| Saturday 23 February |
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8.00pm | Israel at 60: Heroes and Anti-Heroes | Menahem Brinker,
Hannah Naveh
Chair: Shlomo Avineri
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Sunday 24 February |
| 11am | Jewish Mysticism | Rachel Elior
Chair: Naftali Loewenthal
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| 11am | Jewish Heritage in England: The Challenges of Historic Building Conservation in the Jewish Community | Sharman Kadish |
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| 12.15pm | Family Affairs | Charlotte Mendelson, Rutu Modan, Blake Morrison
Chair: Hephzibah Anderson |
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| 12.30pm | Spinoza and Secular Jewish Culture | Yirmiyahu Yovel
Chair: Catherine Audard-Montefiore |
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| 12.30pm | The Rise of the Hebrew Republic |
Colin Shindler |
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| 2pm | Theodor Herzl | Shlomo Avineri |
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| 2pm | National Space / Private Home: Cultural Shifts in Israeli Literature | Eshkol Nevo,
Yehudit Katzir
Chair: Hannah Naveh
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| 3pm | Anne Sebba signs her biography of Jennie Churchill | |
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| 3.30pm | Criminal Lies | Michael Berkowitz,
Philip Kerr
Chair: Joanna Newman
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| 2pm | Joseph and His Coat of Many Dreams | Pomegranate Puppet Theatre |
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| 3.15pm | Roman Mysteries | Caroline Lawrence |
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| 3.30pm | The Unique Case of Jewish Secularism | Menahem Brinker
Chair: Felix Posen |
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| 5pm | From Closing the Sea to Here I Begin: A Journey Through Writing | Yehudit Katzir
Chair: Tsila Ratner |
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| 5pm | The Lost: A Search for Six out of Six Million | Daniel Mendelsohn
Chair: Adam Phillips |
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| 5pm | Tales of Great Jewish Mystics | Howard Schwartz
Chair: Rachel Elior |
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| 6.30pm |
The Clothes on Their Backs | Linda Grant
Chair: Rachel Seiffert |
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| 6.30pm | Respect, Reconnect, Reconstruct |
Willow Winston |
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| 6.30pm | Once Upon a Country | Sari Nusseibeh
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| 8.30pm |
Sunday Night Special |
Louise Ellman, Jonathan Freedland, Sari Nusseibeh, special guest
Chair: David Cesarani |
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Monday 25 February |
| 11.00am | Reading Group: See Under Love | Naomi Lightman |
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| 1pm | S. Yizhar | Nicholas De Lange,
Yaacob Dweck |
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2.15pm
and 3pm | Films: Preliminaries and Khirbet Hizeh |
Documentary Films |
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| 4.30pm | Discover the Author: Ruth Borchard | Katherine Hallgarten
Professor Charmian Brinson |
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| 5.00pm | Frank's Way: Frank Cass and Fifty Years of Publishing | Gerry Black
Chair: Michael Freedland |
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| 7.00pm | Great Writers of the 20th Century: Isaiah Berlin | Shlomo Avineri
Chair: Alan Ryan |
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| 8.30pm |
Israel Through My Lens: Sixty Years as a Photojournalist |
Ruth Corman,
David Rubinger
Chair: Ned Temko |
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Tuesday 26 February |
| 10.30am - 2.30pm | School Day | Daniel Hahn and Leonie Flynn, Caroline Lawrence, Howard Schwartz |
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| 12.30pm | Growing Tales | Esther Freud,
Anne Landsman and
Sidura Ludwig
Chair: Francesca Segal |
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| 3.30pm | Eyewitness: David Rubinger | Documentary Film
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| 5pm | The Camel Trail | Judy Jackson |
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| 6pm | The Shining City on the Hill | Melanie Phillips |
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| 7.00pm |
The $3 Trillion War | Joseph Stiglitz |
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| 8.30pm | The 1948 War | Benny Morris
Chair: Colin Shindler |
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| Wednesday 27 February |
| 1pm | Rehabilitating Rezso Kasztner | Zsuzi Kasztner,
Ladislaus Lob
Chair: David Ceserani
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| 3pm | Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel |
Documentary Film |
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| 3.30pm | Cafe Philo: Crossing the Divide | Jonathan Garfinkel
Chair: Emma Klein |
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| 5pm | Meet the Author: Randoms Acts of Heroic Love | Danny Scheinmann |
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| 6pm | Passion: Miriam Karlin | |
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| 7pm | Rethinking the Media | Lisa Goldman, Judah Passow
Chair: Robin Lustig |
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| 8.30pm | Murder They Write | Jonathan Freedland
Matt Rees |
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| Thursday 28 February |
| 11am | Reading Group: Everyman | Naomi Lightman |
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| 1pm | Fiftysomethings | Linda Kelsey,
Judith Summers
Chair: Kerry Fowler |
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| 3pm | Agnon: Father and Daughter | Documentary Film |
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| 5pm | Meet the Author | Marie Phillips |
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| 6.30pm |
Anger, Romance and Comedy |
Jon Canter, Lana Citron, Rudolph Delson
Chair: Francesca Segal |
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| 8pm | Bookniks: God Wrestling | Shalom Auslander
Chair: A.L. Kennedy |
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| 9.30pm |
Bookniks Cabaret | Lana Citron, Rudolph Delson, Ellaya Ayal Mor, Rachel Rose Reid, Eva Salzman, Adam Taylor, Host: Laoise
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| Friday 29 February |
| 11am | Storytelling Masterclass | Howard Schwartz |
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| 11am | The Art of Blogging | Lisa Goldman |
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| 1pm | Fault Lines | Nancy Huston
Chair: Jonathan Garfinkel |
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| Saturday 1 March |
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7.15pm | All Things Tire of Themselves | Arnold Wesker |
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| 8.30pm | The East End Now and Then |
Monica Ali, Oona King, Bernard Kops , Chair: Claire Armitstead |
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| 10.15pm | Klez Café |
Mekella Broomberg
Laoise Davidson
Daniel Hart
Oliver Meek
James Silverly |
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| Sunday 2 March |
| | 11am | Writing Workshop | Amy Bloom |
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11am | Coexistence and Cooperation Between Israelis and Palestinians: The Untold Story | Daniel Gavron
Chair: Arnold Wesker
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| 11am | Cecil B DeMille and the Golden Calf | Simon Louvish
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| 12.30pm | Transformations | Ricki Rosen
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| 12.30pm | On Turning Risk Into Opportunity | Ronald Cohen
Chair: John Kampfner |
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| 12.30pm | Josh and Judy's Speed Read | Judy Batalion, Josh Cohen |
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| 2pm | Homefront | Sayed Kashua
Chair: Matt Rees |
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| 2pm | The Interpretation of History | Jonathan Rabb
Jed Rubenfeld
Chair: Marcel Berlins |
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| 2pm | The Joe Craig Show |
Joe Craig |
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| 3pm |
Sue Gordon and Rita Christie sign copies of Birth to Bat Mitzvah, A Rhyming Narrative. | |
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| 3.30pm | A Brief History of Children's Diaries | Jacqueline Wilson |
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| 3.30pm | The Shel Silverstein Session of Silliness | Ilana Bendel
Jonny Berliner
Jen Charlton
Daniel Hart |
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| 3.30pm | In Search of Happiness | Amy Bloom,
Chair:
Sarah Dunant |
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| 5pm | Poles and Jews: Troubled Neighbours? | Dorota Glowacka, Joanna Zylinska
Chair: Anne Karpf |
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| 5pm | In Praise of Diasporas |
Simon McBurney, Adam Thirlwell
Chair: Rachel Lasserson |
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| 5pm | The Last Resistance | Jacqueline Rose
Chair: Tony Lerman |
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| 6.30pm | Writing About War | Ron Leshem
Chair: Ian Black |
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| 6.30pm | A Glimpse of Malamud | Philip Davis
Janet Suzman |
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| 6.30pm | Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors | Lisa Appignanesi
Chair: Susie Orbach |
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| 8.15pm |
Chaim Bermant Prize |
Introduced by Peter Levy |
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| 8.25pm | The JC Evening:
The Last Word: Reporting the Middle East
| David Landau
Alan Rusbridger
Chair: Alex Brummer |
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