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PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED  TO AVOID RISK OF COVID-19 (CORONA VIRUS) INFECTION  Stanley Kubrick is widely acknowledged as one of the world's great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York Jewish intelligentsia. Nathan Abrams reexamines the director's … Continue reading Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual?

In early 2018, composer and film maker Benjamin Till, who had only recently discovered he was Jewish, decided to make the film 100 Faces to find out more about the community he’d been a member of for 43 years without realising.  His mission was to find one UK-based Jewish person born every year from 1918 … Continue reading Finding 100 Faces: capturing Jewish diversity