Andrew Sachs: I Know Nothing!
Speakers: Andrew Sachs, David Cohen Andrew Sachs came to the UK with his parents aged eight and will forever be associated with Manuel the Spanish waiter, a role he created in the cult television show Fawlty Towers. Now aged 83, the actor tells his life story, from growing up in Nazi Berlin to the making […]
Robert Harris: An Officer and A Spy
An Officer and a Spy is Robert Harris’s compelling recreation of the Dreyfus Affair, a scandal that became the most famous miscarriage of justice in history. Compelling, too, are the echoes for our modern world: an intelligence agency gone rogue, justice corrupted in the name of national security, a newspaper witch-hunt of a persecuted minority, […]
William Klein in conversation with Alan Yentob
Speakers: William Klein, Alan Yentob The influential photographer, painter and filmmaker comes to Jewish Book Week to discuss his career and life with Alan Yentob. Klein (American, born 1928), the subject of a retrospective at Tate Modern in 2012, is known for his evocative street photography, pioneering fashion photography and experimental filmmaking.
Mark Gevisser Dispatcher
South African journalist Mark Gevisser in conversation with Gillian Slovo Jewish Book Week 2014 on the launch of his memoir “Dispatcher”.
Fiddler on the Roof Flashmob
Unexpected bursting into song by 50 people amid the throng on the first day of 2014 London Jewish Book Week.
Smoked Salmon Kings
Speakers: Marc Russ Federman, Lance Forman, Anne Shooter Marc Russ Federman of the family behind Russ & Daughters appetising store in New York’s Lower East Side talks to Lance Forman, scion of London’s oldest east End salmon smokery, Forman’s. Food writer Anne Shooter chairs.
Alain de Botton on News
The news occupies the same dominant position in modern society as religion once did, asserts Alain de Botton – but we haven’t begun to understand its impact on us. In his dazzling The News: A User’s Manual, de Botton takes 25 archetypal news stories – from an aircrash to a murder, a celebrity interview to […]
Gerda Taro and Photojournalism
Speakers: Jane Rogoyska, David Maziwer Pioneering photographer Gerda Taro died in combat in the Spanish Civil war, aged 26. She did not live to see her partner Robert Capa become the world’s most celebrated photojournalist. Seventy years after her death a suitcase was found containing thousands of negatives, revealing that photographs that had been attributed […]
Inside the Courts of Chassidim
Speakers: Gil Cohen-Magen Gil Cohen-Magen spent a decade getting to know the closed world of Israel’s ultra-orthodox, persuading community elders to let him record their daily lives, family ceremonies and religious rituals in a project that changed his own perceptions. Watch as Cohen Magen opens a lens on a little known world to his Jewish […]
Frederic Raphael: Distant Intimacy
Speakers: Frederic Raphael, Mark Glanville Frederic Raphael discusses with Mark Glanville two recent books that illustrate his range: A Jew Among Romans, The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus, and Distant Intimacy, a fat volume of email correspondence with Chicago-based writer and critic Joseph Epstein, whom he has never met in person.
Exposure: Sayed Kashua
Speakers: Sayed Kashua, Ariel Kahn One of the most important contemporary writers in the Hebrew language, Sayed Kashua portrays Palestinian Israelis with complex and conflicted identities. He has a wry wisdom that he made his own in two novels and a popular Israeli TV sitcom, Arab Labor. Kashua presents his third novel, Exposure in a […]
Walking With The Light
Speakers: Jonathan Wittenberg, Hester Abrams North London Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg talks about his journey from the site of his grandfather’s erstwhile German synagogue to his own. With his dog Mitzpah by his side, in 2010 he walked 300 miles across northern Europe carrying a “Ner Tamid”, an eternal light, as a symbol of hope. Chaired […]