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Jewish Book Week 2007 on Tour

In Association with the British Friends of Hebrew University

British Friends of Hebrew University


Bath
3 March

7.00pm

David Maine History and Fiction: discusses The Book of Samson with Tessa Hadley,

 

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
£7 (5)


4 March

7.00pm

Nora Ephron
"Intimate Lives

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
£9 (7)


8.30pm

Matthew Carr
Frank Furedi
Terrorism

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
£7 (5)


8 March

1.00pm

Ted Honderich discusses his new book Humanity, Terrorism, Terrorist War: Palestine, 9/11, Iraq, 7/7

 

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
£6 (4)


9 March

11.30am

Alexandre Najjar
Adam Le Bor
Literature of Exile

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
£6 (4)


1.00pm

Howard Jacobson

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
£7 (5)


Bournemouth
19 March

11.00am

Marina Benjamin

 

vicki.goldie@bournemouthlibraries.org.uk


Brighton
5 March

7.30pm-9.00pm An Evening with Nora Ephron

Tickets £5 on the door (includes refreshments). Contact Winston Pickett at pickettwin@aol.com, in association with the Brighton-Hove Hebrew Congregation and the Brighton-Hove Jewish Representative Council.


Glasgow
25 February

1.30pm
-5pm

Jonny Geller
Michele Hanson
Jonathan Wilson
Yair Zakovitch

Tickets £10 advance/£12 on the door (includes refreshments). Contact Bev Taylor 0141 577 8200. Eastwood House, Fenwick Road, Glasgow G46    In association with UJIA


Leeds
5 March

4.00pm Paul Scham
Benjamin Pogrund
Shared Histories

University of Leeds, Centre for Jewish Studies, Old Mining Building, room tbc, Eva Frojmovic 0113-3435197 e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk.


7.45pm Paul Scham
Benjamin Pogrund
Shared Histories

£5 (2.50 students)
Makor
Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Community Centre
311 Stonegate Road
Leeds LS17 6AZ
Helen Frais 0113 268 0899 Helen@makor.co.uk


8 March

4.00pm

Marina Benjamin
"Out of Iraq"

University of Leeds, Centre for Jewish Studies, Old Mining Building, room tbc, Eva Frojmovic 0113-3435197 e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk.


7.45pm

Marina Benjamin
"Out of Iraq"

£5 (2.50 students)
Makor
Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Community Centre
311 Stonegate Road
Leeds LS17 6AZ
Helen Frais 0113 268 0899 Helen@makor.co.uk


Liverpool
4 March

12 noon Jonny Geller
Brunch

For more information, call Barbara Levin: 01514281391. 10


London

18 January

7.30 for 8pm

Bea Lewkowicz
We all came from Spain: Memory and identity among the Jews of Salonica

Holland Park Synagogue St James's Gardens, W11, 7, 020 7723 9991, www.spiroark.org, www.harif.org


21 January

6.00pm

Jonathan Freedland
What is Jewish? A Cafe Philo discussion with the author of Lost Jews Emma Klein.

London Jewish Cultural Centre 8/5 Ivy House, 94-96 North End Road, London NW11 7SX


18 February

7.00pm

Michael Kustow
A Journey Through Poetry Bernard Kops at 80 and a

Joseph's Bookstore Free, refreshments provided. Booking advised


20 February

8.30pm

David Gooblar
Book Group. Discuss Howard Jacobsons Kalooki Nights

Jewish Community Centre: Lit Cafe downstairs at The Roebuck, 15 Pond Street, London NW3. 5. No need to book, just come along.


28 February

7.00pm

Professor William J Fishman
The City of Dread Night

Acton Library the East End in the Victorian age, High Street, Acton, W3


7.00pm

Michael Rosen
Trinidadian Jewish boy
Alexander D Great

So Youre Jewish Too? Poems, calypsos, jokes and stories

Hackney Central Library, Technology & Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, London E8 1GQ. Barry Shaw 020 8356 2542. Admission Free. Refreshments available.


1 March

7.45pm

Baroness Neuberger
DBE talks about her book The Moral State Were In.

Hackney Central Library, Technology & Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, London E8 1GQ. Barry Shaw 020 8356 2542. Admission Free. Refreshments available.


6 March

7.30pm

Colin Shindler
What do Zionists Believe?

Centre for Jewish Studies at SOAS Drinks and lecture. Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Sq, WC1H OXG cs52@soas.ac.uk or 0207 898 4358


7.30pm

Naomi Alderman
Josh Appignanesi
.
Transgression and the Community

London Jewish Cultural Centre 8/5 Ivy House, 94-96 North End Road, London NW11 7SX


*8 March

7.30pm

Eva Menasse
European Voices 2007

Austrian Cultural Forum, 28, Rutland Gate, London, SW7 1PQ


14 March

tbc

Philippe Grimbert
talks about his prize-winning autobiographical novel Secret

Institut francais du Royaume Uni 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT. 020 7073 1350 or www.institut-francais.org.uk


*15 March

7.30pm

Raphael Seligman
European Voices 2007

Seligman Goethe Institute 50, Princes Gate - Exhibition Road London SW7 2PH


tbc

Tracey Fine
Georgie Tarn

Pesach for Princesses with The Jewish Princess Cookbook authors

£8 / 5 Contact: 020 8457 5000 or email: events@ljcc.org.uk


20 March

8.30pm

Hear some of the hottest emerging authors in conversation

www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk. Jewish Community Centre: Lit Cafe downstairs at The Roebuck, 15 Pond Street, London NW3. 5. No need to book, just come along.


*22 March

7.30pm

Steve Greenberg
Trembling Before G-d Intimate stories of gay or lesbian Orthodox Jews who wrestle to reconcile religious passion with the Biblical prohibitions against homosexuality.

£8 / 5 Contact: 020 8457 5000 or email: events@ljcc.org.uk


7.30pm

Hana Andronikova
European Voices 2007

LJCC
£8 (5 concession)


18 April

7.30pm

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
The Dignity of Difference

£12/8 Contact: 020 8457 5000 or email: events@ljcc.org.uk


Manchester

4 March

7.00pm

Jonny Geller
Jon Canter

£5 incl refreshments
South Manchester Synagogue, The Firs, Bowdon, Cheshire WA14 2TE
Tickets/Enquiries: 0161 928 2050 or info@southmanchestersynagogue.com
In association with South Manchester Synagogue


Nottingham

26 February

8.00pm

Jonathan Wilson
reads from his novel A Palestine Affair

West Bridgford Library, Bridgford Road, Nottingham. An ENJOY - Jewish Arts event in association with Five Leaves Publications. Free. 0115 9693597, info@fiveleaves.co.uk.


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