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 Best Minds
Thu 7 Mar 2024 | 10:30am
Online
Jonathan Rosen with his acclaimed account of friendship and mental illness.
Jewish Women: Literacy & Liberty
Thu 7 Mar 2024 | 12:00pm
Online
Professor Rachel Elior on the social, cultural and legal implications of female illiteracy in Jewish communities through much of history.
Bogie & Bacall
Thu 7 Mar 2024 | 1:30pm
Online
New York Times bestselling biographer William J. Mann paints a vivid portrait of the enduring romance between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, 80 years on.
Mine is the Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets of Immanuel of Rome
Thu 7 Mar 2024 | 7:00pm
Kings Place, London
The Hebrew sonnets of Immanuel of Rome, the greatest Hebrew poet of medieval Italy, available for the first time in English.
David Baddiel: The God Desire
Thu 7 Mar 2024 | 7:00pm
Kings Place, London
After his record-breaking Jews Don’t Count event in 2021, the comedian and author returns with The God Desire, his philosophical, funny and thought-provoking account of being a reluctant atheist.
Pinchas Goldschmidt: Moscow Memoirs
Thu 7 Mar 2024 | 7:00pm
Kings Place, London
The former chief rabbi of Moscow joins us in London to tell his story.
A Night of Comedy
Thu 7 Mar 2024 | 8:30pm
Kings Place, London
Live comedy from four top stand-ups!
Michael Ignatieff on Isaiah Berlin
Thu 7 Mar 2024 | 8:30pm
Kings Place, London
The author, academic and former politician discusses the updated reissue of his magisterial biography of Isaiah Berlin, based on extensive interviews.
Music of Exile
Thu 7 Mar 2024 | 8:30pm
Kings Place, London
Michael Haas on the composers and musicians, persecuted by Hitler, who shaped the soundscape of the last century.
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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