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B’NAI B’RITH UK IS WELCOME! Jewish Journeys Fourth Edition - 06 November 20

UK Organisers: B’nai B’rith UK B’nai B’rith UK was established in 1910. It is part of an international organisation founded in 1843, which advocates for global Jewry and champions the cause of human rights. B’nai B’rith is active in 59 countries with representation at the UN, UNESCO and the EU. B’nai B’rith UK is a cross-communal organisation whose aim is to bring Jewish people together to promote tolerance, strengthen the Jewish Community, combat racial and religious prejudice, to help the less fortunate and the disadvantaged. Local groups provide innovative cultural, educational and social programmes. These have, in the past, included speaker events, concerts, theatre outings, quizzes, debates, visits to places of interest, walks and trips abroad. These provide a great social network and the opportunity to participate in and support our humanitarian and heritage projects. This year, due to the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, activities have had to move online and BBUK has been running a hugely successful programme of online talks since the beginning of lockdown in March, which have attracted a huge number of attendees around the world. The European Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage (see next page), run by a team of volunteers, is a mainstay of our calendar. In a normal year, B’nai B’rith UK’s London Bureau of International Affairs engages with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Department for International Development and foreign embassies on behalf of Jewish people internationally and to support Israel. More widely, we promote the human rights of minority groups. We sponsor a food aid programme for needy families and after school activities for children in the southern Israeli development town of Qiryat Gat. We also support a humanitarian medical programme for elderly and righteous gentiles in Kiev, Ukraine and a shoe programme for a children’s orphanage in Odessa. Other B’nai B’rith UK activities include providing scholarships for Jewish final year civil engineering or postgraduate students or for those studying other pure or applied sciences and supporting the British Armed Forces Jewish Community Annual Faith Training Weekend. B’NAI B’RITH UK

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06/11/20 Jewish Journeys Fourth Edition - 06 November 20

Some of this year’s highlights:

Willesden Jewish Cemetery: virtual tour of the cemetery on 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 13th September. Wiener Library: online exhibition about ‘The Kitchener Camp’, available to view from now. Association of Jewish Refugees: virtual interview with author Deborah Levison in conversation with Marilyn Sinclair on 3rd September. They will discuss Deborah’s book, ‘THE Willesden Jewish Cemetery CRATE: A Story of War, a Murder and Justice’, which is a true crime story with echoes of the Holocaust and has received seven literary awards. Museum of Liverpool: permanent museum trail featuring objects connected to Liverpool’s Jewish community available at the museum. Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation: walking tour of the Deane Road Cemetery on 13th September. B’nai B’rith UK’s First Lodge: fascinating recordings of virtual tours given to members of Athens, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen and Jerusalem. Date tbc. Strawberry Hill House: small virtual exhibition focusing on the Jewish occupants of Strawberry Hill between the 1860s and the 1920s: Lady Frances Waldegrave and the Stern Family. from 31st October to 31st December 2020 Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain: online research workshop on 13th September. In addition, B’nai B’rith UK will be hosting our own series of heritage-related online talks by a range of fascinating speakers including: Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg giving a virtual talk on 2nd September on ‘Walking with the Light’, covering his reflections on walking (with his dog) from Frankfurt to Hoek van Holland, carrying home a flame from the Eternal Light of Frankfurt’s Westend Synagogue, where his grandfather Dr Georg Salzberger had served as rabbi Cheltenham Synagogue until forced to flee by the Nazis in 1939.

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Jeremy Leigh giving a virtual Illustrated talk on the National Library of Israel Exhibition on ‘Jewish Journeys: An intriguing mix of !s and ?s’ on 9th September. Jewish Bradford Air Commodore Philip Lester giving a virtual talk with Nigel Grizzard ‘We are here too: an account of contemporary Jewish military service’’ on 30th September. Award-winning author and journalist Rebecca Abrams giving a talk on ‘The Jewish Treasures of the Ashmolean’ on 12 September and 14th October. Rebbetzen, lecturer and author Ilana Spitz-Epstein giving a talk on ‘The History of Jewish Dress’ on 4th November. British Library: Fascinating real-life exhibition ‘Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the written word’ Jewish Prague with Charles Landau opening on 1st September 2020 to 11th April 2021

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Tuesday 1st September Tuesday 1st September to Virtual Thursday 31st December B’nai B’rith UK Around the UK Recorded Virtual Tour. Walking guide Nigel Museum of Liverpool Grizzard doing a virtual tour of Bradford. The Museum Trail. Permanent museum trail walk brings to life the story of the people who featuring objects connected to Liverpool’s built the great industrial city of Bradford and the Jewish community. Please check our website for Mills that powered the city’s industry. We see the information on adjustments being made to the magnificent Victorian legacy and visit buildings museum in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.. and heritage sites including: Little Germany – There are six blue badge parking spaces directly Bradford’s historic merchant quarter and the opposite the museum entrance, by the Great City Centre; Manningham and Heaton – the Western Railway building. These are about 30 villas of Bradford’s Victorian Merchants; The metres from the entrance and need to be pre- Mills of Saltaire;. Bradford’s Jewish Heritage; booked. To book a space please call 0151 478 Bradford’s ethnic heritage. Pre-booking essential. 4545. Free entry. Pier Head, Liverpool, L3 1DG. Watch Here Contact: Office Administrator www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/museum-of- [email protected] 020 7446 8660 / liverpool DA L T DT P 07588 087324 www.bnaibrithuk.org

Nigel Grizzard gives a virtual tour of Jewish Bradford

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London hundred collections of family papers, donated by Jewish refugees and their families who came The British Library to Britain in the 1930s and 1940s as refugees Exhibition. ‘Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of fleeing Nazism. Family members of the men the Written Word’. PACCAR2 gallery Book here who were residents at the Kitchener Camp £8 Non-members. Concessions available.. have donated some of these collections. These The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London, valuable documents offer a unique insight into NW1 2DB. DA L T DT S the experiences of these individuals during their Virtual time at the camp and their lives after the Second World War. The online exhibition ‘The Kitchener The Wiener Holocaust Library Camp, 1939-1940’, highlights some of these Permanent online exhibition. ‘The Kitchener unique collections. View exhibition Camp’ has been largely forgotten today but in 1939, this derelict army base on the Kent coast Free. Contact: [email protected] became the scene of an extraordinary rescue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk which saved 4,000 Jews from the Holocaust. Wednesday 2nd September The Wiener Holocaust Library holds several Virtual B’nai B’rith UK Virtual talk. ‘Walking with the Light’. Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg reflects on walking (with his dog) from Frankfurt to Hoek van Holland carrying home a flame from the Eternal Light of Frankfurt’s Westend Synagogue where his Rabbi Jonathan grandfather Dr Georg Salzberger had served as Wittenberg rabbi until forced to flee by the Nazis in 1939. Pre booking essential. Zoom Log-in details on registration Free. 4pm. Watch Here Contact: Office Administrator [email protected] 020 7446 8660 / 07588 087324 www. bnaibrithuk.org

Thursday 3rd September Virtual Association of Jewish Refugees Virtual Book Club. Join AJR’s online book club discussion with second generation author Deborah Levison. She is an award-winning author, writer and journalist. Levison’s debut book, ‘The Crate: A Story of War, a Murder and Justice’, is a true crime story with echoes of the Holocaust. It has received seven literary awards. Marilyn Sinclair is the Founder of ‘Liberation75: Global Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, Descendants, Educators and Friends’. More

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Sunday 6th September Virtual SCoJeC, the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, and the Jewish Small Communities Network Storytelling evening The Besht Tellers (together again): “Chasing Tales”. A one-off reunion of two great Jewish storytellers. 8pm. £10/£8/£1. Pre booking required. Register Here Contact Association of Jewish Refugees: Debra Levinson in Fiona Frank [email protected] 07779 206522 conversation with Marilyn Sinclair www.scojec.orgMonday 7th September than 10,000 people were registered for the Monday 7th September world’s largest event to commemorate the 75th Virtual anniversary of liberation from the Holocaust when COVID caused its postponement. Marilyn Willesden Jewish Cemetery is on the board of Canadian Jewish Holocaust Virtual Literary Series. With Helen Rappaport, Survivors and Descendants (CJHSD). She is Jean Strouse and Anne Sebba. A showcase also a member of the Next Generation Council of biography by accomplished authors of the USC Shoah Foundation and the NGC Task whose subjects are buried at Willesden. The Force. This event will be hosted by AJR Chief participants are masters of the art. This session Executive Michael Newman who will talk to will give you a flavour of different eras of Jewish Marilyn about Liberation75. Free. Register Here life in Britain and introduce some unforgettable 4pm. Contact: Debra Barnes [email protected] personalities. Helen Rappaport and Jean Strouse 07498 717755 www.ajr.org.uk will be in conversation with Anne Sebba about their research and writing. Helen has written about Sarah Rachel Levison, aka “Madame Rachel” and Jean is working on a book about the Wertheimer family Register Here 7pm - 10.15pm. Contact: Emma Weleminsky-Smith [email protected] 07827 023944 www.willesdenjewishcemetery.org.uk

“Chasing Tales” A Storytelling evening with The Besht Tellers

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Tuesday 8th September since 1992, Jeremy has a B.A. and M.A. in Jewish Virtual History from University College London and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He now lectures Harif at Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem. He has Virtual Talk ‘The Second Exodus from Egypt’ worked extensively in the field of Jewish travel, with Professor Ada Aharoni. Lecturer, sociologist, developing numerous Jewish programmes in poet and author Ada Aharoni will tell us about Europe and Canada and in 2006 publishing his her Egyptian childhood, uprooting and departure book ‘Jewish Journeys’ (Haus, London 2006), a for Israel. She will explain how the issue of the cultural and personal reflection on the idea of Jewish refugees from Arab countries may help the Jewish travel. Jeremy is acknowledged as bring about peace. This is the objective of IFLAC, one of the great Jewish travel educators and in an organisation she founded some 20 years fact has set the standard for work in this field ago. 7pm. Join Here Contact Lyn Julius. info@ all over Europe. Pre-booking essential. Free harif.org www.harif.org 8pm-9pm. Zoom log in details on registration. Limmud UK Register Here Contact: Office Administrator Virtual Tour/Talk. A tour of Britain on Zoom!. [email protected] 020 7446 8660 / Limmud Tour of Britain is an online mini-festival 07588 087324 www.bnaibrith.org of lectures, workshops, music and film brought Willesden Jewish Cemetery to you by Britain’s regional Jewish communities. Workshop. With Paul Dodgson and the Must be pre-booked. £5. 7.30pm to 10pm. Register Here Contact: Marion Kinshuck Professional Writing Academy. We’ll start by [email protected] 020 3115 1620 www. mind-mapping the stories in your body – the Limmud.org scar on your knee, the chickenpox mark on your Virtual forehead – looking at how each one is a mini life story. You’ll work up one story, looking at Willesden Jewish Cemetery the narrative of events linked to it, and blitzing Virtual Literary Series With Alan Cowell, Giles Fraser and Harvey Belovski. A look at life writing associated memories to add detail. Along in brief, sometimes hastily put together forms the way we’ll look at extracts from memoirs from obituary and eulogy, to epitaph and elegy. to see how a small element from a single life People often congratulate you for getting it can be amplified to tell an epic story everyone right, but summing up a loved one’s life in words can connect with.Tickets £15 per person, can be challenging. How do the experts do it? The House of Life invites a profile writer and a strictly limited numbers The Life Lines literary Christian minister to share their best stories series brings together celebrated authors from and insights into their craft. 3pm-4.30pm Register HereWContact: Emma Weleminsky- Smith [email protected] 07827 023944 www.willesdenjewishcemetery.org.uk Wednesday 9th September Virtual B’nai B’rith UK Virtual Illustrated Talk. Jeremy Leigh gives a talk on the National Library of Israel Exhibition on Jewish Journeys. Born in the UK and living in Israel Willesden Jewish Cemetery

Please donate what you can to help 9 us keep running Heritage Days Donate Here Jewish Journeys Fourth Edition - 06 November 20 diverse backgrounds to reflect on how we tell Sunday 20th September the stories of people’s lives. The series includes Virtual panels and workshops to explore universal Cheltenham Synagogue questions, grounded in the heritage buried in Virtual tour/talk . A recorded short film about Willesden Jewish Cemetery. £15. 3pm - 4.15pm. our Regency Synagogue and its history. First Register Here Contact: Emma Weleminsky- consecrated in 1839, it contains the oldest Smith [email protected] 07827 Ashkenazi furniture (1761) in the UK. Two unique 18th century prayer plaques are on the walls. 023944 www.willesdenjewishcemetery.org.uk Free. View Here Contact: Jenny Silverston info@ Willesden Jewish Cemetery Virtual Literary Series With Guy Gunaratne, Xiaolu Guo and Howard Jacobson. In their moving recent novels Guy Gunaratne (In Our Mad and Furious City), Xiaolu Guo (A Lover’s Discourse) and Howard Jacobson (Live a Little) explore lives and deaths that are powerfully shaped by locales. Join these celebrated London-based writers for a discussion of why ‘place’ is so much more than ‘setting’ in their writing and the approach they each take to creating characters and narratives that tell London’s as well as Londoners’ stories. Chaired by Nadia Valman, who teaches urban literature at Queen Mary, University of London 6pm-7pm. Register Here Thursday 10th September Virtual Cheltenham Synagogue Willesden Jewish Cemetery cheltenhamsynagogue.org.uk 01242 242724 Virtual literary series With Sally Bayley, Gabriel www.cheltenhamsynagogue.org.uk Krauze, Nikesh Shukla and Rebecca Abrams. Perhaps you are embarking on putting together Saturday 12th September your own story; how would you go about Virtual it? What matters more, the research or the Oxford Jewish Heritage writing? Authenticity or style? Sally Bayley’s Virtual tour of the Ashmolean Museum in first instalment of her memoir tells of a life Oxford. The Ashmolean, one of Europe’s oldest saved by books. In real life Gabriel Krauze left museums, contains a treasure trove of little- Kilburn gangs for writing. Next year Nikesh known artefacts related to Jewish life, dating from Shukla will publish his own story of race, the present day to the early Bronze Age. Author family and home. Rebecca Abrams explores Rebecca Abrams has curated the highlights into with them how they have shaped their own a fascinating virtual tour through time, space and experience on the page 7.30pm-8.45pm. the history of the Jewish European diaspora: Register Here Friday 11th September to Sunday 13th September

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Featuring Frank London Klezmer Hosted by Brass Allstars, She’koyokh and Max Reinhardt The Turbans. Free. 3pm-5pm.

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Around the UK Join Igor Zhook (clarinet), Baruch Idelchik (keyboard) and Kseniya Kmit (violin) in a live Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation Deane Road Cemetery broadcast. There will also be a film showing Walking tour. This was the cemetery for this the interior of Marc Chagall’s childhood home. community from 1838-1929. Many illustrious 4pm-6pm. £10. Book Here people are buried here who made lasting Jewish Musical Institute contributions to the civic life of Liverpool. Concert: Klezmer on the Roof. An afternoon of Grade 1 Listed. Free. 11am-3pm. Deane fantastic performances, interviews, celebrating Road Liverpool, L7 0ET. Contact: Mrs Petula Klezmer in all its diversity and variety. Max Nevitt [email protected] 0151 709 3431 www. princesroad.org DA T DT S P Reinhardt will be the host with the most. Featuring Frank London Klezmer Brass Allstars, The Old Synagogue - Canterbury She’koyokh and The Turbans. Free. 3pm-5pm. Open Day/Tour The Old Synagogue in Available through JMI, Soho Radio, The JC. Canterbury is considered to be the best example Contact www.jmi.org.uk [email protected]. of an Egyptian Revival synagogue. In 1982, uk 0207 898 4307. More info The King’s School, Canterbury purchased the Old Synagogue and it currently serves as the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain school’s music recital hall. Free. 11am-3pm. The Family Research Workshop. on Zoom. With Old Synagogue, 33-34 King’s Street, Canterbury, the huge amount of current interest in finding Kent, CT1 2AJ. Contact: Nina Hunt N.hunt@ out about our roots and programmes such as kings-bursary.co.uk 01227 287234 www.kings- ‘Who do you think you are?’, the JGSGB will school.co.uk T be holding an all-region online family research workshop. Guests are invited to have their family Virtual research paperwork available and the JGSGB Klezmer concert from Marc Chagall’s house experts can help to explore family backgrounds Klezmer Concert. Belarus’ first-ever participation further. Pre booking required. Log-in details in the European Days of Jewish Culture Festival on registration. FREE. 2pm-5pm. Contact: – a live klezmer Zoom concert straight from Raymond Montanjees [email protected] the garden of Marc Chagall’s house in Vitebsk! 01277 849852 [email protected]

Klezmer Concert live from Mark Chagall’s house in Belarus

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Willesden Jewish Cemetery Tuesday 15th September Workshop. With Ayisha Malik and the Virtual Professional Writing Academy. We’ll look at Limmud UK ways to use your environment to spark stories Virtual Tour/Talk. A tour of Britain on Zoom! about your life and family, using all five senses Limmud Tour of Britain is an online mini- as story starters and thinking about how the festival of lectures, workshops, music and film people around you speak – because place is brought to you by Britain’s regional Jewish about people. There will be practical exercises communities. Must be pre-booked. 7.30pm to 10pm. Register Here See entry on 8 September to find the telling details that make a piece of for more information. writing feel richer, and we’ll look at short extracts from authors inspired by the city, the countryside Wednesday 30th September and historic landscapes. Tickets £15 per Virtual - from ATHENS! person, strictly limited numbers 3pm - 4.15pm Register Here Contact: Emma Weleminsky- Smith [email protected] 07827 023944 www.willesdenjewishcemetery.org.uk Willesden Jewish Cemetery Virtual literary series With Thomas Harding, Peter Conradi and Anne Sebba. Family stories are the mainstay of Willesden Cemetery. Thomas Harding’s forebears the Salmons and Glucksteins, many of whom are buried there, B’nai B’rith - First Lodge built the Lyons catering and hotels empire that Virtual Walk Live-Streamed from Greece: was a British household name for more than “Athens – A last century actual Jewish Walking a century. Peter J Conradi’s ancestors came Tour” Our guide Anita Soussi will provide our from Europe in the 1870s and continued a armchair tourists with a real sensation of Greece through its history and culture. Anita has worked family tradition in engineering and railways. Join with her father as a guide for some years and is these phenomenal story-tellers as they delve herself, as she states, an official member of the deep into the business of family and the art of Jewish Community of Athens.. During the tour biography in this conversation with Anne Sebba we shall among other places of Jewish interest, 7pm-10.15pm. Register Here. be visiting the Romaniote and the Sephardic synagogue, the holocaust memorial, and the Monday 14th September memorial of the Righteous among the Nations. Virtual Free for First Lodge Members, a donation from others. Register Here Contact Martin Aaron B’nai B’rith Yad B’Yad Lodge [email protected] or 0203 092 1960 Virtual Talk by Brian Nathan: ‘The Lives and Virtual Musical Journeys of Irving Berlin and Tom Lehrer’. 8pm. Meeting only open to B’nai B’rith B’nai B’rith UK members who will need to pre-book. Contact Virtual Talk. Air Commodore Philip Lester - ‘We are here too: an account of contemporary Jewish [email protected] Free, but a donation military service’. Pre booking required Free. to B’nai B’rith UK charities would be greatly 8pm-9pm. Zoom log in details upon registration. appreciated.

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Register Here Contact: Office Administrator kill kindness. We fight against that”. Pre booking [email protected] 020 7446 8660 / essential. Zoom log in details on registration 07588 087324 www.bnaibrithuk.org Free. 8pm-9pm. Watch Here Contact: Office Administrator [email protected] Wednesday 14th October 020 7446 8660 / 07588 087324 www. Virtual bnaibrithuk.org B’nai B’rith UK Virtual Talk. The Ashmolean, one of Europe’s oldest museums, contains a treasure trove of little-known artefacts related to Jewish life, dating from the present day to the early Bronze Age. Author Rebecca Abrams has curated the highlights into a fascinating virtual tour through time, space and the history of the Jewish European diaspora. Pre Booking Essential. Free. 8pm-9pm. Zoom Log-in details on registration Watch Here Contact: Office Administrator [email protected] 020 7446 8660 / Noemie Lopian & Derek Niemann 07588 087324 www.bnaibrithuk.org Tuesday 20th October Sunday 25th October Virtual Virtual Limmud UK Kehillat Kernow, Jewish Community of Virtual Tour/Talk. A tour of Britain on Zoom! Cornwall Limmud Tour of Britain is an online mini- Virtual quiz show: ‘Just a Minute’. Members festival of lectures, workshops, music and film must speak without repetition on a subject (will brought to you by Britain’s regional Jewish include a Jewish theme and reveal a Jewish communities. Must be pre-booked. 7.30 to journey taken by that person in some way). 10pm. Register Here See entry on 8 September The best speeches will be determined by those for more information. participating at the end of the session. 5pm- 7pm. Register Here Contact: Patricia Lipert Wednesday 21st October on: 01736 762675 [email protected] Virtual www.kehillatkernow.com B’nai B’rith UK Sunday 27th October Virtual Talk. ‘Speaking across the divide’. Dr Virtual Noemie Lopian, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, has teamed up with Derek Limmud UK Niemann, the grandson of an SS officer. In a highly unusual and indeed possibly unique Virtual Tour/Talk. A tour of Britain on Zoom! partnership, Noemie and Derek are sharing their Limmud Tour of Britain is an online mini- stories as a warning of the perils of extremism festival of lectures, workshops, music and film and to inspire greater understanding. Their brought to you by Britain’s regional Jewish ongoing speaking tour began in 2019. They have spoken at schools, universities and communities. Must be pre-booked. 7.30pm to synagogues, as well as being keynote speakers 10pm. Register Here See entry on 8 September at a range of public events. “The Nazis tried to for more information.

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Saturday 31st October to bnaibrithuk.org 020 7446 8660 / 07588 Thursday 31st December 087324 www.bnaibrithuk.org Virtual Sunday 15 November JUST Strawberry Hill House and Garden ADDED! Virtual Exhibition: Focusing on the Jewish Zoom occupants of Strawberry Hill between the St Johns Church Waterloo 1860s and the 1920s: Lady Frances Waldegrave Virtual Talk: “Finding Feibusch. ”An illustrated and the Stern Family. View Exhibition talk on Hans Feibusch and his forgotten murals Contact: Silvia Davoli and silvia.davoli@ in churches all over London and the South East strawberryhillhouse.org.uk 07817 276950 by Emma Rose Barber. Hans Feibusch (1898- www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk 1998) was a superb visionary 20th-century Wednesday 4th November artist few people have ever heard of. He was a Virtual German Jewish painter and sculptor who fled B’nai B’rith UK Nazi Germany to live in Britain from 1933 until Virtual Talk. Illana Spitz Epstein on ‘The History his death. Astonishingly, he is responsible for of Jewish Dress’. Pre-booking essential. Free. 8pm-9pm. Zoom log in details on registration. more murals in Church of England churches Register Here Contact: Office Administrator than any other artist in its entire history, yet he [email protected] 020 7446 8660 / is only now beginning to receive the attention 07588 087324 www.bnaibrith.org he deserves. This talk will be a virtual tour of Tuesday 10th November some of his ecclesiastical paintings with a Virtual particular focus on those he painted in austere, B’nai B’rith UK but striking 1950s’ built churches in south- Virtual Talk. Cassy Sachar on ‘Tales from east London and east Sussex. Contact: Euchar the College Library’. Pre booking essential. Zoom log in details on registration. Gravina [email protected] Register Here 8pm-9pm. Contact: office@ 3-4pm. 020 7633 9819 Register Here

Strawberry Hill House and Garden

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Virtual ‘Sardine Tin’ Chanukiah B’nai B’rith UK Israel Museum Virtual Talk. David Glasser of the Ben Uri Gallery, London Jewish Museum of Art on ‘The Future of Jewish Cultural Providers Post- Covid’. Pre booking essential. Zoom log in details on registration. Register Here 8pm- 9pm. Contact: Office Administrator office@ bnaibrithuk.org 020 7446 8660 / 07588 087324 www.bnaibrithuk.org Sunday 29th November Virtual Kehillat Kernow, Jewish Community of Cornwall Virtual discussion: Favourite book which influenced you. The intellectual, cultural and spiritual journey which that book encouraged will come into play. 5pm-7pm. Register Here Contact: Patricia Lipert on: 01736-762675 [email protected] www.kehillatkernow. com

Tuesday 24th November

Sights and history of Jewish Prague with Charles Landau

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55 years old, the museum is considered one of the top ten encyclopedic museums worldwide. Judith has been an English-speaking guide at the Museum since 2016: She gives public tours as well as tailor- made tours for VIPs, visiting groups, pilgrims, academics, ambassadors and the occasional foreign minister. Lights of the Israel Museum including Chanukiot from the Museum and their stories with Judith Sinclair-Cohen. Pre booking essential. Zoom log in details on registration Free. 5pm-6pm. Register Here Contact: Office Administrator [email protected] 020 7446 8660 / 07588 087324 www.bnaibrithuk.org

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Wednesday 2nd December Finchley Reform Synagogue Virtual talk: “French Jewry its make up and Virtual issues” by Rabbi Tom Cohen, of the Liberal B’nai B’rith UK Jewish Community, Paris. 2pm. Contact Virtual tour/talk. ‘The Splendour and Beauty [email protected]. 020 8446 9100 of Prague, - a City beyond compare’ with or 07836 330837 Charles Landau. Pre-booking essential. Zoom log in details on registration. 8pm-9pm. Sunday 27th December Register Here Contact: Office Administrator Virtual [email protected] 020 7446 8660 / Kehillat Kernow, 07588 087324 www.bnaibrithuk.org Jewish Community of Cornwall Tuesday 8th December Virtual discussion: Journey of Names and Jewish Virtual Identity. Participants discuss their Jewish and B’nai B’rith UK secular names, either names adopted or given Virtual tour/talk. ‘Lights of the Israel Museum at birth, and their significance (historical, familial, including Chanukiot from the Museum and spiritual) in terms of their identities. 5pm- their stories’. Museum docent Judith Sinclair- 7pm. Register Here Contact: Patricia Lipert Cohen, who has lived in Israel for 30 years, will on: 01736 762675 [email protected] give a behind-the-scenes online tour and talk, about the Israel Museum. The Israel Museum is www.kehillatkernow.com Israel’s premier cultural institution. Although only EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

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Discover and enjoy! British participation in the European Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage is organised by B’nai B’rith UK, part of B’nai B’rith International, which was founded in New York in 1843 and in 2018 celebrated its 175th anniversary. Today, it is one of the largest Jewish volunteer organisations active in humanitarian, human rights and cultural and charitable work in 59 countries, 27 of which are affiliated to B’nai B’rith Europe. Launched in 1996 by the B’nai B’rith Lodge in Strasbourg, the Open Days became pan-European in 2000 and are now under the aegis of the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ), with the participation of 31 countries. In this especially difficult year, the B’nai B’rith UK would like to acknowledge the contribution of the Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage (SJBH) and members of B’nai B’rith UK, for their generous support, as well as our participants who are making these Open Days, talks, guided walks and events, whether real or virtual, possible by opening their buildings to the public and/or arranging events. For further information about Jewish Heritage Days, both here and on the Continent, please contact B’nai B’rith UK.

Tel: 020 7446 8660 or 07588 087324 Email: [email protected] www.bnaibrithuk.org or www.jewisheritage.org B’NAI B’RITH UK Countries taking part in the European Days of Jewish Culture & Heritage 2020: Austria t Belgium t Belarus t Bosnia-Herzegovina t Bulgaria t Croatia t Czech Republic t Denmark t France Georgia t Germany t Greece t Hungary t Ireland t Italy t Latvia t Lithuania t Luxembourg t Netherlands Norway t Poland t Portugal t Romania t Serbia t Slovenia t Spain t Sweden t Switzerland t Turkey United Kingdom t Ukraine.

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