Editor Rebecca Taylor Frequency Quarterly Founder Janet Levin | Circulation 4,000 | |
Publisher Renaissance Publishing Ltd | ||
Jewish Renaissance is a quarterly cultural magazine, founded in October 2001, covering Jewish culture, arts and communities in Britain and beyond. It is edited by Rebecca Taylor, former News Editor at Time Out London.
Contents
Scope and content
The magazine focuses on the arts – visual arts and architecture, music, cinema, theatre and literature in Europe and in Israel – as well as on Jewish identity and relations with other cultures and religions. In each issue there is a 10–16 page illustrated feature (now called Passport) on a different Jewish community around the world, drawing on historical material, contemporary interviews, and a cultural events listing, among other content. The October 2012 issue, for instance, looked at the Jewish community in Brazil. The January 2014 issue focused on the Jews of Krakow, Poland. The April 2016 issue had a feature on the Jews of Brighton.
The magazine also contains in-depth interviews of people of interest from a Jewish historical or cultural viewpoint. For example, it interviewed Mike Leigh prior to the Royal National Theatre production of his 2005 play Two Thousand Years, Glasgow artist Hannah Frank and philanthropists Elizabeth Sackler of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation and Nasser David Khalili. The magazine published an interview with Helga Bejach, a Jewish child rescued on the Kindertransport and subsequently adopted by the family of Richard and David Attenborough. In July 2012, on the eve of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, it interviewed Israeli Paralympic rower Moran Samuel. In October 2013 it interviewed Dame Vivien Duffield. It interviewed violinist Irmina Trynkos in January 2015 and author Howard Jacobson in January 2016.
Organisation
The magazine is independent and is financed by subscriptions, advertising and grant funding. It is published by Renaissance Publishing, a registered charity, whose chief executive is Janet Levin (Jewish Renaissance's founder, who edited the magazine from 2001 to 2014). Notable individuals from the British Jewish arts world who sit on its editorial advisory board include the educator Clive Lawton; actress Maureen Lipman; Director of the Wiener Library, Ben Barkow; and City Editor of London's Daily Mail, Alex Brummer.