When Alfred Ezra Sassoon, father of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon, became the first member of his family to marry outside his faith, relatives were appalled. Alfred’s mother was disconsolate, his grandmother visited a…
"There are, of course, other stereotypes in all ethnic groups that warrant consideration," said Will Eisner in a 2003 interview on his graphic novel, Fagin the Jew. "The Jewish ones have been used to hurt, so there is an emergency to…
The dates and cities stamped on artist Gego’s passport read like a readymade, some Duchampian object in which many parts of her story are implied without needing to be stated outright. She was born Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt in Hamburg, Germany, in 1912, and fled the country in…
How does the past inform our actions in the present? And how has the Holocaust shaped our understanding of genocide, ethnic persecution and human rights? These are questions posed by the Holocaust Centre North (HCN)…
Shai Agnon and Hayim Nahman Bialik are the two Ukrainian heavyweights of modern Hebrew literature, the former in prose – in fact Agnon remains the only Hebrew author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature – and the latter in poetry. Far from being in competition, they…
A sphere of polished stainless steel shines proudly in London’s late-winter sun, reflecting the greenery and buildings of the slice of London that surorunds it. The piece is known as SISTER, a new installation by Jewish Londoner David Breuer-Weil, and it sits in Hanover Square, where…
This autumn the Museum of London (MoL) in Docklands is launching Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style, a brand new exhibition about the capital's pivotal fashion makers, designers and retailers throughout…