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| Time Travelling in Polish Literature
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07 Mar 2010 - 5:00 pm |
| Contributors: | Henry Goodman, Beverley Klein, Lemez Lovas |
| Notes: | From the urban decadence of Yiddish theatre to the timeless world of the shtetl, Henry Goodman and Beverley Klein will give voice to the prose, poetry and drama of a century of Jewish Poland interspersed with new musical arrangements from Lemez Lovaz.
They take us into an irrecoverable world, invoking deep pathos and great humour from writers including I.B. Singer, Y.L. Peretz, Bruno Shultz, Ida Fink, and Janusz Korczak, all the way through to second-generation writers from the Jewish Polish diaspora conjuring up the strongly felt presence and sense of loss. |
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| In Search of the Real Leonard Woolf
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25 Feb 2007 - 5:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Victoria Glendinning, Henry Goodman. Chair: Anne Sebba |
| Notes: | Victoria Glendinning talks to Anne Sebba about Leonard Woolf, exploring his career as a writer and political thinker, his devotion to his wife Virginia and his complicated relationship with his Jewishness. Henry Goodman reads passages from Woolf’s fiction and non fiction, some of it unpublished today.
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| Children of the Ghetto
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26 Feb 2006 - 5:00 pm |
| Contributors: | Henry Goodman, Beverly Klevin, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Kerry Shale |
| Notes: | Children of the Ghetto is Israel Zangwill's epic tale of Jewish life in London, published in1892, describing both the poverty of the East End and the wealthy lives of the established Jews in the West End. Zangwill drew on his experiences of growing up in Whitechapel to paint a detailed and understanding picture of the lives of the immigrants. Children of theGhetto is both a landmark work of modern Jewish fiction as well as an essential late Victorian text. In this one-off reading, Henry Goodman and fellow actors bring to life Zangwill's vivid and realistic descriptions of the Jewish East End. |
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06 Mar 2005 - 5:00 pm |
| Contributors: | Henry Goodman, Andrew Sachs |
| Notes: | Jewish Book Week is proud to present the first major public reading of this powerful work of fiction by Kressman Taylor. Described as “the most effective indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction”, the book was a sensation when it was first published in the US on the eve of the Holocaust. |
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| Interpreting Shylock
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05 Mar 2001 - 4:15 pm |
| Contributors: | Henry Goodman, Philip Voss. Chaired by John Gross |
| Notes: | The Merchant of Venice has long been a problematic play, and especially so in the second half of the 20th Century. What has its impact been? How should we view it today? How antisemitic is it? What is the role of the actor and director in dealing with this sensitive question? How far can any production go in re-interpreting Shakespeare’s original? To discuss these knotty themes, John Gross Sunday Telegraph Literary Editor and author of Shylock (Arrow) is joined by the Royal National Theatre’s Henry Goodman and Philip Voss of the RSC, two outstanding ‘Shylocks’ of recent years. |
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