Events 2006
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.
The Orientalist: Tom Reiss
Contributor(s): Tom Reiss | David Winner
05/03/2006 - 4:45 pm
In The Orientalist, Tom Reiss tells the remarkable tale of Kurban Said, aka Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew with a passion for the Arab world and bestselling author of ... read more
Morris Gleitzman
Contributor(s): Morris Gleitzman
05/03/2006 - 4:30 pm
Once there was a boy his parents tried to protect. Once he escaped to find them. Once story telling helped him survive. Morris Gleitzman told the wonderful s... read more
Hitler’s Canary: Sandi Toksvig
Contributor(s): Sandi Toksvig
05/03/2006 - 4:30 pm
The wonderfully witty writer and broadcaster, born in Copenhagen, told the story of her novel inspired by the true acts of courage of the Danish population unit... read more
My Mother was a Bag Lady: Josiane Behmoiras
Contributor(s): Josiane Behmoiras | Matthew Reisz
05/03/2006 - 4:15 pm
Dora B and her eight year old daughter were expelled for vagrancy from France to Israel. Convinced that she was the victim of a conspiracy, Dora gradually lost ... read more
The Truth, Nothing but the Truth
Contributor(s): Laurel Leff | Arthur Neslen | Jon Silverman
05/03/2006 - 4:15 pm
In Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, Laurel Leff examined the many decisions that were made along the chain-of-comma... read more
Horrid Henry: Francesca Simon
Contributor(s): Francesca Simon
05/03/2006 - 4:00 pm
Horrid Henry is definitely not mending his ways! Find out more about his naughty adventures. read more
The Barrier: Isabel Kershner
Contributor(s): Isabel Kershner
05/03/2006 - 4:00 pm
Isabel Kershner presented a riveting exploration of the impact of Israel’s controversial security barrier. She offered rich and insightful portraits of the pe... read more
Finding My Own Voice
Contributor(s): Judith Rotem | Risa Domb
05/03/2006 - 4:00 pm
Judith Rotem’s journey took her from an Orthodox Hungarian lifestyle, through a concentration camp as a baby, to life on an Israeli moshav and later in the re... read more
Taking (Up) the Tablets: Simon Baron-Cohen, Michael Bywater, Giles Coren, Anne Karpf and Piers Paul Read
Contributor(s): Michael Bywater | Giles Coren | Anne Karpf | Piers Paul Read | Professor Simon Baron-Cohen | Helena Kennedy
05/03/2006 - 10:30 am
They are shared by all the religions of the Book but how resonant are the Ten Commandments in our lives today? Even such apparently obvious ones like thou shal... read more
Saturday Night Double Bill
Contributor(s): Sam Bourne | Jay Rayner | Jonathan Freedland | Hirsh Goodman | Jonathan Kaplan | Jeff Barak
04/03/2006 - 5:00 pm
SESSION ONE : Suspense Jonathan Freedland presented Sam Bourne, the author of an exciting thriller set in the New York Jewish community. Moderated by award-winn... read more
Secrets and Lies
Contributor(s): Carmen Callil | Julian Jackson
04/03/2006 - 3:45 pm
In the 1960s Carmen Callil visited the psychiatrist Anne Darquier and they forged a close bond, tragically broken when Anne committed suicide. Years later, Carm... read more
Tea Time Stories: ‘A Birthday in London’
Contributor(s): Juliet Prague
03/03/2006 - 11:30 am
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ‘A Bithday in London’ A group of elderly German-Jewish refugees celebrate the birthday of one of their members while they talk ... read more
Elaine Feinstein and Amir Or
Contributor(s): Elaine Feinstein | Amir Or | Fiona Sampson
03/03/2006 - 10:15 am
Poet and translator Fiona Sampson chaired this session which took us into the worlds of two very special poets. Amir Or combines the mysteries of the spirit wit... read more
Poetry Translation Workshop
Contributor(s): Elaine Feinstein | Amir Or | Daniel Weissbort
03/03/2006 - 10:15 am
Poets and translators Elaine Feinstein, Amir Or and Daniel Weissbort led poetry translation workshops from Hebrew, Russian and French. People came and discovere... read more
Delicious Travels
Contributor(s): Claudia Roden
02/03/2006 - 11:00 am
The multi-talented author spoke about her return to the countries of Turkey, Lebanon and Morocco in search of old and new recipes, and to find out how cooking h... read more
Matches: Ryan Craig & Alan Kaufman
Contributor(s): Ryan Craig | Alan Kaufman | Kirsty Lang
02/03/2006 - 10:45 am
Matches is the Israel Defence Force codename for a soldier: someone who strikes, burns and dies. Alan Kaufman, has written a moving novel based on his experienc... read more
