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 Jewish Book Week 2008 has been another great success. We've had fantastic talks on dysfunctional families, the Holocaust, the London’s East End , secularism, rethinking the media, the cost of war and God wrestling . At the heart of the programme was a celebration of Israel at 60, its eventful history, achievements and challenges.
We welcomed wonderful novelists Linda Grant, Esther Freud, Sayed Kashua, Amy Bloom...We discovered new voices: Eshkol Nevo, Sidura Ludwig, Rudolph Delson and Ron Leshem ...
You can already watch photos of the Week and listen to recordings of some of the sessions, just look for
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Congratulations to Matt Rees for winning the
Crime Writers Association's John Creasey
New Blood Dagger for The Bethlehem Murders.The novel is nominated for two other
forthcoming awards (in the US, the Barry and Macavity awards).
Matt Rees , Eshkol Nevo, Edna Fernandes, Linda Grant and Ladislas Lob are some of the authors not to be missed at the International Edinburgh Literature Festival.
See you next year but, in the meanwhile, we will keep you posted about new books,
events (films, exhibition and talks) and general news from the Jewish book world.
Put 2009 dates in your diary: Saturday 21 February to Sunday 1 March |
The gripping story of a dying community in Southern India,
a group which at one time numbered in the thousands, had eight synagogues, and prospered with estates and plantations.
