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Saturday 28 February
8.30pm Confronting Terror Bernard-Henri Lévy, Salman Rushdie.
Chair: Jonathan Freedland

Sunday 29 February

11am Reading Group Shelley Weiner
11am Intimate Impact Moris Farhi, Richard Zimler.
Chair: Firdevs Robinson
12.30pm A Yiddish Sister Revealed Dafna Clifford, Dorothee van Tendeloo
Chair: Sylvia Paskin
2pm Wrestling with God and Men Steven Greenberg
In conversation with James Alison
2pm Bible Story House Hanna Orenstein (for 3-5 year olds)
3pm Horrid Henry - Here! Francesca Simon (for 6-10 year olds)
3.30pm Love and Sex:
The Women’s View
Claire Calman, Anna Maxted, Freya North
Chair: Kathy Lette
5pm Kabbalah Connections Adin Steinsaltz
Chair: Jeremy Rosen
5.15pm Give it up! Leah Thorn (for 11-18 year olds)
6.30pm Liberated Fiction A B Yehoshua
Chair: Linda Grant
8.30pm The Boundaries of Heresy Geoffrey Alderman, Louis Jacobs, Clive Lawton, David-Hillel Ruben
Chair: Joshua Rozenberg

Monday 1 March

12.30pm East End Evocation Jerry White
Chair: Clive Bettington
5.15pm Meet The Author David Cohen
6.15pm Diaspora Frédéric Brenner
Chair: Andrew Renton
7.30pm My Bible Tony Benn
8.30pm The Language of Others Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida
Chair: Jacqueline Rose

Tuesday 2 March

5.15pm Meet The Author Mira Hamermesh
6.15pm Imperfect Justice Elazar Barkan
Chair: Stephen Sedley
Reading by Kerry Shale
7.30pm My Bible Andrew White
8.30pm Expressing the Inexpressible Aharon Appelfeld
Chair: Risa Domb

Wednesday 3 March
12.30pm An Irish-Jewish Journey Maureen Lipman, Stanley Price
5.15pm Meet The Author Michael Mail
6.00pm Women at Heart Readings by Judith Paris
7.15pm Status Anxiety Alain de Botton
In coversation with Deborah Orr
8.30pm Resisting Exile André Aciman, Naïm Kattan
Chair: Valerie Monchi

Thursday 4 March
5.15pm Meet The Author Benjamin Markovits
6.15pm My Wounded Heart Ilse Doerry, Martin Doerry
Chair: D. D. Guttenplan
7.30pm My Maimonides Stefan Reif
8.30pm Re-inventing the Jewish Man Daniel Boyarin, Michael Gluzman
Chair: Ada Rapoport-Albert

Saturday 6 March
8.30pm Building the Dream Zvi Efrat, Ilan Troen, Eyal Weizman
Chair: Iain Borden

Sunday 7 March
10.30am Fables from the Distant Past Raphael Loewe
11am Reading Group Shelley Weiner
12pm Behind the Gossamer Wall Micheal O’Siadhail
Chair: Alan Jenkins
1.30pm Jacob’s Gift: To be a Jew Jonathan Freedland
In conversation with Jay Rayner
2pm Three short films Frédéric Brenner
3pm The Genius of Joseph Roth Michael Hofmann
Chair: Hephzibah Anderson
4.30pm The Fab Four Tracy Chevalier, Jeremy Gavron, Charlotte Mendelson, William Sutcliffe Chair: Gerald Jacobs
5pm Mourning a Lost Father Avraham Balaban (Hebrew session)
6.30pm Football Crazy Simon Kuper, Amy Lawrence, Colin Shindler
Chair: Simon Inglis
8.30pm Desert Island Books Edwina Currie
In conversation with Ned Temko

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