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Jewish Literary Foundation Events

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08/11/2026
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5:45 pm
Milton Court Concert Hall, The Barbican

In partnership with Fidelio and The Barbican A pre-concert conversation with Raffaello Morales, Edward Seckerson and Anthony Freud OBE. Followed...

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10/11/2026
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7:00 pm
JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London, NW3 6ET

Join celebrated writer Will Self in conversation with Chris Gribble about his career, his latest novel The Quantity Theory of...

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05/11/2026
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7:00 pm
The London Library, 14 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LG

The London Library contains books in, on and translated from a whole world of languages. To celebrate the incredible scope...

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01/12/2026
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9:45 am
Angels Costumes, 1 Garrick Road, Hendon, NW9 6AA

Dressing the stars of stage and screen since 1840 A fascinating behind the scenes tour at Angels Costumes, the world’s...

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The festival features Jewish themes and writers, as well as discussions on the most important issues of the day, and is open to everyone. Over 90 events are presented in-person and online during the festival’s nine days

Surviving Mengele’s Auschwitz

The extraordinary story of how two boys survived humanity’s darkest hour – and then found each other again half a century later. Kalman & Leopold is the harrowing firsthand account...

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60 min
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Mahler & Freud: A Viennese Encounter

Raffaello Morales, founder of London’s Fidelio Café and conductor of the Fidelio Orchestra, joins renowned critic and cultural historian Norman Lebrecht, whose works on Mahler explore Jewish creativity and fin-de-siècle...

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60 min
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Boy from the North Country

A son returns to his dying mother and uncovers the astonishing truths of her life, her wisdom, and her creatively intense, turbulent romance with Bob Dylan – an artist he...

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60 min
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