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"The capital's richest annual banquet of writers and ideas" Boyd Tonkin,

The Independent

"An enormous literary extravaganza"

Eva Hoffman

"A forum for passion of all descriptions” Naomi Alderman

“The jewel in the crown of Jewish cultural life” David Herman

From football to philosophy, mathematics to literature, queer theory to justice, the economic crisis to the threats to democracy, Jewish revival in Poland to peace in the Middle East there will be something for everyone.


Podcasts

 

Rebecca Goldstein discusses Spinoza, the New Atheists and the biggest question of all, the subject of her novel, 36 Arguments of the Existence of God, "a hilarious novel about people's existential agonies" according to Jonathan Safran Foer.

Read the interview on the Tablet.

Listen to her on Radio Open Source

Don' t miss the formidable meeting of minds between the philosopher and the scientist, Rebecca Goldstein and husband Steven Pinker. Book your ticket to the JBW session.


Litkicks

Don't miss our pre-JBW events:Tariq Ali and David Baddiel; Michael Scammell on Koestler and Eric Hobsbawm on the Communist Manifesto.

You can never have too much of Etgar Keret. After his talk with Jonathan Safran Foer at JBW, go see his film Jellyfish at the Soho Hotel, followed by a Q&A. (In association with JCC and UKFF)

Read Marcus du Sautoy on the Beauty of Maths in the Browser .

Submissions are open for the 2010 Risa Domb/ Porjes Translation Prize from Hebrew into English.

 


The JC Arts Council Blackwell

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