Events 2003
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.
Writing Music: Norman Lebrecht
Contributor(s): Norman Lebrecht | Steven Isserlis
09/03/2019 - 4:30 pm
In a lively and good-natured session, Norman Lebrecht, novelist and one of Britain’s best known commentators on classical music, discussed with Steven Iss... read more
Desert Island Books: Howard Jacobson
Contributor(s): Howard Jacobson | Vanessa Feltz
09/03/2003 - 8:00 pm
In a light-hearted and often hilarious finale to Book Week 2003, Howard Jacobson, acclaimed novelist and master of irreverent comedy, revealed to Vanessa Feltz ... read more
Engrossed in Grossman: David Grossman
Contributor(s): David Grossman | Linda Grant
09/03/2003 - 8:00 pm
“I think it is so important to write about the person, to redeem the person there and to remind us writers and readers that life is so much more complicated t... read more
Everything is Illuminated
Contributor(s): Jonathan Safran Foer | Peter Florence
09/03/2003 - 4:30 pm
In this session, Peter Florence discussed literature and celebrity with America’s newest literary wunderkind. Jonathan Safran Foer’s debut novel, Every... read more
Double Dutch Рin Translation: Marcel M̦ring
Contributor(s): Marcel Möring | Amanda Hopkinson
09/03/2003 - 2:15 pm
In Britain, Dutch Jewish literature has often been perceived as beginning and ending with The Diary of Anne Frank. ‘Double Dutch’ presented an insight into ... read more
Making a Difference: Edie Friedman, Anne Karpf Trevor Phillips and Stephen Twigg
Contributor(s): Stephen Twigg | Trevor Phillips | Anne Karpf
09/03/2003 - 2:00 pm
To mark the launch of their new education pack Making a Difference: Promoting Race Equality in Secondary Schools, Youth Groups and Adult Education – a Je... read more
Interrupting Auschwitz: Josh Cohen
Contributor(s): Josh Cohen | Jacqueline Rose
09/03/2003 - 1:00 pm
Hitler, wrote Theodor Adorno, imposed a ‘new categorical imperative on humankind to arrange thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself.... read more
From Madness to Art: Alona Kimchi
Contributor(s): Alona Kimchi
07/03/2003 - 6:15 pm
Alona Kimchi was born in 1968 in Russia and came to Israel with her family in 1972. Her two books in Ivrit have won many awards; this is the first to be transla... read more
Murder at Jewish Book Week: Kinky Friedman
Contributor(s): Kinky Friedman
06/03/2003 - 8:30 pm
This session featured a heady brew of anecdotes, question and answer sessions and renditions of songs such as Ride ‘Em Jewboy, somehow marshalled by JCÂ... read more
History on Trial
Contributor(s):
06/03/2003 - 1:15 pm
Richard Evans in conversation with Anthony Julius discussed how the legal system and the courtroom shape our knowledge and understanding of Holocaust history. read more
Healing the World: Noreena Hertz, Justice Albie Sachs
Contributor(s): Noreena Hertz | Justice Albie Sachs | Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet
05/03/2003 - 8:30 pm
Do Jews have a particular responsibility to enact Tikkun olam, healing the world? In this session, Dr Noreena Hertz, leading anti-globalisation advocate, and J... read more
My Bible: Jonathan Sacks
Contributor(s): Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks | Anne Webber
05/03/2003 - 7:30 pm
In this session, the Chief Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks marked the launch of The Chief Rabbi’s Haggadah with a characteristic display of intellectual vibr... read more
Innocence, Memory and Experience: Eva Figes and Ruth Kluger
Contributor(s): Eva Figes | Ruth Kluger
05/03/2003 - 6:15 pm
In this absorbing and brilliant session, Eva Hoffman explored the extraordinary narratives of two authors, their complex relationships with the women in their f... read more
Literary Lunch: Robert Winston
Contributor(s): Robert Winston
05/03/2003 - 1:00 pm
Are science and religion always destined to come into conflict? What are the ethical implications of new developments in biology and medicine? How should halac... read more
Close Encounters
Contributor(s): Eilat Negev
04/03/2003 - 4:00 pm
Israeli writer and journalist Eilat Negev penetrated behind the public image of major Israeli writers. read more
Autobiographical Imaginings: Michal Bat Adam
Contributor(s): Eilat Negev
04/03/2003 - 1:30 pm
Michal Bat Adam, in conversation with Eilat Negev, explored the relationship between her life and her work as a writer and film maker. read more
