Events

In this section we'll keep you up to date with the latest events.

Do also look out for events information and keep us posted if you are an organiser.

And remember, feedback is always welcome.

Do let us know of your literary events at Geraldine@jewishbookweek.com and we’ll post them on our website.

Young Vic Theatre, 66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ

19 January - 6 February

A Young Vic/ShiberHur Theatre Company co-production

I Am Yusuf And This Is My Brother

Direct from a tour of Palestinian villages in Galilee and the West Bank, a powerful story of life in 1948 at the moment of ‘the catastrophe’.

From the frontline, a poetic exploration of loyalty and love by the director of Alive from Palestine ‘an astonishing testament to the power of theatre.’ (★★★★★  The Guardian)

1948. The British Mandate is ending. The United Nations votes on who will control what part of Palestine ...

View the YouTube trailer here

Tickets £22.50 – FIRST WEEK - ALL TICKETS £15.

Student and under 26 tickets £10

020 7922 2922

www.youngvic.org

LSJS, Schaller House, 44a Albert Road, London, NW4 2SJ

25 January to 22 March 2010

Poetry Workshop

A seven-week course bringing Biblical stories to your creative writing

We begin with a class in the essential elements of the craft of poetry. Then we will write poems that draw on biblical narratives and characters. For inspiration, we will look carefully at poems that come out of classic Jewish texts and learn how the poets (such as Emily Dickinson, Marie Howe, Robert Frost, Ben Jonson, Yehuda Amichai, Jean Valentine, Dan Pagis, Langston Hughes, and others) wove familiar stories and words into fresh and genuine work. All are welcome.

Eve Grubin was born and raised in New York City. She is the author of Morning Prayer (2006) and is the Poetry editor of Lyric Poetry Review.  Her poems have appeared in many journals including The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Conjunctions, Pleiades and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She has lectured at The New School University and the City College of New York.

Morning and evening study options:

10am to 12pm and 8pm to 10pm

Seven Mondays

25 January to 22 March 2010

(no classes on 15 Feb. & 8 March)

Course fee: £75

To book, click here or call 020 8203 6427

JOSEPH’S BOOKSTORE

1 February, 8.00 pm

1257 Finchley Road, NW11 0AD

Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon on The Talmud –A Selection

In association with Society of Jewish Study, £5 for non members

.020 8731 7575 or info@josephsbookstore.com

1 February            Netanyahu, Obama and the Settlement Freeze        

Professor David Newman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

8 February            Shtadlanim: Is There a Jewish Political Tradition?  

Dr Francois Guesnet, University College London

8 March                 The Arabs in Israel since 1948                                  

Mohammed Darawashe, the Abraham Fund

26 April                  Accounting for the Israel Lobby in the US: Jews, Philosemites and Christian Zionists  
Professor Barry Kosmin, University of Chicago

SOAS is five minutes from Russell Square underground station.
All events are open to the  public.

For further information, please contact Professor Colin Shindler
email: cs52@soas.ac.uk  or telephone: 020 7898  4358

Kensington Town Hall, W8

Tuesday 9 February, 7.00 pm

Joseph Stiglitz in conversation with Evan Davis

Joseph Stiglitz will be discussing his new book Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, a whodunnit account of how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behaviour to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Stiglitz will outline his remedies for the future, building on ideas that he has championed his entire career: restoring the balance between markets and government, addressing the inequalities of the global financial system, and demanding more good ideas (and less ideology) from economists.

Tickets £25 (half-price for students)

To book, click here.

The Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London, W1W 5BH.

9 February 2010, 7pm

Rescue and Romance:

Love in Word and Deed

A special lecture by Anne Sebba as part of 'Past Caring: A Celebration of Love in History', to celebrate the lives of Ida and Louise Cook and their efforts to rescue Jews from Europe. 

Admission is free but places are limited.

To reserve a place, please click here on telephone 020 7636 7247.

South Bank Centre, Purcell Room, Belvedere Rd, SE1

Thursday 11 February, 7.45 PM

Tariq Ali and David Baddiel in conversation

Chair: Jonathan Freedland

Neither Tariq Ali nor David Baddiel are afraid of controversy and engaging in serious issues with wit and depth. The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom, Ali's latest collection of essays, shows the wide range of his interests from Cervantes to Zionism, cricket to Proust. The Infidel, David Baddiel's eagerly anticipated film, is a hilarious comedy starring Omid Djalilli as a Muslim cab driver who suddenly finds out he's adopted from a very different religious background. Prepare for an open and frank discussion of religion, politics and identity, peppered with humour and passion.

Tickets £10/concessions £5

To book, www.southbankcentre.co.uk or call 0844 847 9911

In assocation with JBW

JOSEPH’S BOOKSTORE

Thursday 11 February, 7.45 pm

1257 Finchley Road, NW11 0AD

Reading & discussion to celebrate the launch of

Lost and Found by Alison Leslie Gold

(Sylph Editions / American University of Paris, Pb £10-00)

New Yorker Gold – celebrated for her book with Miep Gies, ‘Anne Frank Remembered’ - will discuss and read from Lost and Found, a personal memoir centered on recent losses of loved ones, and the various findings that alleviate this darkness. The tale is set within the wider context of the displacement of European Jewry in the 20th century.

‘Lost and Found’ is illustrated with 13 paintings from the artist Charlotte Salomon’s masterpiece ‘Leben? oder Teater?’

The Cahiers Series - beautifully designed and bound limited editions - are published in association with Sylph Editions and the Centre for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris.

In association with the Times Literary Supplement

This event is free of charge. Booking is advised. To reserve a place please contact us on 020 8731 7575 or at info@josephsbookstore.com.

South Bank Centre, Purcell Room, Belvedere Rd, SE1

Tuesday 16 February

THE SCRIBE WHO WOULDN’T SCRIBBLE

Journey into the wonderful world of words with puppets, music and adventure in this beautiful show for children. When the townsfolk of Kfar Milim open their new synagogue, they want their legendary scribe, Rav Katav, to write their new Torah scroll. But an incident in his past led Rav Katav to swear he’d never write again. Can the townsfolk persuade him to forget about it and pick up a quill once more?

SPECIAL OFFER TO JEWISH BOOK WEEK AUDIENCE: 20% DISCOUNT WHEN YOU QUOTE ‘JBW’.

Offer not available online.

TICKETS: 0844 847 9939
MORE INFO / BOOK TICKETS

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/dance-performance/tickets/the-scribe-who-wouldnt-scribble-50552

Part of Imagine Children’s Festival 11 February – 1 March, Southbank Centre

For a full listing of events: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/imagine

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 18.30 – 20.00

Koestler: The indispensable intellectual

Best known as the author of the classic Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals, involved in and commenting on almost every political movement of the 20th century. As a young man, he was a committed Zionist and moved to Palestine; he was imprisoned and sentenced to death in Franco’s Spain; escaped Occupied France; and was a member of the Communist party for seven years, later becoming one of its fiercest critics. 

His new biographer Michael Scammell (who won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for his life of Solzhenitsyn) portrays a writer once described as ‘one third blackguard, one third lunatic, and one third genius’.

Price: £6 / £4 concessions

To book, click here or call 01937 546546

www.bl.uk

In assocation with JBW

British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1

Monday 22 February, 18.30

The Communist Manifesto - London 1848

The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is by far the most famous and most influential political document in world history. Yet its origins as a slight pamphlet were obscure, being first published in London in 1848 by a group of German immigrant workers and political refugees. To mark the acquisition of a rare first edition by the British Library, this talk by one of our greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, will explain how and why the Manifesto emerged, before going on to play an extraordinary role in world history. 

The event is chaired by Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor of Political Science, King's College, Cambridge.

Price: £7.50 / £5 concessions

To book, click here or call 01937 546546

www.bl.uk

In assocation with JBW

HACKNEY LIBRARY

Hackney Central Library, Technology & Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, London E8 1GQ

Wednesday 24th February: 6.15-8.00pm 

Oona King

on her life in politics and answers questions. 

She will sign copies of her book House Music:The Oona King Diaries

.

Admission Free.  Refreshments available.

Enquiries:  Barry Shaw 020 8356 2543.

South Bank Centre, Purcell Room, Belvedere Rd, SE1

Thursday 25 February, 7.30 PM

George Steiner on the Music of Thought

Taking the baton from Bernstein as fellow Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, George Steiner delivers a provoking lecture, The Music of Thought. Described by Booker Prize-winning author AS Byatt as 'a late, late, late Renaissance man... with an instinct for the driving ideas of our time', George Steiner has written extensively about the connections between literature, language and society. His published work spans half a century, and his notable books include The Death of Tragedy (1961) and Grammars of Creation (2001).

Tickets £10/concessions £5

To book, www.southbankcentre.co.uk or call 0844 847 9911

LONDON JEWISH CULTURAL CENTRE

Ivy House, 94-96 North End Road, London NW11 7SX

Wednesdays – 27th January, 24th February, 24th March 2pm –

Book Circle

Wednesdays – 20 January, 10 February, 10th March, - 2pm  -

Poetry Circle

Wednesdays – 20th January, 24th February, 17th March, 21st April –

Play Reading Group

All events are £5.

.020 8475 5000 or www.ljcc.org.uk

NIGHTINGALE HOUSE

105 Nightingale Lane, Clapham, SW12 8NB

1 March: 11.45AM

Literary Brunch

with Anita Diamant

£10 (includes a bagel brunch).

For tickets, contact Ruby Fernandes on 020 8673 3495

or email rubyfernandes@nightingalehouse.org.uk

JOSEPH’S BOOKSTORE

24 March

1257 Finchley Road, NW11 0AD

Anthony Julius

1257 Finchley Road, NW11 0AD. 020 8731 7575

info@josephsbookstore.com

For more information on events in London and around the UK, visit the On tour pages of the programme.