Speakers: Simon Schama, Julia Neuberger

One of our most popular speakers returns with an exclusive event for the 70th anniversary Jewish Book Week, including a special preview of his next book, months before publication. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations looks at Waldemar Haffkine, a Russian Jew who created vaccines against cholera and the bubonic plague before becoming the subject of ‘the Little Dreyfus affair’ when accused of contaminating a vial of plague vaccine which caused deaths in a Punjabi village in 1902. Expect insights and entertainment from the historian, broadcaster and author of Wordy and The Story of the Jews.