Bats & Mitzvahs – Jews and Cricket
As players, MCC Presidents, umpires, statisticians and patrons, Jews have contributed at all levels of cricket. From the UK to Australia, South Africa and the West Indies, they’ve captained their countries and counties, helped to develop the commercial side of the game and even baked cakes for Test Match Special. Daniel Lightman KC and Zaki […]
Event 62 – The Box with the Sunflower Clasp
Event 64 – Bruno Schulz- Art, Murder & the Hijacking of History
Event 57 – Israelophobia
Event 63 – The Jewish Revolt
Linda Grant & Rachel Lichtenstein
“Jews live in time, not space…we have, and are, a story, not a plot of territory”. So says Linda Grant’s character Jossel in The Story of the Forest. From Latvia to Liverpool and post-war Soho, she tells the story, based in part on her own family’s experiences, of one Jewish family through the tumultuous 20th […]
Event 18 – Art Monsters
Yiddish Winterreise – A Song Cycle
Vocalist Mark Glanville and pianist Marc Verter present Yiddish Winterreise. First performed in 2007, it is a cycle of mostly traditional Yiddish songs inspired by Schubert’s Winterreise. Described by the former German Ambassador to the Court of St James’s as ‘both a celebration and a cry of anguish’, this extraordinary song cycle reflects the mental […]
Kafka’s Trial- Panel Discussion
Event 4 – What is Jewish History For-
Event 82 – Being Rina- The Collected Writings of Rina Wolfson-
Torah & Tradition in an Age of Doubt
In these fast-changing, uncertain, and divided times, this new book from Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum is most welcome. In Questioning Belief: Torah and Tradition in an Age of Doubt, runner-up in this year’s Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Sacks Book Prize, Zarum presents thorough, reasoned responses, based on Torah and tradition, to some of Judaism’s most challenging […]