael Rosen). Elsewhere, Natalie Livingstone spotlights the unsung women involved in the Nuremberg Trials; novelist Sam Sussman uncovers the truth about his parents – spoiler alert – his dad is probably Bob Dylan; and Samantha Ellis speaks to the tech pioneer using AI to unlock the mysteries of the Jewish Iraqi Archive… READ MORE
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Brian Epstein with The Beatles during a break from TV filming © Alamy
“It was a building born out of turmoil”
As the Jewish Museum Berlin celebrates its 25th anniversary, Rebecca Taylor speaks to its architect Daniel Libeskind and his artist daughter Rachel about their memories of watching the building go up, and telling stories of identity, faith and history through their work © Bridget Casey
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PASSPORT series
Start exploring the world with our Passport series. Here we visit countries and cities to do in-depth studies of Jewish communities across the globe: from Brighton to Brazil, via Burma and Bulgaria. If you have links to a particular place, or are interested in reading about their people, visit our Passport page to browse through the list of places we have covered, or have a quick search below.
THE PLACES WE'VE COVERED SO FAR
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2026: Festival of Britain | Venezuela | City of London
2025: Ferrara | South Africa (2) | The Channel Islands | Iceland
2024: Philadelphia | Singapore | Argentina (2) | Romania
2023: Germany’s East | Scotland | Brazil (2) | Italy (2)
2022: Lithuania (2) | 100 Years of Modernism | Hong Kong | Afghanistan
2021: South London | Japan | Ireland (2) | Prague
2020: Washington DC | Northern England (2) | Northern England (1) | The Caribbean
2019: Oxford | Turkey (2) | Melbourne | Belgium
2018: Mexico | Vienna (2) | Cambridge | Catalonia
2017: Hungary | Gibraltar | The Netherlands | Russian Revolution
2016: East Africa | Greece | Brighton & Hove | Venice (2)
2015: Ukraine (2) | Portugal | Jewish Radicals | Iran (2)
2014: Britain's South Africans | Paris | World War I | Kraków
2013: Britain's Israelis | Italy (1) | Montreal | Uzbekistan
2012: Brazil (1) | Burma | Berlin (2) | Yorkshire
2011: Rome | India (2) | Georgia USA | St Petersburg
2010: Manchester | Slovakia | Provence | Turkey (1)
2009: Wales | Croatia | Tel Aviv | Munich
2008: Ireland (1) | Spain | Rosh Pinah | Liverpool
2007: Vienna (1) | Denmark | Ethiopia | Jamaica
2006: Hackney | Bulgaria | Morocco | The West Country
2005: Cuba | Lithuania | Libya | China
2004: Glasgow | South Africa | London's East End | Iran (1)
2003: Australia | Salonika | Argentina | Egypt
2002: Venice (1) | India (1) | Ukraine (1) | Leeds
2001: Berlin (1)
