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How To Be Awesome: Lessons From Great Jewish Girls
Contributor(s): Batya Bricker
03/04/2022 - 1:00 pm
Child Ticket – £8.50 Adult Ticket – £10.50 Are you fearless? Fearlessness can be many things: speaking up against wrong, rescuing lives or inspiri... read more
Fantastic Animals: Free Workshop
Contributor(s): Carol Isaacs | Sharon Spitz
03/04/2022 - 12:00 pm
Have you ever seen a squiraffe? It’s a magical combination of a squirrel and a giraffe, very talented at spotting nuts from a distance. Join us for this f... read more
Michael Rosen: Please Write Soon
Contributor(s): Michael Rosen | Jodie Lancet-Grant
03/04/2022 - 11:00 am
Child Ticket – £9.50 Adult Ticket – £13.50 A special pre-publication event with a very special author. Michael Rosen joins us to discuss his life... read more
Letters of Light
Contributor(s): Rachel Elior | Yigal Zalmona | Caron Sethill
07/03/2022 - 6:00 pm
Please note that this event has moved from a previously advertised date and time. This event will be at 6pm (GMT) / 8pm (IST). Micha Ullman’s “Lette... read more
Don Black, Marti Webb & Michael Grade
Contributor(s): Don Black | Marti Webb | Michael Grade
06/03/2022 - 7:45 pm
A fitting finale to the 70th anniversary Jewish Book Week; an evening of live music and memories celebrating the Oscar, Olivier and Tony winner Don Black, the... read more
Bible Stories from Within
Contributor(s): Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet | Gabriel Josipovici | Rabbi Zahavit Shalev
06/03/2022 - 7:45 pm
Please note that this event has moved from a previously advertised date and time. They are often most familiar as the simplified versions we learn as children; ... read more
Thatcher: The End
Contributor(s): David Young | Caroline Slocock | Zoe Strimpel
06/03/2022 - 7:45 pm
Admirers and detractors alike agree that Margaret Thatcher’s premiership changed the country. The final years of her tenure continue to fascinate and we are j... read more
Worlds Apart
Contributor(s): Nadia Ragozhina | Sandra Myers
06/03/2022 - 7:15 pm
Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. Adolphe moves to Switzerland while Marcus, inspired by Communism, moves east. A century later Marcus’s g... read more
Looking for an Enemy
Contributor(s): Natasha Lehrer | Gideon Reuveni | Daniel Trilling | Jo Glanville
06/03/2022 - 6:15 pm
What drives those who hate Jews? 75 years after the Shoah, conspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream, from the left and the right; from the Pitt... read more
Can We Talk About Israel
Contributor(s): Daniel Sokatch | Anshel Pfeffer
06/03/2022 - 6:00 pm
Can’t you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less? This is the question Daniel Sokatch, head of the New Israel Fund, is used... read more
Going Solo
Contributor(s): Francesca Specter
06/03/2022 - 5:30 pm
Now we’re more connected than ever online, spending time alone or being single can seem against the grain, despite being an experience shared by millions. A ... read more
Ridley Road: Fighting the Fascists
Contributor(s): Jo Bloom | Steve Silver | Dave Rich
06/03/2022 - 4:15 pm
50 years after its formation, the story of the anti-fascist 62 Group – the successor to the 43 Group, two veterans of which joined us at Jewish Book Week 2020... read more
The Olive-Green Rucksack
Contributor(s): Jaana Johansson | David Lawson
06/03/2022 - 3:45 pm
Journalist Jaana Johansson tells the remarkable tale of her friend Josef Salomonovic (Pepek) who entrusted her with his true story – a story of deportation ... read more
How to be a Refugee
Contributor(s): Simon May | Kavita Puri
06/03/2022 - 2:45 pm
Philosopher and author Simon May joins us to discuss his powerfully moving family memoir, taking on questions of home and belonging that continue to press in on... read more
The Vaccine
Contributor(s): Joe Miller | Anshel Pfeffer
06/03/2022 - 2:45 pm
In January 2020, just weeks after the first known case and months before it took grip globally, immunologist Uğur Şahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and de... read more
