Events 2007
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.
Rubies and Rebels
Contributor(s): Susannah Heschel | Lynne Segal | Dina Rabinovitch
04/03/2007 - 5:00 pm
Continuing in the long tradition of Jewish women causing trouble Susannah Heschel, Julia Neuberger and Lynne Segal explored the impact of the Women’s Movement... read more
Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise And Fall Of a Forgotten Nation
Contributor(s): David Schneider | Paul Kriwaczek
04/03/2007 - 4:45 pm
David Schneider spoke to Paul Kriwaczek about his engaging and entertaining, though controversial book on the history of the Yiddish-speaking Jews. Why does he ... read more
Shared Histories
Contributor(s): Manuel Hassassian | Benjamin Pogrund | Paul Scham | Colin Shindler
04/03/2007 - 4:30 pm
There is no single history of the development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are always two narratives. The most prominent example is the event Pale... read more
Judith Kerr
Contributor(s): Judith Kerr | Geraldine Brennan
04/03/2007 - 4:15 pm
In this rare event, the renowned children’s writer and illustrator Judith Kerr spoke about her life and work which has delighted and charmed generations of re... read more
Missing Kissinger
Contributor(s): Etgar Keret | Hephzibah Anderson
04/03/2007 - 4:15 pm
Etgar Keret’s short stories are fast paced and precise, hilarious and off-the-wall, they are also dark, sometimes violent, and often intensely poignant. T... read more
Purim Puppet Show
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04/03/2007 - 4:15 pm
The Pomegranate Puppet Theatre performed their magical Purim show, ‘The Story of Esther’: an all –singing-all -dancing interactive version of the original... read more
Forgiveness and Retribution
Contributor(s): Judith Butler | Udi Aloni
04/03/2007 - 4:15 pm
Judith Butler’s book, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence is considered her most impassioned and personal book to date. In it she offers ... read more
Passion: Travelling in Search of History
Contributor(s): Martin Gilbert
04/03/2007 - 4:00 pm
For more than fifty years, Martin Gilbert has been travelling the world in search of people and documents to illuminate his quest for Jewish historical facts an... read more
Michael Rosen
Contributor(s): Michael Rosen
04/03/2007 - 4:00 pm
Michael Rosen’s mother told him not to kvetsch, greps at the table or chup his soup. His father told him he was meshugge. His mother told him not to be a ... read more
Howard Jacobson in conversation with Peter Florence
Contributor(s): Howard Jacobson | Peter Florence
04/03/2007 - 3:30 pm
The seriously funny writer, our greatest British Jewish novelist, spoke to Peter Florence about literature, comedy, Jewishness and much more. The conversation w... read more
Gabriel Josipovici in conversation with Bryan Cheyette
Contributor(s): Gabriel Josipovici | Bryan Cheyette
04/03/2007 - 10:45 am
Gabriel Josipovici has been publishing fiction and criticism for close to forty years. Last year saw the publication of a substantial volume of essays, The Sing... read more
Reading Louis Jacobs
Contributor(s): Josh Cohen
04/03/2007 - 10:30 am
Rabbi Louis Jacobs was Anglo-Jewry’s greatest scholar. To mark his passing, a structured reading scheme has been set up in London, Chicago, Jerusalem and ... read more
The Seventh Gate
Contributor(s): Richard Zimler | Henrietta Foster
04/03/2007 - 10:15 am
In The Seventh Gate, the fourth volume of Richard Zimler’s series, Isaac Zarco, a distant relative of the 16th-century Portuguese kabbalist, becomes convinced... read more
Remembering Babylon
Contributor(s): Marina Benjamin | Naïm Kattan | Linda Dangoor
04/03/2007 - 10:00 am
Naim Kattan grew up in a multicultural Baghdad as did Marina Benjamin’s grandmother. A violent pogrom shook their world in 1941 and eventually 130, 000 Jews w... read more
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Contributor(s): Nora Ephron | Nicola Beauman | Mark Lawson
03/03/2007 - 10:45 am
Nora Ephron launched her book, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, at Book Week. In this session Nora Ephron examined the indignities... read more
How to Write Children’s Books
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02/03/2007 - 11:15 am
The prolific and much loved children’s writer and founder of Barn Owl Books, Ann Jungman explained how to write captivating stories and get published. read more
