Events 2018
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.
Momentous Years: 1947-1948
Contributor(s): Elisabeth Ã…sbrink | Jonathan Fenby | Marina Benjamin
11/04/2018 - 3:30 pm
In 1947, Elisabeth Ã…sbrink, previous winner of the August Prize, intertwines global events with key moments from her personal history as the daughter of a Hung... read more
Why We Eat What We Eat: Food Myths Exposed
Contributor(s): Charles Spence | Anthony Warner | Bee Wilson
21/03/2018 - 8:30 pm
Why are 27% of drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? Why do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more person, and 75% more when with three? This is... read more
Synagogues in the Islamic World
Contributor(s): Mohammad Gharipour | Irving Finkel
11/03/2018 - 8:00 pm
In this exquisite volume Professor Mohammad Gharipour charts the development of synagogues in lands under Muslim rule, from North Africa and Spain to Central As... read more
The Hebrew Republic: Israel’s Return To History
Contributor(s): Colin Shindler | Ned Temko
11/03/2018 - 8:00 pm
In his collection of essays Colin Shindler presents his very personal take on Israel, based on over 50 years of writing on the subject for The New York Times, T... read more
How to find a Black Cat in a Dark Room
Contributor(s): Jacob Burak
11/03/2018 - 6:30 pm
Why do smart people make stupid mistakes? Why do tall, slim people earn more? Does society determine who we are? What really makes us tick? Internationally accl... read more
The Play’s The Thing
Contributor(s): Stephen Greenblatt | Howard Jacobson | Janet Suzman | Alex Clark
11/03/2018 - 6:30 pm
These three towering Shakespeareans who have taught, written about, directed and performed the greatest dramatist of all times, engage in a witty and illuminati... read more
One Italian Family’s Fight Against Fascism
Contributor(s): Caroline Moorehead
11/03/2018 - 5:00 pm
Award-winning writer Caroline Moorehead, in the concluding volume of her remarkable WW2 Resistance trilogy, draws on the unseen letters and diaries of an extrao... read more
Three Floors Up
Contributor(s): Eshkol Nevo | Francesca Segal
11/03/2018 - 5:00 pm
Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, prize-winning author Eshkol Nevo’s brilliant recent novel, translated by Sondra Silverstein, present... read more
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
Contributor(s): Jeremy Dauber | Toby Lichtig
11/03/2018 - 5:00 pm
Jeremy Dauber delivers a breath-taking and enthralling illustrated history of Jewish humour ‘in all its vast and variegated forms from antiquity to yesterdayâ... read more
Of Places and People, Art & Literature
Contributor(s): Alba Arikha | Griselda Pollock
11/03/2018 - 3:30 pm
Alba Arikha and Janet Wolff present their stunning and idiosyncratic coming-of-age memoirs, exploring their family backgrounds, from post-war Manchester to 1980... read more
Gardens Of Delight
Contributor(s): Penelope Lively | Rachel de Thame | Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg | Charlotte Mendelson
11/03/2018 - 3:30 pm
Gardens have been a source of enchantment since the dawn of time. Today’s speakers illuminate why gardening can be as vital an expression of the creative impu... read more
The Story of Hebrew
Contributor(s): Lewis Glinert | Jeremy Dauber
11/03/2018 - 2:00 pm
In this unique narrative of the Hebrew language from biblical to modern times, Professor Lewis Glinert explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Je... read more
Balancing Acts
Contributor(s): Nicholas Hytner | David Hare
11/03/2018 - 2:00 pm
Legendary ex-Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, equally known as an opera director, takes us behind the scenes of Britain’s greatest ... read more
Gustav Klimt at Home
Contributor(s): Patrick Bade
11/03/2018 - 1:30 pm
Art and cultural historian Patrick Bade was a lecturer for the MA programme at Christie’s Education in London until 2015. A prolific author, his publications ... read more
The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years In 22 Objects
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11/03/2018 - 12:30 pm
Consummate story-teller, Rebecca Abrams, offers tantalising glimpses into Jewish history through the prism of her personal selection from Oxford’s Ashmolean M... read more
