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
Israelophobia
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 11:00am
Kings Place, London
The Jewish Chronicle's editor Jake Wallis Simons on the newest version of an ancient hatred.
Einstein: A Life in 99 Particles
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 11:00am
Kings Place, London
Genius, refugee, Casanova, high school dropout. Albert Einstein contained multitudes, as TLS science editor Samuel Graydon reveals in his unique biography Einstein In Time And Space.
Family Stories, Jewish History
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 11:00am
Kings Place, London
Two superb family memoirs explore why, nine decades after the Shoah, antisemitism is resurgent.
Mifleget Hamachshavot Live
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 12:30pm
Kings Place, London
Micah Goodman and Efrat Shapira Rosenberg join us with a live edition of their hit Israeli politics podcast, the first ever in English.
Baruch Spinoza: A Life
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 12:30pm
Kings Place, London
Two acclaimed authors examine the life and times of one of Judaism’s most controversial figures – Baruch Spinoza.
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 12:30pm
Kings Place, London
A box of photos and letters left to Rachel Meller by her aunt sparked this sweeping family memoir of a Jewish family forced to flee Vienna for Shanghai.
Adventures in Exile: Literary Fiction
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 12:30pm
Kings Place, London
Two acclaimed writers from either side of the Atlantic discuss their careers and latest novels.
The Jewish Newspaper Phenomenon Reconsidered
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 2:00pm
Kings Place, London
National Library of Israel expert Eyal Miller offers an introduction to the rich and vivid history of Jewish newspapers and periodicals over the past 250 years.
The Jewish Revolt
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 2:00pm
Kings Place, London
Professor Antony Polonsky, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Simon Bentley and Mark Burman discuss Rachel Auerbach’s eyewitness account of the Warsaw ghetto.
Bruno Schulz: Art, Murder & the Hijacking of History
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 2:00pm
Kings Place, London
Sami Rohr Prize winner Benjamin Balint on the writer and artist’s life and the secret operation to rescue his final works.
A Different Kind of Romance: Ruth, Naomi & Boaz
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 2:00pm
Kings Place, London
Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris asks if the Book of Ruth offers a different sort of love story.
A Jewish Promised Land in Texas
Sun 10 Mar 2024 | 2:00pm
Kings Place, London
Rachel Cockerell joins historian Trudy Gold to reveal the astonishing attempt by 10,000 Eastern European Jews in the early 1900s to found a Jewish State in Texas, including her great-grandfather.
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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