Jewish Book Week Extra
What to Read in 2013: Classics by Marcel Proust and Giorgio Bassani
01/03/2013 -
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To mark the launch of ongoing book discussions on this website, we dedicate an hour to ideas for neglected classics to read in 2013. Proust scholar Adam Watt...
Edmund de Waal: The Exiles Return
01/03/2013 -
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The ceramicist and acclaimed author of The Hare With The Amber Eyes turns a new page in his family’s story. He came to Jewish Book Week to present his gran...
From The Feminine Mystique to Fifty Shades – 50 Years On
01/03/2013 -
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“The book that pulled the trigger on history”, The Feminine Mystique created an instant impact on its publication in 1963, altering consciousness, cultur...
What Do You Mean, “Modern Orthodox”?
01/03/2013 -
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As the current chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, approached retirement, and a new appointment is sought, three experts considered the inherent tensions of modern orth...
Diamond Street – The Hidden World of Hatton Garden
28/02/2013 -
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Rachel Lichtenstein came to Jewish Book Week to uncover the world of Hatton Garden, “one of the most secret streets in England”. Intimately connected to ...
Helga’s Diary
28/02/2013 -
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One year into the Nazi occupation of Prague, 11 year-old Helga Weiss started a diary. Deportations began and friends and family disappeared. She wrote throug...
Fania Oz-Salzberger: How Jewish is Contemporary Hebrew?
28/02/2013 -
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Modern Hebrew is a unique, self-conscious, man-made hybrid that became a living, biting, and rather unruly language, happily cavorting with foreign tongues, ...
FILM Grace Paley: Collected Shorts
28/02/2013 -
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Although her writing output was modest during her 84 years –just three volumes of short stories- Grace Paley was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize an...
Yudit Kiss: The Summer My Father Died
28/02/2013 -
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Yudit Kiss left Hungary as an adult. Her poignant memoir The Summer My Father Died captures her awakening to her own Jewish origins and the shortcomings of C...
Jewish Quarterly -Wingate Prize for Jewish Literature
27/02/2013 -
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The judges of the 2013 prize, Diana Reich, Artistic Director of Charleston Festivals; Hephzibah Anderson, book columnist and author; Clive Lawton, educator, ...
The Inquisitor’s Diary
27/02/2013 -
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Mexico City, 1649. The Spanish Inquisition holds sway over the capital and at its core lies one ambition: the submission of all to the Catholic faith. ...
Liverpool 27th February at 8pm – JBW On Tour – The Spy Who Loved
27/02/2013 -
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Clare Mulley gave a talk about her novel The Spy Who Loved, which tells the story of the secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain’s first fema...
And Europe Will Be Stunned – Poland and the Loss or Return of the Jews
27/02/2013 -
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With the support of the Polish Cultural Institute, London, The Museum of the History of Polish Jews and Artangel. Event photos (c) Elzbieta Piekacz, courtesy...
Simon Schama’s History of the Jews
27/02/2013 -
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Due to popular demand, Schama returned for a second visit to Jewish Book Week 2013, for a conversation with Ian Black, The Guardian’s Middle East edito...
Nick Robinson: Live From Downing Street
27/02/2013 -
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Live from Downing Street is a personal account of the long and rocky relationship between politicians and broadcasters, by the only person to have been Polit...