Events 2005
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.
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism
Contributor(s): Stephen Frosh
26/05/2005 - 6:00 pm
Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master of Birkbeck, with responsibility for Teaching and Learning. His work focuses on the psychological, social and cultural applicat... read more
Meet the Author: Dan Peltz
Contributor(s): Dan Peltz
13/03/2005 - 4:30 pm
Out of the Blue is the compelling story of the elderly daughter of prewar Parisian art dealers, whose chance encounter with a Picasso masterpiece looted by the... read more
Nice Jewish Gurus
Contributor(s): Irma Kurtz | Lynne Franks | Carole Caplin | Naomi Gryn
13/03/2005 - 3:00 pm
From agony aunts to lifestyle gurus, the Jewish commitment to self-improvement and fulfilment cannot be underestimated. Irma Kurtz is one of Britain’s lea... read more
A Question of Zion
Contributor(s): Jacqueline Rose | D D Guttenplan
13/03/2005 - 2:15 pm
Although Israel barely leaves the front page, notes Jacqueline Rose, the complexity of Zionism itself is hardly ever explored. Zionism is founded on the legitim... read more
Inside Anne Frank’s House
Contributor(s): Peter Mayer | Rian Verhoeven
13/03/2005 - 12:00 pm
Peter Mayer and Rian Verhoeven from the Anne Frank Museum spoke about Anne’s inspirational story and read from her diary in this fascinating event. Mayer ... read more
Hebrew Language Session
Contributor(s): Etgar Keret
13/03/2005 - 11:00 am
Etgar Keret’s latest collection of short stories, The Nimrod Flip-Out (2005), confirms his reputation as Israel’s bestselling young writer and new... read more
A Telling Time
Contributor(s): Susannah York
13/03/2005 - 10:00 am
For the launch of the UK publication of A Telling Time by famous children’s author Irene Watts, actress Susannah York read from this enchanting book whi... read more
Great Writers of the 20th Century: Adam Thirlwell on Isaac Bashevis Singer
Contributor(s): Adam Thirlwell | David Schneider
13/03/2005 - 9:45 am
When Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer died in 1991 aged 87, he was already a canonical American writer. Yet Singer never wrote in English, although he d... read more
Anthony Sher in conversation with Nick Hern
Contributor(s): Anthony Sher | Nick Hern
13/03/2005 - 9:45 am
Antony Sher is one of Britain’s most brilliant actors and authors. Since moving to England in 1968 from his native Cape Town, he has excelled in a huge ra... read more
The Jewish Question
Contributor(s): Alain Finkielkraut | Alain Bornstein
12/03/2005 - 12:15 am
Are we living through a resurgence of antisemitism? Is it connected to Israel, and if so, how? And how deeply entrenched is it in Jewish identity? Anthony Juliu... read more
Dan Jacobson In conversation with Stanley Price
Contributor(s): Dan Jacobson
10/03/2005 - 10:45 am
Dan Jacobson is one of Britain’s most eminent writers with a string of awards to his name. Here he discussed his life in writing and launched his then new boo... read more
American Tales: Bernard Malamud, ‘Angel Levine’
Contributor(s): Daniel Hart
10/03/2005 - 10:30 am
This fantastical moral allegory, published in 1955, tells the story of a down-on-his-luck tailor who thinks his prayers have been answered when he is visited by... read more
Passions: Jews
Contributor(s): Howard Jacobson
10/03/2005 - 10:30 am
Described as Britain’s “funniest living writer”, Howard Jacobson explored his passion for Jews and Jewishness in his latest novel, The Making of Henry (... read more
Apprehending Eichmann
Contributor(s): David Cesarani | Lisa Appignanesi | Hanna Yablonka
10/03/2005 - 10:30 am
David Cesarani’s Eichmann: His Life and Crimes (2004) is the first account of Eichmann’s life since the aftermath of his dramatic capture and trial by the... read more
The Ethics of Biography
Contributor(s): Tom Bower | Michael Freedland | Anne Sebba | Michael Goldfarb | Tom Sutcliffe
10/03/2005 - 10:15 am
Biography is one of the great literary growth areas, reaching a huge number of readers. But how do authors deal with the scandals, rivalries, secrets and lies t... read more
A Rose for Reuben
Contributor(s): Robert Rietti
09/03/2005 - 11:15 am
Over many years, the renowned actor and broadcaster Robert Rietti collected remarkable true stories full of surprising tenderness and hope and examples of lives... read more
