We are the UK’s leading platform for the dissemination of Jewish literature and ideas across the UK and the world through events and cultural experiences.
What we do
Read more about the range and breadth of our activities to increase the reach and appreciation of Jewish literature and ideas.
Our purpose, mission and values
To encourage active engagement with Jewish books and ideas, cultivating a passion for the Jewish literary tradition.
How we are run
Discover the people and structure that underpins our work to create opportunities for the public to connect with writers.
Our supporters
The support from our friends, benefactors and patrons helps us champion the best in writing and bring Jewish literature and ideas to a wider audience.
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As a charity, we rely on the kindness and generosity of people like you to fund our activities. Literature has the power to change the world.
Our history
First organised event as Jewish Book Week in 1952 under the chairmanship of Dr George Webber.
Latest News
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The creation of the Jewish Literary Foundation is to be welcomed with rejoicing and hope. It will surely contribute to the understanding of Jewish culture, so desperately needed beyond the Jewish world as well as within it.
Simon Schama
The year always begins for me with Jewish Book Week – here are old friends, faithful readers, new writers, a great melting pot of ideas, talk, collaboration and hope.
Howard Jacobson
I feel that the most relevant place for every thinking and feeling woman and man to be is in the events of the Jewish Literary Foundation.
David Grossman
I love Book Week because, whether on stage or in the audience, it makes me feel smart and challenged at the same time.
Tracy Chevalier
Book Week has become London’s non-party parliament, distinguished from the other one by people listening as well as talking. It’s the best.
David Hare
Book Week is one of my favourite festivals across the world. With a remarkable line-up of speakers and sessions, it nourishes souls, challenges minds and quietly, heals hearts.
Elif Shafak
There can’t be an audience more clued-in, attentive or enthusiastic than the one that gathers every year for Book Week. And no wonder: the programme is always bursting with unmissable events.
Nicholas Hytner
The creation of the Jewish Literary Foundation is to be welcomed with rejoicing and hope. It will surely contribute to the understanding of Jewish culture, so desperately needed beyond the Jewish world as well as within it.
Simon Schama
The year always begins for me with Jewish Book Week – here are old friends, faithful readers, new writers, a great melting pot of ideas, talk, collaboration and hope.
Howard Jacobson
I feel that the most relevant place for every thinking and feeling woman and man to be is in the events of the Jewish Literary Foundation.
David Grossman
I love Book Week because, whether on stage or in the audience, it makes me feel smart and challenged at the same time.
Tracy Chevalier
Book Week has become London’s non-party parliament, distinguished from the other one by people listening as well as talking. It’s the best.
David Hare
Book Week is one of my favourite festivals across the world. With a remarkable line-up of speakers and sessions, it nourishes souls, challenges minds and quietly, heals hearts.
Elif Shafak
There can’t be an audience more clued-in, attentive or enthusiastic than the one that gathers every year for Book Week. And no wonder: the programme is always bursting with unmissable events.
Nicholas Hytner
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