Book Week for me, has taken the form of a laboratory, a testing ground and a celebration space. The programme is equal parts impressive and fascinating.
Adam Kammerling
Book Week 2024 events
The Last Consolation Vanished
Mon 4 Mar 2024 | 10:30am
Online
Zalmen Gradowski’s powerful and extraordinary eyewitness testimony of life and death in Auschwitz, discussed by editor Arnold Davidson and documentary film-maker Toby Perl Freilich.
Online Events Digipass
Mon 4 Mar 2024 | 10:30am
Online
From Lauren Bacall, Maimonides, Schoenberg and Amos Oz to Kabbalah, literacy, mental health and the Talmud, save on full access to our online-only line-up with our great value Digipass.
Ian Goldin: Age of the City
Mon 4 Mar 2024 | 12:00pm
Online
Former World Bank VP and adviser to Nelson Mandela Ian Goldin explores why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced
Why Schoenberg Matters
Mon 4 Mar 2024 | 1:30pm
Online
This online event sees Harvey Sachs discuss his biography of Arnold Schoenberg, a New Yorker Book of the Year, restoring the Austrian American composer to his rightful place in the pantheon.
How The Talmud Can Change Your Life
Mon 4 Mar 2024 | 6:30pm
Online
Weaving together psychology, philosophy and history - from Aristotle to Billie Holiday – Liel Leibovitz discusses surprisingly modern advice from a very old book with Raphael Zarum.
Yascha Mounk: The Identity Trap
Mon 4 Mar 2024 | 8:00pm
Online
Barack Obama’s ‘favourite political thinker’ on identity politics.
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
Unique in its nature: excellent talkers; rational debaters and, above all, true listeners.
Irving Finkel
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
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
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
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 for me, has taken the form of a laboratory, a testing ground and a celebration space. The programme is equal parts impressive and fascinating.
Adam Kammerling
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
Unique in its nature: excellent talkers; rational debaters and, above all, true listeners.
Irving Finkel
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
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
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
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
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