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Klezmer Music: History and Contemporary Practice Around the World

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Klezmer – the instrumental music of Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews – has survived assimilation, suppression and eradication and is now a recognisable ‘world music’ commodity, as well as an object of serious musicological study. But what relationship does today’s klezmer bear to its 19th and early 20th century roots, and what happens to traditional music when its … Continue reading Klezmer Music: History and Contemporary Practice Around the World

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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

Max Lewkowicz’s richly detailed documentary celebrates the illustrious Broadway show Fiddler on the Roof, the evergreen shtetl-set musical first staged in 1964 with choreography and direction by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel as Teyve, the milkman. Contributions from a range of interviewees – including people attached to the original production, such as producer Hal … Continue reading Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

£5.80

Willesden Jewish Cemetery

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom

Willesden Cemetery, which opened in 1873, is one of London’s most prestigious Jewish cemeteries.  It is run by the United Synagogue who were fortunate to be awarded a £1.7m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to open Willesden Jewish Cemetery as a place of heritage for the public.  The United Synagogue website describes the Cemetery as … Continue reading Willesden Jewish Cemetery

Sarah’s Key

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

Adapted from Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel of the same name, Sarah’s Key is an account of research by a journalist into a shameful incident in French history which intertwines with a story of a young Jewish girl from that time period.   ‘In Paris in 1942 the French police round up 10-year-old Sarah (Mélusine … Continue reading Sarah’s Key

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The Secret Jews of Majorca Island

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom

During the Inquisition, the Crypto-Jews or Chuetas publicly professed Catholicism while privately adhering to Judaism. Synagogues were secretly built in private homes. Signs of this “secret” community can still be found today. We will visit the inside of the permanent exhibit in the Jewish Quarter Interpretation Center inaugurated in 2015 as we trace the footsteps … Continue reading The Secret Jews of Majorca Island

A Call to Spy

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

A Call to Spy is an historical drama inspired by the true stories of women recruited into England’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II.  Desperate for new recruits, the SOE, created in 1940 after the fall of France and before the US joined the war, decided to train women as spies as it … Continue reading A Call to Spy

The Ghetto: Travelling through history

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom

“Ghetto” is an extraordinarily complex word which is both a noun and an adjective. It has layers of contrasting meanings accrued over five hundred years and a bewildering array of settings across the globe. It refers to medieval and early modern Jewish history; black experience in the great northern cities of America in the twentieth … Continue reading The Ghetto: Travelling through history

Everything is Illuminated

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

USA 2005, 104 mins, English, Russian, Ukrainian Director Liev Schreiber, featuring Elijah Wood, Eugene Hütz This American biographical comedy was adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel of the same name.  Jonathan Safran Foer, a young American Jew, goes on a quest to find the woman, Augustine, who saved his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the Holocaust in a small Ukrainian town … Continue reading Everything is Illuminated

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Ernest Bloch: more than a Jewish composer

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom

Yoav Ben-Shlomo • Bristol Ernest Bloch, though not a religious Jew, is probably the most famous Jewish composer of the twentieth century. Born in Geneva in 1880, he studied in Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich and Paris before creating his “Jewish cycle” and ended his life in the USA. However, he also composed other important musical works including … Continue reading Ernest Bloch: more than a Jewish composer

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Yentl

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

  Yentl is an American romantic musical drama film directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring American entertainer Barbra Streisand. It is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story ‘Yentl the Yeshiva Boy’. The film incorporates humour and music to tell the story of an Ashkenazi Jewish girl in Poland who decides to dress and live like a boy so that she can receive an education in Talmudic Law after … Continue reading Yentl

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