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Judy Blume: In the Unlikely Event
Contributor(s): Judy Blume | Sarah Churchwell
12/07/2015
Jewish Book Week was delighted to present the wonderful Judy Blume in a special event. Judy Blume spoke about her life in books and her brand new adult novel, I... read more
The New Yorker
Contributor(s): David Denby | John Lahr | Robert Mankoff | Deborah Treisman
01/03/2015 - 8:00 pm
New York symbolises the sweeping cultural changes of the 20th century and The New Yorker, first published in 1925, initiated many of these changes. With its ex... read more
The Art of the Graphic Novel
Contributor(s): Yirmi Pinkus | Sarah Lightman | Rutu Modan | Ariel Kahn
01/03/2015 - 2:00 pm
Join leading Israeli graphic novelists Rutu Modan (The Property and Exit Wounds) and Yirmi Pinkus (Petty Business and Professor Fabrikant’s Historical Cabaret... read more
Assaf Gavron: The Hilltop
Contributor(s): Assaf Gavron | Sara Yael Hirschhorn
01/03/2015 - 2:00 pm
Rich with humour and insight, hailed as “The Great Israeli Novel” (Time Out, Tel Aviv) Assaf Gavron’s prize-winning The Hilltop is a monumental and daring... read more
AB Yehoshua: Lunchtime Lecture
Contributor(s): A.B. Yehoshua
01/03/2015 - 12:30 pm
AB Yehoshua, one of Israel’s foremost writers and public intellectuals, considers how Jewish culture is now reflected through the prism of contemporary Israel... read more
Göran Rosenberg and Sigrid Rausing: A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz
Contributor(s): Göran Rosenberg | Sigrid Rausing
01/03/2015 - 12:30 pm
Göran Rosenberg is in conversation with Granta’s Sigrid Rausing about his heart-stopping memoir of his father, A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz. The w... read more
Jeremy Josse on Financial Paradoxes
Contributor(s): Jeremy Josse | Stephen Grabiner
01/03/2015 - 12:30 pm
Contrary to its dull image, the financial world is actually full of strange and wonderful conundrums. In Dinosaur Derivatives and Other Trades, Jeremy Josse, wh... read more
Roger Cohen: The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
Contributor(s): Roger Cohen | David Denby
01/03/2015 - 11:00 am
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen’s memoir is an intimate and moving Jewish family history of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair and love. In convers... read more
Natalie Haynes: Stand Up for the Classics Natalie Haynes
Contributor(s): Natalie Haynes
01/03/2015 - 11:00 am
Fêted comedian, broadcaster and writer Natalie Haynes takes you on a whistle-stop tour of Ancient Greece and Rome. If you’ve ever wondered what Julius Caesar... read more
Life on and off the Stage
Contributor(s): Lady Solti | Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen | Tamsin Waley-Cohen | Daniel Tong | Kate Gould
28/02/2015 - 8:30 pm
Jewish Book Week and the Jewish Music Institute together present a father-daughter conversation between theatre impresario Stephen Waley-Cohen and violinist Tam... read more
Roger Cohen, Michael Ignatieff and Simon Schama on Israel’s Future
Contributor(s): Roger Cohen | Simon Schama | Michael Ignatieff
28/02/2015 - 8:30 pm
Last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas sharpened perceptions of the long-standing Israel-Palestine conflict. With an ever-more uncertain future ahead, man... read more
The King of Ivy League
Contributor(s): Robert Elms | John Simons | Paul Simons
28/02/2015 - 8:00 pm
John Simons was one of the leading menswear designers in 1960s London, introducing the Ivy League look to young, fashion-obsessed Mods. A new documentary The Ne... read more
The Betrayers
Contributor(s): David Bezmozgis | Ben Judah
28/02/2015 - 7:00 pm
Fresh from winning the National Jewish Book Award for his latest novel The Betrayers, Canadian author and filmmaker David Bezmozgis returns to Jewish Book Week ... read more
Boris Bennett: East End Weddings
Contributor(s): Michael Greisman | Edwina Ehrman
27/02/2015 - 1:00 pm
Boris Bennett chronicled the major life events of Jewish East End families for over 25 years. His iconic photographs of East End weddings have been collated and... read more
Rachel Holmes on Eleanor Marx: A Life
Contributor(s): Rachel Holmes | Rachel Cooke
26/02/2015 - 8:30 pm
Rachel Holmes talks to Rachel Cooke about her critically acclaimed biography of Eleanor Marx. Marx’s favourite daughter was a revolutionary socialist campaign... read more
Peter Beinart and Jonathan Freedland on Israel and the Diaspora
Contributor(s): Peter Beinart | Jonathan Freedland
26/02/2015 - 8:30 pm
Voices have the power to sway public opinion and perhaps even determine policies. Peter Beinart, who writes for The Atlantic and Haaretz, and The Guardian... read more
