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26/02/2022 - 7:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
Taking Sides – the 1995 West End and Broadway hit written by Oscar-winning The Dresser playwright Ronald Harwood and originally directed b...Get tickets
26/02/2022 - 7:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
From Islam’s Tree of Life to Tu BiShvat, trees play a central, often mystical, role in cultures and faiths around the world. Three of our favourite speaker...Get tickets
26/02/2022 - 8:45 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times, author and academic Micha...The George Webber Memorial Event
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26/02/2022 - 8:45 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
From meeting at the Jewish Lads Brigade (Finsbury Park Company) in 1960 and making their comedy writing debut for Frankie Howerd in the 70s to their current ...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 11:00 am
Kings Place, Hall 1
Niklas Frank was just seven when his father Hans Frank, Hitler’s legal adviser and governor general of occupied Poland, was executed a...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 11:15 am
Kings Place, Hall 2
Smartphones; game theory; nanotechnology; nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: John von Neumann. Born into a Jewish family in cu...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 11:15 am
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
Compared to their neighbours in North, East and West London, the Jewish communities on the other side of the river tend to be less discussed. Countering that...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 12:15 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse
Bar Sagi was only 15 when she died after a terrible battle with bone cancer. A prolific reader, she was also an astonishingly talented writer, leaving two fu...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 12:45 pm
Kings Place, H1
A unique chance to see two of the most influential figures in British cuisine and best-loved writers in conversation. 30 years after her first Mediterranean ...Sponsored by Dangoor Education
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27/02/2022 - 1:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
1999 saw Britain’s first and only ever Nazi war crimes trial. The trial brought Andrei Sawoniuk – a retired ticket inspector, charged with murdering...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 1:00 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
Isaac Rosenberg – a Jewish poet, an English poet, a war poet, a painter-poet, a young poet, a great poet. Writers Elizabeth Cook and Anthony Rudolf exp...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 2:00 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse
In 2021 Jewish Book Week, supported by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, held the second European Jewish Writers in Translation workshop. We are join...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 2:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
One of our most popular speakers returns with an exclusive event for the 70th anniversary Jewish Book Week, including a special preview of his ne...In Memory of Robin Hyman
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27/02/2022 - 2:45 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
Even before social distancing, loneliness was becoming the defining condition of the 21st century. But, argues academic and broadcaster No...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 2:45 pm
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London’s oldest literary festival welcomes two of the most exciting new voices in fiction, discussing their stories from across the city and their writing ...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 3:45 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse
Agnes Kaposi was born in Hungary the year before Hitler came to power and started school at the outbreak of World War II. The Holocaust killed many o...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 4:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
In Memory of Dr David Cohen CBE As Jewish Book Week celebrates its 70th anniversary one of the festival’s favourite speakers marks a mil...In Memory of Dr David Cohen CBE
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27/02/2022 - 4:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
From Yehudi Menuhin, Cab Calloway and Montserrat Caballé to Victor Borge, Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Bolshoi Ballet, Raymond Gubbay has worked with the gre...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 4:30 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
One of the great commercial dynasties of the 19th century, the Sassoons were as eminent as traders as the Rothschild were bankers: a handful of Je...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 5:30 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse
Meriel Schindler spent most of her life dealing with her father Kurt, an often-impossible man who made extravagant claims about their family...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 6:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
Famous for his unique method of creating films through controlled improvisations, Mike Leigh is the only British director to have won the top prize at both C...Sponsored by Dangoor Education; In Association with the TLS
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27/02/2022 - 6:15 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
Ghosts – nearly every civilisation has its stories; they inhabit something of the essence of what it is to be human. Whether we ‘believe’ or not, we ar...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 6:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
Written in the wake of Kristallnacht in a frenzied four weeks, 23-year-old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s unbearably suspenseful an...In Association with the TLS
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27/02/2022 - 8:00 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
For centuries the Jewish ...Get tickets
27/02/2022 - 8:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
In music and conversation, we celebrate the life and work of one of the most influential cultural figures of the last 70 years, the Tony, Oscar, Grammy, Oliv...Sponsored by Dangoor Education
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27/02/2022 - 8:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
After finding fame as Dobby in Peep Show, winning Sony Gold for her Radio 4 series Pearl & Dave and attracting acclaim for her memoir ...Get tickets
28/02/2022 - 12:00 pm
KPlayer, Virtual Event
Jewish Book Week Digi-Pass gives access to all eight KPlayer (online streaming) events for £39.50. Including: Mourning & Evening...Get tickets
28/02/2022 - 1:00 pm
KPlayer, Virtual Event
From burials to sitting shiva, join the authors of two intriguing new books on how Jewish communities mark death. Nessa Rapoport, author of Preparing for...Get tickets
28/02/2022 - 2:30 pm
On Zoom, Virtual Event
The deliberate manipulation of supernatural forces for human ends has a long and surprisingly robust place in...In Partnership with the National Library of Israel; In Association with the Lockdown University
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28/02/2022 - 6:30 pm
KPlayer, virtual event
“Ruth Wisse’s intellectual autobiography is a lasting work of profound moral force and scathing political discernment.” High praise from Cynthia Ozick ...In Association with The Rabin Chair Forum, George Washington University
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01/03/2022 - 1:00 pm
KPlayer, virtual event
New York Times bestseller Amy Bloom has won international acclaim for her novels, essays, children’s books and short stories, wit...Get tickets
01/03/2022 - 2:30 pm
On Zoom, Virtual Event
As chief Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, over the last four decades Holocaust historian Efraim Zuroff...In Association with the Lockdown University
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01/03/2022 - 6:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
Could the dual crisis of climate change and Coronavirus create positive change? The authors of two realistic but optimistic books argue it is possible – bu...In Association with World Jewish Relief
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01/03/2022 - 6:30 pm
Kings Place, H2
Espionage relies on secrecy and show business on publicity, but both require high levels of creative thinking, improvisation, disguise and role-play. Stars a...Get tickets
01/03/2022 - 6:30 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
Best-selling author, novelist, historian and barrister Dominic Selwood investigates Britain’s identities from 950,000 BC to the present, e...Get tickets
01/03/2022 - 8:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
A unique insight into one of the greatest composers of all time, from a leading light of contemporary classical music, in a world-class concert hall. Acclaim...Sponsored by Dangoor Education
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01/03/2022 - 8:15 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
They are often most familiar as the simplified versions we learn as children; yet Bible stories are the products of a highly developed literary culture. Rabb...Get tickets
01/03/2022 - 8:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
FC Barcelona is not only the most popular sports club ever, it’s one of the world’s most influential organisations, with four million visitors to its Cam...Get tickets
02/03/2022 - 1:00 pm
KPlayer, virtual event
Afro-Jewish philosopher Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black Existentialism, joins us live from the US to discuss his groun...Get tickets
02/03/2022 - 2:30 pm
On Zoom, Virtual Event
This is the untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringing—and its revolutionary consequences for u...In Association with the Lockdown University
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02/03/2022 - 6:30 pm
KPlayer, Virtual Event
Bestselling and award-laden author David Grossman joins us live online from Israel to discuss his writing and latest novel More Than I L...In Association with the New Israel Fund
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02/03/2022 - 8:00 pm
KPlayer, Virtual Event
Levin Professor of History at Yale Timothy Snyder joins us live from the US following the publication of a new graphic edition, with illustrations b...Sponsored by Alison & Avi Goldberg
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03/03/2022 - 1:00 pm
KPlayer, Virtual Event
Dvora Hacohen, Bar-Ilan Professor of Jewish History, offers a penetrating insight into the dramatic life of Henrietta Szold, a remarkable woman who fought fo...In Association with the Jewish Book Council
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03/03/2022 - 2:30 pm
On Zoom, Virtual Event
Between 1918-1921, over 100,000 Jews were murdered in Ukraine and Poland by peasants, townsmen and soldiers who blamed the Jews f...In Association with the Lockdown University
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03/03/2022 - 6:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
150 years after ‘Culture War’ (Kulturkampf) was first used to describe the clash between church and state in Prussia, and three decades after sociologist...Get tickets
03/03/2022 - 6:30 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras
Rising from the Frankfurt ghetto to unrivalled wealth and power, the Rothschilds are one of the most mythologised families of modern times – yet the women ...Get tickets
03/03/2022 - 6:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
Thanks in part to the Ottomans, for much of history Jews have had a positive image of Muslims. Acclaimed historian Marc David Baer charts the intimate relati...In Association with the Jerusalem Foundation
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03/03/2022 - 8:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
A psychiatrist and a neurologist walk into a book festival. Not the start of a joke, but of a fascinating hour as two experts help us to make sense of the mi...Get tickets
03/03/2022 - 8:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
Music journalist and author of Genius & Anxiety Norman Lebrecht is joined by an illustrious trio to discuss the lyrics, lives and legacy...In Association with the London Library
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03/03/2022 - 8:15 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
A beautifully constructed film capturing the previously veiled story of artist and former BBC commissioning editor Caroline Pick...In Association with the Second Generation Network
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04/03/2022 - 1:00 pm
KPlayer, Virtual Event
What are the origins of genius? How do luck, failure, personality and serendipity play into the arc of discovery? And why do some people reach extraordinary ...Get tickets
04/03/2022 - 2:30 pm
On Zoom, Virtual Event
Ronen Steinke , author & Süddeutsche Zeitung correspondent tells the remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risk...In Association with the Lockdown University
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05/03/2022 - 7:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
A celebration of our unlikely existence and how history can bring us all together, in the form of an interdisciplinary piece combining poetry, music and more...Get tickets
05/03/2022 - 7:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
1952 saw the Queen ascend to the throne, The Mousetrap open in the West End and the first Jewish Book Week; all going strong 70 years on while thank...Sponsored by Dangoor Education
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05/03/2022 - 8:45 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
This still-young century has seen a blossoming of literature by Jewish writers across the world. How have they grappled with the enormous changes in politics...In Association with Jewish Renaissance
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06/03/2022 - 11:00 am
Kings Place, Hall 1
The new National Library of Israel (NLI), adjacent to the Knesset in Jerusalem, is on schedule to open its doors in 2022. The building, a...In Partnership with the National Library of Israel
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06/03/2022 - 11:15 am
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
Crete saw a higher proportion of Jews deported by the Nazis than any other country, virtually eliminating one of Europe’s oldest Jewish communities. Rabbi ...In Association with Jewish Renaissance
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06/03/2022 - 11:15 am
Kings Place, Hall 2
From Apartheid South Africa to a fledgling new South Africa, via the UK and post-Pinochet Chile, Daniel Finkelstein and Beverley Lester discuss Beverley’s ...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 12:15 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse
Writers and mentors from the inaugural Genesis-JBW Emerging Writers Programme discuss their experience and read from their work. Fringe events...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 12:45 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
The super-rich are silently and secretly shaping our world. In Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg, Paul Vallely, bestselling author ...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 1:00 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
Adam Andrusier spent his childhood in pursuit of autographs. After writing to every celebrity he could think of, from Frank Sinatra to Colon...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 1:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
The fate of art stolen by the Nazis has become a cause célèbre in recent decades; Boston University professor of history Charles Dellheim ...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 2:00 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse
London based American artist Emily Marbach weaves her imagination through the story of the Exodus and the rituals of Pesach; nearly every page of this unique...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 2:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
Le Monde calls Tuvia Tenenbom “a mystical provocateur”, Die Welt “Michael Moore and Borat in one”; now in The ...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 2:45 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
Philosopher and author Simon May joins us to discuss his powerfully moving family memoir, taking on questions of home and belonging that con...In Association with the Second Generation Network
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06/03/2022 - 2:45 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
In January 2020, just weeks after the first known case and months before it took grip globally, immunologist Uğur Şahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 3:45 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse
Journalist Jaana Johansson tells the remarkable tale of her friend Josef Salomonovic (Pepek) who entrusted her with his true story – a story of de...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 4:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
50 years after its formation, the story of the anti-fascist 62 Group – the successor to the 43 Group, two veterans of which joined us at Jewish Book Week 2...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 4:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
In 2015 Menachem Kaiser discovered that the grandfather he had never met had tried for 30 years to reclaim an apartment building in Sosnowiec that had belon...In Association with the Jewish Quarterly
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06/03/2022 - 4:30 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
Professor of literature, journalist and prize-winning Israeli writer and poet Miron Izakson reflects on family life as the source of authentic literature, ex...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 5:30 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse
Now we’re more connected than ever online, spending time alone or being single can seem against the grain, despite being an experience shared by millions. ...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 6:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
Can’t you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less? This is the question Daniel Sokatch, head of the N...Sponsored by Dangoor Education
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06/03/2022 - 6:15 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
Micha Ullman’s “Letters of Light” will stand in the southern portion of the new National Library of Israel campus in Je...In Partnership with the National Library of Israel
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06/03/2022 - 6:15 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
What drives those who hate Jews? 75 years after the Shoah, conspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream, from the left and the right; from the P...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 7:15 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse
Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. Adolphe moves to Switzerland while Marcus, inspired by Communism, moves east. A century later Marcus’...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 7:45 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras Room
Internationally renowned artist Mindy Weisel joins us to discuss her candid and compelling memoir After, a lifelong search for beauty that b...In Association with the Jerusalem Foundation
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06/03/2022 - 7:45 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
A fitting finale to the 70th anniversary Jewish Book Week; an evening of live music and memories celebrating...Get tickets
06/03/2022 - 7:45 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
Admirers and detractors alike agree that Margaret Thatcher’s premiership changed the country. The final years of her tenure continue to fascinate and we ar...Get tickets
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