Genesis Emerging Writers 2024-25 programme cohort
The Jewish Literary Foundation has announced this year’s Genesis Emerging Writers cohort, with the successful fiction, non-fiction and poetry projects taking us to Lithuania, the American South, Belfast and beyond. The programme, a partnership between the Genesis Foundation and the Jewish Literary Foundation, offers bursaries, mentoring, peer support and an event at London’s longest-running literary […]
New event: Howard Jacobson in conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Levin
On September 17 the Jewish Literary Foundation partners with South Hampstead Synagogue for a special event with festival favourite Howard Jacobson, in conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Levin. Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo […]
New event: Responses to October 7
Announcing a new in-person event, Responses to October 7. On the first anniversary of the attack Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE is joined by Professor Anthony Julius, Dr Linda Maizels and David Hirsh for a panel conversation. The event is in partnership with JW3 and the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism has […]
Whitewash: Poland and the Jews
Our latest free online event in partnership with The Jewish Quarterly centres on the latest issue’s groundbreaking essay by Jan Grabowski. Whitewash: Poland and the Jews examines how the government, museums, schools and state institutions became complicit in delivering a message of Polish national innocence during the Holocaust. The Polish-Canadian history professor and Hunt for the Jews author recounts […]
Genesis Emerging Writers 2024/25
Emerging writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry have until 31 May to apply for a programme that has quickly become one of the most significant of its kind in the UK. The fourth annual Genesis Emerging Writers’ Programme is open to UK residents over 18 years of age with no more than three years’ experience […]
Thank you for a brilliant Book Week
A message from Claudia Rubenstein, Director, Jewish Literary Foundation: Our 73rd successive annual festival, and the first under our new identity of the Jewish Literary Foundation, saw over 10,000 ticket holders join us in-person at Kings Place, London, with an unprecedented number of under ‘30s taking up our £5 ticket offer. Audience members always ask me what my highlights of the festival […]
Introducing the Jewish Literary Foundation
The UK’s platform for Jewish writing and ideas, bringing you an exciting range of programmes and events. Who We Are The Jewish Book Council charity was founded in 1947, and in 1952 it launched the first Jewish Book Week. The Book Council’s aim was ‘to stimulate and encourage the reading of books on every aspect […]