In Gaza’s Wake
Jewish Book Week
| Tanya Gold | speaker |
|---|---|
| Adam Kirsch | speaker |
| Simon Schama | speaker |
| Dave Rich. | chair |
Jewish Quarterly essayists Simon Schama, Tanya Gold and Adam Kirsch discuss the fractious reality of living as a Jew in the shadow of 7 October.
In a conversation chaired by Dave Rich, three leading writers reflect on Jewish life in the shadow of 7 October and the Gaza war.
Drawing on their essays for The Jewish Quarterly, Adam Kirsch examines the new hostility to Zionism and argues for its political – not merely defensive – case; Tanya Gold explores how Holocaust memory is being cheapened and distorted in popular culture; and Sir Simon Schama, one of the world’s foremost historians, considers the long, fraught history of antisemitism and the new forms it has taken. Together they address what it means to live, think, and speak as Jews in a profoundly altered world.
This event will last approximately 75 minutes, with no interval.
In partnership with The Jewish Quarterly
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Tanya Gold
Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist and restaurant critic for The Spectator. She won a British Press Award in 2010 and a Foreign Press Association Award in 2015.
Adam Kirsch
Adam Kirsch is the author of several books of poetry and criticism. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Kirsch is an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section and has written for publications including The New Yorker and Tablet. He lives in New York.
Simon Schama
Sir Simon Schama’s award-winning books include A History of Britain and The Story of the Jews. He has written and presented over 50 films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy and American politics, and he co-presented the landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations.
Dave Rich
Dr Dave Rich is author of Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world and how you can change it, and The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Antisemitism. He is Director of Policy at the Community Security Trust.