Events 2011
Tel Aviv Stories
06/03/2011 - 3:00 pm
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The film, Jellyfish, captures the hidden narratives of everyday Tel-Aviv life and draws a vision of the hundred-year old city which is both more seedy and ma...
Who Do We Think We Are?
06/03/2011 - 3:00 pm
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Journalists Gary Younge and Jeffrey Kaye wrestled with “identity” in this thought-provoking session. Younge assessed that identity politic...
The Balfour Declaration
06/03/2011 - 3:00 pm
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The story of the Balfour Declaration is a tale full of intrigue, betrayal, adventure, death and triumph. Jonathan Schneer shows English diplomats’ desperat...
Turbulent Times
06/03/2011 - 3:00 pm
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The Jewish people have always been a disputatious lot. In the contemporary British Jewish community, issues such as attitudes to Israel, antisemitism, Jewish...
An Unfinished Business
06/03/2011 - 2:45 pm
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Boualem Sansal is not afraid to tackle difficult topics. His novels, written in French, are banned in his own country, Algeria. An Unfinished Business is the...
The Punishment of Gaza
06/03/2011 - 2:45 pm
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He has been called “a propagandist for Hamas” by Israeli right-wingers but sees himself as a patriot who wants to be proud of his country. He told Johann...
Freud’s Escape from Vienna
06/03/2011 - 2:45 pm
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Freud escaped from Vienna with the help of a good Nazi Anton Sauerwald who in his spare time made bombs. In the book The Escape of Sigmund Freud David Coehn ...
Super Sad Love Story
06/03/2011 - 2:30 pm
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Put together one of America’s best novelists – the irreverent Russian-born Gary Shteyngart – and the only UK comedian who is an expert in Yiddish – t...
Peter Mandelson in conversation with Nick Cohen
06/03/2011 - 2:30 pm
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‘A compelling account of the New Labour years…nearly every page is illuminating.’ Steve Richards, Independent ‘A revealing and...
Vasily Grossman
06/03/2011 - 2:15 pm
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Vasily Grossman is famous for his masterpiece Life and Fate and his writing as a reporter embedded within the Red Army, particularly for his powerful report ...
My Memories After Death
06/03/2011 - 2:15 pm
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The most popular Israeli journalist presented his latest book, a posthumous memoir of his father, the much loved and controversial politician Tommy Lapid. He...
A Rift In Time
06/03/2011 - 2:15 pm
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Raja Shehadeh’s uncle fled the Ottoman police, his family lost their prosperous home by the sea when Israel was created, his father was murdered and his ev...
JC Evening: Last Word
06/03/2011 - 2:00 pm
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The Finkler Question is the ‘first unashamedly comic novel’ to win the prestigious Booker Prize and flagrantly Jewish to boot. Howard Jacobson and Jonath...
We Had It So Good
06/03/2011 -
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Linda Grant spoke to Joan Bakewell about her new novel, We Had It So Good, which takes us from the late 60s to today, following the lives of a group of frien...
The Death of Eli Gold
05/03/2011 - 3:15 pm
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The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, America and fame. Inspired by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, John Updi...