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Strange loops of history: the forgotten visions of Harry Fainlight
The reluctant beat poet's diasporic writing could guide us through our winding lineage and inspire Anglo-Jewish futures.
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Two poems by Eden Pearlstein
“if you’re so smart / then why aren’t you happy?”
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Against the rise of gender critical non-fiction
A case against the publishing industry's apolitical facade.
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Marking the future’s past
The history and purpose behind Vashti’s new logo
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REVENGE: After the Levoyah Review
Nick Cassenbaum's new show offers razor-sharp social commentary, along with plenty of comic relief.
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Censoring anti-Zionist art isn’t free speech
If it’s diverse perspectives the Board of Deputies wants, they’ll have to accept anti-Zionist art.
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Meet Holocausts: The anti-Zionist punk band resisting literally everything
‘I want the kids I meet to say “Oh! Maybe I don’t have to live like a patriotic militant freak!”’
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We Are Not Numbers: Refusing Gaza’s dehumanisation
An exhibition reminds us that with every Palestinian life lost, there were mothers who cooked, students who learned and children who swam.
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The missing O and E
Artist, poet and writer Joshua Leon speaks to Vashti about his first solo exhibition on the construction of British Jewish identity.
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Disagreeing for the greater good
Vashti speaks to the hosts of a new podcast exploring what British Jews really think.
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Stitching together ‘Britishness’ from Mile End to Mayfair
The Museum of London Docklands’ new exhibition 'Fashion City' explores the complex relationship of Jewish migration to the capital's fashion.
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How to write a diasporist panto
Vashti reviews London’s first ever Jewish pantomime.