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The Jewish Views

This week Clive, Kate and Tony unpick the situation in Gaza since the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem. German Songstress, Ute Lemper talks about her forthcoming show at JW3 ‘Songs For Eternity’. Naomi Creeger from Jewish Care chats about Bake Day 2018, Chef & Cookery Writer, Denise Phillips gives us some delicious ideas for Shavuot. Editor Richard Ferrer reviews The Jewish News and our Rabbinic Thought for the Week comes from Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence of Kinloss United Synagogue.

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The JC
May 6, 2018
By: Jessica Duchen

German singer Ute Lemper is giving a very special concert at JW3

In the 1990s the German singer Ute Lemper became a lynchpin of a ground-breaking series of recordings on the Decca label entitled Entartete Musik. It explored composers banned by the Nazis, including much music that had scarcely been heard for decades. Lemper, whose sultry stylishness often seems to channel Marlene Dietrich, set alight the songs of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, Mischa Spoliansky, Friedrich Hollaender and others for a new generation. Now she is back, exploring even darker territory. On May 22 she brings Songs for Eternity to JW3: a programme of songs written in the ghettos and concentration camps… /

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