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The 2012 programme will soon be unveiled.

Here are some of our star speakers:

David Aaronovitch, David Abulafia, Aharon Appelfeld, Ron Arad, Shalom Auslander, Jeremy Ben Ami, Bidisha, Peter Cole, Umberto Eco, Jonathan Safran Foer, Henry Goodman, Adina Hoffman, Eva Hoffman, Howard Jacobson, Anthony Julius, Etgar Keret, Claude Lanzmann, Deborah Lipstadt, Jonathan Sacks, Marcus du Sautoy, David Schneider.....

Jewish Book Week 2011 Programme

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Saturday 26 February 2011

Jerusalem: The Biography

7.30pm Jerusalem, The Biography

Simon Sebag Montefiore

 

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9.15pm Bookniks Salon:

Samantha Ellis, Eve Grubin, James Hogg, Vivi Lachs, Maya Levy, Joanne Limburg, Adam Taylor, Farsa Monea

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Sunday 27 February 2011

Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History


I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World


11.00am The People and the Book: The Impact of the Printing Press on the Formation of Jewish Culture


David Ruderman

 

 
11.00am Community Buildings: Building Community

Alain de Botton and Alex Lifschutz
Chair: Debbie Klein

audiomovie
12.30pm Anne Frank Revisited

Buddy Elias. Mirjam Presler
Chair: Gillian Walnes

audiomovie
12.30pm Burnt Books

Rodger Kamenetz
Chair: Susannah Heschel

 
2.00pm Maureen's Monologues

Maureen Lipman

 
2.00pm

Fifty Year Reflections of a Jewish Historian

Martin Gilbert

audiomovie
3.30pm Jesus and the Jews

Susannah Heschel and Miri Rubin

Chair: David Cesarani

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3.30pm 33 Revolutions Per Minute:
A History of Protest Songs

Dorian Lynskey

 

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5.00pm My Bookshelf, My Country: Understanding Israel through its Writing Anat Hoffman audio
5.00pm Stefan Zweig Henry Goodman audio
6.30pm How the Jew in Gustav Mahler changed the music of the West


Norman Lebrecht 

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6.30pm Translation and Survival

Tessa Rajak
Chair: Philip Alexander

 
8.00pm The Warsaw Anagrams

Richard Zimler
Chair: Elizabeth Crossley                                                        

 
8.30pm All About Eve Eve Ensler audiomovie

Monday 28 February 2011

 

New and Collected Poems

10.00am School Morning   audio
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1.00pm Lives Remembered

Miriam Frank and Rosemary Friedman
Chair: Rachel Lasserson

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2.30pm Flash-Fiction Writing Workshop

Tutor: Tania Hershman

 
3.00pm Films

The Slow Mirror followed by Alice Sommer Herz: Everything is a Present

 
6.00pm Arthur Miller Biography,
Part 2

Christopher Bigsby

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7.30pm Poetry

Ruth Fainlight                

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8.30pm

The Hare with Amber Eyes

SOLD OUT

Edmund de Waal, chair: James Harding

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Tuesday 01 March 2011




       
1.00pm Refugee and Survivors Stories Tony Grenville and Bob Moore
Chair: Ruth Deech
audiomovie
2.30pm Workshops: The Afternoon Play

Tutor: Nina Rapi

 
3.00pm Films

Moments and Memories followed by Continental Britons

 
       
5.00pm Flavours of Babylon

Linda Dangoor and Bea Lewkowicz

audiomovie
7.00pm Eat, Write, Love Allegra Goodman, Yotam Ottolenghi Chair: Charlotte Mendelson audiomovie
8.30pm

Great House

Nicole Krauss  Chair: Naomi Alderman

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Wednesday 02 March 2011


Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy

       
1.00pm Haunting Memories and Fractured Identities

Jenny Erpenbeck and Julya Rabinovich
Chair: Henrietta Foster

audio
3.00pm Film

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

 
2.30pm Workshop :Find your Poetic Voice

Tutor: Malika Booker

 
5.30pm Silent Words

Johanna Adorjan and Merilyn Moos
Chair: Melissa Rosenbaum


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7.00pm Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends

Tom Segev , chair: Jonathan Freedland

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8.30pm

Guilt and Happiness

Pascal Bruckner in conversation with Clive James

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Thursday 03 March 2011

High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg

The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives

1.00pm A Question of Age Jane Miller and Cari Rosen
Chair: Ursula Owen
audio
3.00pm

Film

Jellyfish  
2.30pm Workshop: A Story by Bedtime

Tutor: Shaun Levin

 
5.00pm Banking Then and Now

Niall Ferguson   FREE

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6.30pm Ways of Staying

Kevin Bloom talks to Janet Suzman

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8.30pm The Arabs and the Holocaust

Tom Segev and Gilbert Achcar

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Friday 04 March 2011


11.00am

‘Translam’: Translating Anne Frank

Sam Garrett, Shaun Whiteside,

Chair: Daniel Hahn

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1.00pm

Berlin at War

Roger Moorhouse and Daniel Silver
Chair: Ben Barkow

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Saturday 05 March 2011

7.30pm The Death of Eli Gold

David Baddiel, chair: Erica Wagner

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9.00pm

True Tales?

Host: Debbie Chazen
Featuring: Stella Duffy, David Flusfeder, Benjamin Markovits, Meg Rosoff, Clive Sinclair, Jake Wallis Simons

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Sunday 06 March 2011

11.00am The Balfour Declaration

Jonathan Schneer
Chair: Tom Fraser

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11.00am Turbulent Times

Jon Boyd, Keith Kahn Harris, Melanie Philips, Miri Weingarten
Chair: Martin Bright

audio
12.30pm Tel Aviv Stories

Shira Geffen in conversation with Linda Grant

audio

The Punishment of Gaza

Yehuda Halevi (Jewish Encounters)

 

12.30pm Who Do We Think We Are?

Jeffrey Kaye and Gary Younge
Chair: Hannah Pool

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2.00pm The Punishment of Gaza

Gideon Levy, chair: Johann Hari

audiomovie
2.00pm The Escape of Freud

David Cohen

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3.30pm We Had it So Good

Linda Grant in conversation with Claire Armitstead

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3.30pm An Unfinished Business

Boualem Sansal, chair: Boyd Tonkin

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5.00pm A Rift in Time

Raja Shehadeh, chair: Jo Glanville

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5.00pm Super Sad Love Story

Gary Shteyngart in conversation with David Schneider

 
5.00pm The Third Man Peter Mandelson interviewed by Nick Cohen audiomovie
6.30pm Vasily Grossman

Robert Chandler, Janet Suzman

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6.30pm Memories After My Death

Yair Lapid, chair: Rachel Shabi

8.00pm

Last Word

SOLD OUT

The Bermant Prize followed by
Howard Jacobson in conversation with Jonathan Freedland

audiomovie

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