Mifleget Hamachshavot Live
Where better to have the first-ever English-language edition of international hit politics podcast Mifleget Hamachshavot: The Great Ideas Behind Israel Politics than at Kings Place, home to the London Podcast Festival, and during Book Week? With 3.5 million downloads, philosopher and bestselling author Micah Goodman and lawyer and broadcaster Efrat Shapira Rosenberg bring one of […]
Event 4 – What is Jewish History For-
Event 63 – The Jewish Revolt
Event 62 – The Box with the Sunflower Clasp
The Best Minds
Both children of professors, they were best friends and fierce rivals who followed each other to Yale, which Michael Laudor blazed through in three years. Then Jonathan Rosen received a devastating call: Michael was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, his law school graduation made the New York Times with […]
Maimonides Faith in Reason: Book Week 24 online event
One of the world’s foremost bibliophiles joins us to discuss the medieval philosopher and The Guide for the Perplexed author. Forced from Córdoba by Almohad persecution, Maimonides settled in Egypt, becoming Saladin’s personal physician. His work in extracting, interpreting and translating the commanding precepts of Jewish law from the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud became […]
Louis Jacobs’ Quest: Book Week 24 online event
For Louis Jacobs, the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith was a lifelong pursuit – and one that remains relevant almost two decades after his death. In the 1960s, amid general religious crises, he offered a model of an observant but intellectually curious Judaism that empowered individual seekers to address challenges to […]
Marcus du Sautoy: Around the World in 80 Games
Can pi help you win rock, paper, scissors? How did Mozart use maths to create music? And which is really the best property to own in Monopoly?These questions and many more are answered in Around the World in 80 Games by Oxford’s Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science Marcus du Sautoy. The Horizon […]
Leonard Bernstein: Some Other Time
80 years after Leonard Bernstein’s early triumph On The Town hit Broadway, the classic New York musical provides our title as we celebrate him in conversation and song. Working with fellow theatrical legends such as Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green he created iconic shows, ballets and concert works, including West Side […]
Genesis Emerging Writers 2024
The third edition of our Emerging Writers Programme in partnership with the Genesis Foundation culminates in this popular panel event, chaired by Bidisha Mamata. This year’s writers are: Sean Gilbert, Mariyam Karolia, Harriet Matthews and Susan Royston (fiction),Sharon Kanolik, Angus Reilly and Eleanor Thom(non-fiction); Beth Frieden, Michael Mullen and Evie Ward (poetry). Their mentors are: […]
Kindertransport and Beyond
85 years after the Kindertransport, children continue to flee their homes in search of safety. This special panel brings together expertise and personal experience spanning nine decades. Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines was one of 669 children rescued by Nicholas Winton from Czechoslovakia in 1939. In The Kindertransport: What Really Happened Dr Andrea Hammel explores some of the […]
YIVO and the Recovery of Jewish Memory
Founded in 1925 in Berlin and Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) YIVO, or the Yiddish Scientific Institute, became the leading institution for scholarship in Yiddish. It was forced to move its HQ to New York in 1940. YIVO CEO and historian Jonathan Brent discusses with Philippe Sands the importance of the Institute for Jewish Research’s […]