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Fiction of Guilt and Identity
Contributor(s): John Steinberg | Richard Aronowitz | Jenni Frazer
05/03/2017 - 8:00 pm
John Steinberg’s Blue Skies Over Berlin is a moving and thought-provoking book about guilt and identity, featuring a young German woman who moves to London fr... read more
The Friendship of Joyce and Svevo
Contributor(s): Stanley Price | Philip Hensher
05/03/2017 - 6:30 pm
James Joyce and Italo Svevo met in Trieste in 1907 when Joyce was Svevo’s English teacher at the Berlitz School. Their friendship endured the political and cu... read more
Burn Mark: A Photographic Memoir of the Six Day War
Contributor(s): Avner Offer | Matti Friedman
05/03/2017 - 6:30 pm
This extraordinary work, assembled in 1968 by Avner Offer – Oxford Professor of Economic History and a former soldier in the Six-Day War – is now published ... read more
Not chosen
Contributor(s): Giles Fraser
05/03/2017 - 6:30 pm
Giles Fraser, priest, columnist, broadcaster and educator talks to Richard Harries about his upbringing as the child of a Christian-born mother and Jewish-born ... read more
The Left’s Jewish Problem
Contributor(s): Dave Rich | Nick Cohen
05/03/2017 - 5:00 pm
In his thought-provoking new work, The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism, Dave Rich offers a judicious analysis of the Left’s i... read more
Have I Got A Story For You…
Contributor(s): Liana Finck | Ezra Glinter | Boris Fishman
05/03/2017 - 5:00 pm
The renowned émigré newspaper, The Forward, was founded in New York at the end of the 19th century. Liana Finck’s A Bintel Brief is written in an illustrati... read more
Voices from Pinterland
Contributor(s): Michael Billington
05/03/2017 - 5:00 pm
An exhilarating event featuring 17 early works by Harold Pinter, comprising his essays, sketches and radio plays, displaying the variety and wit of Pinter’s e... read more
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story
Contributor(s): Matti Friedman | Hugo Rifkind
05/03/2017 - 3:30 pm
In an astute and moving exposé of war’s futility – part memoir, part reportage – award-winning writer and journalist Matti Friedman, in conversation with... read more
The Curse of Cash
Contributor(s): Ken Rogoff | Andrew Haldane
05/03/2017 - 3:30 pm
One of the world’s leading economists, Harvard Professor and chess grandmaster, Kenneth Rogoff, makes a persuasive case for ridding the world of high value pa... read more
Midrash Unbound: Transformations and Innovations
Contributor(s): Philip Alexander | Joanna Weinberg | Theodor Dunkelgrün
05/03/2017 - 3:30 pm
Professors Joanna Weinberg and Philip Alexander with Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün discourse on the Midrash. Covering a broad range of texts, from late antiquity to th... read more
Dora’s Story
Contributor(s): Dora Reisser | Henry Goodman
05/03/2017 - 2:00 pm
Dora’s Story is a tale of triumph over every possible adversity – a story of terror and hunger and persistence. Dora Reisser, who made her way from Sofia to... read more
Feisty Fictions
Contributor(s): Linda Grant | Sarah Moss | Erica Wagner
05/03/2017 - 2:00 pm
Linda’s Grant’s sparkling new novel, The Dark Circle, is set in 1950, two years into the NHS, revolving around a TB sanatorium in the Kent countryside, wher... read more
A Forger’s Life
Contributor(s): Sarah Kaminsky | Natasha Lehrer
05/03/2017 - 12:30 pm
This is the gripping true story of Adolfo Kaminsky who, narrowly escaping deportation to Auschwitz, was recruited as a teenager to join the Jewish underground. ... read more
Russian America and American Russia
Contributor(s): Boris Fishman | Sana Krasikov
05/03/2017 - 12:30 pm
Boris Fishman and Sana Krasikov, originally from the former USSR, are two of America’s finest writers of fiction. Boris Fishman, author of the critically admi... read more
Lady Antonia Fraser: A little-known chapter in her life with Harold Pinter
Contributor(s): Antonia Fraser | Michael Billington
05/03/2017 - 12:30 pm
In May 1978, the award-winning biographer Lady Antonia Fraser and celebrated playwright Harold Pinter boarded a flight destined for Tel Aviv. Antonia Fraser’s... read more
Testaments to Constancy and Change
Contributor(s): Alexandra Harris | Rachel Lichtenstein | Anthony Sattin
05/03/2017 - 11:00 am
In Weatherland, Alexandra Harris’s subject is not the weather itself but the weather as it is daily recreated in the human imagination. She builds her remarka... read more
