Remembrance Sunday

he Students of the Hub attended the war memorial in Elstree and joined in with a service before laying their wreath of poppies. T Everyone there commended the TLSE Hub students on their excellent and respectful behaviour. We are all very proud of them.

BOOK REVIEW: REPARATION BY GABY KOPPEL Tina Shaw

his book has a number of modern themes which TLSE members might enjoy. T A young Jewish woman, brought up in rural Wales, is working in TV production in London. She is the child of Hungarian Holocaust survivors who have brought her up to be largely secular. When she becomes engaged to a non-Jewish Londoner she is subtly pressurised by her mother to re-consider marrying out, leaving her confused about her own feelings towards her fiancée. Meanwhile she is working on a child murder documentary in the Hasidic community in Stamford Hill, which adds to her doubts about her own origins. To add to the complications, her eccentric mother becomes obsessed by the idea of obtaining reparation from the Hungarian authorities for her material loses from the second world war. These themes are brought together in a well written and, at times, amusing way.