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Tel Aviv Stories
Contributor(s): Shira Geffen | Linda Grant
06/03/2011 - 3:00 pm
The film, Jellyfish, captures the hidden narratives of everyday Tel-Aviv life and draws a vision of the hundred-year old city which is both more seedy and magic... read more
Who Do We Think We Are?
Contributor(s): Jeffrey Kaye | Hannah Pool
06/03/2011 - 3:00 pm
Journalists Gary Younge and Jeffrey Kaye wrestled with “identity” in this thought-provoking session. Younge assessed that identity politics may be a... read more
The Balfour Declaration
Contributor(s): Tom Fraser | Jonathan Schneer
06/03/2011 - 3:00 pm
The story of the Balfour Declaration is a tale full of intrigue, betrayal, adventure, death and triumph. Jonathan Schneer shows English diplomats’ desperate e... read more
Turbulent Times
Contributor(s): Jon Boyd | Keith Kahn-Harris | Melanie Phillips | Miri Weingarten | Martin Bright
06/03/2011 - 3:00 pm
The Jewish people have always been a disputatious lot. In the contemporary British Jewish community, issues such as attitudes to Israel, antisemitism, Jewish pr... read more
An Unfinished Business
Contributor(s): Boualem Sansal | Boyd Tonkin
06/03/2011 - 2:45 pm
Boualem Sansal is not afraid to tackle difficult topics. His novels, written in French, are banned in his own country, Algeria. An Unfinished Business is the st... read more
The Punishment of Gaza
Contributor(s): Gideon Levy
06/03/2011 - 2:45 pm
He has been called “a propagandist for Hamas” by Israeli right-wingers but sees himself as a patriot who wants to be proud of his country. He told Johann Ha... read more
Freud’s Escape from Vienna
Contributor(s): David Cohen
06/03/2011 - 2:45 pm
Freud escaped from Vienna with the help of a good Nazi Anton Sauerwald who in his spare time made bombs. In the book The Escape of Sigmund Freud David Coehn tel... read more
Super Sad Love Story
Contributor(s): David Schneider | Gary Shteyngart
06/03/2011 - 2:30 pm
Put together one of America’s best novelists – the irreverent Russian-born Gary Shteyngart – and the only UK comedian who is an expert in Yiddish – the ... read more
Peter Mandelson in conversation with Nick Cohen
Contributor(s): Peter Mandelson | Nick Cohen
06/03/2011 - 2:30 pm
‘A compelling account of the New Labour years…nearly every page is illuminating.’ Steve Richards, Independent ‘A revealing and important... read more
Vasily Grossman
Contributor(s): Robert Chandler | Janet Suzman | Janet Wolff
06/03/2011 - 2:15 pm
Vasily Grossman is famous for his masterpiece Life and Fate and his writing as a reporter embedded within the Red Army, particularly for his powerful report on ... read more
My Memories After Death
Contributor(s): Yair Qedar | Yair Lapid | Rachel Shabi
06/03/2011 - 2:15 pm
The most popular Israeli journalist presented his latest book, a posthumous memoir of his father, the much loved and controversial politician Tommy Lapid. He al... read more
A Rift In Time
Contributor(s): Raja Shehadeh | Jo Glanville
06/03/2011 - 2:15 pm
Raja Shehadeh’s uncle fled the Ottoman police, his family lost their prosperous home by the sea when Israel was created, his father was murdered and his every... read more
JC Evening: Last Word
Contributor(s): Jonathan Freedland | Howard Jacobson
06/03/2011 - 2:00 pm
The Finkler Question is the ‘first unashamedly comic novel’ to win the prestigious Booker Prize and flagrantly Jewish to boot. Howard Jacobson and Jonathan ... read more
We Had It So Good
Contributor(s): Linda Grant | Joan Bakewell
06/03/2011
Linda Grant spoke to Joan Bakewell about her new novel, We Had It So Good, which takes us from the late 60s to today, following the lives of a group of friends ... read more
The Death of Eli Gold
Contributor(s): Erica Wagner
05/03/2011 - 3:15 pm
The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, America and fame. Inspired by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, John Updike,... read more
True Tales
Contributor(s): Stella Duffy | David Flusfeder | Benjamin Markovits | Meg Rosoff | Jake Wallis Simons | Clive Sinclair | Debbie Chazen
05/03/2011 - 3:15 pm
The totally true storytelling club returned for JBW 2011. We selected some of our favourite writers who revealed true moments of beauty, awkwardness, tragedy an... read more
