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Shylock: Merchant & Matriarch
Contributor(s): Anthony Julius | Brigid Larmour | Tracy-Ann Oberman | Kate Maltby | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 8:00 pm
Something special to close our 72nd festival: star of stage and screen Tracy-Ann Oberman performing excerpts from a radical new production of The Merchant ... read more
Hope is a Woman’s Name
Contributor(s): Amal Elsana Alh’jooj | Bidisha Mamata | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 8:00 pm
An indigenous Bedouin in a Jewish state and a fifth daughter in a patriarchal society, Amal Elsana Alh’jooj was a shepherd at the age of five. Always dri... read more
Hollywood and Israel
Contributor(s): Giora Goodman | Tony Shaw | Jenni Frazer | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 8:00 pm
From Sinatra’s pro-Zionist rallying to Spielberg’s present-day peace-making, Hollywood has long enjoyed a “special relationship” with Israel. Historians... read more
The Marx Brothers: From Vaudeville to Israel
Contributor(s): Robert S Bader | Harry Mount | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 6:30 pm
Like many children of 19th century Jewish immigrants, as each Marx brother boy celebrated his Barmitzvah their formal education was replaced by life on the stag... read more
The Life Fantastic: Myth, Pop & Folklore
Contributor(s): Noa Menhaim | Alan Dein | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 6:30 pm
Western culture as you’ve never seen it before. In a series of mind-blowing essays, critic and broadcaster Noa Menhaim digs down to the roots of stories, my... read more
Pressburger and Pearls
Contributor(s): Kevin Macdonald | Anthony Quinn | Toby Lichtig | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 6:30 pm
With A Matter of Life & Death, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes, Pressburger and Powell changed the face of cinema. Emeric Pressburger also wrote two n... read more
The Collaborators: Deception & Survival in WWII
Contributor(s): Ian Buruma | Simon Callow | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 5:00 pm
A Hasidic Jew fixer, a Manchu princess and Himmler’s masseur; each regarded as both heroes and villains due to their wartime acts. Friedrich Weinreb took ... read more
Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones
Contributor(s): Hettie Judah | Ilana Halperin | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 5:00 pm
From the hematite used in cave paintings and the moldavite that became a TikTok sensation to from crystal balls to compasses, rocks and minerals have always bee... read more
Jonathan Freedland and Anthony Julius in conversation with Hadley Freeman
Contributor(s): Jonathan Freedland | Anthony Julius | Hadley Freeman | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 5:00 pm
An insightful hour with three people who’ve reached the top of their fields. Solicitor Anthony Julius and Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, both de... read more
The Relativity of Death: Eduard Shyfrin
Contributor(s): Eduard Shyfrin | Robert Lawrence Kuhn | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 4:30 pm
Dr Eduard Shyfrin, founder of the Kabbalah of information, best-selling author of From Infinity to Man: The Fundamental Ideas of Kabbalah Within the Framework ... read more
Joanna’s Story: Read by Janet Suzman
Contributor(s): Joanna Millan | David Peimer | Janet Suzman | Trudy Gold | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 3:30 pm
A three-year old child is found in Theresienstadt at the end of the war with no memory of her past, her only words ‘dog’ and ‘soup’. Brought to children... read more
Bill Browder: Surviving Putin
Contributor(s): Bill Browder | Daniel Ross | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 3:30 pm
Can one man take on a ruthless global leader – and win? Financier Bill Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia, but the Moscow jail murder of h... read more
The BDS War: From Academia to Hollywood
Contributor(s): Ronnie Fraser | Lana Melman | David Hirsh | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 3:30 pm
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, conceived at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in South Africa in 2001, unleashed the ... read more
Returning from Silence
Contributor(s): Rupert Swyer | Michael Pye | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 3:00 pm
Michèle Sarde’s lively saga mingles creative writing with family memories. It evokes the prickly, centuries-long life of the Jews in Salonica, with their nos... read more
Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg
Contributor(s): Paul Vallely | Joanne Black | Lizzy Steinhart | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 2:00 pm
The super-rich are shaping our world. Award-winning journalist Paul Vallely follows previous bestsellers Bad Samaritans & Pope Francis with Philant... read more
Jonathan Freedland: The Escape Artist
Contributor(s): Jonathan Freedland | Tracy Chevalier | The Jewish Chronicle
05/03/2023 - 2:00 pm
“Awe inspiring, exciting and poignant, this is a thrilling read, a piece of redemptive storytelling and a work of important Holocaust historical research.” ... read more
