Jewish Book Week is back with nine days of vibrant discussion, stimulating debate, luminous live performances, and a spectacular grand finale.
Join us as we examine the issues that affect us all, with speakers including Andrew Roberts, Simon Schama, Anne Applebaum, Philippe Sands, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Emily Maitlis, Melanie Phillips, Tracy Chevalier, Anthony Horowitz, Fay Weldon, Gina Miller, Nick Cohen, Jonathan Freedland, Elif Shafak, Zoe Wanamaker, Jason Isaacs, and Nick Hytner.
Amos Oz, celebrated Israeli author and peace activist, was one of our most important and compelling writers.
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Love rules our lives. Philosopher Simon May, in a radically new theory of love, examines its real aim. Clinical psychologist Frank Tallis takes a look at the darker side of love – obsession.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a German-Jewish refugee educated in England, made her name as a novelist in India. This event weaves together two of her finest stories.
Seventy years on, at the heart of one of the world’s most volatile regions, in a country that still struggles to define itself, was it ever possible for Israel to become the moral super state?
In a world transformed by technology, where does humanity figure? Our expert panel discuss.
Seventy years after the Nuremberg Trials, this panel discussion explores whether justice has, or could ever have, been done.
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-Jewry. But was it really so good for the Jews?
Francesca Jakobi talks about the perils and pitfalls of fictionalising a family story. In Bitter, it is 1969, and while the summer of love lingers in London, Gilda is consumed by the mistakes of her past.
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity, and asks how we might live a different and more fulfilled existence.
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In Apartheid South Africa, many desperate parents fought to rescue their children, arrested for so-called ‘anti-apartheid’ activities. The Knock on the Door tells the story of the parents who fought back.
Explore a collection of political tales selected and introduced by the brilliant critic and author Michael Rosen: socialist fairy tales, fables and allegories from Great Britain.
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 the heart of his being.
Emigré sculptor Oscar Nemon was one of the 20th century’s greatest and most flamboyant sculptors. His daughter Aurelia Young, in conversation with cultural historian Patrick Bade, tells his rip-roaring story.
In a world riven with bitter divisions, perverting every opportunity for dialogue, Simon Schama examines the peculiar force of contradictory argument in Jewish tradition.
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Jeremy Robson is in conversation with his friend and fellow poet Maureen Lipman to talk about his five decades in publishing.
Robert Chandler, in conversation with David Herman, discusses his recently published translation of Lev Ozerov’s stupendous Portraits without Frames.
Award-winning author Paul French offers a spellbinding account of Shanghai’s lawless 1930s, and two of its most notorious criminals who bestrode the city like kings.
Discover the fun side of numbers and shapes, including weird tricks and games you can't lose, and introducing the people who really did put the murder into maths.
International Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands discusses his phenomenal BBC series, The Rat Lines, about the post-war Nazi escape route out of Europe.
Heather Valencia and Merle Bachman introduce the lives, works and indelible impact of Yiddish writer Sutzkever and Scottish poet Jacobs, with readings from recently published books of their poetry.
A modern look at what was once referred to as ‘angelology’, but which has its real roots in Judaism and in the mighty angels who inhabit the books of Daniel, Tobit and Enoch in post-Babylonian exile literature.
Paris, 1117: Heloise, a young and celebrated scholar, is stunned when the radical philosopher, Peter Abelard, agrees to be her tutor. They embark on a passionate, dangerous love affair with horrific consequences.
An evening with South Africa’s foremost satirist, the acclaimed Pieter-Dirk Uys, in his 7,000th solo performance that feels as fresh as his very first. Uys was - and still is - a voice in the