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, […]
Worlds Apart
Speakers: Nadia Ragozhina, Sandra Myers Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. Adolphe moves to Switzerland while Marcus, inspired by Communism, moves east. A century later Marcus’s great-granddaughter, Nadia Ragozhina, rediscovers the missing parts of her broken family in a beautifully written portrayal of the tumultuous events of twentieth-century Europe, though the […]
How Jews Made The Art World Modern
The fate of art stolen by the Nazis has become a cause célèbre in recent decades; Boston University professor of history Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to acquire so many old and modern masterpieces in the first place – and what this reveals about Jews, […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
1952: World On The Cusp
Speakers: Maureen Lipman, A.N. Wilson, Nicolette Jones, Malcolm Rifkind, Mark Lawson 1952 saw the Queen ascend to the throne, The Mousetrap open in the West End and the first Jewish Book Week; all going strong 70 years on while thankfully London’s other big event, the Great Smog is not. Further afield, Albert Einstein declined the offer to […]
Seder
By Adam Kammerling, live score by Bellatrix and Antosh Wojcik, dance from Emma Houston, Ffion Campbell-Davies and Si Rawlinson A celebration of our unlikely existence and how history can bring us all together, in the form of an interdisciplinary piece combining poetry, music and more. Former UK poetry slam champion Adam Kammerling is joined by […]
An Arab Doctor in Berlin
Speakers: Ronan Steinke, Anne Joseph Ronen Steinke, author & Süddeutsche Zeitung correspondent tells Anne Joseph the remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. Shining a light on the almost-forgotten world of Arab Berlin during the Weimar period, Steinke produces a riveting account of […]