Review
Memorial Gestures exhibition review: a sensitive interweaving of past and present
The dark depths of the archive are transformed into art, in Sunny Bank Mills' latest show.
History
History
On writing British Jewish history
Joseph Finlay reviews An unorthodox history: British Jews since 1945, Gavin Schaffer's new book that tells British Jewish stories from the position of the fringes rather than the mainstream
The Pickle
From the jaws of victory
The twentieth century’s lessons unlearned.
Jewish Identity
Blood on our doorposts, blood on our doorsteps
This Passover, there can be no turning away from Gaza.
Culture
A new קינד on the podcast block
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast explores the evolution of the diasporic language and the symbiosis necessary to its survival thus far and to its revival, today.
Culture
The geometry of remembering
An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.
Culture
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.
History
How Britain paved the way for a century of Zionist colonialism
"While British support for Zionism is often framed around claims about Jewish safety, the reality is that Britain supported the Zionist movement and issued the Balfour Declaration for its own imperialist aims."
Culture
Marking the future’s past
The history and purpose behind Vashti’s new logo
Palestine-Israel
‘I am the saddest, angriest, most disappointed Jew in the world’
An interview with Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram.
History
Six million and one
‘By my death I wish to make the strongest possible protest against the passivity with which the world is permitting the extermination of the Jewish people.’
History
The battle of Nelson Street
Vashti reports on a Muslim mayor's fight to save the Jewish East End.