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Light and Promise - the amazing canvas of Ludwig Blum

27 May 2011

Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim, 1932
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Ludwig Blum’s spectacular paintings of Mandate Palestine were last exhibited in London 73 years ago. Happily Londoners now have a last chance to catch a retrospective of his life work, encapsulated in 35 landscapes and panoramic vistas in oil and watercolour, at the Ben Uri

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The Jews of Morocco – a compelling pictorial journey into the recent past…

14 March 2011

Mother and daughter carrying jugs from well, Tinghir, Morocco, 1958
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It is hard to escape news from North Africa these days. Yet fascination with dramatic current events – whether the invigorating struggles for freedom in Tunisia and Egypt, or the tragic bloodletting in Ghaddafi’s Libya – gain a new dimension when we look

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Priceless Talmud on display at Lambeth Palace

22 July 2010

Photo shows brick built gateway flanked by two crenellated turrets
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For nearly 400 years one of the world’s oldest printed sets of that pivotal Jewish text, the Talmud, lay buried in the basement of a venerable English Christian institution. Thanks to a chance discovery at Sion College near London, however, it re-emerged in near

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Lawrence Joffe

Born in South Africa, Lawrence Joffe has lived for many years in Britain.

An Oxford graduate in philosophy and politics, he is the author of Keesings Guide to the Middle East Peace Process and a freelance journalist whose pieces frequently appear in The Guardian, The Jewish Chronicle, The New Statesman and The Independent and other newspapers.

He is the UK representative for MERIA and is the editor of the Jewish community areas of Untold London.

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