Events 2014
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.
Irving Finkel The Ark before Noah
Contributor(s): Irving Finkel
03/03/2014 - 12:00 pm
A man walked into the British Museum one day in 2008 and handed Irving Finkel a palm-sized piece of clay carrying instructions for building the ark. Dating from... read more
Gary Shteyngart Little Failure
Contributor(s): Gary Shteyngart | Sarah Churchwell
02/03/2014 - 8:00 pm
Little Failure is the alarming pet-name given to the young Gary Shteyngart by his father when growing up in pre-Glasnost Russia is a remarkable immigrant memoir... read more
Film Double-Bill: Lea Goldberg and Yona Wallach
Contributor(s): Yair Qedar | Chair 2
02/03/2014 - 6:30 pm
Israeli filmmaker Yair Qedar comes to Jewish Book Week for the UK premiere of two documentaries, The Five Houses of Lea Goldberg (2011) and The Seven Tapes (201... read more
Douglas Hurd and Edward Young on Disraeli
Contributor(s): Douglas Hurd | Edward Young
02/03/2014 - 6:30 pm
In Disraeli or, The Two Lives former foreign secretary Lord Hurd and Edward Young tell the story of Benjamin Disraeli, a bankrupt Jewish school-dropout and tras... read more
Andrew Hussey The French Intifada
Contributor(s): Andrew Hussey | David Aaronovitch
02/03/2014 - 6:30 pm
Beyond the affluent centre of Paris a guerrilla war is ablaze between the secular French state and the former subjects of its Muslim North African colonies. In ... read more
Gideon Lewis-Kraus A Sense of Direction
Contributor(s): Gideon Lewis-Kraus | Gary Shteyngart | Naomi Alderman
02/03/2014 - 5:00 pm
“If David Foster Wallace had written Eat, Pray, Love it might have come close to approximating the adventures of Gideon Lewis-Kraus”, wrote Gary Shteyngart ... read more
Clive Sinclair Death and Texas
Contributor(s): Clive Sinclair | Cathy Galvin
02/03/2014 - 5:00 pm
The stories in Clive Sinclair’s fourth collection range from New Orleans and Texas to Peru and Venice, and their cast includes Davy Crockett, Princess Diana a... read more
Claudia Roden The Food of Italy
Contributor(s): Claudia Roden
02/03/2014 - 5:00 pm
Tuscany has never been closer to King’s Cross. Claudia Roden, a sell-out speaker at the festival with The Food of Spain in 2012, returns to talk about an imp... read more
Jane Rogoyska Gerda Taro and photojournalism
Contributor(s): Jane Rogoyska | David Mazower
02/03/2014 - 5:00 pm
Pioneering photographer Gerda Taro died in combat in the Spanish Civil war, aged 26. She did not live to see her partner Robert Capa become the world’s most c... read more
Claudia Roth Pierpont Roth Unbound
Contributor(s): Claudia Roth Pierpont | Tim Martin
02/03/2014 - 3:30 pm
Philip Roth has produced some of the greatest literature of the 20th century, yet there has been no major critical work about him to date. Now, for the first ti... read more
Mark Dapin Spirit House
Contributor(s): Claire Fox | Mark Dapin
02/03/2014 - 2:00 pm
David is 13 and confused. His mum has gone off with her lover and sent David to his grandparents to give her new relationshp some “space”. David’s gra... read more
Gianni Picco and Gabrielle Rifkind The Fog of Peace
Contributor(s): Giandomenico Picco | Gabrielle Rifkind | Fergal Keane
02/03/2014 - 2:00 pm
Peacemaking challenges every fundamental idea that we hold. Why should we talk to the enemy? What happens if people are nasty and brutish and we want to retalia... read more
Adam Foulds and Sheila Heti Multiples
Contributor(s): Adam Foulds | Sheila Heti | Laura Barber
02/03/2014 - 2:00 pm
Two young novelists discuss an extraordinary literary relay game in which dozens of writers have a go at translation, the thread of a story passing from culture... read more
Jews and Music under Nazi rule
Contributor(s): Michael Haas | Raphaël Jerusalmy | Norman Lebrecht
02/03/2014 - 12:30 pm
Michael Haas’s Forbidden Music looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the... read more
The Talmud The book that shaped Judaism
Contributor(s): Harry Freedman | Jacqueline Nicholls | Naftali Brawer
02/03/2014 - 11:00 am
The Talmud is a repository of centuries of rabbinic wisdom on law, legend and life, with a dialectic structure setting it apart from virtually any other text. H... read more
Keiron Pim and Miri Rubin Medieval Norwich
Contributor(s): Keiron Pim | Miri Rubin | Rebecca Abrams
02/03/2014 - 11:00 am
How was life for Jews in medieval England? Recent scholarship and a groundbreaking new translation of Hebrew poetry from Norwich shed light on a dark period of ... read more
