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David Pleat: Just One More Goal

Words / Jewish Book Week

Join David Pleat, Britain’s most successful Jewish football manager, as he reflects on a remarkable journey through football’s changing landscape.

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Dunkirk and Blitz: Making History Matter

Words / Jewish Book Week

Author Joshua Levine explores the making of two cinematic landmarks, ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘Blitz’, the personalities that shaped them, and his role as a historical adviser.

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Iran in Focus: Proxies, Power, and Nuclear Ambitions

Words / Jewish Book Week

Iran expert Sharan Tabari joins the Israel Editor Anshel Pfeffer and Jonathan Rosenthal to discuss the country’s proxies, nuclear ambitions, and regional power dynamics.

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Jewish Book Week Online Events - Thursday

Words / Jewish Book Week

On the fourth and final day of online events for Jewish Book Week 2025, join us as Alice Austen presents her debut novel, the gripping story of a family's disappearance in wartime Brussels, and Jean Strouse discusses the mysteries and tragedies surrounding 12 portraits by John Singer Sargent at the height of his powers.

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Craig Brown: A Voyage Around the Queen

Words / Jewish Book Week

Envied by Andy Warhol, resented by Jackie Kennedy, awed by Michelle Obama… Craig Brown observes The Queen in her time via the accounts by well-known figures who met her over the decades she reigned. In conversation with Sam Leith.

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Francesca Segal: Welcome to Glorious Tuga

Words / Jewish Book Week

Acclaimed author Francesca Segal returns to Jewish Book Week with an uplifting story of a zoologist’s year-long fellowship on a tiny, remote island.

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Sigrid Rausing: And the Walls Became the World All Around

Words / Memoir

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.

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An Evening with Elif Shafak

Words / Jewish Book Week

One of the most acclaimed writers of our time, Elif Shafak introduces her new novel, ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’ – an intriguing set of stories that spans centuries, continents and cultures, all connected by a single drop of water.

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Myra Hess: National Treasure

Words / Jewish Book Week

Jessica Duchen offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of Dame Myra Hess, Britain’s beloved concert pianist renowned for her legendary wartime concerts.

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Robert Popper: The Elsie Drake Letters

Words / Memoir

Meet Robert Popper’s eccentric alter ego, Elsie Drake, as she pens hilariously bizarre letters to everyone from Arsenal Football Club to the Prime Minister.

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Jewish Book Week Off-site Events

Jewish Book Week / Jewish Book Week

The Jewish Book Week 2025 fringe programme offers three separate opportunities to enjoy guided tours and talks around some of London's most important collections of Jewish arts and literature.

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Lady Maisery with O'Hooley & Tidow

Folk at Kings Place

Come and celebrate International Women’s Day at Kings Place with a unique concert from two of the English folk scene’s best acts! Power trio Lady Maisery and boundless songwriters O’Hooley & Tidow join forces again (at long last!) for the first time since their much-loved annual collaboration as supergroup, COVEN.

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Wooden Elephant play Aphex Twin’s ‘Drukqs’

Contemporary at Kings Place

Join string quintet Wooden Elephant and prepared piano specialist Mathias Halvorsen as they transform their instruments into drum machines and synthesisers for a totally new, acoustic experience of Aphex Twin’s epic double album masterpiece, 'Drukqs'.

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The Making of Ukrainian Jewry

Words / Jewish Book Week

Authors Ilya Kaminsky and Marina Sapritsky-Nahum trace the dynamic evolution of a distinct Ukrainian Jewish heritage.

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The Power of Words: Celebrating the 2025 Wingate Prize

Words / Jewish Book Week

Jewish Book Week is delighted to celebrate the 48th Wingate Prize, awarded annually to the best fiction or non-fiction book that explores Jewishness for a broad readership.

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Trump 2.0: What’s Next?

Words / Jewish Book Week

With Donald Trump back in the White House, how might his second presidency shape America’s domestic and foreign policy? What’s next for the US? David Aaronovitch moderates a dynamic panel.

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Jack Rosenthal: A Celebration

Words / Jewish Book Week

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.

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JLF Player: Highlights on Screen

Words / Jewish Book Week

Highlights from the previous editions of Jewish Book Week in cinema-style screenings. Enjoy cinema-style screenings of unforgettable conversations from past Jewish Book Week festivals.

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The Legacy of Yehuda Bauer

Words / History

Historians Ruth-Anne Lenga and Trudy Gold discuss the life and career of the eminent Holocaust scholar, Yehuda Bauer.

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The Unique Vision of Rav Kook

Words / History

Rav Kook, the first chief rabbi of pre-state Israel, was a pioneering figure in religious Zionist ideology. Marc B. Shapiro explores this revered thinker in the context of newly discovered writings.

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AI: A Guide for the Perplexed

Words / Jewish Book Week

Professor Richard Susskind, a leading expert on the impact of artificial intelligence, challenges us to rethink its role in society in his accessible, non-technical guide, How to Think About AI.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt Volume 2A Spiritual Reappraisal, 1946-1955

Words / Literature

Literary scholar David Stromberg discusses the astonishing career of the eminent Yiddish-language author, Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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Murder in Constantinople

Words / Jewish Book Week

Praised as “a rip-roaring adventure” by the Daily Mail and “unputdownable” in The Sun’s 5-star review, A.E. Goldin’s debut novel is an immersive historical mystery.

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Picasso’s Muse

Words / Art

The greatest art romance of all time? A haunting love story? Perhaps both. Louisa Treger reclaims the story of Picasso’s muse, Dora Maar, in a vivid fictional retelling. 

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