Mark Glanville
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How Jewish music helped me find my voice again
Mark Glanville believed a haemorrhage on his vocal chords had brought his singing career to an end...until he began picking up the liturgical melodies at Westminster Synagogue
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‘Why still write? What is there better to do?’
Oscar-winner Frederic Raphael is still writing at 92. He tells Mark Glanville how how work has helped him survive tragedies
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The Glatstein Chronicles by Jacob Glatstein review: A portrait of a Jewish world in its twilight years
One of the foremost 20th century Yiddish poets, Glatstein emigrated from Lublin to New York in 1914
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The Fate of Yaakov Maggid review: Joyous but realistic celebration of a lost Jewish world
First-class translation of Ludovic Bruckstein's Yiddish short story collection proves a timely panacea in these dark times
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On Czesław Miłosz - Visions from the Other Europe review: Piercing insights into being an outsider
Timely reflections on the Jewish condition are unsettlingly relevant to our own times
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Singing songs of defiance in my ancestors' home town
Singer Mark Glanville only realised his poignant link to Kutno in Poland thanks to a chance post on Facebook
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Time’s Echo review: The music that helps us reflect the terrible traumas of the past
Jeremy Eichler has written a fascinating examination of the power of music in memorial
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Osip Mandelstam: A Biography review - The poet who dared to criticise Stalin
Sympathetic grasp of artistic genius behind some of the greatest poetry of the 20th century
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Book review: Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety - Too confident, where’s the angst?
An unconvincing survey of modern British Jews, much of which was gleaned from conversations conducted over Zoom during lockdown
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Licoricia of Winchester Book review: A fascinating look at the richest woman in medieval England
The story of this remarkable woman reads like a blueprint for many later expulsions and destructions of Jewish communities
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Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen
English translation of the first novel of a writer whose work elicits profound truths about human nature and its motivations
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The Girl in the Green Jumper book review: Portrait of a needy genius
An enthralling account of a muse’s life with troubled artist Cyril Mann
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The Books of Jacob book review: Overlong and leaves us with little more than undigested historical research
Countless characters pass the reader by, underdeveloped and unrealised, their inner lives unexplored
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My half-sister is part of my family again - after 78 years
Mark Glanville never thought he would meet the sister his mother was forced to have adopted. But a few weeks ago he received a life-changing email
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Review: After massacre, a butterfly
In 'Balkan Spaces' Richard Berengarten's passion and erudition opens up a fascinating world
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Review: Essential Prose
Mark Glanville welcomes a new translation of one of the great Yiddish writers.
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