| Saturday 26 February |
| 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 |
| 11.00am |
The People and the Book: The Impact of the Printing Press on the Formation of Jewish Culture |
David Ruderman
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| 11.00am |
Community Buildings: Building Community |
Alain de Botton and Alex Lifschutz
Chair: Debbie Klein |
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| 12.30pm |
Anne Frank Revisited |
Buddy Elias. Mirjam Presler
Chair: Gillian Walnes |
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| 12.30pm |
Burnt Books |
Rodger Kamenetz
Chair: Susannah Heschel |
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| 2.00pm |
Maureen's Monologues |
Maureen Lipman |
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| 2.00pm |
Fifty Year Reflections of a Jewish Historian
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Martin Gilbert |
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| 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 |
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| 5.00pm |
Stefan Zweig |
Henry Goodman |
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| 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 |
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| 8.00pm |
The Warsaw Anagrams |
Richard Zimler
Chair: Elizabeth Crossley
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| 8.30pm |
All About Eve |
Eve Ensler |
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Monday 28 February |
| 10.00am |
School Morning |
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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 |
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| 3.00pm |
Films |
The Slow Mirror followed by Alice Sommer Herz: Everything is a Present |
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| 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 |
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| 1.00pm |
Refugee and Survivors Stories |
Tony Grenville and Bob Moore
Chair: Ruth Deech |
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| 2.30pm |
Workshops: The Afternoon Play |
Tutor: Nina Rapi |
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| 3.00pm |
Films |
Moments and Memories followed by Continental Britons
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| 5.00pm |
Flavours of Babylon |
Linda Dangoor and Bea Lewkowicz |
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| 7.00pm |
Eat, Write, Love |
Allegra Goodman, Yotam Ottolenghi Chair: Charlotte Mendelson |
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| 8.30pm |
Great House |
Nicole Krauss Chair: Naomi Alderman |
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| Wednesday 02 March |
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| 1.00pm |
Haunting Memories and Fractured Identities |
Jenny Erpenbeck and Julya Rabinovich
Chair: Henrietta Foster |
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| 3.00pm |
Film |
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal |
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| 2.30pm |
Workshop :Find your Poetic Voice |
Tutor: Malika Booker |
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| 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 |
| 1.00pm |
A Question of Age |
Jane Miller and Cari Rosen
Chair: Ursula Owen |
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| 3.00pm |
Film |
Jellyfish |
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| 2.30pm |
Workshop: A Story by Bedtime |
Tutor: Shaun Levin |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 12.30pm |
Tel Aviv Stories |
Shira Geffen in conversation with Linda Grant |
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| 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
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| 2.00pm |
The Escape of Freud |
David Cohen
Hillel Halkin cancelled |
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| 3.30pm |
We Had it So Good |
Linda Grant in conversation with Joan Bakewell
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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
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| 5.00pm |
The Third Man |
Peter Mandelson interviewed by Nick Cohen |
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| 6.30pm |
Vasily Grossman |
Robert Chandler, Janet Suzman |
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| 6.30pm |
Memories After My Death |
Yair Lapid, chair: Rachel Shabi
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| 8.00pm |
Last Word
SOLD OUT |
The Bermant Prize followed by
Howard Jacobson in conversation with Jonathan Freedland
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