We Were The Newmans
Speakers: Daniel Finkelstein, Beverley Lester From Apartheid South Africa to a fledgling new South Africa, via the UK and post-Pinochet Chile, Daniel Finkelstein and Beverley Lester discuss Beverley’s powerful and compelling novel, a politically charged tale of love, loss, self-annihilation, revenge and redemption.
How To Be A Refugee
Speakers: Kavita Puri, Simon May Philosopher and author Simon May joins us to discuss his powerfully moving family memoir, taking on questions of home and belonging that continue to press in on us today. Most Jews living in Hitler’s Germany faced emigration or deportation to concentration camps but there was also the much rarer route: […]
Jews of Crete
Speakers: Nicholas de Lange, Ruth Padel, Aviva Dautch Crete saw a higher proportion of Jews deported by the Nazis than any other country, virtually eliminating one of Europe’s oldest Jewish communities. Rabbi Nicholas de Lange, Professor of Hebrew & Jewish Studies at Cambridge and author of The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism, conducts high holiday services […]
Looking for an Enemy
Speakers: Jo Glanville, Natasha Lehrer, Gideon Reuveni, Daniel Trilling What drives those who hate Jews? 75 years after the Shoah, conspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream, from the left and the right; from the Pittsburgh gunman who murdered 11 people in a synagogue, to accusations against philanthropist George Soros of supporting ‘white […]
Plunder
Speakers: Menachem Kaiser, Jenni Frazer In 2015 Menachem Kaiser discovered that the grandfather he had never met had tried for 30 years to reclaim an apartment building in Sosnowiec that had belonged to his family prior to World War Two. The Fulbright Fellow decided to take up his case and was soon on a circuitous […]
Ridley Road
Speakers: Jo Bloom, Steve Silver, Dave Rich 50 years after its formation, the story of the anti-fascist 62 Group – the successor to the 43 Group, two veterans of which joined us at Jewish Book Week 2020 – remains relevant, as shown by the huge interest in the BBC1 drama Ridley Road, which took its name […]
See Me Soar
Speakers: Anthony Joseph, Elizabeth Hollingshead Bar Sagi was only 15 when she died after a terrible battle with bone cancer. A prolific reader, she was also an astonishingly talented writer, leaving two full-length books, several short stories and 25 superb poems, brought together for the first time in the collection, Bar Sagi: See me soar […]
Thatcher: The End
Speakers: Caroline Slocock, David Young, Zoe Strimpel Admirers and detractors alike agree that Margaret Thatcher’s premiership changed the country. The final years of her tenure continue to fascinate and we are joined by two insiders from this crucial period. Employment Secretary David Young was drafted in to run her 1987 campaign and his diaries Inside Thatcher’s Last Election reveal […]
The Collage Haggadah
Speakers: Emily Marbach London based American artist Emily Marbach weaves her imagination through the story of the Exodus and the rituals of Pesach; nearly every page of this unique and beautiful Haggadah is adorned with an original analogue collage.
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 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, […]
Two Hitlers & A Marilyn
Speakers: Adam Andrusier, Francine Stock Adam Andrusier spent his childhood in pursuit of autographs. After writing to every celebrity he could think of, from Frank Sinatra to Colonel Gaddafi, he soon jostled with the paparazzi at stage doors and came face-to-face with the most famous people on the planet. It opened up a world beyond […]