The science: Dr Vicky Neale is here to convince you that mathematics as beautiful as Bach’s music. The music: This is one of Bach’s first cantatas, written when he was in his early twenties for a friend’s wedding.
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Political commentator and broadcaster, Steve Richards, presents his latest behind-the-scenes guide to the epic dramas and the characters shaping seismic events.
Being a comedian is the hardest thing anyone can do. As such, those who achieve even a modicum of success in this selfless, humanitarian, dangerous career are rightly held up as the best of us.
Book for the Jewish Book Week events in Hall One and Hall Two tonight – ‘Steven Berkoff: A World Elsewhere’ at 7pm and ‘Shylock Speaks’ at 8.30pm – and save £10.
Award-winning broadcaster and journalist Emma Barnett loathes her period. But there’s something she loathes even more: not being able to talk about it. In conversation with Rachel Johnson.
Steven Berkoff, one of Britain’s finest actors, directors and playwrights, presents his fascinating autobiography, spanning fifty years of his work.
Israeli historian Tom Segev offers a masterful account of the complex figure of David Ben-Gurion, founder of the Jewish state.
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Playwrights Robert Gordon and David Peimer present their new play. Shakespeare’s ‘outsider’ Shylock talks back to the societies that have persecuted them over centuries.
Drawing on history, his own personal experience and conversations with many of the world’s greatest innovators, ex-CEO of British Petroleum John Browne makes an impassioned and eloquent case for technological progress.
Prize-winning author and artist Edmund de Waal talks about his library of exile.
Helen Fry reveals the history of the elaborate WWII intelligence operation whereby Hitler’s generals were tricked into giving away Nazi secrets.
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Stephen Frosh traces the links between Jews, Judaism and psychoanalysis, while looking at transgenerational legacies of trauma.
Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson has written a characteristically funny and wickedly observed novel about falling in love toward the end of your life.
In conversation with acclaimed psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and author Susie Orbach, Francesca Segal talks about those heart-wrenching days amidst a band of fearless and inspirational mothers.
Author Boyd Tonkin wrote that, ‘To write, and to read, is to forever cross thresholds’. Translation opens up new vistas, refreshes language and fosters globalism.
A thrilling historical novel of the great Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides.
Philosopher Susan Neiman argues that failure to confront our history permits phenomena such as Brexit and Trump to become not merely possible, but inevitable.
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Jeremy Robson, described by The Times as ‘a champion of poetry’ selects the best of his poems from the early 1960s to his most recent collections, plus 50 new poems.
We are living in an unprecedented age: this year marks the first time in human history that the number of people aged 65 and over outnumber children aged five and under.
Shlomo Avineri, in this revelatory work, argues that Karl Marx's Jewish origins were integral to his work, placing his Jewish background in its proper and balanced perspective. The results are sometimes surprising.
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Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father when the Nazis came into power. Ibbotson wrote more than twenty award-winning books for children and young adults.
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In 1940 the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, the Oyneg Shabes, within the Warsaw ghetto to document Jewish life.
As a child in Venezuela Ariana Neumann was fascinated by the enigma of her father Hans. He seemed to be the epitome of strength but...