The third day of online events at Jewish Book Week 2025 features Denis Hirson recreates 1960s Johannesburg in his breathtaking memoir, while Historian Jehuda Reinharz discusses his co-authored new biography of Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann.
Joe Dunthorne’s great-grandfather, Siegfried, was a legendary figure in his family’s history: a Jewish refugee who daringly returned to Nazi Germany during the Berlin Olympics to stage a heist on his own home, and the eccentric inventor of radioactive toothpaste.
When the celebrated Swedish writer and artist Johanna Ekström found out that she was dying, she asked her closest friend, Granta publisher and philanthropist Sigrid Rausing, to finish her last book. In conversation with Devorah Baum.
Twenty years after his passing we celebrate Jack Rosenthal, one of the best-loved playwrights and screenwriters of the last century, in the company of his wife, Jewish Book Week favourite Dame Maureen Lipman, and special celebrity guests.
Jay Prosser’s 'Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns' is a powerful family memoir reimagining Jewish identity beyond the familiar landscapes of Europe and the Shoah, journeying through Iraq, India, China, and Singapore.