Events 2020
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 Tunnel
Contributor(s): A.B. Yehoshua | Jenni Frazer | David Herman
19/04/2020 - 6:00 pm
This discussion was recorded via the Zoom webinar facility. One of the world’s most renowned novelists, A.B. Yehoshua has been dubbed, together with Amos Oz a... read more
The Hollywood Songbook
Contributor(s): Claire Martin | Rob Barron (Piano) | Jeremy Brown (Bass) | Rob Barron (piano) and Jeremy Brown (bass) | Compered by Rob Rinder | Rob Rinder
08/03/2020 - 8:15 pm
Cole Porter, the only non-Jew in a line-up of songwriters boasting the Gershwin brothers, Jerome Kern, Alan Lerner and Leonard Bernstein, to name but a few, cla... read more
The Good State
Contributor(s): A.C. Grayling
08/03/2020 - 8:00 pm
There is a ticking time-bomb at the heart of our representative democracy and in more than 50 countries around the world. The problem is as large and widespread... read more
Mazel Tov!
Contributor(s): J.S. Margot | Justine Solomons
08/03/2020 - 8:00 pm
In 1987, 20-year-old student J.S. Margot responded to a job advertisement from an Orthodox Jewish couple in Antwerp to tutor their four children. This is the st... read more
Primo Levi: the Elements of a Life
Contributor(s): Ian Thomson | Simon May
08/03/2020 - 6:30 pm
In 1987 the Italian writer Primo Levi fell to his death in the house where he was born. More than 40 years after his rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, it n... read more
Misadventures in Chelm (and other stories)
Contributor(s): Izzy Abrahmson & Mark Binder
08/03/2020 - 6:30 pm
Have you heard of Chelm, the village of fools? They make you smile and laugh. In Mark Binder’s spoken and written stories you’ll meet the wise Rabbi... read more
The World According to Physics
Contributor(s): Jim Al-Khalili | Etan Ilfeld
08/03/2020 - 5:00 pm
Jim Al-Khalili shines a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, inviting us to understand what physics tells us about the universe and t... read more
Heroes or Villains: The Blair Government Reconsidered
Contributor(s): John Rentoul | Jon Davis | David Triesman
08/03/2020 - 5:00 pm
For 13 years Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain, winning three elections in a row for New Labour. Today he is disowned by many in his own party. D... read more
Under My Hat
Contributor(s): Sally Berkovic | Adam Taub
08/03/2020 - 5:00 pm
Sally Berkovic chronicles the challenges of raising daughters while straddling the tensions between an Orthodox religious life and the forces of secularism. In ... read more
Seeking Love in Modern Britain
Contributor(s): Zoe Strimpel | Mark Lawson
08/03/2020 - 4:30 pm
Zoe Strimpel explores the rise of the dating industry, from 1970 to the present day, revealing how mediated courtship and singleness began in a time long before... read more
Genius and Anxiety How: Jews Changed the World 1847-1947
Contributor(s): Norman Lebrecht | Trudy Gold
08/03/2020 - 3:30 pm
Moses said the Law is everything. Jesus said love is everything. Marx said money is everything. Freud said sex is everything. Einstein said everything is relati... read more
The Outsiders
Contributor(s): Amelia Gentleman | Philipp Ther | Panikos Panayi | Matthew Stadlen
08/03/2020 - 3:30 pm
The history of Europe is permeated with enforced exodus, displaced peoples and mass migration. Philipp Ther explores the major expulsions and their aftermath fi... read more
Family Business
Contributor(s): Peter Conradi | Carmen Callil | Charlotte Mendelson
08/03/2020 - 3:30 pm
Peter Conradi’s ‘masterpiece’ of a memoir ranges from his European Jewish forebears who came to Britain in the Victorian era to novelist and p... read more
Generation Share
Contributor(s): Benita Matofska
08/03/2020 - 3:00 pm
Generation Share takes readers on a journey around the globe to meet the people who are changing and saving lives, transforming our society, our economy and ult... read more
Einstein on the Run
Contributor(s): Andrew Robinson | Martin Rees
08/03/2020 - 2:00 pm
In the autumn of 1933, Albert Einstein was living alone in an isolated holiday hut in Norfolk, ‘on the run’ from Nazi death threats. There, he toiled peacef... read more
