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 59 – Family Stories, Jewish History
Pinchas Goldschmidt: Moscow Memoirs
From the bleak Soviet Union, to the historic renaissance of Judaism, to the current collapse of Russian society, Moscow’s chief rabbi for almost three decades joins us in London. Now exiled in Israel, Pinchas Goldschmidt’s tenure ended abruptly in 2022 when he spoke out against Putin’s war against Ukraine, resigned, and recommended that all Jews […]