Mark Glanville

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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

2 min read

Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) in the audience at the Royal Albert Hall, London. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Osip Mandelstam: A Biography review - The poet who dared to criticise Stalin

2 min read

Book review: Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety - Too confident, where’s the angst?

2 min read

Licoricia of Winchester Book review: A fascinating look at the richest woman in medieval England

1 min read

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

2 min read

August 11, 2022 10:54

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

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

2 min read

June 23, 2022 16:33

The Girl in the Green Jumper book review: Portrait of a needy genius

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

2 min read

May 12, 2022 16:15

The Books of Jacob book review: Overlong and leaves us with little more than undigested historical research

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

7 min read

April 28, 2022 12:11

Old vintage photo with retro photo frames isolated on white background.

Review: After massacre, a butterfly

In 'Balkan Spaces' Richard Berengarten's passion and erudition opens up a fascinating world

2 min read

November 15, 2021 17:17

Mostar, Herzegovina-Neretva, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ex-Yugoslavia), 1975. The Neretva river with the famous bridge in Mostar. Furthermore: buildings, minarets and tourists (bridge).

Review: Essential Prose

Mark Glanville welcomes a new translation of one of the great Yiddish writers.

2 min read

August 5, 2021 12:16

Review: New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

They are the heroes of a book that flits between colourful accounts of its protagonists’ world and clinical analyses of the music they played, a reflection of the author’s own double life as performer and academic

1 min read

August 27, 2020 14:39

Review: New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

Sephardi music of a vanished world plays again

A new collection of the music of Alberto Hemsi casts light on the songs of a lost community

2 min read

August 20, 2020 12:57

Sephardi music of a vanished world plays again

Book review: A Thousand Kisses

In this excellent book, Raphael's life and verse become as fresh and relevant as the day they were lived and penned

1 min read

June 23, 2020 14:43

New play Indecent tells the story of an 'obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure' Yiddish drama

Paula Vogel speaks to the JC about her play about a play

4 min read

February 19, 2020 16:04

New play Indecent tells the story of an 'obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure' Yiddish drama

Review: Russia in Flames

This is a familiar story, but one that is meticulously researched and told with the coherence and clarity, writes Mark Glanville

2 min read

December 18, 2019 16:53

A crazy attitude to mamaloshen

Mark Glanville responds to James Inverne's recent piece in which he said he 'turned off' to a Yiddish rendition of Fiddler on the Roof songs, and 'all those that think like him' about the Yiddish language

3 min read

October 13, 2019 15:23

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Mark Glanville

Latest from Mark Glanville

Time’s Echo review: The music that helps us reflect the terrible traumas of the past

Osip Mandelstam: A Biography review - The poet who dared to criticise Stalin

Book review: Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety - Too confident, where’s the angst?

Licoricia of Winchester Book review: A fascinating look at the richest woman in medieval England

More from Mark Glanville

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

The Girl in the Green Jumper book review: Portrait of a needy genius

The Books of Jacob book review: Overlong and leaves us with little more than undigested historical research

My half-sister is part of my family again - after 78 years

Review: After massacre, a butterfly

Review: Essential Prose

Review: New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

Sephardi music of a vanished world plays again

Book review: A Thousand Kisses

New play Indecent tells the story of an 'obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure' Yiddish drama

Review: Russia in Flames

A crazy attitude to mamaloshen