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.

Duchess Theatre

Catherine Street, WC2B 5LA

20 May to 22 August 2009

TAKING SIDES

Hitler’s favourite conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler (Michael Pennington), was the cultural jewel in the crown of the Third Reich. As a high profile Nazi sympathiser Furtwängler - became the perfect post-war target for interrogation. Join Major Steve Arnold (David Horovitch), an American major hell-bent on exposing Furtwängler,

with scant respect for artistry or factual accuracy, in this gripping courtroom drama.

Can music ever be a form of resistance to an evil ideology?

COLLABORATION

In 1931, When author Stefan Zweig (David Horovitch) accepts German composer Richard Strauss’s (Michael Pennington) invitation to collaborate together they embark on an invigorating artistic partnership in a spirit of optimism. But, as the ideological mania of the Nazis intensifies, so does the pressure on Strauss to dissociate himself from Zweig - a Jew - or face the consequences! Is it possible to keep artistic aspiration and political action separate? How fine is the line between collaboration and betrayal?

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Hampstead Town Hall
213, Haverstock Hill, NW3 4QP

Wednesday 1st  July, 7.30 p.m

AN EVENING WITH ZOE WANAMAKER

The evening will begin with a showing of "Who do you think you are?", an hour-long TV
film in which the stage and screen actor,  investigates her American/Jewish background. Zoë starts her search with her father, the film director and actor Sam Wanamaker, who had to leave the US after his left-wing political sympathies incurred the wrath of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Going further back Zoë discovers that her grandfather was
also a fighter for social justice. To what extent is the struggle for humanistic values an essential part of being Jewish? Sam Wanamaker, of course, was the man with the vision to found the Globe Theatre.

To discuss the values represented in the film Zoë will be in conversation with the writer, broadcaster and lecturer Daniel Snowman, best known for his book about the cultural impact of the “Hitler Emigres.” Zoë has just finished filming "It's A Wonderful Afterlife" and
is about to begin work on the next series of the immensely popular TV comedy series, "My Family".

(Nearest Station Belsize park)

£10 To book or make an enquiry please email:  ann@barnowlbooks.com

This event is organised by Independent Jewish Voices.   

Marxism 2009 - A festival of resistance

2-6 July, Central London

If you miss the Royal National Hotel and want to listen to an impressive array of speakers, visit /www.marxismfestival.org.uk

Youth Aliyah Child Rescue

East End

Sunday 5th July 2009 from 11.00 am

A Historical Walk through London’s Jewish East End:  

Zionists, Zealots and Zangwill

The Jewish East End Celebration Society's Clive Bettington guides us through what was for so many the birthplace of London's Jewish community. 

Our stroll through the past takes us to the heart of the community—its schools and shuls, soup kitchens and stalls, art & fashion studios and libraries.

Many famous Zionists had significant ties to this community,  and it is the coming together of British Jewry, its prominent philanthropists, and the early Zionists in the East End which will be the theme of this tour. 

What other Summer tour combines a delicious Israeli-style brunch with the splendour of the Central Synagogue on Nelson Street ?

11:00 am            Meet at Aldgate Tube Station: Walk & Brunch

 2:30 pm             Walk ends at Spitalfields market

Tickets:              £20 includes brunch

Proceeds go to our five Youth Villages in Israel supported by Youth Aliyah Child Rescue

As spaces are limited, please contact asap

Tel: 020 8371 1580 or  email: eva@youthaliyah.org.uk

The Annual Conference of The National Association of Professors of Hebrew

Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, UCL, Gower Street

Tuesday, 7 July 2009, at 8pm

UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Centre for Israel Studies

& The National Association of Professors of Hebrew

invite the public
 
To a screening of Pini Tavgers award winning film Pinhas
followed by a discussion with:
Pini Tavger 
Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv University
Hannah Naveh, Tel Aviv University
Tsila Ratner, University College London
Eric Zakim, University of Maryland 

Pini Tavger is a student at Tel Aviv University's Film & TV Department. His film "Pinhas" has won international acclaim and has been shortlisted for the Academy Award 2009 for Student Films.

Admission free

To register,  please email:

                                                      t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk, uczccnw@ucl.ac.uk

Sponsored by:

The Shoresh Charity Fund

Embassy of Israel, London

Oxfam and Hay Festival

Oxfam Bookshop, 91 Marylebone High St, London
Wednesday 8 July, from 6.30 pm

                               Rosie Boycott and Howard Jacobson

Hear Howard Jacobson, Booker Prize nominee and author of The Act of Love, and Rosie Boycott, journalist and author of A Nice Girl Like Me, speak at the Oxfam Bookshop in Marylebone.

Friday 10 July, 1.00 pm

David Aaronovitch

Hear David Aaronovitch, author of "Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History", speak at the Oxfam Bookshop in Marylebone.

Tickets £5, to book, call the box office 0870 990 1299

And many more speakers, quizzes, readings, literary treasure hunts, children's events all around the country.

For more information, visit the Oxfam website.

Spiro Ark Centre in collaboration with Harif

25–26 Enford St, W1
 Tuesday 14 July 2009, 7.30pm

               The 1941 pogrom in the literature of Jews from Iraq
                                A lecture by Shmuel Moreh

The Nazi pogrom of June 1941, known as the Farhud, was the Iraqi Jews’ very own Kristallnacht – two days of murder, looting, rape and mutilation. It shattered this ancient community’s self-confidence, and swiftly led to the exodus of over 90 percent of Iraqi Jewry.

While Arab intellectuals stayed shockingly silent, Jewish writers and poets reacted with a range of emotions - from denial, to muted fatalism, to an outpouring of bitterness and anger.

Professor Shmuel Moreh will give a comprehensive survey of what Jews from Iraq in Israel wrote about this decisive and painful turning point in their history.

Born in Baghdad, Shmuel Moreh is Emeritus Professor of Arabic studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Israel Prize Laureate (1999).

                                                            
£7/Free to full-time students
Advance booking essential on 020 7723 9991
Www.spiroark.org                 www.harif.org

Edinburgh International Book Festival

15 - 31 August 2009

You will find lots of JBW favourites: David Aaronovitch, Alain de Botton, Neil Gaiman, Linda Grant, Irma Kurtz, Ron Leshem, Elaine Showalter,  Adam Thirlwell.

Do not miss Sadia Shepard who writes about traveling to Pakistan to uncover her Jewish heritage.  

And for the kids there is Judith Kerr, Caroline Lawrence, Michael Morpurgo,

Michael Rosen, Francesca Simon, Andy Stanton, Jacqueline Wilson

and Professor of Folklore, Ari Berk reveals the secret history of

goblins, mermaids, giants and other fabled creaturs.  

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