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Chanukah Family Day
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18/12/2022 - 11:00 am
Join us at Jewish Museum London on Sunday 18 December, 11am-4.30pm, as we team up for a special Chanukah Family Day with donut-making, dreidel-spinning, Chanuki... read more
From the Ground Up: Building a new National Library of Israel
Contributor(s): Jason Frantzen | Hannah Rothschild | Oren Weinberg | Harry Rich
08/11/2022 - 7:30 pm
The new National Library of Israel (NLI), adjacent to the Knesset in Jerusalem, is on schedule to open its doors in 2023. The building, along with its surroundi... read more
Peter Sellers: Hollywood and Home Movies
Contributor(s): Ronni Ancona | Peter Lydon | Sarah Sellers | Jason Solomons
05/07/2022 - 7:00 pm
Internationally renowned for his performances in The Goon Show, The Pink Panther film series, Dr Strangelove and many more, Peter Sellers remained an enigm... read more
The Aventures of Saul Bellow
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19/05/2022 - 6:00 pm
Winner of both the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize, the late Jewish author Saul Bellow is considered to this day one of the giants of American letters. ... read more
Art Spiegelman & Hillary Chute in conversation with Jonathan Freedland
Contributor(s): Hillary Chute | Art Spiegelman | Jonathan Freedland
17/05/2022 - 8:00 pm
Part of BBC Arena at Jewish Book Week From Superman to Maus, comic art has both subverted and triumphed over popular culture for almost a century. Our latest ... read more
BBC Arena at JBW – Linda McCartney: Behind the Lens
Contributor(s): Brian Clarke | Nicholas Claxton | Mary McCartney | Brett Rogers | Nicola Christie
29/03/2022 - 7:00 pm
Part of BBC Arena at Jewish Book Week Linda McCartney was known globally in numerous roles: activist, entrepreneur, musician and, in her own words, ‘Jewish ... read more
Edmund de Waal: 70th Anniversary Keynote
Contributor(s): Edmund de Waal
06/03/2022 - 6:00 pm
‘Good for a Single Journey’: Families, Objects, Stories 1952 saw the first Jewish Book Week; four days of lectures and displays under the chairmanship of D... read more
The Island of Extraordinary Captives
Contributor(s): Simon Parkin
03/03/2022 - 1:00 pm
How did creativity flourish during one of our most shameful wartime missteps? In May 1940, faced with a country gripped by paranoia, Winston Churchill ordered ... read more
JBW 2022 Digipass
Contributor(s): Ruth Wisse | Josh Glancy | Amy Bloom | Devorah Baum | Nessa Rapoport | Sally Berkovic | Lewis R Gordon | Dennis Davis | David Grossman | Melvyn Bragg | Timothy Snyder | Claudia Kalb | Simon Parkin | Christopher Andrew
02/03/2022 - 12:00 pm
Jewish Book Week Digi-Pass gives access to all eight KPlayer (online streaming) events for £39.50. Including: Mourning & Evening – Monday 28 February... read more
Free Online Events at JBW2022
Contributor(s): Yoel Finkelman | Efraim Zuroff | Andrew Porwancher | Jeffrey Veidlinger | Ronen Steinke | Ollie Anisfeld | Stuart Halpern | Trudy Gold | Anne Joseph | Rachel Elior | Yigal Zalmona | Caron Sethill
28/02/2022 - 2:30 pm
Sign up below to receive links for our six fantastic free online events taking place between Monday 28 February and Monday 7 March: Jewish Magic – Monday ... read more
Howard Jacobson Talks With Melvyn Bragg
Contributor(s): Howard Jacobson | Melvyn Bragg
27/02/2022 - 4:15 pm
In Memory of Dr David Cohen CBE As Jewish Book Week celebrates its 70th anniversary one of the festival’s favourite speakers marks a milestone of his own as ... read more
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A long, long way
Contributor(s): Shalom Auslander | Evelyn T Beck | David Stromberg | Rebecca Abrams
07/12/2021 - 7:00 pm
Featuring access to the Arena film Isaac Singer’s Nightmare and Mrs Pupko’s Beard Part of Arena at Jewish Book Week “I wouldn’t say that Yiddish... read more
Amy Winehouse: Songs, Style & St James’ Church
Contributor(s): Dale Davis | Philip King | Naomi Parry | Robert Elms
16/11/2021 - 7:00 pm
Featuring access to the Arena film Amy Winehouse: The Day She Came to Dingle Part of Arena at Jewish Book Week “The film really shows Amy as musician, so... read more
The Strange Death and Curious Rebirth of the Israeli Left
Contributor(s): Anshel Pfeffer | Dahlia Scheindlin
04/11/2021 - 7:00 pm
Once the nation’s political powerhouse, the Israeli left is now a bit player in the country it created and ruled. What is behind its dramatic demise? Coul... read more
Re-Discovering Hannah Senesh 100 Years After Her Birth
Contributor(s): Matan Barzilai | Trudy Gold
04/10/2021 - 6:00 pm
Jewish war hero and poet Hannah Senesh’s personal papers recently came to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. Many of them are now going online for t... read more
The Collectors
Contributor(s): Edmund de Waal | James McAuley | Anne Sebba
31/08/2021 - 7:00 pm
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 i... read more
