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The West, the Jews & a Broken Promise
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Across the Divide: Jewish & Arab Israeli Women
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The Lines We Draw: A Jewish Journalist’s Search for Identity
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The Einstein Vendetta
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Good Slut: Michael Gove & Zoe Strimpel
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Mamdani: A New New York
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Heroism & Rebirth in Nazi Europe
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Richard J. Evans: Hitler’s People

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Two women and two men sit on stage. They are dressed formally, mostly in blue.
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The Prosecutor
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2023 Keynote: Howard Jacobson
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two men sitting in chair talking with a book in their hand
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The Lines We Draw: A Jewish Journalist’s Search for Identity
two people sitting on a chair live and talking to each other
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The Einstein Vendetta
Woman talking into microphone in front of audience
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Good Slut: Michael Gove & Zoe Strimpel
three people talking to each other, two women and one man, sitting in white chairs
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Hidden Histories: Spies, Secrets and Survival
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Mamdani: A New New York
60 min

The Dark Side of the Kindertransport
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Heroism & Rebirth in Nazi Europe
75 min

The Future of Liberal Democracy
90 min

In Gaza’s Wake
60 min

Britain at a Crossroads
Two women and two men sit on stage. They are dressed formally, mostly in blue.
60 min

Diaspora Jews: A Shifting Landscape
Two men and a woman sit on a stage, in conversation.
60 min

Unpacking Israel & Palestine
A large concert hall, with the audience and stage visible. In a spotlight on the stage sits a woman, while behind her two men appear on a scrreen.
60 min

Israel: Behind the Headlines
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Can We Still Trust Auntie?
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Ideology, Violence & Justice
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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
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Writing Israel: Yossi Klein Halevi & Daniel Taub
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The Battle for Israel’s Soul
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The Legacy of Yehuda Bauer
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Richard J. Evans: Hitler’s People
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One Day in October: Forty Heroes, Forty Stories
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Trump 2.0: What’s Next?
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
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Elena: A Hand Made Life
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Mindless: What Happened to Universities?
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The Rudashevski Diary: Samuel Kassow
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Iran in Focus: Proxies, Power, and Nuclear Ambitions
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Bearing Witness: Documenting 7 October & its Aftermath
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The Z Word: Reclaiming Zionism
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Tablets Shattered
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The Prosecutor
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The Making of Ukrainian Jewry
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Tom Segev: One Palestine, Complete
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Dunkirk & Blitz: Making History Matter
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Is Geography Destiny?
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Roosevelt & the Jews
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Simon Sebag Montefiore & Dave Rich
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What is Jewish History For?
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Women in Intelligence
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Elon Musk’s Dangerous Turn
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One Hundred Saturdays
A man and a woman seated on a stage, engaged in conversation
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Simon Sebag-Montefiore: The World
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Licoricia: Power & Prejudice
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Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons
Two men sit on a dark stage. One has his back to the camera, the other is turned to face him.
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The Collaborators
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2023 Keynote: Howard Jacobson
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What Future For American Jews?
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From the Ground Up: Building a new National Library of Israel
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Ethel Rosenburg: An American Tragedy
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Heroes or Villains: The Blair Goverment Reconsidered
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Legacy
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Partition Voices
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The Europeans
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The Cairo Genizah
Two women and a man sit on a stage. The women look at the man who has his back to the camera and is gesturing with his hands
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Vive La Résistance
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How to Fight Antisemitism
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The Wolf of Baghdad
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Voices From The Warsaw Ghetto
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Travel Yearnings
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The Cut Out Girl
Three men sit on a dark stage facing the audience. Above and behind them, a blue-toned image of a woman with short hair and glasses is displayed.
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Opening The Drawer: The Hidden Identities of Polish Jews
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: Addressing the Bundestag
63 min

Churchill: Walking With Destiny
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The Rat Lines
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The Knock on the Door: Struggling Against Apartheid
Three men in dark suits seated at a table with a table cloth and microphones. The central figure is gesturing with open hands and has a bottle of water in front of him
72 min

Israel: A Jewish State or a State for Jews?
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One Italian Family’s Fight Against Fascism
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Borders: Life on the Edge
64 min

Brit(ish): on Race, identity and Belonging
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News: Truth or Fiction?
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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story
59 min

Raoul Wallenberg: A Righteous Man
68 min

Ari Shavit: My Promised Land
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Simon Schama: The Story of the Jews
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Tales of Mediterranean Existence 
Two white men in suits sit at a table, a book open in front of them
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The Patagonian Hare
A headshot of Samuel Bassow next to a cover image of his book Who Will Write our History?
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Who Will Write Our History?
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Theodore Herzl: Shlomo Avineri