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
Maimonides: Faith in Reason
Wed 6 Mar 2024 | 10:30am
Online
Leading bibliophile Alberto Manguel discusses his Yale Jewish Lives biography of the medieval philosopher, physician and scholar.
Kabbalah in Modern Literature
Wed 6 Mar 2024 | 12:00pm
Online
Introduced by Eduard Shyfrin
Professor Moshe Idel, “the most important scholar of Jewish mysticism since Gershom Scholem” on the influence of Kabbalah on modern literature.
Sheila Heti in conversation with Mia Levitin
Wed 6 Mar 2024 | 1:30pm
Online
Motherhood and Pure Colour novelist Sheila Heti joins literary critic Mia Levitin online from Toronto with one of 2024’s most-anticipated books, the passionate, reflective, joyful and despairing Alphabetical Diaries.
Laugh Lines: Helen Lederer & Sara Gibbs
Wed 6 Mar 2024 | 7:00pm
Kings Place, London
Absolutely Fabulous star Helen and Have I Got News For You writer Sara on the importance of funny books, in conversation with comedian and writer Chris Neill.
Hadley Freeman: Good Girls
Wed 6 Mar 2024 | 7:00pm
Kings Place, London
The House of Glass author and Sunday Times staff writer joins us to discuss Good Girls: A Story & Study of Anorexia, her honest and hopeful book combining personal experience and…
Israeli Fiction Today
Wed 6 Mar 2024 | 7:00pm
Kings Place, London
Leading lights of Israel’s literary landscape Lavie Tidhar and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen join Josh Glancy.
Daniel Finkelstein
Wed 6 Mar 2024 | 8:30pm
Kings Place, London
Festival favourite Daniel Finkelstein joins Caroline Moorehead with Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad, his deeply moving, at times horrifying, bestselling memoir of the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families.
Sacks, Greenberg & the Quest for Orthodox Pluralism
Wed 6 Mar 2024 | 8:30pm
Kings Place, London
Alon Goshen Gottstein on the theological, moral and social views of rabbis Irving Yitz Greenberg and Jonathan Sacks.
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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