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Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave

Celebrating Twenty Years of Jewish Renaissance

Rebecca Taylor editor David Benmayer editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The History Press Ltd

Published:30th Sep '21

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Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm Duchen), literature (Bryan Cheyette), theatre (Judi Herman) and film (Nathan Abrams), the essays explore the role of confidence in the cultural output of minority communities, and ask whether the trends identified look set to continue over the coming years.

Commissioned to mark the twentieth anniversary of Jewish Renaissance magazine, the book includes a foreword by Howard Jacobson and is interspersed with a selection of the best articles from the magazine’s archive, including pieces by the director Mike Leigh, author Linda Grant and sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris.

"To celebrate the anniversary, JR has published a stimulating book containing some of its most distinctive articles from past issues linked by five essays on various aspects of what its editor Rebecca Taylor and former publisher and now trustee David Benmayer term in their introduction “the new Jewish culture wave”.

ISBN: 9780750997935

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