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Spoken Word

The Third Day: Chochana Boukhobza

Wednesday, 22 February 2012 - 1:00pm

Author Chochana Boukhobza talks about her gripping thriller The Third Day, set in a rich multicultural Israel fraught with tension.

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Spoken Word

Film: Sara Shilo: No Gnomes Will Appear

Wednesday, 22 February 2012 - 3:00pm / St Pancras Room

Sara Shilo is, in my opinion, one of the best authors who currently write in Hebrew, and Walk’s film wondrously depicts her complexity as a person and a writer. David Grossman

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Meet the Author: Tom Rachman

Wednesday, 22 February 2012 - 5:30pm / St Pancras Room

Tom Rachman discusses his first novel, The Imperfectionists, which tells of the quirky, maddening and endearing people who write and read an international newspaper based in Rome. Free event.

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Music

Moishe's Bagel

Wednesday, 22 February 2012 - 7:00pm / Hall Two

When Moishe’s Bagel take the stage expect rip-roaring, foot-stomping, jazz-inflected klezmer and Balkan music. "Exhilarating...breath-takingly intricate, but with the momentum of an express train" The Herald

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Ron Arad

Wednesday, 22 February 2012 - 7:00pm / Hall One

Ron Arad is a central figure in contemporary design. Many of his designs such as the Rover chair and the Bookworm bookshelf are iconic. The restless maverick designer comes to Jewish Book Week to talk about his passion for marrying unconventional forms with unexpected functions and the sources of his unbridled creativity.

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Religion and Science: Jonathan Sacks, Marcus du Sautoy

Wednesday, 22 February 2012 - 8:30pm / Hall One

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explore the sometimes fraught relationship between religion and science, belief and scepticism, open-mindedness and intolerance to the challenge of the other or the unknown. Chaired by Daniel Glaser

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Spoken Word

Major/Minor: Alba Arikha in conversation with Janine di Giovanni

Thursday, 23 February 2012 - 1:00pm / St Pancras Room

With Major/Minor, Alba Arikha has written a vivid and haunting coming-of-age memoir set in Paris in the 1980’s. In conversation with Janine di Giovanni, senior foreign correspondent for The Times and contributing editor for Vanity Fair.

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Spoken Word

Film - Mordechai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews

Thursday, 23 February 2012 - 3:00pm / St Pancras Room

Free Film. Mordechai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews is directed by Francine Pelletier and based on the book by Canadian novelist Mordechai Richler.

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Spoken Word

Freud's Couch: Meet the Author- Simon Goldhill

Thursday, 23 February 2012 - 5:30pm

Simon Goldhill was invited by Chicago University Press to try and find out why we love to stare at Wordsworth’s desk or Freud’s couch or Charlotte Brontë’s underwear. His trip – four Jews on a train in search of an author’s house – is a funny, smart and reflective journey into our ideas of the self and our cultural values.

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Spoken Word

Etgar Keret

Thursday, 23 February 2012 - 7:00pm / Hall One

The critically acclaimed master short-story teller Etgar Keret gives us a taste of his magic with his new collection of stories. More absurd, humorous, surreal and compassionate than ever, they reflect Israel’s uncanny reality. Etgar discusses his stories with readings by an actor.

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