Emerging Writers Programme
Learn about our mentoring and support scheme in this short film featuring mentors and participants in the Genesis JLF Emerging Writers Programme.
Cinema King
From playing the violin alongside silent movies to owning a chain of cinemas as part of his entertainment empire, Sam King went on a remarkable journey. His life of wealth and glamour as partner in Shipman and King cinemas was a far cry from his beginnings in an impoverished Jewish family escaping Russian pogroms to […]
October 7 & the Left; Hadley Freeman in conversation with Tanya Gold
To mark Jewish Quarterly‘s publication of Blindness: October 7 and the Left by Hadley Freeman, we are delighted that the she joins us for a special free online event on Thursday in conversation with Tanya Gold. With bitter clarity Hadley outlines the equivocations, contortions and hypocrisy displayed by elements of the left, including many who […]
Israel Now and Next
Three quarters of a century on, has Israel lived up to expectations? With the eyes of the world on the nation as never before, journalist and Netanyahu biographer Anshel Pfeffer asks two experts about its past, present and future. In The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel political scientist and election veteran Dahlia Scheindlin exposes […]
The Jewish Revolt
From 1940 historian Emanuel Ringelblum led a team of dedicated writers secretly recording Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto for what became known as the Oyneg Shabes archive. Among them, Rachel Auerbach was an eyewitness of 1943’s ghetto uprising. Her account has now been translated into English for the first time alongside her renowned essay […]
Being Rina: The Collected Writings of Rina Wolfson
Rina Wolfson z”l was a gifted writer, whose writing made us laugh, learn, and cry. Writing on topics ranging from the parsha to parenting, from Talmud to chemotherapy, Rina’s work is a reminder of her inimitable voice.# Rina’s husband Paul Harris and son BZ Gilinsky, in conversation with journalist, author and Jewish Chronicle managing editor […]
A Jewish Promised Land in Texas
‘If we cannot get the Holy Land, we can make another land holy’ – Israel Zangwill, 1906. Rachel Cockerell joins historian Trudy Gold to reveal the astonishing moment when 10,000 Russian Jews fled to Texas before WWI – led by Cockerell’s great-grandfather, and the novelist Israel Zangwill. It was part of a search for an […]
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp
Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent and a cigarette in her hand. But in her will she left her niece an intricately carved Chinese box. Inside the box were photographs, letters and documents that led Rachel to uncover a story she had never […]
Thomas Harding on George Weidenfeld
Arriving in London in 1938 as a penniless, teenage Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform publishing, championing Nabokov, Simone de Beauvoir, Saul Bellow, Edna O’Brien, Isaiah Berlin, Golda Meir and many more. Thomas Harding, the internationally bestselling author of Legacy and Hanns & Rudolf, returns to the festival to discuss The Maverick, the […]
Bruno Schulz: Art, Murder & the Hijacking of History
Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died a Jew. Without moving he was a subject of the Habsburgs, the West Ukrainian People’s Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR and, finally, the Third Reich. But the artist and man described by Isaac Bashevis Singer as “one of the most remarkable […]
Political Football: Beitar Jerusalem FC
The Israeli Premier League rarely makes global headlines in the way its counterparts do. That changed in 2020 with the news that a UAE royal was to take a 50% stake in Beitar Jerusalem FC, the only team in a league where all ethnicities co-exist never to have signed an Arab player, proclaimed by its […]
The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century
‘Far from being a fringe phenomenon, antisemitism is today an increasingly troubling presence in mainstream British society, especially in its often strident, anti-Zionist manifestations.’ Professor Alvin H. Rosenfeld. Edited by David Hirsh, this multi-authored collection looks at the rise of antisemitism and antizionism since the millennium, principally in Britain. The director of the London Centre […]