You’ll likely spot a hanukkiah, which has become a shortcut to identify Jewishness.
- Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
The British Jewish community celebrate Hanukah in a way that borrows traditions from the US as well as Israel.
How the pandemic is reported by the media can influence people’s behaviour.
In east Asian countries, past disease outbreaks have made face masks part of everyday life – but the social context supporting such behaviour isn’t present in the UK.
For a man who was “not really a Jew”, Kubrick’s feature films are woven with Jewish references.
American comedian Larry David has drawn fire for his jokes about the Holocaust. But he draws on a long tradition of Jewish humour.
From Furiosa’s revenge to Max’s exodus, there are shades of Judaism in this desert epic.
Watch The Shining after reading this and you may find that the Czech author haunts The Overlook Hotel just as much, if not more, than any of its regular spectral figures.
As violence flared between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza recently, a BBC thriller about the conflict, The Honourable Woman, was airing. It’s a classy, beautifully shot, taut tale of espionage, counterespionage…
Russell Brand is the latest to muscle in on the Israel-Palestine conflict, calling for big businesses to pull funding from the country. But the issue of boycotts is a fraught one. For many Jews, the word…
As Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opens, it’s worth remembering that the racial conflicts and the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s underpin the original films. The traditional evolutionary hierarchy…
Contact Nathan for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Bangor, UK
- Website
- X (formerly Twitter): @ndabrams
- Article Feed
- Joined
