As we launch Book Week and the Jewish Literary Foundation to continue the journey we started 72 years ago with Jewish Book Week, who better to feature in our keynote than Sir Simon Schama?

A regular at the festival for many decades, both as a sell-out speaker and avid audience member, this special event will reflect on his world-renowned work: as an award-winning and bestselling author from Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel in the 1970s to last year’s Foreign Bodies; as Professor of History at Columbia and Honorary Fellow; and as a top BBC broadcaster for three decades. In conversation with Director of the Jewish Literary Foundation, Claudia Rubenstein.

An event from Jewish Book Week 2024