In this issue, the distinguished journalist, author and editor Jeremy Gordin provides a perspective on the significance and continued relevance of the Rambam/Maimonides from both a personal and academic perspective. This is followed by the latest in veteran contributor Bernard Katz’s “A Brief Journey Through…” series looking at some of the main centres of Jewish life in Europe and the Near East from the earliest times until today. This time he focuses on the Jewish presence in Hungary over the centuries. For his part, regular contributor David Sher has focused on various aspects of the Anglo-Jewish heritage over the years. In this issue, he looks at the Jewish community in South Manchester.
The darker side of Jewish life in Europe features in Part IV of Don Krausz’s Holocaust memoir ‘Child of the Concentration Camp’, covering his incarceration in Sachsenhausen and the Death March that he and his fellow survivors were forced to undertake in the dying months of the war.
In ‘The Battle over Velvel’s Velvet (Keidan, 1816)’ tireless Gwynne Schrire produces a skilfully fictionalised account of an intra-communal clash that actually occurred in early 19th
Under ‘Fiction’, Charlotte Cohen’s ‘The Grandmaster (All In The Game)’ uses Chess as a metaphor for how to approach life, through a touchingly-portrayed relationship between a boy and his grandfather. Elsewhere in the issue, we have new poetry by Bernard Levinson and Charlotte Cohen and a review by Milton Shain of a new book on the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom by Steven J Zipperstein.
On behalf of the Editorial Board, I wish everyone a Chanukah Sameach and a safe and restful end-of-year break.
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