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Birmingham event

Photo of our March 8 event which took place in Birmingham.

Bath
5 March

10am Oliver Sacks
4pm Samir El-youssef,
Etgar Keret
Linda Grant (chair)


Bath Literature Festival
The Guildhall
High Street, Bath.
Box Office:
2 Church Street, Abbey Green,
Bath, BA1 1NL.
Tel: 01225 463 362
Fax: 01225 310 377
www.bathlitfest.org.uk
Tickets £7 (£5 concs).


Birmingham
8 March

7.30pm Sally Berkovic, Rabbi Margaret Jacobi, Ronne Randall, Mandy Ross Jewish Mothers
Midlands Art Centre
Canon Hill Park
Birmingham B12.
Box Office: 0121 440 3838
http://www.macarts.co.uk
Tickets £4 (concs: £2)

Bournemouth
6 March

11.30am Carole Caplin Westbourne Library
Alum Chine Road

7 March

6pm Clare Calman and Melissa Nathan Love and Sex
Bournemouth Library

22 The Triangle, Bournemouth BH2 5RQ
Enquiries: 01202 516 142
click here to send an email.
Admission free

10 March

2.30pm Mekella Broomberg Schools Programme
Kinson Library

Wimbourne Road, Kinson, Bournemouth BH11 9AW
Enquiries: 01202 516 142
click here to send an email.
Admission free

Brighton
8 March

5pm Hanna Yablonka Centre for German-Jewish Studies
University of Sussex, Falmer BN3
Tel: 01273 678 771
Admission free

13 March

7.30pm Jonathan Freedland

In association with Brighton and Hove Discussion Group.
Ralli Hall
(Jewish Community Centre)

opp. Hove Station.
Tel: 01273 508 323
Tickets £5 (students £3)


Cambridge
9 March

5pm Etgar Keret

Faculty of Oriental Studies
Cambridge University
Sidgwick Avenue CB3
Tel: 01223 335 106
Admission free


15 March

7pm David Bezmozgis

Borders Bookshop
12-13 Market St
Cambridge
CB2
Tel: 01223 306 169
Admission free
In association with the Canadian High Commission


24 March

7pm Simon Garfield

Borders Bookshop
12-13 Market St
Cambridge
CB2
Tel: 01223 306 169
Admission free


22 May

2.00pm Jonathan Freedland
This event has been cancelled

Culanu Centre
33 Bridge St, CB2
Tel: 01223 366 338
Tickets £2


Edinburgh
3 April

8pm Jonathan Freedland

In association with Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Jewish Community Centre
4 Salisbury Road
Edinburgh EH10 5HN
Enquiries:
click here to send an email
Tickets £5


Glasgow
13 March

1.30pm
-5.30pm
Hadassa Ben-Itto
Anthony Blond
Mekella Broomberg
Simon Garfield
Howard Jacobson
Leah Thorn
Hanna Yablonka

UJIA, Eastwood House
222 Fenwick Road
Giffnock
Glasgow G46
Enquiries: Suzanne Freedman
0141 577 8230
click here to send an email.
Tickets £2; day ticket £5
family £5


Leeds
7 March

7pm Samir El-youssef , Etgar Keret, Dina Shiloh (chair)

In association with UJS.
Leeds University Campus
Enquiries: Adam Kaye
020 7380 6594
click here to send an email
Tickets £2


London

8 February

7pm Wladimir Kaminer discussing his book Russian Disco, about Russian-Jewish immigrants in 1990s Berlin

Goethe-Institut
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
Tickets:
London Jewish Cultural Centre
The Old House
Kidderpore Avenue
London NW3 7SZ
Enquiries: 020 7431 0345
click here to send an email
Tickets £5
In association with the LJCC


27 February
7pm Jonathan Freedland in conversation with D D Guttenplan

Joseph's Bookstore
Café Also

1255-57 Finchley Road
London NW11
Enquiries: 020 8731 7575 www.josephsbookstore.com


1 March

7pm Michaël Sëbban discussing Lehaim, about the realities of Jewish identity in 21st century France

Institut Français
17 Queensbury Place
London SW7 2DT
Tickets:
London Jewish Cultural Centre
The Old House
Kidderpore Avenue
London NW3 7SZ
Enquiries: 020 7431 0345
click here to send an email
Tickets £5
In association with the LJCC


15 March

7pm Robert Menasse discussing Wings of Stone, described as a “Viennese masterpiece”

Austrian Cultural Forum
28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ.
Tickets:
London Jewish Cultural Centre
The Old House
Kidderpore Avenue
London NW3 7SZ
Enquiries: 020 7431 0345
click here to send an email
Tickets £5
In association with the LJCC


18 March

7pm Jonathan Freedland

Saatchi Synagogue
Naima JPS
Andover Place
London NW6 4WL
Dinner and talk from 8pm.
Enquiries/tickets: 0207 625 2266
click here to send an email
Tickets £15 for synagogue members
£20 for non-members


3 April

10.30am A Literary Walk around the Jewish East End
A interactive guided walk around the Jewish East End as told through the novels, plays, poems and memoirs of Jewish East Enders from past to present.

Meet Stepney Green Tube Station
The walk is led by David Russell, a founding member of the Jewish East End Celebration Society
(www.jeecs.org.uk)
Booking: Reserve your place by emailing d.russell@jeecs.org.uk or calling 020 7739 1874
Price: £8; or £4 Students, senior citizens, JEECS members


15 May

3pm Mekella Broomberg, Adele Geras, Francesca Simon

Simon Marks Primary School
75 Cazenove Road
London N16 6PD
Enquiries: 020 8806 6048
www.simonmarks.ik.org
Tickets £7, £3.50 children


26 May

6.45pm Professor Stephen Frosh:
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism

Birkbeck College
The Embryology lecture theatre
Anatomy building, Gower Street
London
Enquiries: 020 7679 3520


Manchester
14 March

7.45pm Anthony Blond
Howard Jacobson

Venue TBC
In association with the Balfour Trust
Enquiries: 0161 491 1350
click here to send an email

Tickets £5 (concs: £4)


17 April

6pm Jonathan Freedland

In association with UJS
Manchester University Campus
Enquiries: Adam Kaye, 020 7380 6594
click here to send an email
Tickets £2


Newcastle
20 February

1.30pm

Charlotte Mendelson on her novel Daughters of Jerusalem

 
2.45pm Moris Farhi on his novel Young Turk

Newcastle Limmud
Westfield School
Gosforth
Newcastle Upon Tyne NE3
Enquiries:
click here to send an email
Tickets £25; Under-16s and concs £12.50;
Family £75


Nottingham
8 March

7.30pm Hadassa Ben-Itto

Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre
Laxton, Notts. NG22
Organised by Nottinghamshire County Council with the support of ENJOY Jewish Arts and Culture Book Group, Beth Shalom and Nottingham Jewish Peace Group


16 March

7.00pm David Bezmozgis

Adam's Restaurant and Brasserie
Adam's Building (NCN)
Stoney Street, Lace Market, Nottingham

In association with the Canadian High Commission and ENJOY: Nottingham Jewish Arts and Culture Book Group Enquiries: Ross Bradshaw
0115 977 4435
click here to send an email
Tickets £4 (£3 students) including wine
In association with the Canadian High Commission


13 April

7.30pm "Wesker reads Wesker"
with Arnold Wesker

County Hall
West Bridgford
Enquiries: Ross Bradshaw
0115 977 4435
click here to send an email
Tickets £4 (£3 students)


16 May

7.30pm Jacqueline Rose

Library Cafe
Nottingham Central Library
Enquiries: Ross Bradshaw
0115 977 4435
click here to send an email
Tickets £4 (£3 students)


Oxford
7 March

7pm

Laurence Rees on Auschwitz, his BBC documentary series

Blackwell's
In association with Oxford WIZO
For information, contact venue
or Merav Pick on 01865 721099
click here to send an email
48-51 Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BQ
Tel: 01865 792792
Fax: 01865 794143
click here to send an email
Tickets £3


8 March

6pm Anthony Blond, Aaron Lansky

Borders at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
In association with Oxford WIZO
For information, contact venue
call Merav Pick on 01865 721099
click here to send an email
Parks Road
Oxford OX1
Enquiries: 01865 203 901
Tickets £5 (£3 students)


10 March

8pm Hadassa Ben-Itto

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and  Jewish Studies
Yarnton Manor
Oxford OX5
All enquiries: Sue Forteath
01865 377 946
Free entry



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