What Future For American Jews?
December 2022 saw the first-ever White House Roundtable on Antisemitism, with second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, describing ‘an epidemic of hate facing our country’. With Jewish students experiencing hostility and threats on campuses, spikes in antisemitic invective on social media platforms, antisemitic outbursts from some elected officials, public figures and […]
Pop Starts: Bob Stanley & Graham Gouldman
Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop author Bob Stanley talks to 10CC founder Graham Gouldman about his long music career and the beginnings of pop music in the first half of the 20th century.
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England
Speakers: Anthony Julius, Debis MacShane In his magnum opus, Anthony Julius looks fairly and squarely, with no propensity to exaggeration,. at the history of anti-semitism from Medieval times with their blood libels, through exclusion and gradual rehabilitation, to today’s alarming new brand of anti-Zionism. Here he discusses his work with one of the staunchest opponents […]
Howard Jacobson, Henry Goodman, Derbhle Crotty
From the Ground Up: Building a new National Library of Israel
Speakers: Hannah Rothschild, Jason Frantzen, Oren Weinberg, Harry Rich The new National Library of Israel (NLI), adjacent to the Knesset in Jerusalem, is on schedule to open its doors in 2023. The building, along with its surrounding gardens and plazas, has been designed by world-renowned architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron to reflect the central […]
Peter Sellers: Hollywood and Home Movies
Speakers: Jason Solomons, Sarah Sellers, Peter Lydon, Ronnie Ancona Internationally renowned for his performances in The Goon Show, The Pink Panther film series, Dr Strangelove and many more, Peter Sellers remained an enigma during his life and beyond. A descendent of the famous 18th-century Sephardi Jewish boxer Daniel Mendoza via his music hall actress mother […]
Robert Alter on Nabokov
Speakers: Robert Alter, David Herman One of the world’s leading literary and biblical scholars turns his attention to one of the most polarising novelists of all time in this unmissable online event. Live from the US, Robert Alter, professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Berkeley since 1967, joins literary critic David Herman, to discuss […]
Linda McCartney Behind the Lens
Speakers: Mary McCartney, Nicholas Claxton, Brian Clarke, Brett Rogers, Nicola Christie Linda McCartney was known globally in numerous roles: activist, entrepreneur, musician and, in her own words, ‘Jewish mother’. But the one that came first and continued alongside the others was photographer. Beginning her career at Town and Country and coming to wider attention after […]
Letters of Light
Speakers: Yigal Zalmona, Rachel Elior Micha Ullman’s “Letters of Light” will stand in the southern portion of the new National Library of Israel campus in Jerusalem, at a prominent crossroads between the Israel Museum and the Knesset. Anchored in ancient Jewish mystical text and drawing inspiration from alphabetic traditions of other cultures, the ground-breaking work […]
The Vaccine
In January 2020, just weeks after the first known case and months before it took grip globally, immunologist Uğur Şahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and decades-long research partner, that a vaccine against what would soon be known as COVID-19 could be developed before the end of the year. Initially facing widespread scepticism in the scientific community, […]
The Taming Of The Jew
Speakers: Tuvia Tenenbom, Rachel Riley Le Monde calls Tuvia Tenenbom “a mystical provocateur”, Die Welt “Michael Moore and Borat in one”; now in The Taming of the Jew the writer and founder of the Jewish Theatre of New York turns his attention to the United Kingdom. His latest international bestseller sees him take a nap […]
The Olive-Green Rucksack
Speakers: Jaana Johansson, David Lawson Journalist Jaana Johansson tells the remarkable tale of her friend Josef Salomonovic (Pepek) who entrusted her with his true story – a story of deportation from his hometown of Ostrava, in Moravia, when he was only three years old, to surviving the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz, and his life in […]