Jewish Book Week Extra
Jewish Book Week through the year: Tony Leon
24/09/2013 -
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Tony Leon is a well-known politician in South Africa who was an active participant in the constitutional negotiations which led to the birth of a democratic ...
Jewish Book Week through the year: From Hackney Downs to “The Lowlife”
08/09/2013 -
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Rachel Kolsky took us on a tour of Hackney and Dalston to discover its associations with some of the Jewish writers who found inspiration from the diverse co...
Jewish Book Week through the year: Rebecca Solnit
03/06/2013 -
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In a one-off Jewish Book Week event with Kings Place during the year, we helped American public intellectual Rebecca Solnit launch a new book, The Faraway Ne...
The Prime Ministers
27/03/2013 -
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The Prime Ministers has been called “the ultimate insider’s account” of politics and decision-making by five Israeli prime ministers since the founding...
JBW 2013 On Tour in Manchester: Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
17/03/2013 -
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aster biographers Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren spoke about their new book, Giants- the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz, at Bowden Synagogue, Manchester on 17 March...
JBW 2013 On Tour in Leeds: Ellen Cassedy
11/03/2013 -
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Ellen Cassedy spoke about her book, We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust, at a joint meeting of The Jewish Historical Society Leeds and The Unit...
The Klezmer Klub at Little Bookniks
10/03/2013 - 4:00 pm
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We were swept off our feet by the 6-piece band! Transporting us 100 years back in time to London’s East End, we enjoyed stories and music about the har...Live Subtitling.
The Klezmer Klub at Little Bookniks
10/03/2013 - 4:00 pm
King's Place, Room 2
We were swept off our feet by the 6-piece band! Transporting us 100 years back in time to London’s East End, we enjoyed stories and music about the har...Live Subtitling.
The Diary of Anne Frank at Little Bookniks
10/03/2013 -
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Anne Frank’s Diary continues to attract readers in over 60 languages; the latest version is in the form of an app for iPad. Anne Frank also wrote some ...
JBW 2013 On Tour in Glasgow: Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
10/03/2013 -
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At an event organised by Jewish Arts and Garnethill Synagogue with Jewish Book Week, author J David Simons discussed his novels set in the Glasgow Jewish com...
JDOV: Jewish Dreams, Observations, Visions
03/03/2013 - 5:00 pm
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Ever wondered what it would be like if you crossed Jewish Book Week with TED, the popular conference which asks inspiring speakers to give “the talk of...
K A Novel of Brazil’s “Disappeared”
03/03/2013 -
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In K a father looks for his disappeared daughter during the military dictatorship in Brazil. K, a famous Yiddish writer, discovers how the repressive system ...
Nights Out in Cosmopolitan London
03/03/2013 -
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In the years up to World War Two, Soho was transformed from a dark proletarian quarter into a mecca of shopping, restaurants and night-life entertainments. J...
Deborah Levy “Swimming Home”
03/03/2013 -
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As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive, walking naked out ...
Divine Women in Judaism and the Ancient World
03/03/2013 -
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Bettany Hughes’ BBC2 documentary, Divine Women examined the pivotal role of goddesses and women in many religions and asked why these stories have been nea...