Anna Finchas My sister-in-law, Anna Finchas, who has died of cancer, aged 60, was an unusual combination of conceptual artist and ultra-orthodox Jew. She once commented: ‘I don’t see myself as a Jewish artist or as an Orthodox artist or as a woman artist. You don’t have to be Jewish to understand my work; I…
Rafael Felix Scharf: 18 June 1914 -16 September 2003 For readers of the Jewish Quarterly, ‘Felek’ Scharf was a familiar name as a frequent contributor since the inception of the periodical. For those who worked on and for the Quartery he was the affectionate elder statesman whose good nature smoothed over altercation and disagreement…
In Hampstead Garden Suburb and its environs, it was only with great fortune that you could actually find a copy of the Jewish Chronicle on that terrible Friday. It was a measure of the affection in which he was held. Chaim was different. He was no gossip columnist, but a Jewish writer permeated by tradition…
Barry Shenker: For Judaism and Justice THE sorrow at Barry Shenker’s unexpected death, at the age of 48, showed in the eyes of everybody silently standing at the grave-3ide. They included Jews, Christians and Muslims, secular and religious, ideological opponents and political friends, Israelis and Palestinians. It was a testimony to Barry’s ability to tanscend…
Malcolm Lewis, one of the founders of the campaign in Britain for Soviet Jewry, has been killed at the tragically young age of 29 in a car crash in Israel. He leaves a widow, Yael, and a month-old son. Malcolm was one of the handful of idealistic students in the rnid-1960s who showed the way…