Going Solo
Speakers: Francesca Specter, Rebecca Reid Now we’re more connected than ever online, spending time alone or being single can seem against the grain, despite being an experience shared by millions. A Times Book of the Year, Alonement: How To Be Alone & Absolutely Own It is an expansion of the podcast of the same name […]
Don Black & Michael Grade
Speakers: Don Black, Michael Grade A fitting finale to the 70th anniversary Jewish Book Week; an evening of live music and memories celebrating the Oscar, Olivier and Tony winner Don Black, the lyricist behind Born Free, To Sir With Love, four Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and five Bond themes, including Thunderball and Diamonds Are Forever. […]
Can We Talk About Israel
Speakers: Daniel Sokatch, Anshel Pfeffer Can’t you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less? This is the question Daniel Sokatch, head of the New Israel Fund, is used to answering on an almost daily basis. Can We Talk About Israel? is the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and of why […]
Bible Stories From Within
Speakers: Jonathan Magonet, Gabriel Josipovici, Zahavit Shalev They are often most familiar as the simplified versions we learn as children; yet Bible stories are the products of a highly developed literary culture. Rabbi Jonathan Magonet, Emeritus Professor of Bible at Leo Baeck College and author of How Did Moses Know He Was A Hebrew, is […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]