Proud to partner with the Jewish Chronicle Events 2012
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.
Meet the Author: Hillel Halkin: Melisande! What are Dreams?
Contributor(s): Hillel Halkin
19/02/2019 - 2:45 pm
Melisande! What Are Dreams? is a first novel by the acclaimed American-Israeli author and translator Hillel Halkin, known for his essays and books of non-fictio... read more
Ulysses Revisited
Contributor(s): Howard Jacobson | Henry Goodman | Derbhle Crotty
26/03/2012 - 4:45 pm
For Howard Jacobson, James Joyce’s Ulysses is the greatest Jewish novel of the 20th century; for Henry Goodman the novel that hugely articulated and resha... read more
Of Loss and Hope
Contributor(s): Alison Pick | Jake Wallis Simons | Claire Armitstead
26/02/2012 - 4:45 pm
Here are two beautifully written and meticulously researched new novels. Alison Pick’s Booker-longlisted novel, Far to Go, is set in the months leading up to ... read more
Road to Apocalypse
Contributor(s): Munro Price | Stanley Price
26/02/2012 - 4:45 pm
A chance discovery in a Sussex chapel led Stanley and Munro Price to the fascinating but forgotten story of Lewis Way. In 1805, Way, a devout evangelical Christ... read more
A New Voice for Israel
Contributor(s): Jonathan Freedland | Jeremy Ben-Ami
26/02/2012 - 4:30 pm
The leader of America’s pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby explained to Jonathan Freedland why he felt the need to fund J-Street. He comes from a family who were pio... read more
Hope: A Tragedy
Contributor(s): Shalom Auslander | Bidisha Mamata
26/02/2012 - 4:30 pm
Darkly hilarious, dangerously subversive and extraordinarily bold, Shalom Auslander delivered a hilarious and disquieting examination of the burdens and abuse o... read more
Jewry in Music
Contributor(s): David Conway | Michael Portillo
26/02/2012 - 4:30 pm
Michael Portillo discussed David Conway’s new book Jewry in Music with the author, accompanied by live musical illustrations by Mark Viner (piano) and Claudia... read more
Israel After the Arab Spring
Contributor(s): Robin Lustig | Jeffrey Goldberg
26/02/2012 - 4:15 pm
Will the Arab Spring lead to peace between Israel and its neighbours, or does it mean perpetual war? Is what we’ve been seeing really an Arab Spring, or i... read more
Proust Among The Nations
Contributor(s): Boyd Tonkin | Jacqueline Rose
26/02/2012 - 4:15 pm
In her book, Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East, Jacqueline Rose takes her far-reaching and often controversial analysis of the Middle... read more
Daniel Stein: Interpreter
Contributor(s): Ludmila Ulitskaya | Brian Klug
26/02/2012 - 9:45 am
Ludmila Ulitskaya came from Russia to talk about her extraordinary novel, Daniel Stein, Interpreter. Based on the real life story of Oswald Rufeisen who miracul... read more
Protocols of Prague
Contributor(s): Umberto Eco | David Aaronovitch
26/02/2012 - 9:45 am
David Aaronovitch interviewed Umberto Eco about his brilliant historical novel The Prague Cemetery set in 19th Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, at a time ... read more
Jewish European Heritage in the Age of Diasporas
Contributor(s): Zygmunt Bauman | Jason Strelitz
26/02/2012 - 9:30 am
Zygmunt Bauman took us on a sweeping tour of the history of European Jews and their search for a place. He placed back the birth of Zionism in its context, at t... read more
Jewish Legions
Contributor(s): Michael Keren
26/02/2012 - 9:30 am
In We Are Coming, Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War, Michael Keren tells the little-known story of three all-Jewish batt... read more
Israel and the European Left
Contributor(s): Colin Shindler | Nick Cohen
26/02/2012 - 9:30 am
Why has the European Left become so antagonistic towards Israel? Is such antagonism in opposition to the policies of successive Israeli governments? Or, is it d... read more
Get Real: How to Tell it Like it is in a World of Illusions
Contributor(s): Eliane Glaser | Julia Hobsbawm
26/02/2012 - 9:15 am
Oil companies advertise their green credentials. Billionaires orchestrate ‘grassroots’ political movements. Organic food is grown on vast industrial farms. ... read more
