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Lev Ozerov: Portraits without Frames
Contributor(s): Robert Chandler | David Herman
03/03/2019 - 3:00 pm
Robert Chandler, in conversation with David Herman, discuss his recently published translation of Lev Ozerov’ s stupendous Portraits without Frames, one o... read more
Jewish Arguments: Then and Now
Contributor(s): Simon Schama | Julia Neuberger
03/03/2019 - 2:00 pm
In a world riven with bitter divisions, perverting every opportunity for dialogue, Simon Schama examined the peculiar force of contradictory argument in Jewish ... read more
Under Cover: A Poet’s Life in Publishing
Contributor(s): Jeremy Robson | Maureen Lipman
03/03/2019 - 2:00 pm
Acclaimed poet and publisher to the great and good, Jeremy Robson talks about his five decades in publishing, working with such intriguing and diverse figures a... read more
Finding Nemon
Contributor(s): Aurelia Young | Patrick Bade
03/03/2019 - 2:00 pm
Emigré sculptor Oscar Nemon, whose subjects included Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill and Sigmund Freud, was one of the 20th century’s ... read more
Radio Tel Aviv: The Musical Confession of Dr Israel Shine
Contributor(s): Edward Evans
03/03/2019 - 1:30 pm
Edward Evans presents a brilliantly funny novel. Israel has no idea who he is. Tracing his memories, track by musical track, he uncovers a cosmic emptiness at t... read more
The Knock on the Door: Struggling Against Apartheid
Contributor(s): Audrey Coleman | Keith Coleman | Jonathan Rosenthal | Terry Shakinovsky | John Simpson
03/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
In apartheid South Africa, many desperate parents fought to rescue their children, arrested for so-called ‘anti-apartheid’ activities, from the stat... read more
Workers’ Tales
Contributor(s): Michael Rosen | Nicolette Jones
03/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
Explore a collection of political tales selected and introduced by the brilliant critic and author Michael Rosen. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pol... read more
Doing Nothing
Contributor(s): Josh Cohen | Lucy Tobin
03/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
Oscar Wilde said that doing nothing is, ‘the most difficult thing in the world’. Today we live in a culture that demonises idleness, and the gloriou... read more
Reckonings: Who Cares About Bringing Nazis to Justice?
Contributor(s): Mary Fulbrook | Eli Rosenbaum | Philip Rubenstein | Joshua Rozenberg
03/03/2019 - 11:00 am
Eli Rosenbaum of the US Justice Department has been described as ‘the world’s most successful Nazi hunter’. However, Professor Mary Fulbrook, ... read more
A Brave New World? Living in a Society Transformed by Technology
Contributor(s): Jamie Susskind | Jacob Turner | Hugo Rifkind
03/03/2019 - 11:00 am
Our world is undergoing a seismic transformation. Digital technologies – from artificial intelligence to blockchain, from robotics to virtual reality R... read more
What Have the Plantagenets Ever Done for Us?
Contributor(s): Nick Barratt | Claudia Gold | Nicholas Vincent | Dominic Selwood | Nick Vincent
03/03/2019 - 11:00 am
The 11th and 12th centuries, from William the Bastard’s conquest in 1066 to the death of Henry II in 1189, have been described as a golden age for Anglo-J... read more
Israel: A Jewish State or a State for Jews?
Contributor(s): Ian Black | Anshel Pfeffer | Alice Shalvi | James Sorene | Jon Silverman
02/03/2019 - 8:30 pm
Ever since the movement’ s inception, Zionists have advocated very different ideas of Israel: would the dream of Herzl, Ahad Ha’am, Weizmann, Jaboti... read more
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Contributor(s): Honor Borwick | Tristram Powell
02/03/2019 - 7:00 pm
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a German-Jewish refugee, educated in England, made her name as a novelist in India. Married to a Parsi architect, she saw, from the inside... read more
