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| Urgent Words
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21 Feb 2009 - 8:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Amos Oz, Chair: Jonathan Freedland |
| Notes: | Amos Oz has often said he writes with two pens: one for his novels, the other to expose injustices and promote peace.
Jonathan Freedland talks here to the peace activist, the man who believes it is a writer’s duty to confront iniquities no matter how uncomfortable they prove to be. |
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| Murder They Write
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27 Feb 2008 - 8:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Jonathan Freedland, Matt Rees |
| Notes: | Jonathan Freedland, alias Sam Bourne, tackles the Middle East conflict in his second gripping thriller, The Last Testament. With the Bethlehem Murders, Matt Rees has set off on a series of mysteries set in the West Bank with school teacher turned detective Omar Yussef as their central character.
The two journalists explain what prompted them to start writing thrillers and discuss the Middle East, politics and fiction. |
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| The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A Tour of the Jewish Horizon
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28 Feb 2007 - 7:00 pm |
| Contributors: | Anthony Julius, Leon Wieseltier. Chair: Jonathan Freedland |
| Notes: | Antisemitic attacks are on the rise, the Iranian president calls for the eradication of Israel and the war in Lebanon split the diaspora. But Jewish culture everywhere is experiencing a vibrant resurgence and a two state solution seems inevitable. So what exactly is looming on the horizon?
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| Saturday Night Double Bill
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04 Mar 2006 - 8:00 pm |
| Contributors: | Sam Bourne, Jay Rayner, Jonathan Freedland, Hirsh Goodman, Jonathan Kaplan, Jeff Barak |
| Notes: | SESSION ONE : Suspense
Jonathan Freedland presents Sam Bourne, the author of a new exciting thriller set in the New York Jewish community. Discover who is hiding behindthis mysterious name. You won’t be disappointed!
Moderated by award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster Jay Rayner.
SESSION TWO : Don't Tell Me Miracles Can't Happen!
“I have seen the end of Apartheid and witnessed modern Israel rising from the ashes of the Holocaust. Don’t tell me miracles can’t happen”. So concludes Hirsh Goodman at the end of his autobiography.
Both Hirsh Goodman and Jonathan Kaplan grew up in South Africa and fled apartheid.
Goodman went to Israel in search of his paradise. His work as a journalist in constant dialogue with Israel’s leaders helped him closely follow the evolution of the country. He saw his son leave the country after his military service in the West Bank to move to the new South Africa.
Kaplan travelled the world to work for medical charities in areas of conflict – Burma, Eritrea, Angola, Baghdad – experiencing riots, tropical fevers and political upheavals.
They discuss what kept them going, the price they paid and the challenge of retaining their ideals.
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| The People on the Street
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26 Feb 2006 - 12:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Linda Grant, Jonathan Freedland |
| Notes: | Linda Grant presents Israel as you have never seen it before.
From the bohemian world of the Tel Aviv intellectual scene to the seedy underbelly of mob bosses; encountering teenage soldiers, Iraqi shopkeepers and Russian scientists along the way. The People on the Street, the culmination of years of journalism, essay writing and countless interviews, is the very personal account of Linda Grant’s relationship with the country. Beginning from one block of a Tel Aviv street, it is the assertion of the individual and the humane over slogans and rhetoric. |
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| The Jewish Question
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12 Mar 2005 - 8:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Alain Finkielkraut, Anthony Julius, Jonathan Freedland |
| Notes: | Are we living through a resurgence of antisemitism? Is it connected to Israel, and if so, how? And how deeply entrenched is it in Jewish identity?
Anthony Julius believes that the threat of antisemitism is real if sometimes overstated, and is often mediated through each nation’s identity and ideology. French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut argues that the rise of antisemitism in France is bound up with the growing antipathy towards Israel and this defines the new Jewish Question’. In the US, some writers view America’s apparent liberalism and its friendship towards Israel as masking a deep-rooted antisemitism.
Jonathan Freedland chairs the discussion between these two leading thinkers to explore one of the most critical issues of our time. |
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| Legacies
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06 Mar 2005 - 3:30 pm |
| Contributors: | David Baddiel, Jonathan Freedland, Anne Karpf, Jonny Geller |
| Notes: | How does family history spur someone to literature? And what happens when that history coincides with some of the 20th century’s most dramatic and painful events? |
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| Jacob’s Gift: To be a Jew
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07 Mar 2004 - 1:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Jonathan Freedland, in conversation with Jay Rayner |
| Notes: | For further details click on title |
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| Confronting Terror
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28 Feb 2004 - 8:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Bernard-Henri Lévy, Salman Rushdie, Chaired by Jonathan Freedland |
| Notes: | For further details click on title |
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| Elvis in Jerusalem
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03 Mar 2003 - 8:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Tom Segev, interviewed by Jonathan Freedland |
| Notes: | According Segev, the Americanisation of Israel has had a positive influence on Israeli culture and identity. Has it? |
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| The Elephant and the Jewish Question: Antisemitism and the Press
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03 Mar 2002 - 8:30 pm |
| Contributors: | David Aaronovitch, Jonathan Freedland, Anne Karpf, A.N. Wilson. Chaired by D D Guttenplan |
| Notes: | Is journalism that offends Jews always anti-Semitic? Squaring the British tradition of plain speaking with the demands of living in a multi-racial, multi-faith society isn’t always easy. Are there any rules when journalists from outside an ethnic community write about that community or its members? Should there be? And if we are rightly offended, what should/can we do about it? A panel of distinguished commentators tackles these questions head-on. David Aaronovitch, a columnist on the Independent and author of Padding to Jerusalem (Fourth Estate); Jonathan Freedland, Plic Editor of The Guardian and author of Bring Home the Revolution (Fourth Estate): Anne Karpf, journalist and Jewish Chronicle columnist, author of The War After (Mandarin); A.N. Wilson, a columnist for the Spectator and the Evening Standard and author of several novels and works of non-fiction. D.D Guttenplan is London correspondent for The Nation and former media critic for New York Newsday. He is the author of The Holocaust on Trial (Granta). |
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| A Divided future…?
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03 Mar 2001 - 8:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Larry Abramson, Ahmad Khalidi, David Rosen, Bernard Wasserstein. Chaired by Jonathan Freedland |
| Notes: | What does an examination of the history of Jerusalem reveal about its future? To mark the launch of his new book, Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City (Profile Books), Bernard Wasserstein, Professor of History at Glasgow University, is joined by Larry Abramson, one of Israel’s leading artists and Professor of Fine Art at the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, whose work addresses the politics of landscape; Ahmad Khalid[, a Palestinian from an old Jerusalemite family, Senior Associate Member of St. Anthony’s College Oxford, editor-in-chief of the Journal for Palestine Studies, and a negotiator at Madrid, Washington and Taba, and Rabbi David Rosen, Director of the Anti-Defamation League Israel office in Jerusalem, former Chief Rabbi of Ireland, founder of Israel’s Interreligious Co-ordinating Council and negotiator of the normalisaiton of relations between Israel and the Vatican. Together they will explore the complexities of this most important of cities. In an atmosphere in which none of the voices speak in any official capacity – and all speak with much love of the city – there will be space for individual reflections and unexpected personal perspectives. Jonathan Freedland is a writer and Guardian journalist. |
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| Memory and History
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07 Mar 1999 - 6:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Lisa Appignanesi, Linda Grant. Chaired by Jonathan Freedland |
| Notes: | The launch of Losing The Dead (Chatto) by Lisa Appignanesi and the paperback edition of Linda Grant’s Remind Me Who I am Again (Granta), two deeply moving and darkly comic explorations of personal history; they offer profound and differing perspectives on the complex questions of self-identity arising from an examination of the past. For both writers, it was the deterioration of their mothers’ memory which formed the basis for their personal journeys. Linda Grant, Guardian columnist, is a prize winning novelist and formerly wrote for the Jewish Chronicle. Lisa Appignanesi is a biographer, novelist and television producer. Jonathan Freedland is a writer and Guardian journalist. |
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