Jewish Book Week 2009

Saturday 21 February to Sunday 1 March

will open with Amos Oz

and close with AB Yehoshua.

To discover the full line up of outstanding speakers at the festival

come to

     JBW Breakfast at the British Museum
on Wednesday 10th December 2008 - 8.15 am to 10 am

 Enjoy breakfast in the beautiful Court restaurant

Meet Dr Irving Finkel, curator of the BM’s new exhibition, Babylon: Myth and Reality, and tour the treasures of Babylon before the crowds.

Leave with a gift of a book by one of our forthcoming speakers.

All this for just £20

Advanced booking essential
For more information, call 020 7446 8771 or email admin@jewishbookweek.com

To book, send your cheques payable to ‘Jewish Book Council’, to JBW Launch, ORT House, 126 Albert St, NW1 7NE

Sponsored by Dr Naim Dangoor OBE, founder of The Exilarch’s Foundation, publisher of The Scribe, Journal of Babylonian Jewry, www.dangoor.com

Do visit the new books and events pages of the website to find out about the latest publications and other organisations' talks.

You can see photos of Jewish Book Week 2008 and listen to or watch recordings of most of the sessions.

The full programme will be on line from 6 January 2009.

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

Lucette Lagnado

Ecco ISBN 0060822120

Lucette Lagnado does much more than tell the very moving story of her family.

This is the story of the end of a world, of multicultural Cairo. She makes us smell the perfume of its roses and its food, hear the noise of its bustling streets.

But above all it is the universal story of forced immigration and painful exile, an experience that completely destroyed her poor father who never understood his new home and was never understood by those supposed to welcome him. His was an American nightmare in which all his values were negated and roses did not smell of anything.

Lucette Lagnado will be at JBW 09.

Babylon: Myth and Reality