Bernard-Henri Lévy & Elif Shafak: Misery, Hope and The Humanitarian Crisis
Speakers: Bernard-Henri Lévy, Elif Shafak, Rafael Behr Two of the world’s most respected thinkers and speakers come together for the first time, live in London and streaming wherever you are. Bernard-Henri Lévy returns to Jewish Book Week ahead of the publication The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope. In this stirring rebuke to […]
Billy Wilder: From Vienna to Hollywood
Speakers: Jonathan Coe, Francine Stock, Noah Isenberg With What a Carve Up author Jonathan Coe on the Kings Place stage and cinema historian Noah Isenberg joining live from the US, this is a suitably transatlantic discussion of Billy Wilder, one of Europe’s most important exports to Hollywood, the writer-director of classics including Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard, […]
Ethel Rosenburg: An American Tragedy
Speakers: Anne Sebba, Clare Mulley To J. Edgar Hoover it was ‘the trial of the century’; for many more it was a horrifying case of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens. In June 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were electrocuted, having been convicted of conspiracy to […]
Joshua Cohen: The Netanyahus
Speakers: Joshua Cohen, Josh Glancy A rare UK event for the man The Washington Post called “maybe America’s greatest living writer”. His previous novels Witz, Book of Numbers and Moving Kings were named books of the year by NPR, New York Magazine and the Village Voice, while his short story and essay collections Four New […]
People Love Dead Jews- Dara Horn in Conversation
Speakers: Dar Horn A two-time National Jewish Book Award winner for her fiction, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager, for publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review and The Wall Street Journal. Often asked to write on subjects related to Jewish culture – and increasingly in […]
Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6
Speakers: Helen Fry, Robert Hutton Thomas Kendrick was central to the British Secret Service from its beginnings early last century through to the Second World War. Under the guise of a British Passport Officer he ran spy networks across Europe, facilitated the escape of Austrian Jews, and later went on to set up the M […]
Jewish Quarterly Conversations at Jewish Book Week: The Collectors
Speakers: Edmund de Waal, Anne Sebba, James McAuley Before the Second World War, several prominent French Jewish families built vast collections of art and treasures which sought to venerate beauty at a time of increasing hostility. But their collections – and their rarefied worlds, now vanished – also reveal the tragedy of their troubled lives […]
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos
Speakers: Leah Garrett, Helen Fry After Quentin Tarantino’s fictional take in Inglorious Basterds, now for the first time the full, heart-stopping story of the real-life Jewish commandos who wreaked havoc against the Nazi war machine is revealed in X Troop by Hunter College director of Jewish and Hebrew Studies Leah Garrett. In desperation, as the […]
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Resistance
Speakers: Judy Batalion, Trudy Gold A New York Times bestseller and already optioned by Steven Spielberg, The Light of Days author Judy Batalion joins us live from the US to discuss what Philippe Sands called “an untold story of rare and captivating power” of the Polish Jewish women who took on the Nazis. These ‘ghetto […]
Alfred Wiener: The Fatherland and the Jews
Speakers: Matthew Stadlen, Daniel Finkelstein, Christine Schmidt, Joseph Koerner Dr Alfred Wiener, born in Germany in 1885, is best remembered as a leading figure in documenting Nazi and anti-Nazi literature, and as the founder of the world-renowned Wiener Holocaust Library. As early as 1918, as a de-mobbed soldier and passionate lover of his country, he […]
The Golden Rule
Speakers: Amanda Craig, Samantha Ellis A book of the year in all national newspapers and recently long-listed for the 2021 Women’s Prize, Amanda Craig’s ninth novel is a stunning contemporary twist on Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, as razor-sharp satire combines with psychological thrills. The novelist and journalist who Bernadine Evaristo calls ‘a skilful […]
The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Speakers: Richard J. Evans, Trudy Gold “Brilliant … Deploying him against conspiracy theorists is a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.” So says The Mail on Sunday of Richard J. Evans and the forensic scrutiny he subjects widely discussed claims involving Hitler and the Nazis to. In The Hitler Conspiracies the renowned historian analyses five long discredited but increasingly […]