Events 2016
Jewish Book Week holds recordings of nearly 1000 of our past events. You can click on the boxes below to browse by festival year, or type in the fields to search for a speaker, event title or topic.
Judith Kerr: A Storyteller’s Life
Contributor(s): Judith Kerr | Nicolette Jones
21/05/2016 - 3:30 pm
Judith Kerr is one of the world’s finest and best-loved writers for children and young adults. Among her best-loved classics are Mog, The Tiger Who Cam... read more
The Soho Chronicles
Contributor(s): William Kentridge | Matthew Kentridge
28/02/2016 - 8:00 pm
In his book The Soho Chronicles, Matthew Kentridge documents the series of ten animated films made over 22 years by his brother, the internationally-celebrat... read more
What Happened at the Metropole: A Play in Two Acts
Contributor(s): Adam Fergusson | Eleanor Bron | Ilan Goodman | Nicholas Jones
28/02/2016 - 8:00 pm
In Association with the Wiener Library. What Happened at the Metropole – a docudrama in two acts – is written by Adam Fergusson and Caroline Moorehe... read more
Catch the Jew
Contributor(s): Tuvia Tenenbom | Nick Cohen
28/02/2016 - 6:30 pm
Who is Tuvia Tenenbom, alias Tobi the German, the Bnei Brak-born gonzo journalist who goes where others fear to tread? Everywhere Tobi ventures he encounters a... read more
Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence
Contributor(s): Jonathan Sacks | Daniel Finkelstein
28/02/2016 - 6:30 pm
In his powerful and timely new book, Not in God’s Name, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism. If religion is perceived t... read more
Five Selves
Contributor(s): Emanuela Barasch- Rubinstein | Mekella Broomberg
28/02/2016 - 6:30 pm
Scholar and author Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein’s beautiful collection of short stories describes the five selves of modern Israeli identity, covering dive... read more
Shylock is My Name
Contributor(s): Howard Jacobson | Polly Findlay | Alex Clark
28/02/2016 - 5:00 pm
Written with Howard Jacobson’s customary originality, energy and wit, Shylock is My Name is the Man Booker Prize-winner’s profound and provocative re-tel... read more
Scary Old Sex
Contributor(s): Arlene Heyman, | Irma Kurtz
28/02/2016 - 5:00 pm
In conversation with Irma Kurtz, Arlene Heyman, New York psychoanalyst and Bernard Malamud’s muse, introduces her debut collection of short stories, reveali... read more
Art and Religion in the 21st Century
Contributor(s): Aaron Rosen | Leni Diner Dothan | Ben Quash
28/02/2016 - 5:00 pm
In Art + Religion in the 21st Century, Aaron Rosen has conducted the first in-depth study of an international roster of contemporary artists who use their wo... read more
Nordic Noir
Contributor(s): Harri Nykänen | Adam LeBor
28/02/2016 - 3:30 pm
In association with The Finnish Institute in London Nordic Noir has already swept the world. Finland’s Harri Nykänen, creator of Jewish detective Ariel Kafk... read more
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
Contributor(s): Philip Rylands
28/02/2016 - 3:30 pm
Philip Rylands – Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum – is coming especially from Venice to give an illustrated talk about the collection and its... read more
Forgotten Fictions: The Wise Virgins
Contributor(s): Lyndall Gordon | Nicola Beauman | Anne Sebba
28/02/2016 - 3:30 pm
JBW joins forces with the Society of Authors to celebrate Persephone Press’s new edition of Leonard Woolf’s forgotten classic, The Wise Virgins. Written on... read more
Waking Lions and Chains of Sand
Contributor(s): Ayelet Gundar-Goshen | Jemma Wayne | Josh Glancy
28/02/2016 - 2:00 pm
Rapidly following her acclaimed debut One Night Markowitz, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s second novel, Waking Lions, is a gripping, suspenseful and morally devast... read more
The Ignorant Maestro
Contributor(s): Itay Talgam
28/02/2016 - 2:00 pm
In The Ignorant Maestro, symphony orchestra conductor Itay Talgam draws on his experience on the podium to reveal the conductor’s art. Turning to six of th... read more
The House by the Lake
Contributor(s): Thomas Harding | James Harding
28/02/2016 - 2:00 pm
Thomas Harding, prize-winning author of Hanns and Rudolf, talks to his cousin, James Harding, about The House by the Lake, the story of their family’s... read more
