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Jewish Book Week 2012 Programme



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Saturday 18 February

Chocolate birthday cake

8.00pm - 9:30pm 60 years on

Simon Schama, Linda Grant & Eva Hoffman
Chair: Emily Maitlis

(live subtitling)

 

Sunday 19 February


11.00am Rabbinical Creativity

Rabbi B Lau & Raphael Zarum

 

 
11.00am Wallis Simpson

Anne Sebba & Jane Ridley

 
11.00am Jewish London

Rachel Kolsky

 
12.30pm

I Lived on this Earth....

NEW

Janet Suzman, George Gomori, Marianne Olyver, Robert Schuck    Eli (instead of Eli Amir cancelled)

 
12.30pm Taha Muhammad Ali

Adina Hoffman

 
12.30pm

The Scandal of Kabbalah

Yaacob Dweck

 
2.00pm Tales of Mediterranean Coexistence

David Abulafia,Philip Mansel

Chair: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

(live subtitling)

 
2.00pm Joseph Roth

Dennis Marks & Michael Hofmann

 

 
2.00pm Masterclass Peter Cole  
3.30pm Fagin the Jew

Michael Eaton, Leon Litvack & Florian Schweizer

(live subtitling)

 
3.30pm Jews and Palestinians in Israel

David Wesley & Tom Selwyn

 
3.30pm Trouble_Making Rabbis

Elli Sarah, David Goldberg & Hester Abrams

 
5.00pm Sacred Trash

Peter Cole & Adina Hoffman                                                       

 
5.00pm Yehuda Halevi Hillel Halkin & Anthony Julius  
5.00pm Portugal at War: Lisbon and the Jewish Refugees in WW2 Neill Lochery  
First Lady of Fleet Street: A Biography of Rachel Beer 6.30pm The Lady of Fleet Street

Eilat Negev & Yehuda Koren

Chair: Vanessa Thorpe

 
6.30pm The Origins Agnes Desarthe, Fabrice Humbert & Michael Arditti  
The Eichmann Trial (Jewish Encounters) 8.00pm The Eichmann Trial

Deborah Lipstadt & Anthony Julius

 
the golem 8.00 pm The Golem: Silent film Live music by Robin Harris & Laura Anstee  

Monday 20 February

 Desktop Wallpapers · Celebrities · Music    Bob Dylan

1.00pm The Long Road Home

Ben Shephard

 
3.00pm Film

Orly Castel Blum

 
5.30pm Meet the Author

Hillel Halkin Melisande

 
7.00pm Poet in the City on Bob Dylan

Jackie Oates, Clinton Heylin, Sophie Solomon & Dorian Lynskey

 
8.30pm

Constructs of Place

Avner De-Shalit, Barbara Mann & Ziona Strelitz

 

Tuesday 21 February

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: Battenburg, Bottoms and Bridge - an Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia

The Imperfectionists

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

1.00pm What the grown ups were doing Michele Hanson & Stephanie Calman  
3.00pm Film

Agi Mishol

 
5.30pm Meet the Author

Sue Eckstein

 
7.00pm Bernard Wasserstein on the Eve Bernard Wasserstein  
7.00pm

LJS

Michael Grade and Pam Fox  
8.30pm

The Patagonian Hare

Claude Lanzmann in conversation with Alan Yentob

SOLD OUT

 

Wednesday 22 February



1.00pm
The third Day

Chochana Boukhobza

 
3.00pm Film

Sara Shilo

 
5.30pm Meet the Author

Tom Rachman



7.00pm Ron Arad

 

 
8.30pm

Religion & Science

(live subtitling)

Jonathan Sacks, Marcus du Sautoy

& Daniel Glaser

 

Thursday 23 February

Major/Minor

1.00pm Major/ Minor Alba Arikha & Janine di Giovanni  
3.00pm

Film

Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews  
5.30pm Freud's Couch

Simon Goldhill

 
7.00pm Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret & Tim Samuels with Ilan Goodman

 
8.30pm Olympics Comedy

David Schneider, Beverley Klein & Josh Howie

 

Friday 24 February


1.00pm

The Food of Spain

Claudia Roden

 

Saturday 25 February
jacket image for Haggadah by Jonathan Safran Foer - large version
7.30pm Retelling the Story

Jonathan Safran Foer, Jeffrey Goldberg           Chair: Maureen Kendler

 
9.30pm

Six Word Memoirs

Lail Arad, Shalom Auslander, Francesca Beard, Jamie Glasman, David Mills. Host: Larry Smith

 

Sunday 26 February

 

11.00am Israel after the Arab Spring

Jeffrey Goldberg & Robin Lustig

 
11.00am Proust Among the Nations Jacqueline Rose & Boyd Tonkin  
There Is No Dog 11.00am Almighty Teenagers

Bernard Kops & Meg Rosoff

Chair: Amanda Craig

 
12.30pm Hope: A Tragedy

Shalom Auslander & Bidisha

 

Blooms of Darkness

Pantheon

The English German Girl

12.30pm Jewry in Music

David Conway & Michael Portillo

 

 
12.30pm Hebrew Language Session

Ruth Almog in conversation with Tsila Ratner

IN HEBREW

 
2.00pm A new voice for Israel

Jeremy Ben Ami & J. Freedland

 
2.00pm Of Loss and Hope

Alison Pick & Jake Wallis Simon

Chair: Claire Armitstead

 
2.00pm The Road to the Apocalypse Stanley & Munro Price  
3.30pm Ulysses revisited

Henry Goodman, Howard Jacobson & Derbhle Crotty

SOLD OUT

 
3.30pm Get Real: How to Tell it Like it is in a World of Illusions Eliane Glaser & Julia Hobsbawm  
3.30pm Trieste

Dasa Drndic & Amanda Hopkinson

 

 
5.00pm NEW Jewish Heritage in the Age of Diasporas

Zygmunt Bauman interviewed by Jason Strelitz

(instead of Aharon Appelfeld)

 
5.00pm Pantheon by Sam Bourne

Jonathan Freedland & David Aaronovitch

 

 
5.00pm Jewish Legions Michael Keren  
6.30pm Israel and the European Left

Colin Shindler & Nick Cohen

 
6.30pm Daniel Stein: Interpreter

Ludmilla Ulitskaya & Brian Klug

 

8.00pm The Protocols of Prague Umberto Eco & David Aaronovitch SOLD OUT  
8.30pm

Jay Rayner & piano

Jay Rayner

 

 

Arts Council Blackwell

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