Book of the Week 26 March 2025
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin Part novel, part memoir, part travelogue, this rediscovered cult classic imagines the ill-fated summer spent by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife at Baden for their honeymoon, the famous German spa town. Written by Soviet Jewish writer Leonid Tsypkin, this is a book that invents its own genre, described as a […]
That’s a wrap!
What an incredible ending to our 74th edition of JBW. With stellar speakers, engaged and thoughtful audiences, a wonderful sense of community and memorable conversations, that is what the festival is all about. A big thanks to everyone for making it such a special nine days. We hope you enjoyed the festival as much as […]
Stagetext at Jewish Book Week 2025
Live Captions at Jewish Book Week 2025 18 million adults in the UK are deaf, deafened or hard of hearing. This means 1 in 3 of us can benefit from subtitles and captions to experience the joy of live theatre, to sing along with our favourite musicals, to take guided tours around museums, or to see our […]
Our most accessible festival ever
Jewish Book Week 2025 features the highest number of free-to-access events ever, with every online event free to watch and a treasure-trove of fringe talks at Kings Place. From free film screenings to a workshop on how to get published, our Kings Place fringe events are free to book for all audience members. You can […]
Friday Tours and Talks
On Friday 7 March join us for tours of London cultural highlights with leading experts. 11am Art Tour: Ori Gersht studio visit + Studio Voltaire Led by Sabine Casparie Location: Walking Tour: meet at Clapham Common Station Join us on this art tour led by art historian Sabine Casparie and explore how two artists use […]
Jewish Book Week returns for its 74th edition
London’s longest running literary festival returns home to Kings Place, bringing together over 150 speakers across 90 events in-person and online. Covering fiction, faith, politics, music, and everything in between, the 74th edition will see world-renowned thinkers take the stage, from Nicholas Hytner, Emma Barnett and Simon Sebag Montefiore to Jonathan Freedland, Elif Shafak, Susan […]
New event: Jonathan Freedland in conversation
Join the Jewish Literary Foundation at City Lit for an intimate conversation with Orwell Prize winning writer and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland. A longtime Guardian columnist, he presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series The Long View and his books include the multi-award winning The Escape Artist and bestselling thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. He will join City Lit Principal Mark Malcomson to discuss his career to […]
Jewish Children’s Book Awards deadline
There is just one month left to enter the Green Bean Books and Jewish Literary Foundation Children’s Book Awards If you have an idea for a children’s story with Jewish content now’s your chance to bring it to life by entering the awards. All you need to do is submit your story, suitable for children […]
Genesis Emerging Writers 2024-25 programme cohort
The Jewish Literary Foundation has announced this year’s Genesis Emerging Writers cohort, with the successful fiction, non-fiction and poetry projects taking us to Lithuania, the American South, Belfast and beyond. The programme, a partnership between the Genesis Foundation and the Jewish Literary Foundation, offers bursaries, mentoring, peer support and an event at London’s longest-running literary […]
New event: Howard Jacobson in conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Levin
On September 17 the Jewish Literary Foundation partners with South Hampstead Synagogue for a special event with festival favourite Howard Jacobson, in conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Levin. Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo […]
New event: Responses to October 7
Announcing a new in-person event, Responses to October 7. On the first anniversary of the attack Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE is joined by Professor Anthony Julius, Dr Linda Maizels and David Hirsh for a panel conversation. The event is in partnership with JW3 and the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism has […]
Whitewash: Poland and the Jews
Our latest free online event in partnership with The Jewish Quarterly centres on the latest issue’s groundbreaking essay by Jan Grabowski. Whitewash: Poland and the Jews examines how the government, museums, schools and state institutions became complicit in delivering a message of Polish national innocence during the Holocaust. The Polish-Canadian history professor and Hunt for the Jews author recounts […]