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nd Sunday 2 February – Family Day LH 16:30 Judaism and Science: An Introduction 17 H1 19:00 How to Fight 22 LH 12:00 Escaping with his Life 37

STP 11:00 Believe It or Snot: The Definitive 7 H1 17:00 What Does it Mean to be 14 H2 19:00 House of Trelawney 22 H1 12:30 How We Remember 31 Field Guide to Earth’s Slimy a Jewish Writer? Creatures STP 19:00 Being Jewish Today 22 H2 12:30 The Europeans 31 H2 17:00 Barbara: Dis, quand 14 STP 12:30 Brain Fizzing Facts: Awesome 7 reviendras-tu? H1 20:30 Who Owns History? 23 STP 12:30 Independence Square 31 Science Questions Answered STP 17:00 The Secret World of Sleep 14 H2 20:30 The Cairo Genizah 23 LH 13:30 There Should Not Be Goldfish 37 H2 15:00 The Great Houdini: the World’s 7 Most Amazing Escape Artist H1 18:30 We Fight Fascists 15 STP 20:30 Red Sea Spies 23 H1 14:00 Einstein on the Run 32

H2 16:30 The Missing: The True Story of My 7 H2 18:30 The Fashion Revolution: From 15 H2 14:00 Josephus and other Jews: Piety 32 Family in WWII Berlin to London Thursday 5th March and Schism, Faith and Intelligence in Jewish History and Culture STP 18:30 Translating an Epic: Vasily 15 th H1 19:00 The Swiss, the Nazis and the 24 Saturday 29 February Grossman’s Stalingrad Stolen Gold STP 14:00 Al Alvarez, Elaine Feinstein and 32 Clive Sinclair: A Tribute H1 19:00 It’s About Bloody Time 8 H1 20:00 The State of Nations 16 H2 19:00 The Creativity Code 24 LH 15:00 Generation Share 37 H2 19:00 The Tunnel 8 H2 20:00 Conversations with Bach 16 H1 20:30 There’s no Business like 25 Show Business H1 15:30 The Outsiders 33 STP 20:00 Jerusalem: City of the Book 16 H1 20:30 A State at Any Cost: The 9 H2 15:30 Genius and Anxiety: How Jews 33 Life of David Ben-Gurion H2 20:30 Around the World in 80 Trees: an 25 Illustrated Odyssey Changed the World 1847 – 1947 nd H2 20:30 Shylock and Caliban Speak 9 Monday 2 March STP 15:30 Family Business 33 JW3 13:30 'The Loveliest Girl in Vienna': 26 Saturday 7th March Sunday 1st March The Life of Alma Mahler LH 16:30 Seeking Love in Modern Britain 37 H1 19:15 Mrs Parker of 28 11–5 Ephemera Drop-In 38 H1 19:00 A Thousand Small Sanities 18 H1 17:00 The World According to Physics 34 H2 19:15 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this 28 H2 17:00 Heroes or Villains? The Blair 34 H1 11:00 The Library of Exile 10 H2 19:00 The Wolf of Baghdad 18 Strange World Government Reconsidered

H2 11:00 Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering 10 STP 19:00 Fictionalising the Holocaust 18 H1 21:00 Wordy: The Show 29 the Future of Civilization STP 17:00 Under My Hat 34 H1 20:30 What's Next for Iran? 19 H2 20:45 Partition Voices 29 STP 11:00 The Walls Have Ears 10 H1 18:30 Legacy 35 H2 20:30 Who Wants to be a Jewish Writer? 19 LH 12:00 Psychoanalytic Judaism 17 Sunday 8th March H2 18:30 Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life 35 STP 20:30 Abram Games: His Wartime Work 19 STP 18:30 Misadventures in Chelm 35 H1 12:30 Live a Little 11 11–5 Genealogy Drop-In 38 (and other stories) H2 12:30 Mother Ship 11 rd Tuesday 3 March H1 11:00 Enemies of the People? How 30 H1 20:15 The Hollywood Songbook 36 Judges Shape Society STP 12:30 Translation Matters 11 JW3 13:30 Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad 26 H2 20:00 The Good State 36 and Other Grown-Ups H2 11:00 Lies, Unicorns and 30 LH 13:30 From Moses to Moses 17 the Jewish Question STP 20:00 Mazel Tov! 36 H1 19:00 Streaming Israel: Michael Grade 20 H1 14:00 The New Age of Ageing 12 interviews Ori Elon STP 11:00 Theodore Herzl: 30 The Charismatic Leader H2 14:00 Learning from the Germans 12 H2 19:00 Vive la Résistance! 20

STP 14:00 The Heartless Traffic 12 H1 20:30 The Madness of Crowds 21

LH 15:00 Hip Set 17 H2 20:30 Spies of No Country 21 Key This event is not included in the Kings Place H1 HALL 1 STP ST PANCRAS JW3 JW3 H1 15:30 Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution 13 Kings Place multi-buy ticket offer th Wednesday 4 March H2 HALL 2 LH FRINGE (LIMEHOUSE ROOM) H2 15:30 Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto 13 This event will have live subtitling JW3 13:30 George Gershwin: A Songbook 26 DEBATE LIVE PERFORMANCE for deaf & hard of hearing people STP 15:30 A Celebration of the Life and Work 13 Event Type of Eva Ibbotson

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£6.50 children £8.50 adults | family discount ticket of £22.50

Believe It or Snot: The Definitive Field Guide to Earth’s Slimy Creatures WELCOME Dani Rabaiotti What is hyena butter, and would you want to put it on toast? How much slime can a hagfish produce in 60 seconds? Which animal produces a snotty sleeping bag? How does a bubble snail use mucus to get around? Which organism is the slime champion? TO THE FESTIVAL Zoologist Dani Rabaiotti guides us in finding out the answers to these and other slimy facts. STP 11:00 – 12:00

Brain Fizzing Facts: Is there such a thing as a ‘Jewish book’? Live performance is always a big feature – Awesome Science Questions Answered and this year, highlights include Rob ‘Judge’ The question troubled luminaries Philip Roth, Emily Grossman Rinder and singer Claire Martin with music Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick, and this year Why is your elbow called your funny bone? How could you escape of Hollywood’s golden age, and Simon the grip of a crocodile’s jaw? Which animal can breathe through its we tackle it head on, as , bottom? And how do these things all link together? Science expert Schama performing his Wordy: The Show. A.B. Yehoshua and others ask what, if and STEM Ambassador Emily Grossman uncovers the answers to these and many of the weirdest, mind-fizzingly awesome and anything, ‘Jewish writing’ is. Many of you have told us you’d like to see FUNNY science questions! more for families. So we hope you’ll join us on Notwithstanding their conclusions, books by, STP 12:30 – 13:30 2nd February for our first ‘Family Day’, where about, or for Jews would appear to be in rude Murderous Maths’ Kjartan Poskitt celebrates The Great Houdini: health. From the ancient world to the modern, his hero Harry Houdini, and Michael Rosen the World’s Most Amazing Escape Artist from Josephus to Nazi gold, the state of discusses The Missing, his new book on Kjartan Poskitt nations, the role of the judge, fighting fascists speaking with children about the Holocaust. Harry Houdini thrilled the world with his death-defying stunts and on the streets, the birth of Mossad and the awesome showmanship, but did you know he was actually called future of liberalism, you’ll find it at Jewish So, back to our question: does ‘Jewish writing’ Ehrich? Find out how he was inspired by a man with no head, why he kept asking to be put in jail (and how he got out again) and why Book Week. exist? Perhaps we can take a lead from he dangled upside down from a crane 120 feet up in the air. the late Jonathan Miller in a much-loved Mavericks and outsiders loom large in this H2 15:00 – 16:00 Beyond the Fringe sketch: ‘I’m not really a year’s festival. Norman Lebrecht asks how Jew; just Jew-ish.’ Whatever your interests, The Missing: a handful of people – Freud, Kafka, Proust, perspectives or background, whether you like Bernhardt, Marx – could think the hitherto The True Story of My Family in WWII Jewish or prefer Jew-ish, welcome one and all Michael Rosen | Nicolette Jones un-thought, and see what others had not. to Jewish Book Week 2020. This is the story of Michael Rosen’s search for his relatives who Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees talks to 'went missing' during WWII – told through prose and poetry. When Andrew Robinson about perhaps the 20th Michael was young, he heard stories about his great-uncles who disappeared during the war. Over many years, Michael tried to find century’s greatest outsider, Einstein – ‘On Claudia Rubenstein out what happened. The story was one of terrible persecution. Here, the Run’ in Norfolk. And an expert panel poems are balanced against an immensely readable narrative; a Director powerful tool for talking to children about the Holocaust. hails the creators and entrepreneurs who revolutionised the world of fashion. H2 16:30 – 17:30

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It’s About Bloody Time A State at Any Cost: Emma Barnett | Chair: Rachel Johnson The Life of David Ben-Gurion Award-winning broadcaster and journalist Emma Barnett loathes Sponsored by the New Israel Fund her period. But there’s something she loathes even more: not being Tom Segev | Chair: Jonathan Freedland able to talk about it. In conversation with Rachel Johnson, Emma draws on female experiences that will make you laugh, weep and Israeli historian Tom Segev offers a masterful account of the (possibly) squirm, in a fierce rallying cry to smash this ridiculous complex figure of David-Ben Gurion, founder of the Jewish taboo once and for all. Because it’s about bloody time. Period. state. Visionary leader, despot, statesman, small-town politician – Ben-Gurion was all of these things. Tom Segev uses previously unreleased archive material to give an original, nuanced account that reaches beyond the myths and legends that have built up around David Ben-Gurion, a leader who sought a state ‘at any cost’.

H1 19:00 – 20:00 £18.50 H1 20:30 – 21:45 £19.50

The Tunnel Shylock and Caliban Speak

THETUNNEL THE TUNNEL Sponsored by the Jerusalem Foundation David Peimer, Robert Gordon, Nobulali Dangazele, Kyle Darroch THE Zvi Luria has begun to lose his memory. He’s 73 and a retired road TUNNEL engineer. His neurologist hints at the path his illness might take and suggests ways of combatting it, with the help of his wife Dina. A.B. Yehoshua, in conversation with Jenni Frazer Playwrights Robert Gordon and David Peimer present their Dina, a respected paediatrician, is keen for him to return to meaningful activity, and suggests he volunteers to work with new play. Shakespeare’s ‘outsiders’, Shylock and Caliban talk his old colleagues at the Israel Roads Authority. Novelist, essayist and playwright A.B. Yehoshua has been dubbed, This is how Luria finds himself at the Ramon Crater in the Negev desert discussing building a secret road for the army with the son back to the societies that have persecuted them over centuries. of his former colleague Assael Maimoni. together with Amos Oz and David Grossman ‘one of the three But there’s a mystery about a certain hill on the route of the planned new road. Who are the secret people living there? Are they really Their stories speak urgently. Who is a citizen? Who an ‘alien’? As Palestinian refugees and, if so, why are they trapped there? Why is tenors of Israeli literature’. Hear this literary Titan present his latest everyone so reluctant to disclose the reason for their presence? recurring forces of racism and nationalism frame cultural identity, With humour and great tenderness, A.B. Yehoshua depicts the love novel exploring identity, ageing, family, secrets and spies. between Luria and his wife as together they confront the challenges of his illness. As Luria’s identity is more and more compromised, where do Shylock and Caliban belong? With original African and so too do his boundaries seem to dissolve as he finds himself on a picaresque adventure involving people in Israel he’s never before thought of or paid attention to, enabling a rich meditation on the Jewish music, the play promises a surprising new approach to The entwined identities and destinies of Israeli Jews and Palestinians. Yehoshua weaves a masterful and deeply moving story of pointed social commentary, intriguing metaphor, and wry, wistful humour. Merchant of Venice and The Tempest as the characters speak to our times. This 50-minute play will be followed by a Q & A with Robert Gordon, David Peimer and guests. Cover design by Incept

£8.99 a.b. yehoshua www.halbanpublishers.com H2 19:00 – 20:00 £16.50 H2 20:30 – 21:45 £16.50

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The Library of Exile Live a Little In memory of Dr David Cohen CBE In Association with the London Library and 92nd Street Y, Edmund de Waal Sponsored by Dangoor Education Prize-winning author and artist Edmund de Waal talks about his Howard Jacobson | Chair: Bernard Schwartz library of exile. Nonagenarian Beryl Dusinbery, forgetter of her own children and “This library celebrates the idea that all languages are diasporic, tormentor of her two longsuffering carers, meets the sprightly that we need other people’s words, self-definitions and re- Shimi Carmelli, last of the eligible bachelors of North London. Shimi definitions in translation.” Edmund de Waal is prized for his ability to do up his own buttons, speak without spitting and walk without the aid of a frame. Prize winning author The library comprises more than 2,000 volumes in almost all the Howard Jacobson has written a characteristically funny and languages of the world, written by exiled authors from antiquity to wickedly observed novel about falling in love towards the end of the present day. It has been exhibited in Venice and Dresden and your life. will open at the British Museum in March 2020.

H1 11:00 – 12:00 £18.50 H1 12:30 – 13:30 £18.50

Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering Mother Ship the Future of Civilisation Francesca Segal | Chair: Susie Orbach John Browne | Chair: Bernard Bulkin After her twins were born at only 30 weeks, Francesca Segal sat Drawing on history, his own personal experience and conversations vigil in the ‘mother ship’ of neonatal intensive care, all romantic with many of the world’s greatest innovators, John Browne makes expectations of new parenthood obliterated. In conversation an impassioned and eloquent case for technological progress, with acclaimed psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and author Susie cautioning us not to fear innovation. He argues that civilisation is Orbach, Francesca talks about those heart-wrenching days amidst founded on engineering innovation and we should embrace the a band of fearless and inspirational mothers. recent escalation of advances in technology which could lead to greater freedom, health and wealth for us all.

11:00 – 12:00 £14.50 H2 H2 12:30 – 13:30 £14.50

The Walls Have Ears Translation Matters Helen Fry | Chair: Robin Lustig Anna Blasiak, Peter Filkins, Sylvie Weil | Chair: Boyd Tonkin Helen Fry reveals the history of the elaborate WWII intelligence Author Boyd Tonkin wrote that, ‘To write, and to read, is to operation whereby Hitler’s generals were tricked into giving away forever cross thresholds’. Translation opens up new vistas, Nazi secrets. Orchestrated by MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick refreshes language and fosters globalism. In a world where from his headquarters at the Tower of London, German prisoners’ English is the lingua franca, translation enables authors to speak cells were bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record to far-flung audiences. Boyd is joined by panellists Anna Blasiak, their conversations. These prisoners were then wined and dined at who translated the acclaimed Holocaust journal Renia’s Diary, Peter stately-homes-turned-prisons to encourage talk. Helen discovers Filkins, translator, and biographer of H.G. Adler, and author Sylvie the inner workings of this stupendous bugging operation with Weil to discuss the challenges, the joys and the pitfalls. Robin Lustig.

STP 11:00 – 12:00 £9.50 STP 12:30 – 13:30 £9.50

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The New Age of Ageing Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution In Association with The Oldie Magazine In Association with the Anglo-Israel Association Camilla Cavendish, Nicci Gerrard | Chair: Harry Mount Shlomo Avineri | Chair: David Pryce-Jones We are living in an unprecedented age: this year marks the first Karl Marx was one of the most influential and revolutionary time in human history that the number of people aged 65 and thinkers of modern history, yet he is rarely thought of as a over outnumber children aged five and under. It is a tumultuous Jewish thinker. His Jewish background is either overlooked or demographic shift. How will we address the ensuing challenges? misrepresented and his attitude towards Judaism and Jews was How will we ensure that we reap the benefits of prolonged life? highly complex. Shlomo Avineri, in this revelatory work, argues that Award-winning journalist Camilla Cavendish contests many of Marx's Jewish origins were integral to his work, placing his Jewish the taboos around ageing, arguing for a seismic change in our background in its proper and balanced perspective. The results are attitudes to the last phase of life. Nicci Gerrard – who has produced sometimes surprising. a profoundly moving account of dementia – explores memory, language, identity, the notion of what it truly means to care, and asks how we begin to value those who become old, invisible, and H1 15:30 – 16:30 £18.50 forgotten. What do we owe them, and each other as humans? With the Oldie magazine editor, Harry Mount. Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto H1 14:00 – 15:00 £18.50 In partnership with the National Library of Israel Antony Polonsky, David Roskies | Chair: Trudy Gold Learning from the Germans ‘What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground.’ David Graber, aged 17, the Warsaw Ghetto Susan Neiman | Chair: Simon May In 1940 the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a Philosopher Susan Neiman grew up in the segregated American clandestine organization, the Oyneg Shabes, within the Warsaw South during the civil rights movement, surrounded by prejudice. Ghetto to document Jewish life, compiling an archive - ranging She has spent most of her adult life in a Germany still coming from reportage to jokes, from artwork to poems. The project to terms with its Nazi past. Susan, from her unique perspective, lasted until the Ghetto was obliterated by the Nazis in May 1943. examines how nations deal with their pasts. She argues that failure Ringelblum perished in 1944. But before he died, he managed to to confront our history permits phenomena such as and hide thousands of documents. These works uniquely record ‘a Trump to become not merely possible, but inevitable. civilization responding to its own destruction’ from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims, capturing in real time the heroism, tragedy and dark humour of the Ghetto.

H2 15:30 – 16:30 £14.50 H2 14:00 – 15:00 £14.50

A Celebration of the Life and Work The Heartless Traffic of Eva Ibbotson Jeremy Robson | Chair: Suzi Feay Nicola Beauman, Marion Lloyd | Chair: Amanda Craig Jeremy Robson, described by as ‘a champion of poetry’ Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England selects the best of his poems from the early 1960s to his most with her father when the Nazis came into power. Ibbotson wrote recent collections, plus 50 new poems. A book about friendships more than 20 award-winning books for children and young adults, with diverse figures, from Joan Collins to Dannie Abse, of notably , and childhood haunts, Jewish roots, youthful passions and the rumbling Journey to the River Sea The Dragonfly Pool The , depicting exquisitely drawn and incredibly funny of war; about change and regret, politics and jazz, love and loss. Star of Kazan characters. To celebrate the reissuing of three of her adult novels - among them The Morning Gift and The Secret Countess - featuring Jewish heroines, and ahead of a forthcoming biography, her friends and colleagues Nicola Beauman, Amanda Craig and Marian Lloyd discuss her writing and her legacy.

STP 14:00 – 15:00 £9.50 STP 15:30 – 16:30 £9.50

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What Does it Mean to be a Jewish Writer? We Fight Fascists In Association with the TLS Harry Kaufman, Jules Konopinski, Michael Rosen, Sponsored by Dangoor Education Daniel Sonabend | Chair: Bidisha Eva Hoffman, Howard Jacobson, A.B. Yehoshua Jewish soldiers returned to Britain after WWII believing they had Chair: Adam Kirsch defeated fascism in Europe. Yet in London they faced a revived fascist movement, inspired by Oswald Mosley, stirring up agitation Saul Bellow said, ‘I have tried to fit my soul into the Jewish- against Jews and communists. is the story of writer category, but it does not feel comfortably accommodated We Fight Fascists the 43 Jewish ex-servicemen and women – the 43 Group – who there.’ To many of us, authors such as Bellow and Philip Roth are fought back. Their numbers quickly swelled as they were joined by quintessentially Jewish writers. But does the concept of a Jewish gentiles and younger Jews, including hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, writer even exist? Four of our greatest living – and ‘Jewish’ – who used the tools of his trade – scissors – to beat the fascists. writers discuss the notion.

H1 17:00 – 18:00 £18.50 H1 18:30 – 19:30 £18.50

The Fashion Revolution: Barbara: Dis, quand reviendras-tu? From Berlin to London Norman Lebrecht In association with Insiders/Outsiders Festival The French chanteuse Barbara, who would have been 90 this Michael Gee, Anna Nyburg, Uwe Westphal year, defined the meaning of relationships for an entire generation. Chair: Daniel Snowman A million people packed the streets of Paris for her funeral and her songs are still heard at state occasions. Norman Lebrecht, 19th century Berlin was the creative centre for fashion and ready- who made a BBC documentary about her life in 2011, looks back to-wear clothing. Berlin’s clothing companies made modern at Barbara through the prism of powerful Jewish women who apparel and developed new designs that were sold not only burst upon the world from the mid-19th century onwards – Sarah throughout Germany, but worldwide. But when Hitler came to Bernhardt, Golda Meir, and Barbra Streisand. power in 1933, the city’s mainly Jewish clothing industrialists were robbed, displaced or murdered, while their companies were ‘Aryanized’. What happened to those who escaped to Britain - and how did they revolutionise fashion in the UK?

H2 17:00 – 18:00 £14.50 H2 18:30 – 19:30 £14.50

Translating an Epic: The Secret World of Sleep Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad Guy Leschziner | Chair: Matthew Stadlen Robert Chandler | Chair: David Herman For consultant neurologist Guy Leschziner’s patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night Russian author Vasily Grossman spent four years reporting from terrors, apnoea and sleepwalking are just some of the conditions the Eastern Front during WWII, where he claimed to read only that afflict many of us. With compassionate stories of his patients one book, twice: Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Grossman produced and their conditions, Guy illuminates the neuroscience behind our two novels - Stalingrad, and its sequel, Life and Fate – based on sleeping minds. his experience of the pitiless Nazi siege of the city. Like War and Peace, this a family saga; it tells the tale of the Shaposhnikov family and their friends as they battle with the brutalities of war and totalitarianism. Robert Chandler has produced a magnificent first translation into English of Grossman’s masterpiece, one of the supreme accomplishments of 20th century literature.

STP 17:00 – 18:00 £9.50 STP 18:30 – 19:30 £9.50

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The State of Nations All fringe events are held in the Limehouse Room on Level -2. They are free and unticketed and are scheduled so you can drop in to talks without missing other events, or stay on if wished. Gavin Esler, Adam Gopnik | Chair: Anne McElvoy Politics has undergone a sea change. The world is swinging Psychoanalytic Judaism towards populism, and the idea of liberalism has become, to Stephen Frosh many, the province of so-called liberal elites. New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik argues that ‘gangster-style authoritarianism’ Psychoanalysis grew up around Jews; this heritage continues to menaces many nations from Russia and the US, to the Philippines affect it both through the rich exchange between Judaism and and Hungary, while in the UK the Brexit vote shocked those psychoanalytic thought, and in relation to antisemitism. Stephen who felt it symbolised the reversal of a momentum towards Frosh traces the links between Jews, Judaism and psychoanalysis, transnational openness. Former presenter and Change while looking at transgenerational legacies of trauma. UK candidate Gavin Esler argues we are now living in a world where lies have become normalised. In conversation with Anne McElvoy, Senior Editor of the , Economist 12:00 – 12:30 FREE and head of Economist Radio. LH

H1 20:00 – 21:15 £20.50 From Moses to Moses Irving Taylor A thrilling historical novel of the great Jewish philosopher Moses Conversations with Bach Maimonides. From his childhood in tolerant Cordoba during Spain’s Krysia Osostowicz, Eva Hoffman, George Szirtes, golden age, to exile and eventual settlement in Egypt when the David Waterman draconian Almohads took power, Irving Taylor charts Maimonides’ life and his extraordinary intellectual journey. Reaching across three centuries, Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions for solo violin and cello are brought to life with readings of new poetry and prose by celebrated authors George Szirtes and Eva Hoffman. George’s poems play with the dance rhythms of LH 13:30 – 14:00 FREE Bach’s music, while Eva composes personal letters to Bach, asking questions about the tensions between his creativity and his personal life, the sources of his music in his time, and the mystery Hip Set of its universal nature. Two acclaimed musicians – violinist Krysia Osostowicz (Dante Quartet) and cellist David Waterman (Endellion Michael Fertik Quartet) – offer their own interpretations to these profound works. Michael Fertik presents his novel, Hip Set. His protagonist, Oscar Orleans, is a Congolese refugee in Israel, the only Hebrew-speaking liaison to the African refugee community living in Tel Aviv’s worst H2 20:00 – 21:15 £16.50 slum. When a young South Sudanese immigrant is murdered, Oscar ventures into the heart of the Sudanese underground, Israel’s hyper-violent Russian mafia, and a mystery that has been dormant for years near the shores of the Dead Sea. from New York Times best-selling author Jerusalem: City of the Book MICHAEL FERTIK LH 15:00 – 15:30 FREE In partnership with the National Library of Israel Merav Mack, Simon Goldhill | Chair: Raquel Ukeles Benjamin Disraeli said, 'The view of Jerusalem is the history of the Judaism and Science: An Introduction world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.' Eduard Shyfrin Merav Mack presents Jerusalem as the locus where some of the Author Eduard Shyfrin discusses his latest book, Travels with world's most enduring ideas were put into words, while Simon Sushi, a mystical, allegorical adventure in an alternate dimension Goldhill provides a tour through the history of this most image- exploring the intersection of Judaism, quantum science, filled and ideology-laden city – from the Old City to the Holy kabbalah and G-d. Sepulchre. Raquel Ukeles chairs the conversation, exploring the central positon of libraries in Jerusalem past, present and future.

STP 20:00 – 21:00 £9.50 LH 16:30 – 17:00 FREE

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A Thousand Small Sanities What's Next for Iran? In Association with Oxford Literary Festival Nazenin Ansari, Jack Straw, Sanam Vakil Adam Gopnik | Chair: Elif Shafak Chair: Lawrence Freedman The journalist and New York Times-bestselling author Adam In 1979, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown. His Gopnik offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the replacement, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared the birth of dogmatisms of our time. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, ordinary Iranians live with an from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, he shows us why economy exhausted by sanctions and corruption, the media strictly liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history controlled, and a hardline regime seeking to maintain its power by – and why, in an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its demonising outsiders. continuation. A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the 40 years after the Revolution, our panellists discuss Iran’s place in lives of the people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. the world, its deep distrust of the West and demonization of Israel Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor and the US, the role of women - and what the next 40 years might simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting hold for this much-misunderstood and extraordinary nation. a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. H1 20:30 – 21:45 £16.50 H1 19:00 – 20:00 £16.50

The Wolf of Baghdad Who Wants to be a Jewish Writer? In Association with Oxford Literary Festival Sponsored by Dangoor Education Adam Kirsch | Chair: David Herman Carol Isaacs | Chair: Marina Benjamin Poet, leading literary critic and Columbia University teacher Adam 'The belief is current among Baghdadi Jews that the wolf keeps Kirsch is one of our foremost experts on Jewish thought and history. away spirits and demons.' David Sassoon, scholar, 1917 His stunning new collection brings together his essays on poetry, Carol Isaac’s graphic memoir of a lost homeland revisits the old religion, and the intersections between them, as he explores the Jewish Quarter of 1940s Baghdad, home to a third of the city’s definition of Jewish literature and the relationship between poetry population, which witnessed the death or expulsion of almost its and politics, asking questions such as how did Stefan Zweig and entire community of 150,000. Journeying among its ghostly Isaac Deutscher, who coined the phrase 'the non-Jewish Jew' former inhabitants, she brings to life a lost world. deal with politics? Why have so many Jewish writers resisted that category, and is there such a thing as Jewish Literature?

H2 19:00 – 20:00 £12.50 H2 20:30 – 21:30 £12.50

Fictionalising the Holocaust Abram Games: His Wartime Work In association with the Second Generation Network Naomi Games Peter Filkins, Toby Haggith | Chair: James Libson Captain Abram Games, holder of the unique title ‘Official War ‘To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.’ But despite Theodor Poster Artist’, designed 100 posters for army use. In 1946 the War Adorno's dictum, dramatising the Holocaust has become a trend, in Office wrote of his work, ‘[it] was always effective, compelling, and both books and film. Should the Holocaust, the nadir of humanity, of outstanding quality.’ His daughter Naomi Games tells the story be fictionalised? When we do dramatise the suffering, how should of his war work. we approach it, and should any topics be off limits? Toby Haggith, author of The Holocaust and the Moving Image, and Peter Filkins, the translator of H.G. Adler’s trio of Holocaust novels as well as his biographer, discuss.

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Streaming Israel: Michael Grade The Madness of Crowds interviews Ori Elon Douglas Murray | Chair: Melanie Phillips In Association with the PJ Library Douglas Murray examines the 21st Century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing Ori Elon | Chair: Michael Grade new culture wars playing out in our workplaces, universities, Israeli author and filmmaker Ori Elon created hit television drama schools and homes in the names of social justice, identity politics Shtisel, bringing viewers inside the life of the Haredi community and intersectionality. Narrow sets of interests now dominate the in Jerusalem. Available on Netflix, the award-winning series has agenda as society becomes more and more tribal – and, as Murray become an international sensation. Ori is in conversation with shows, the casualties are mounting. leading media industry figure Michael Grade.

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Vive la Résistance! Spies of No Country In Association with the CCJ Sponsored by Dangoor Education Fergus Butler-Gallie, Caroline Moorehead | Chair: Anne Sebba Matti Friedman | Chair: Jenni Frazer Wherever fascism has taken root, it has met with resistance. What In 1948, with Israel’s existence hanging in the balance, four men, drives people to such extraordinary courage? Fergus Butler-Gallie part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, consisting of explores the lives of fifteen clergymen and women who fought Jews native to the Arab world, went undercover in Beirut. They fascism through acts of inventive heroism; whoever said that spent the next two years operating out of a newsstand, collecting Christians had to be meek and mild hadn’t met Father Kir – parish intelligence and sending messages back to Israel via a radio whose priest, French resistance hero and inventor of Kir Royale. Caroline antenna was disguised as a clothesline. Of the dozen spies in the Moorehead tells the story of four courageous women – Ada, Frida, Arab section at the outbreak of the ’48 war, five were caught and Silvia and Bianca – who helped form the Italian Resistance. They executed. But in the end, the Arab Section would emerge as the were not alone; thousands of people throughout occupied Italy nucleus of Mossad. Spies of No Country, a masterfully-told tale rose up and fought to liberate their country. Ada’s house, deep of Israel’s first spies, is about the slippery identity of these young in the mountains, became a meeting place and refuge for many people; but it’s also about the complicated identity of Israel, a of them as they brought about the death rattle of Mussolini’s two country that presents itself as Western but in fact has more citizens decades of Fascist rule with its greed, corruption and antisemitism. with Middle Eastern roots and traditions.

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How to Fight Antisemitism Who Owns History? Sponsored by Avi and Alison Goldberg In Association with Oxford Literary Festival , Bari Weiss | Chair: Hugo Rifkind Christopher Foster, Geoffrey Robertson | Chair: Karen Sanig Antisemitism, says Bari Weiss, is ‘an ever-morphing conspiracy For thousands of years, conquerors and oppressors have theory in which Jews play the starring role in spreading evil’; it is plundered precious artefacts from their creators and owners, from centre stage once more. It has existed for more than 2,000 years, the Parthenon Marbles of Greece, to the treasures looted from the the malignant prejudice that never dies. After the Holocaust there Old Summer Palace during the British Opium Wars with China. For was a respite but today it is back, from both the political Left centuries they have been admired in national museums worldwide. and the Right. New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss, whose They include the thousands of artefacts taken for Belgium’s Africa childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh was the scene of a terrible Museum (mostly appropriated by force from the Congo) and the massacre, and progressive rabbi and cross-bench peer Julia art and precious objects stolen from the Jews by the Nazis and Neuberger discuss its resurgence and how to fight back. their helpers which have ended up in private and public collections. France’s President Macron pledged to return African treasures to their cultural home; this has yet to happen. In today’s increasingly 19:00 – 20:00 £16.50 H1 culturally sensitive society these issues highlight the tensions between the moral imperative for restitution of cultural heritage and the practicalities of returning property.

House of Trelawney H1 20:30 – 21:30 £16.50 Hannah Rothschild | Chair: Lucy Silver Hannah Rothschild, writer, documentary filmmaker, business The Cairo Genizah woman and philanthropist presents her deliciously funny new In Partnership with the National Library of Israel novel – at once a moving love story and dazzling social satire – Ben Outhwaite, Michelle Paymar, Raquel Ukeles set in the parallel and seemingly unconnected worlds of the British aristocracy and high finance. This is a story about old money, For a millennium the Jewish community of Old Cairo placed new money, and the distinctly strapped-for cash, told against the their old books and other writings, from marriage contracts backdrop of a once magnificent castle in Cornwall. and love letters to children’s drawings and even drafts from the hands of Maimonides, in a genizah, or storeroom, of the Ben Ezra Synagogue. In 1896 Dr Solomon Schechter, a Talmudic scholar, was granted permission by the Jewish community of Egypt to take all he liked to Cambridge. He ‘liked it all’ and took 193,000 manuscripts. This treasure trove from Cairo has had a seismic H2 19:00 – 20:00 £12.50 impact on our understanding of Jewish history. Ben Outhwaite, head of the Cambridge University Library Genizah Research Unit joins film-maker Michelle Paymar – whose breathtaking film From Cairo to the Cloud tells the story of how the content of the Genizah, dispersed around the globe, became accessible to all – Being Jewish Today in examining the legacy of this extraordinary discovery. | Chair: Miriam Berger H2 20:30 – 21:30 £12.50 Scholar Tony Bayfield is a former Head of Britain’s Movement for Reform Judaism. Beginning with an account of the journey of the Jewish people and thought from ancient times to the present, Red Sea Spies Being Jewish Today explores Jewish identity and its relationship to Raffi Berg Jewish tradition and belief. In conversation with his daughter, Rabbi Miriam Berger. BBC journalist Raffi Berg tells the true story of Mossad’s fake holiday resort on the Red Sea, a diving centre on the Sudanese coast run by secret service operatives. It attracted tourists from all over the world. In reality the agents used it as a cover to smuggle thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel from behind enemy lines. Red Sea Spies is the gripping tale of a top-secret and often parlous operation.

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The Swiss, the Nazis and the Stolen Gold There’s no Business like Show Business Sponsored by Dangoor Education Sponsored by the Sheila and Denis Cohen Charitable Trust Tom Bower, Adam LeBor | Chair: Hella Pick Caroline Kennedy, Simon Wallfisch, Iain Farrington Switzerland not only financed the Nazis and refused admission Jerome Kern famously said that ‘Irving Berlin has no place in to the Jewish refugees who fled them; the country’s most senior American music - he is American music.’ Born in the Pale of government officials and financial institutions systematically Settlement within the Russian Empire in 1888, Berlin’s story conspired to keep billions in gold and other valuables deposited epitomises the 'American Dream’. by Jews in Swiss banks or stolen by the Nazis from their rightful Critically acclaimed singers Caroline Kennedy and Simon heirs. Tom Bower and Adam Lebor explore the infamous tale. Wallfisch are joined by music director Iain Farrington in a unique performance celebrating Irving Berlin’s life in music and words.

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The Creativity Code Around the World in 80 Trees: Sponsored by Dangoor Education an Illustrated Odyssey Marcus du Sautoy In Association with Nature Unwrapped We have the ability to create works of art that elevate and Jonathan Drori transform us. Author, Eden Project trustee, World Wildlife Fund ambassador and Mozart’s requiem allows us to contemplate our mortality; a former BBC TV science and nature commissioner Jonathan Drori Rembrandt portrait captures so much more than an image of the has produced a glorious love letter to trees, our most constant sitter; Shakespeare’s Othello allows us to navigate our emotional and varied companion. Trees shape our lives, bountiful providers landscape. Yet new developments in AI mean that many of the of food, medicine, sanctuary – and poisons. From India’s sacred tasks humans engage in can be done equally well, if not better, by banyan to the perfumed cedars of Lebanon, take an illustrated tour machines. Will machines ever have the ability to create original art of the world, with 80 trees that define each destination’s history, that appeals to our deepest emotions? spiritual life and legends.

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Book all three events for the special price of £25 Monday 2nd March 'The Loveliest Girl in Vienna': The Life of Alma Mahler Cate Haste | Chair: Patrick Bade Tom Lehrer famously wrote a song about Alma, inspired by, he said, 'the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read.' A talented composer in her own right, Alma’s first kiss was from Gustav Klimt and she married or had relationships with the most famous men of the day – Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Oskar Kokoshka and Franz Werfel. At the epicentre of fin-de-siècle Vienna’s artistic and intellectual life, the story of one of history’s most complex and charismatic muses is illuminated by acclaimed biographer, historian and filmmaker, Cate Haste.

JW3 13:30 – 14:30 £10 Tuesday 3rd March OUR SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups Jewish Book Week is proud to run a speakers programme Sponsored by the British Friends of the Jaffa Institute for schools in the London area. William Miller | Chair: Brian Daniels Many of the authors appearing at Jewish Book Week generously donate their time to We are all aware of the legendary Dr Jonathan Miller – Beyond the speak in schools in the Greater London area about topics ranging from Politics to Physics, Fringe, theatre and opera director, television presenter and former supporting our goal of encouraging conversations and learning within the Jewish medical doctor – now we meet his middle child, William. William Miller community and beyond. grew up in Gloucester Crescent, Camden. His mother was a busy GP. Alan Bennett was their lodger, Claire Tomalin, Michael Frayn, Shirley Speakers for the Jewish Book Week Schools' Programme include: Conran, George Melly, Kingsley and Martin Amis their neighbours - not to mention the legendary Miss Shepherd (Lady in the Van). Hear Robert Alter Oren Harman about the challenges William faced to carve his own identity, his Raffi Berg Peter Pomerantsev encounters with Princess Margaret (all true) and the struggles he faced to build a meaningful relationship with his famous father. Sally Berkovic George Prochnik David Bolchover Kavita Puri JW3 13:30 – 14:30 £10 Jonathan Drori Dave Rich John Dyson Anne Sebba th Wednesday 4 March Helen Fry Daniel Sonabend George Gershwin: A Songbook Naomi Games George Szirtes Patricia Hammond and Marcelo Bratke Steven Gimbel Ian Thomson Canadian mezzo-soprano Patricia Hammond, known for her Martin Goodman Nikolaus Wachsmann vintage voice that captures the musical atmosphere of the Cate Haste Aviva Zornberg beginning of the 20th Century, meets multitalented Brazilian pianist and conductor, Marcelo Bratke, to revisit Gershwin’s greatest successes in a concert for voice and piano. The Schools' Programme is run by Stephanie Marcus and Philip Skelker.

JW3 13:30 – 14:30 £10 To find out more information about the programme, email [email protected] or call 0207 446 8771

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Mrs Parker of New York City Wordy: The Show Directed by Tristram Powell, produced by Honor Borwick In Association with the London Library, 'Whatever you think Dorothy Parker was like, she wasn’t.' Sponsored by Dangoor Education She was famed for her ruthless wit, her satirical verses and sharp- | Musical Accompaniment: Nick Barstow tongued stories. She often highlighted men’s casual, contemptuous How did Simon Schama get to be so ... wordy? Find out in a Jewish treatment of women. She herself experienced many disastrous journey of 70-odd years (and he does mean odd) with music, love affairs, drank and smoked too much, but gloried in her stories and some really embarrassing photos. With Nick Barstow independence – a star on the page and in performance. Catch her at the piano. spirit in this tribute to Dorothy Parker and her work. Cole Porter’s songs echo her sentiments – from the tongue-in-cheek to the melodramatically suicidal.

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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World Partition Voices Elif Shafak | Chair: Sam Leith In Association with Oxford Literary Festival Dubbed ‘one of the best writers in the world today’ by author Derek Penslar, Kavita Puri | Chair: Gavin Esler Hanif Kureishi, novelist Elif Shafak has produced a work of great The partitions of India and Pakistan and Israel and Palestine, power and beauty. Sex worker Leila is dying, her body abandoned are two of the most tumultuous events of the 20th Century. in a rubbish dump. In the last 10 minutes 38 seconds of her life Remarkable parallels exist between the two experiences. Journalist she recollects precious memories: spiced goat stew; bubbling and broadcaster Kavita Puri, in conversation with Harvard vats of lemon and sugar; the cardamom coffee she shares Professor Derek Penslar, explore the similarities in nationalism, with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each relations with the international and diaspora communities, the fading memory evokes her bittersweet life. Elif discuses worlds acceptance or rejection of difference, the role of religion, and the fictionalised and real with Sam Leith. role of memory and its legacy.

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Enemies of the People? How We Remember How Judges Shape Society In Association with the Jewish Museum Sponsored by Joanna Millan, in memory of Jerry Gotel In Association with Ruth Deech, Gabriel Josipovici, Robert Rozett, John Dyson, Dinah Rose, Philippe Sands Anita Lasker-Wallfisch | Chair: Sue MacGregor Chair: Joshua Rozenberg The Holocaust has become a defining ingredient in the Jewish Do judges use the power of the state for the good of the nation? collective memory. The Torah commands us ‘to remember’, because Or do they create new laws in line with their personal views? When JOSHUA in memory exists conscience. But 75 years since the liberation of the newspapers reported a court ruling on Brexit, senior judges were ROZENBERG camps, how we remember the attempt to wipe the Jewish people shocked to see themselves condemned as enemies of the people. from the face of the earth has become deeply politicised in both the But, faced with dreadful legal and moral dilemmas, judges cannot Jewish and non-Jewish worlds. This panel will examine the purpose avoid hard choices. Our panel, former Justice of the UK Supreme of Holocaust memorialisation in all its complexities. Court and Master of the Rolls John Dyson, Barrister Dinah Rose QC, Philippe Sands, Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at UCL discuss, chaired H1 12:30 – 13:30 £18.50 by author and Britain’s best-known commentator on the law, Joshua Rozenberg QC.

H1 11:00 – 12:00 £18.50 The Europeans Orlando Figes | Chair: Marina Vaizey Award-winning historian Orlando Figes presents an enthralling, Lies, Unicorns and the Jewish Question panoramic cultural history of 19th century Europe through the Peter Pomerantsev | Chair: Jeremy Gordon prism of the intertwined lives of opera singer Pauline Viardot, What can Judaism teach us about today's information chaos, novelist Ivan Turgenev, and connoisseur Louis Viardot - Pauline’s hyper-propaganda and dangerous polarisation? Join author Peter husband. Their friends numbered Flaubert, Chopin, Dickins, Pomerantsev and Rabbi Jeremy Gordon to discuss Peter's new Rossini, George Sand, Liszt and Delacroix. They were the arbiters book This is Not Propaganda. of a pan-European culture who forged a new cosmopolitan age.

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Theodore Herzl: The Charismatic Leader Independence Square Sponsored by Yachad A.D. Miller | Chair: Lucy Scholes Derek Penslar | Chair: Trudy Gold In his novel, A.D. Miller, the Booker-shortlisted author of The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was Snowdrops, tells a story of corruption, betrayal, and where, in brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew the 21st Century, power really lies. Twelve years earlier, Simon become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be Davey prevented a tragedy but ruined his own life. Once a senior both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a diplomat in Kiev, he lost everything in a lurid scandal. Back stern moralist yet possessed of deep, and at times dark, passions? in London, still struggling with the aftermath of his disgrace, And why did scores of thousands of Jews, many of them from he glimpses her...Olesya, the woman he holds responsible for traditional backgrounds, embrace Herzl as their leader? Acclaimed his downfall, whom he first met her on an icy night during the historian Derek Penslar shows that Herzl's path to Zionism had as protests on Independence Square. much to do with personal crises as it did with antisemitism. THEODOR HERZL The Charismatic Leader DEREK PENSLAR STP 11:00 – 12:00 £9.50 STP 12:30 – 13:30 £9.50 Jewish Lives

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Einstein on the Run The Outsiders Sponsored by Dangoor Education In association with JCORE Andrew Robinson | Chair: Martin Rees Amelia Gentleman, Panikos Panayi, Philipp Ther In the autumn of 1933, Albert Einstein was living alone in an isolated Chair: Matthew Stadlen holiday hut in Norfolk, ‘on the run’ from Nazi death threats. There, The history of Europe is permeated with enforced exodus, he toiled peacefully at mathematics. displaced peoples and mass migration. Philipp Ther explores the Andrew Robinson tells the story of the world's greatest major expulsions and their aftermath first set in motion throughout scientist’s long and fruitful relationship with Britain. Young modern Europe by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in 1492, Amelia Einstein's passion for British physics, epitomised by Isaac Newton, Gentleman scrutinizes the impact of the Windrush Scandal, and had sparked his scientific development around 1900. British Panikos Panayi examines the immigrants who have made London astronomers had confirmed his general theory of relativity, making great, from those escaping the pogroms of Eastern Europe in the him internationally famous in 1919. Welcomed by the country's Victorian era to the post-war Windrush generation. inhabitants, who helped him campaign against Nazi antisemitism, he even intended to become a British citizen in 1933. So why did H1 15:30 – 16:30 £18.50 Einstein then leave the UK for America, never to return to Europe?

H1 14:00 – 15:00 £19.50 Genius and Anxiety: Josephus and other Jews: Piety and Schism, How Jews Changed the World 1847 – 1947 Faith and Intelligence in Jewish History Sponsored by Dangoor Education and Culture Norman Lebrecht | Chair: Trudy Gold The George Webber Memorial Event Moses said the Law is everything. Jesus said love is everything. Martin Goodman, Frederic Raphael | Chair: Armand D’Angour Marx said money is everything. Freud said sex is everything. Titus Flavius Josephus (born as Joseph ben Mattathias) was a Einstein said everything is relative. The latter three were among a Jewish general turned Roman historian and the author of The small number of men and women who transformed how we see the Jewish War, an account of the Jewish revolt against and one world in the period 1847 – 1947. Author Norman Lebrecht discusses of the greatest war narratives ever written. A diaspora writer, he with historian Trudy Gold how a handful of people who happened wrote in Greek for an audience of both Jews and non-Jews. Martin to be Jewish thought outside of the box, to see what others could Goodman and Frederic Raphael discuss the role of Josephus as a not, and in doing so changed the world. paradigm in interpreting Jewish culture. H2 15:30 – 16:30 £14.50 H2 14:00 – 15:00 £14.50

Al Alvarez, Elaine Feinstein and Clive Family Business Sinclair: A Tribute Peter Conradi | Chair: Carmen Callil In Association with the TLS Peter Conradi’s ‘masterpiece’ of a memoir ranges from his Bryan Cheyette, Natasha Lehrer | Chair: David Herman European Jewish forebears, who came to Britain in the Victorian era, to novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose biography In the past two years we have lost three of the greatest Anglo- Conradi wrote. He writes movingly of their close relationship, of Jewish writers of their generation: the poet Elaine Feinstein (1930- his public school and life on a kibbutz, of participating in the early 2019), the novelist and short story writer Clive Sinclair (1940-2018) years of gay rights, and becoming a writer. and the writer and critic Al Alvarez (1929-2019). They introduced a new voice to Jewish writing in post-war Britain. A panel including the translator and literary editor Natasha Lehrer, and the critics Professor Bryan Cheyette and David Herman (chair) pay tribute to these three remarkable writers

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The World According to Physics Legacy Sponsored by The Klein and Morris families Thomas Harding | Chair: Matthew Stadlen Jim Al-Khalili | Chair: Etan Ilfeld In the early 1800s, Lehmann Gluckstein fled Eastern Europe for Jim Al-Khalili shines a light on the most profound insights revealed Whitechapel. He and his family created a small tobacco factory by modern physics, inviting us to understand what physics tells us that eventually became the largest catering company in the world: about the universe and the nature of reality itself. He illuminates J. Lyons. They owned restaurants, hairdressing salons, theatre why physics matters to everyone and calls us to share in the booking services, delicatessens and a food hall. For over a century adventure of seeking truth in the world around us. Lyons restaurants and corner houses were on every high street, bringing the world to the British people, democratising luxury and globalising our tastes. Legacy: One Family, A Cup of Tea, and the Company that Took on the World charts the rise and fall of one of the most influential dynasties in British history. Hanns and Rudolf author Thomas Harding discusses with Matthew Stadlen.

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Heroes or Villains? Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life The Blair Government Reconsidered In Association with the TLS In Memory of Robin Hyman Ian Thomson | Chair: Simon May Jon Davis, John Rentoul | Chair: David Triesman In 1987 the Italian writer Primo Levi fell to his death in the house where he was born. More than 40 years after his rescue from a Nazi For 13 years was the political colossus in Britain, winning concentration camp, it now appeared that Levi had committed three elections in a row for New Labour. Today he is disowned by suicide. Levi's writings, including his account of his time in many in his own party. Drawing on contributions from the main Auschwitz, , incisively interrogate our recent moral players in the Blair government, including the former Prime Minister If This is a Man history, conveying profoundly the horror of the Nazi genocide. He himself, the authors reconsider the history of New Labour. is among the foremost writers of our time. Ian Thomson’s ‘true and perfect’ biography, reissued in 2019 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Levi’s birth, unravels the strands of a life.

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Under My Hat Misadventures in Chelm (and other stories) Sally Berkovic chronicles the challenges of ra1s1ng daughters while straddling the tensions between an Orthodox religious life and the competing forces of secularism. First published in 1997, Under My Hat presciently raised issues that have since dominated the Orthodox world. Sally Berkovic | Chair: Adam Taub Mark Binder This new edition is augmented by an extensive introduction delving into C the impact of more than 20 years of evolutionary change. Sally Berkovic's insights and analysis demonstrate how women's scholarship z and mastery of Talmudic texts, the burgeoning movement of Orthodox UNDER MY HAT women clergy, enhanced ritual participation, women's political and 0 Sally Berkovic chronicles the challenges of raising daughters while Have you heard of Chelm, the village of fools? They make you smile communal leadership and the pushback against the 'modesty wars' are m How Orthodox Women are shaping an Orthodox community that is struggling to be 'fit for purpose' in ::v contemporary society. She does not hesitate to ask the difficult Shaping the Future of Judaism straddling the tensions between an Orthodox religious life and and laugh. In Mark Binder's spoken and written stories you’ll meet questions, acknowledging that answers may be elusive. Her bold predictions for the future may infuriate, but they cannot be easily ignored. � the forces of secularism. In this new edition of Under My Hat she the wise Rabbi Kibbitz and the wiser Mrs Chaipul. You'll meet Reb Peppereo with wit, warmth ano humor, painful anomalieo were portrm;eo with honeot-y, -< alongoioe a conviction that rather than Jeek_neat oolutiono, living with the tenoiono would lead to new ruul unexpected break_throughJ. fln upoateo chapter introoucing thio :r: republication of Berk_ovic 'J original work_offm a well-informeo and optimiotic prognoJW demonstrates how women's scholarship and mastery of Talmudic Stein the baker, and his disaster of an apprentice, Muddle. Mark’s to thoJe Jeek_ing a realiJtic alternative to the bitter rancor that often accompanieJ the � oiocUJJion of women'" JtatUJ in traoitional Juoaiom - Professor Tamar Ross, author. Expanding the Palace of the Torah texts, the burgeoning movement of Orthodox women clergy, event for all ages is storytelling at its finest.

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The Hollywood Songbook All fringe events are held in the Limehouse Room on Level -2. They are free and unticketed and are scheduled so you can drop in to talks without missing other events, or stay on if wished. Sponsored by Jacqueline and Michael Gee Claire Martin, Rob Rinder, Escaping with his Life Rob Barron (piano), Jeremy Brown (bass) Nicholas Young Cole Porter, the only non-Jew in a line-up of songwriters boasting Nicholas Young tells the inspirational war-time story of his the Gershwin brothers, Jerome Kern, Alan Lerner and Leonard father, Leslie. From Dunkirk to D-Day, he details his capture and Bernstein, to name but a few, claimed to have discovered the escape in Italy, hiding in the Apennines, where he was aided by secret of creating hit songs: ‘I’ll write Jewish tunes.’ Presented by two young Jewish partisans, who tragically died within sight of Rob ‘Judge’ Rinder, acclaimed singer Claire Martin, accompanied the Allied lines. Wounded, Major Young continued to fight his way on piano and bass, performs through Germany. some of Hollywood’s greatest hits. LH 12:00 – 12:30 FREE H1 20:15 – 21:30 £18.50 – £24.50 There Should Not Be Goldfish Adam Kammerling In 1938, two children fled the Nazis. 80 years later Adam The Good State Kammerling went on a journey through European history with a A.C. Grayling playlist exclusively of heavy metal. This is the story of that journey, of the escape, and the joy of existing big. Through the character of There is a ticking time-bomb at the heart of our representative Goldfish, award-winning poet Adam Kammerling explores fragility, democracy and in more than 50 countries around the world. The family trauma and the connection between Jewishness and loud problem is as large and widespread as it is serious. Politics is too loud music. often the enemy of government – at least, of good government. A.C. Grayling argues we need proportional representation. We LH 13:30 – 14:00 FREE need to lower the voting age to 16. We need a written constitution. We need to separate the functions and powers of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. Democracy is for all, not some. Generation Share Benita Matofska Generation Share takes readers on a journey around the globe to meet the people who are changing and saving lives, transforming 20:00 – 21:00 £14.50 H2 our society, our economy and ultimately our planet by building a Sharing Economy, from a breast-milk bank to shared offices and green spaces.

Mazel Tov! In association with Byte the Book LH 15:00 – 15:30 FREE J.S. Margot | Chair: Justine Solomons In 1987, 20-year-old student J.S. Margot responded to a job Seeking Love in Modern Britain advertisement from an Orthodox Jewish couple in Antwerp to tutor their four children. This is the story of her extraordinary Zoe Strimpel friendship with the family. Full of misunderstandings and Zoe Strimpel explores the rise of the dating industry, from 1970 to unexpected connections, Mazel Tov is a provocative and the present day, revealing how mediated courtship and singleness disarmingly honest memoir of navigating clashing cultures began in a time long before Tinder. and unusual friendships – and of how, where adults build walls, sometimes only children can dissolve them.

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MAKING A SIMCHA? MAZEL TOV! advertisement WOULD YOU LIKE TO INVITE THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL? SUNDAY 1 MARCH WENLOCK ROOM, KINGS PLACE Don't worry, we won't show up, but we would love to receive the invitation, menus, benchers and any other printed materials relating to your special events, past and present.

The National Library of Israel is the prime repository of the history of the Jewish people. Our collections include books, archives, manuscripts, photographs, maps, music and ephemera. Ephemera are short-lived printed materials – including invitations, flyers, greeting cards, synagogue notices, and tickets – which represent a unique 'slice of life' for historians.

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JIM AL-KHALILI is Professor of NICOLA BEAUMAN is the HONOR BORWICK has worked ROBERT CHANDLER is the BARONESS RUTH DEECH, MICHAEL FERTIK is a physics at the University of Surrey. author of A Very Great Profession: in the theatre, publishing, main English translator of Vasily DBE QC is a crossbench peer, a published fiction author, poet, He is one of the UK’s best-known The Woman’s Novel 1914-39 and independent television and film, Grossman and Andrei Platonov. member of UK Lawyers for Israel, produced film writer and science communicators: as well as biographies of Cynthia Asquith, theatre, radio and as a script He co-authored The Penguin and formerly Principal of St playwright. His writing has won hosting The Life Scientific on BBC E M Forster and the novelist editor. This will be her fifth year Book of Russian Poetry, and his Anne’s College, Oxford, and chair fiction, poetry and film prizes Radio 4, he has presented several Elizabeth Taylor. In 1999 she producing a theatrical piece for biography of Alexander Pushkin of the Bar Standards Board. p31 and includes a New York Times BBC TV documentaries. p34 founded Persephone Books. p13 Jewish Book Week. p28 is published by Pushkin Press. Bestseller, The Reputation EDMUND DE WAAL OBE is He runs a monthly translation Economy. p17 NAZENIN ANSARI is a British- MARINA BENJAMIN is an TOM BOWER is an acclaimed an internationally acclaimed workshop at Pushkin House. p15 Iranian journalist and is the author and senior editor at Aeon investigative journalist and artist and writer, best known for ORLANDO FIGES is Professor Managing Editor of Kayhan- Magazine. She is a former arts best-selling biographer, author BRYAN CHEYETTE is Chair his large-scale installations of of History at Birkbeck College, London (Persian) and Kayhan- editor of the of 24 books including Nazi in Modern Literature at the porcelain vessels. He lives and University of London. A prize- Life (English) independent magazine and deputy arts Gold, and the lives of Robert University of Reading, and a works in London. p10 winning author, his books have media outlets, focusing on news editor of the Maxwell, , Tony Fellow of the English Association. been translated into over 30 is a and culture in Iran, and the newspaper in London. Marina's Blair, Prince Charles and Jeremy He has published ten books, JONATHAN DRORI CBE languages. Trustee of The Eden Project, an p31 Middle East. She is a member latest autobiographical work, Corbyn. p24 most recently Diasporas of the Ambassador for the WWF and PETER FILKINS is the translator of Chatham House and the Insomnia, was published in 2018. Mind. p32 MARCELO BRATKE, one was for nine years a Trustee of of H.G. Adler's trio of Holocaust International Institute for P18 of Brazil’s finest pianists, has PETER J. CONRADI is English the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew novels and the author of Adler's Strategic Studies. p19 RAFFI BERG is the Middle East performed in some of the world’s Professor Emeritus at Kingston and The Woodland Trust. p25 authorized biography, H.G. Adler: is Professor editor of the BBC News website, most renowned venues. University. Family Business A Life in Many Worlds. He teaches SHLOMO AVINERI p26 Emeritus of Political Science and has extensive experience includes a cast of characters MARCUS DU SAUTOY OBE at Bard College in Annandale-on- , former CEO is Professor of Mathematics at at the Hebrew University of reporting on Israel and the wider JOHN BROWNE ranging from his exotic European Hudson, NY. of BP, is Chairman of the Crick the University of Oxford. He was p11, 18 Jerusalem and a member of the region. Jewish forebears to Dame Iris p23 Institute, a Fellow of the Royal elected a Fellow of the Royal Israel Academy of Sciences and Murdoch, whose authorised DR CHRISTOPHER FOSTER Society, past President of the Society in 2016. is Stanley Ho Junior Research Humanities. He is the author of RABBI MIRIAM BERGER biography he wrote. p24 is Rabbi of Finchley Reform Royal Academy of Engineering p33 Fellow in Chinese Studies at The Social and Political Thought was a Synagogue. She has spearheaded and former Chairman of Tate. is a LORD JOHN DYSON Pembroke College, University of Karl Marx. p10 AMANDA CRAIG Justice of the UK Supreme Court p13 'The Mikvah Project UK', a charity celebrated novelist, critic, of Oxford. , former from 2010 until 2012 and the p23 is an art which aims to create a centre of BERNARD J BULKIN journalist and short story writer. PATRICK BADE chief scientist of BP, has written Master of the Rolls and Head 's award-winning historian. His works include wellbeing with the ritual of Mikvah Her books include A Vicious JENNI FRAZER and spoken extensively on of the Civil Justice System in career in journalism spans over Femme Fatale: Images of Evil and at its heart. Circle, In the Dark Woods and p22 issues relating to energy and England and Wales from 2012 30 years. She has interviewed Fascinating Women, and studies Hearts and Minds. was born in the environment. He is Emeritus p13 until 2016. many major celebrities and is a of artists such as Degas, Klimt SALLY BERKOVIC p30 Australia and is the daughter of Professorial Fellow of Murray is media commentator on UK radio and Renoir. NOBULALI DANGAZELE is an Israeli author p26 Slovakian Holocaust survivors. Edwards College, University of completing her PhD at Warwick ORI ELON and TV. and filmmaker. He is the creator p21 is an award- Since 2009, she has been Cambridge. University. EMMA BARNETT p10 p9 and writer of several critically is a winning broadcaster and the CEO of the Rothschild JONATHAN FREEDLAND teaches acclaimed and award-winning weekly columnist and writer for journalist. She presents The Foundation Hanadiv Europe, THE REV FERGUS BUTLER- ARMAND D’ANGOUR is Assistant Curate Classics at Jesus College, series, including Shtisel and . He presents BBC Emma Barnett Show on BBC supporting Jewish heritage and GALLIE at Liverpool Parish Church. Oxford University, where he is an Srugim. Radio 4's The Long View. The Radio 5 Live, Newsnight on BBC culture across Europe. p20 p34 Priests de la Resistance! is his Associate Professor. recipient of the 2014 Orwell Prize, 2 and hosts Late Night Woman’s p32 is an award- is a broadcaster, film- second book. GAVIN ESLER he also writes thrillers, most Hour on BBC Radio 4. Period is BIDISHA p20 is an award- winning television and radio maker and journalist specialising BRIAN DANIELS recently To Kill the President. her first book. founded winning playwright and theatre broadcaster, novelist and p9 p8 in international human rights, CARMEN CALLIL Virago Press in 1972. At Virago, practitioner. He has written journalist. He is the author of is is a musical social justice and the arts. SIR LAWRENCE FREEDMAN NICK BARSTOW p15 amongst other business and 14 produced plays and was five novels and two non-fiction Emeritus Professor of War Studies director, arranger, composer and , an Audie editorial aspects of the company, previously Artistic Director of books. at King's College London. performer. MARK BINDER p16, 29 p19 p29 Award and National Jewish she was responsible for the the New End Theatre. p26 is a is a is Book Award nominee, writes creation and development of the IAIN FARRINGTON MATTI FRIEDMAN RABBI TONY BAYFIELD CBE graduated pianist, organist, composer and Canadian-Israeli journalist and a graduate of Magdalene College stories for children, families and Virago Modern Classics list. KYLE DARROCH p33 with a BA in Drama and Theatre arranger. He has made numerous a contributor to the New York Cambridge and adults. His latest book is The is an Arts from Goldsmiths, University recordings, has broadcast on Times op-ed section. Spies of No College, London. He has been Misadventures of Rabbi Kibbitz CAMILLA CAVENDISH award-winning columnist and of London. BBC TV, Classic FM and BBC Country: Secret Lives at the Birth both Head and President of the And Mrs Chaipul. p9 p35 broadcaster, whose campaigns Radio 3, and has performed at of Israel is his latest book. He Movement for Reform Judaism. is Director of is a poet, have changed the law. She now DR JON DAVIS every major UK venue. lives in Jerusalem. Being Jewish Today is his sixth ANNA BLASIAK The Strand Group at The Policy p25 p21 translator and literature sits in the House of Lords. Extra book. Institute, King's College London. is a literary journalist p22 coordinator of the European Time is her first book. SUZI FEAY p12 He worked as an investment with a particular interest in Literature Network. She has banker before turning to an fiction and poetry. She writes for recently co-translated Renia’s academic career, and also spent the Guardian and the Financial Diary by Renia Spiegel. a year in the Cabinet Office's Times amongst others and is a annablasiak.com p11 Modernising Government published poet and writer. p12 Secretariat. p34

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STEPHEN FROSH is a Professor ADAM GOPNIK has written bestselling author whose books GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI was ANITA LASKER-WALLFISCH ROBIN LUSTIG is an award- at Birkbeck, University of for the New Yorker since 1986. have been translated into more born in Nice in 1940 of Russo- survived Auschwitz as a member winning journalist and London. He is the author of many He is a three-time winner of the than 16 languages. He has written Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. of the women's orchestra. She is broadcaster who presented The books on psychosocial studies National Magazine Award for for the , The His plays have been performed one of the founding members of World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 and on psychoanalysis, most Essays and for Criticism, and , the Washington throughout Britain and on radio in the English Chamber Orchestra. for more than 20 years. p10 recently Those Who Come After: George Polk Award for magazine Post and the Guardian. p35 Britain, France and Germany, and Anita has spent many years telling SUE MACGREGOR CBE is a Postmemory, Acknowledgement reporting. p16, 18 his work has been translated into her story, mainly in Germany, as a CATE HASTE is an acclaimed celebrated broadcaster. She and Forgiveness. p17 the major European languages warning for the future. p31 RABBI JEREMY GORDON biographer, historian and joined BBC Radio 4 in 1967 and and Arabic. p31 HELEN FRY is a historian and is Rabbi of New London filmmaker. p26 ADAM LEBOR is an author and for 15 years was the voice of biographer and the author of Synagogue (Masorti) and author is an journalist who writes for the Woman's Hour. is a former ADAM KAMMERLING p31 more than 20 books focusing on of Spiritual Vagabondry and the DAVID HERMAN award-winning poet, theatre- Financial Times, Literary Review TV producer and has been a is a research intelligence, prisoners of war and forthcoming An Angel Called maker and MC. His cross-form and other publications. He is MERAV MACK freelance writer for the past fellow at the Truman Institute the social history of WWII. Truth and Other Tales from the work has toured country-wide, the author of 14 works of fiction p10 15 years, writing for the New at the Hebrew University of Torah. featuring in the Southbank and non-fiction, including the has written p30 Statesman, Prospect, the Jerusalem, and teaches at the NAOMI GAMES Centre, Saatchi Gallery and ground-breaking Hitler’s Secret and illustrated many books for is Professor Guardian and . university’s department of ROBERT GORDON Latitude Festival. There Should Bankers, which was shortlisted children. Since the death of her of Theatre and Director of the He is chief fiction reviewer of the comparative religion. Not be Goldfish (working for the Orwell Prize. p16 father in 1996, she has organized Pinter Centre for Performance Jewish Chronicle. p24 p15, 19, 32 title) will be his first collection, is a journalist numerous exhibitions on various and Creative Writing at is the J.S. MARGOT grew up published by Outspoken in NORMAN LEBRECHT and freelance writer based aspects of his work and that of Goldsmiths University. EVA HOFFMAN world’s bestselling author on p9 in Cracow, Poland, before Autumn/Winter 2020. in Antwerp. Mazel Tov! is her his contemporaries. p37 classical music. Aside from the p19 , Lord emigrating in her teens to first book to be translated into MICHAEL GRADE was born history of Western music, he has was Chairman Grade of Yarmouth, has had Canada and then the United HARRY KAUFMAN English. MICHAEL GEE in Walthamstow in 1931. Joining a lifelong passion for the culture p36 of the Cecil Gee Group of a long career in broadcasting, States. She is currently a Visiting the 43 Group at just sixteen and chronicles of the Jewish has, to Companies, later Cecil Gee plc. encompassing London Weekend Professor at the Institute for CLAIRE MARTIN years old, he was for a long time people. worldwide critical acclaim, In 1988 the company merged Television, the BBC and ITV, as Advanced Studies at UCL. She p14, 33 the Group's youngest member. established herself as a leading with Moss Bros Group plc and well as over nine years as Chief lives in London. is a literary p14, 16 He left the Group in 1949 when NATASHA LEHRER artist on the UK jazz scene, Michael became Group Managing Executive of Channel Four critic, editor and translator of ETAN ILFELD is an Israeli- he was called up for National gaining many awards – including Director. In 1990 he became a Television. p20 fiction and non-fiction from American chess master and Service. p15 winning the British Jazz Awards Non-Executive Director. p15 French to English. She writes for PROFESSOR A. C. GRAYLING inventor of Diving Chess. He has eight times. p36 CAROLINE KENNEDY is a the TLS, the Guardian, the Nation, is a CBE MA DPhil (Oxon) FRSA FRSL is a physics degree from Stanford AMELIA GENTLEMAN soprano who has sung and and Ha’aretz, among others. is an reporter for the Guardian. She the Master of the New College University. p32 BENITA MATOFSKA p34 covered roles with companies international public speaker, was named Journalist of the Year of the Humanities, London, and is literary editor at is a musician such as ENO, Scottish Opera, and SAM LEITH change-maker and world-leading at the 2019 British Journalism its Professor of Philosophy. He is CAROL ISAACS and a columnist at and, as The Surreal McCoy, a Opera Holland Park. She has also expert on the Sharing Economy. Awards and won the 2018 Paul the author of over 30 books of the Financial Times and Prospect. well-known cartoonist published been involved in a number of Foot journalism award for her philosophy, biography, history of His work appears regularly in the p37 in the New Yorker, Spectator and community opera projects. reportage on the Windrush ideas, and essays. p25 Guardian, The Times, and the TLS is visiting professor p36 Private Eye. She has played with SIMON MAY scandal. is a poet and among others. of philosophy at King’s College p33 is an Sinead O’Connor, Indigo Girls, ADAM KIRSCH p28 DR EMILY GROSSMAN critic who contributes regularly London. His latest books are is a writer and internationally acclaimed science and is co-founder of the London is a NICCI GERRARD to the New Yorker, Tablet, and DR GUY LESCHZINER Love: A New Understanding of campaigner. With her husband, author, broadcaster and TV Klezmer Quartet. world-renowned neurologist at p18 other publications. He is the an Ancient Emotion and The she writes as celebrated novelist personality. She is an expert in London Bridge Hospital and The is a author of ten books, including Power of Cute. He has written Nicci French, and was recipient molecular biology and genetics HOWARD JACOBSON Cromwell Hospital, and within the multi-award-winning writer The People and the Books: 18 for the Financial Times and the of the 2016 Orwell Prize for with a PhD in cancer research. Department of Neurology and p7 of 13 novels and five works of Classics of Jewish Literature and Washington Post, among other Journalism. Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy’s p12 is a non-fiction, as well as a regular Why Trilling Matters. newspapers. DR TOBY HAGGITH p19 and St Thomas’ Hospitals. p12, 35 is Director of historian who joined IWM’s Film contributor to major newspapers p14 TRUDY GOLD was born is a journalist Holocaust Studies at JW3 and Department in 1988. He is now a and journals, including a regular JULES KONOPINSKI is a partner at ANNE MCELVOY in Breslau, Germany in 1930, JAMES LIBSON and former Executive Editor former chief executive of the Senior Curator in the Department column for the Independent. He Mishcon de Reya. He has acted and escaped to Britain with his of the Evening Standard. She LJCC. She is the editor in chief of Second World War and Mid- won the Man Booker Prize for in many high-profile cases, mother in 1939. He joined the 43 is currently Senior Editor of of Understanding the Holocaust. 20th Century Conflict. The Finkler Question. including for Deborah Lipstadt, p18 p11, 14 Group when he was 17 and had the Economist and Head of Gina Miller and most recently on p13, 30, 33 is is an author, a reputation for being a tough Economist Radio. She makes PATRICIA HAMMOND RACHEL JOHNSON behalf of Margaret Hodge MP, is Professor a singer who can go from journalist and presenter. young fighter. political documentaries and is a SIMON GOLDHILL p8 p15 resisting her expulsion from the of Greek Literature and Culture at cathedral to cocktail bar, and regular panellist on BBC Radio is a writer, Labour Party. the University of Cambridge. change from Handel to hot jazz. NICOLETTE JONES p18 4’s The Moral Maze and BBC2’s p16 critic and broadcaster specialising Patricia has been featured on is publisher Review Show. is in literary and arts journalism. She MARION LLOYD p16 MARTIN GOODMAN BBC Radio 2, Radio 3, and Radio of Scholastic’s children’s fiction professor of Jewish studies at the has been children's book editor of 4’s Midweek with Libby Purves. imprint, Marion Lloyd Books. University of Oxford and a fellow The Sunday Times for more than p13 p26 of Wolfson College. p32 two decades. p7 THOMAS HARDING is a

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A.D. MILLER's first novel, KRYSIA OSOSTOWICZ studied HELLA PICK CBE was born in FREDERIC RAPHAEL is a DINAH ROSE QC has practised KAREN SANIG is head of Art Snowdrops, was shortlisted at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Vienna and came to the UK on screenwriter, biographer, non- as a barrister for 30 years. Her Law at Mishcon de Reya. She for the Man Booker Prize. As at Cambridge and in Salzburg. the Kindertransport. Specialising fiction writer, novelist and areas of specialism include founded this specialist area of Moscow correspondent of She has performed throughout in foreign affairs, she was on the journalist. He has published over human rights, discrimination, practice, the first of its kind in the the Economist he covered the Europe, and made many award- staff of the Guardian from 1961- 40 books of fiction and non- public law, and competition law. UK, in 1995. Karen is a trustee of Orange Revolution in Ukraine. winning recordings. p16 1997. Hella is the author of Simon fiction. A Thousand Kisses is his She was appointed as a Deputy Camden Arts Centre and on the He is currently the magazine's Wiesenthal: A Life in Search of latest book. p32 High Court Judge in 2016. p30 advisory board of the Hermitage DR. BEN OUTHWAITE has Culture Editor and is based in Justice, and Guilty Victim: Austria Foundation, Israel. p23 been Head of the Genizah MARTIN REES is Astronomer MICHAEL ROSEN is a poet, London. p31 from the Holocaust to Haider. Research Unit in Cambridge Royal, an acclaimed author, broadcaster, former Children's SIMON SCHAMA CBE, FRSL, p24 WILLIAM MILLER is a television University Library since 2006, and has been Master of Trinity Laureate and a recipient of FBA is a renowned writer, producer and media executive. p26 having worked for the previous ANTONY POLONSKY is College and Director of the one of France's top honours: journalist, broadcaster and TV seven years as a Genizah Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Institute of Astronomy at Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et presenter. He is Professor of Art

CAROLINE MOOREHEAD researcher. Studies at Brandeis University Cambridge University. des Lettres. He has presented History and History at Columbia is the biographer of Bertrand p23 p32 and Chief Historian of the BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth University. p29 Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo PANIKOS PANAYI was born JOHN RENTOUL is Chief Museum of the History of Polish since 1996. p15 and Martha Gellhorn. A House in in London to Greek Cypriot Political Commentator for the LUCY SCHOLES is a critic Jews, Warsaw. p13 the Mountains: the Women Who immigrants and grew up in Independent, Visiting Professor DAVID G. ROSKIES is the based in London. She writes Liberated Italy from Fascism is the multicultural city that was Author and TV producer PETER at King's College, London and Sol and Evelyn Henkind about books, film and art for the her latest book. p20 developing during the 1960s POMERANTSEV is a Senior the author of an acclaimed Chair in Yiddish Literature Financial Times, the Telegraph, and 1970s. A leading authority Fellow at the Institute of Global biography of Tony Blair. and Culture and professor of NYR Daily, the New York is the editor p34 HARRY MOUNT on the history of migration, he is Affairs at the London School of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Times Book Review, Literary of the Oldie magazine and is an award- professor of European history at Economics, studying 21st century HUGO RIFKIND Theological Seminary. Hub and Granta, among other the author of eight books. He winning journalist who writes p13 De Montfort University. p33 information manipulation and publications. p31 was a leader writer and New columns for The Times, the HANNAH ROTHSCHILD CBE how to fix it. p30 York correspondent at the MICHELLE PAYMAR is an Spectator and GQ. He is a is an award-winning writer and BERNARD SCHWARTZ directs Daily Telegraph and is a former award-winning filmmaker. Her KJARTAN POSKITT's frequent panellist on BBC Radio documentary film director. She literary programming at the 92nd barrister. p12 independent work has screened Murderous Maths books have 4's The News Quiz. p22 is a former Chair of the National Street Y in New York. p11 at festivals around the world sold millions of copies in over Gallery's Board of Trustees and is an is a professional is a biographer, DOUGLAS MURRAY and she has extensive credits 30 countries, and over the past ROB RINDER she is a Trustee of Waddesdon ANNE SEBBA author and journalist. He has barrister, who is best known for lecturer, radio presenter as a director and writer of 20 years he has performed his Manor. Hannah’s novel The been a contributor to the his ITV show Judge Rinder. He and former foreign documentary and non-fiction hilarious maths shows all over the Improbability of Love won Spectator since 2000 and has is a columnist for the Sun and correspondent. She has written programmes. UK and Ireland. the 2016 Bollinger Everyman been Associate Editor at the p23 p7 the London Evening Standard. In nine critically acclaimed books, Wodehouse prize for comic magazine since 2012. is an award- is a film 2019 he began hosting the new most recently Les Parisiennes. p21 DAVID PEIMER TRISTRAM POWELL fiction. p20 winning playwright, librettist and television director whose show The Rob Rinder p22 is an American is an SUSAN NEIMAN and directs theatre for the Pinter credits include adaptations of Verdict. was FRANCESCA SEGAL philosopher and cultural p36 JOSHUA ROZENBERG QC award-winning writer and Centre in London. Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer the BBC's legal correspondent commentator. She lives in Berlin p9 journalist. Her work has appeared and Elizabeth Jane Howard's GEOFFREY ROBERTSON QC for 15 years before moving to where she is the Director of the is the has had a distinguished career in Granta, the Guardian, the DEREK PENSLAR Falling. newspapers. He now presents Einstein Forum. William Lee Frost Professor p28 as trial counsel, human rights Financial Times, and both p12 BBC Radio 4's Law in Action of Jewish History at Harvard was advocate and American and British Vogue, DAVID PRYCE-JONES and appears regularly on other RABBI BARONESS JULIA University, and was previously born in Vienna. He is the author judge. amongst others. is Senior p23 news networks in the UK and p11 NEUBERGER DBE the Samuel Zacks Professor of of many fiction and non-fiction Rabbi of West London has abroad. is one of Israel's European Jewish History at the books. He is a Senior Editor of ANDREW ROBINSON p30 TOM SEGEV Synagogue and was the second written more than 25 books, most celebrated historians. A University of Toronto. He is a National Review. is Senior woman rabbi in the UK. She p13 including Einstein: A Hundred DR. ROBERT ROZETT State At Any Cost: The Life of historian of modern European Historian in the International is a writer, broadcaster and is an award- Years of Relativity, The Last David Ben-Gurion is his latest Jewry, Zionism, and the State of KAVITA PURI Institute for Holocaust Research crossbench peer. winning journalist and radio Man Who Knew Everything, book. p22 Israel. at Yad Vashem. Most recently, p9 p29, 30 broadcaster. Her series Partition and Genius: A Very Short is an Honorary he is the author of Conscripted is the most ANNA NYBURG , journalist Voices for BBC Radio 4 won the Introduction. He also contributes ELIF SHAFAK Lecturer at Imperial College MELANIE PHILLIPS Slaves and co-editor of After So widely-read female writer in and author, writes a column for Royal Historical Society's Radio regularly to newspapers and London, where she teaches Much Pain and Anguish. p31 Turkey. Her work has been The Times, contributes to the and Podcast Award and its magazines. p32 German and Italian. p15 translated into over 40 Jerusalem Post and the Jewish overall Public History Prize. QC is p29 is a publisher PHILIPPE SANDS languages. 10 Minutes, 38 is a Chronicle. She appears regularly JEREMY ROBSON Professor of International Law at SUSIE ORBACH is a and poet. He published high- Seconds in This Strange World psychoanalyst and writer. She on programmes such as The DANI RABAIOTTI UCL and a practising barrister. zoologist who studies African profile authors with his own was nominated for the Booker co-founded The Women's Moral Maze. His book, East West Street: On p21 wild dogs and climate change company Robson Books and set Prize. Therapy Centre in 1976 and is the Origins of Crimes Against p18, 28 at London Zoo. up the Robson Press in 2011. His the author of many books. Susie p7 Humanity, won the Baillie Gifford latest book is The Heartless Traffic: has a clinical practice seeing Prize. New and Selected Poems. p30 individuals and couples. Bodies is p12 her latest book. p11

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has spent the was born in is a senior EDUARD SHYFRIN GEORGE SZIRTES DR SANAM VAKIL advertisement last six years studying the Torah Hungary. He has won numerous research fellow in the Middle East and Kabbalah with a particular prizes for his poetry including the and North Africa Programme at interest in the intersection of T.S. Eliot Prize. The Photographer Chatham House. p19 science and religion. He has at Sixteen is his first venture into is a published a number of Torah prose writing. SIMON WALLFISCH p16 baritone, cellist and actor. As a Commentaries. p17 ADAM TAUB has been a lecturer cellist he played regularly with LUCY SILVER was born in at the London School of Jewish the English Chamber Orchestra Glasgow, studied literature, Studies for 20 years and is the and as an actor and presenter philosophy, art history co-founder of Etgar, a charity can be heard on several films and and psychology and is a which aims to inspire a love of audiobooks in both English and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Jewish learning in young Jewish German. p25 She worked at the UCL Student students. p34 DAVID WATERMAN is a cellist Counselling Service. Lucy has DAVID AND JUDY is Emeritus with the Endellion Quartet. been Co-Chair of the Jewish IRVING TAYLOR p16 Professor of Surgery and a clinical Book Council since 2011 and is the author of teacher at University College SYLVIE WEIL directed the festival from 2014– the critically-acclaimed memoir London. He is chair of the Senior 2018. At Home with André and Simone DANGOOR p22 Fellows Society of the Royal Weil, translated into several is a College of Surgeons. From Moses DANIEL SNOWMAN languages; several short story social and cultural historian. to Moses is his first novel. p17 collections and a series of books He is Project Consultant to the is Professor of about Rashi. Insiders/Outsiders Festival and PHILIPP THER p11 Central European History at the author of the introduction to the BARI WEISS is a New York University of Vienna. p33 accompanying book. p15 Times op-ed editor and writer on Honoured to be was one of the culture and politics. is the IAN THOMSON p22 JUSTINE SOLOMONS last to interview Primo Levi. He founder and Director of Byte The is an author is an expert on Italian literature UWE WESTPHAL Book. p36 and journalist, living in Berlin and is the recipient of the Royal long-standing supporters and London. He has spent is a writer Society of Literature’s Ondaatje DANIEL SONABEND over 30 years investigating and historian. For the past six Prize and the W. H. Heinemann the Nazi appropriation of the years he has been researching the Award. p35 predominantly Jewish pre-war of Jewish Book Week 43 Group which has culminated writes on books German fashion industry. in the publication of his first book, BOYD TONKIN p15 and arts for international media. We Fight Fascists. is the author p15 His reader’s guide to global fiction, A.B. YEHOSHUA of twelve novels, a collection of is a The Hundred Best Novels in MATTHEW STADLEN short stories, and several plays. national radio and television Translation, appeared in 2018. p11 One of Israel’s top novelists, he presenter, producer and writer. is a has won prizes worldwide. An He has presented weekend early LORD DAVID TRIESMAN Labour politician and merchant outspoken critic of both Israeli mornings on LBC since October banker. He served as Under- and Palestinian politics, A.B. 2016. p33, 35 Secretary of State in the FCO Yehoshua continues to speak and JACK STRAW went to Iran in and later in the Department for work for peace. p8, 14 DANGOOR September 2001, the first visit Innovation, Universities and Skills. , to Iran of any British Foreign He was Chairman of the Football SIR NICHOLAS YOUNG EDUCATION previously CEO of Macmillan Secretary since the 1979 Islamic Association. p34 Cancer Relief and the British Red Revolution. He went back to is curator Cross, is the chair of the Monte Tehran four more times as RAQUEL UKELES of the Islam and Middle East San Martino Trust, set up by Foreign Secretary and has dangooreducation.com collections of the National former prisoners of war in Italy. developed a growing interest in Library of Israel. p16, 23 The trust receives the proceeds the country ever since. p19 from the sale of his book. p37 is Research LADY MARINA VAIZEY ZOE STRIMPEL is an art critic and writer. Fellow at the University of CBE Formerly a member of the Arts Sussex, as well as a flagship Council, she has curated several columnist for the Sunday exhibitions. She is currently a Telegraph. p37 trustee for The Musical Brain and is on the editorial board for the magazine of the V&A. p31

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ONLINE: HALL ONE kingsplace.co.uk/jbw Assigned seating. Select your own seat when booking. BY PHONE & IN PERSON: RETURNS POLICY VENUE Kings Place Box Office: 020 7520 1490 Once purchased, tickets cannot be Some events may be subject to a change HALL TWO, ST PANCRAS ROOM exchanged or refunded. Once all house of venue and/or start time. Please BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS: All seating is unreserved and may be seats have been sold and the event is check for up-to-date information at 12.00 – 19.00 Mon chosen on arrival. deemed a sell-out, Kings Place can offer the Box Office, on the Kings Place and 12.00 – 17.00 Tue to re-sell tickets. All re-sales are at the Jewish Book Week websites, or on the 12.00 – 20.00 Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat discretion of the Box Office. Tickets that information screens at Kings Place. 12.00 – 19.00 Sun FRINGE have been sold will be refunded in the All events are free and unticketed. form of a Kings Place gift certificate valid Closed on bank holidays. Entry is on a first-come first-served for 24 months, which can be used in full or These hours are subject to change; please call basis (subject to availability). part payment for tickets for future events the Box Office or check online for more details. at Kings Place.

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LATE ARRIVALS otherwise advertised. Please look out for If you arrive late for the start of an event relevant signage. BOOKINGS AT JW3 OVERGROUND: Finchley Road & Frognal. or after an interval, we appreciate that FOOD & DRINK BUS: No. 13, 82, 113, 187 and 268. you will want to take your seat as soon 341 – 351 Finchley Road, London, The Green & Fortune Café will offer a as possible. To limit disturbance to fellow NW3 6ET audience members and artists, festival selection of kosher sandwiches and CYCLING: Covered storage for up to 50 bikes. Please enter using the Lymington staff may ask you to wait until a suitable snacks. The Rotunda Bar is an ideal place JW3 is an accessible building for Road entrance. break in the performance. Entry is at the to meet or enjoy a drink after an event. people with physical impairments. discretion of festival staff. Wheelchair accessible. ACCESS PARKING: Paid parking is also available at the O2 Centre, 400m away. Free VACATING THE HALLS Kings Place is wheelchair accessible. Parking for disabled visitors is available, parking on Finchley Road and adjacent Between sessions it will be necessary Please let the Box Office staff know please call in advance. To reserve a side roads after 7pm (6.30pm side to vacate each room so that staff can when booking if you have any access space phone 020 7433 8988. roads) Mondays to Saturdays and all prepare the venue for the next session. requirements or, for a copy of the www..org.uk Tickets will be checked each time you Kings Place Accessibility Guide, day Sunday. enter or leave the hall, so please ensure email [email protected]. FOOD AT JW3 you have them ready to present. Please GETTING TO JW3 Zest is JW3’s award-winning café, note that seats for general admission The Box Office has an induction loop to UNDERGROUND: Finchley Road restaurant and bar. events cannot be reserved. help those with hearing aids. An infrared system is installed in Halls One and Two, (Metropolitan and Jubilee line). PHOTOGRAPHY with hearing advancement headsets Flash photography and videography available for visitors who do not use a are prohibited during events. Jewish hearing aid. Neck loops are also available JW3 Book Week may take pictures during to use with hearing aids switched to the 341-351 Finchley your visit that are later used for ‘T’ position. Road, London, promotional purposes. NW3 6ET All areas of Kings Place are accessible to SOCIAL MEDIA those with Guide & Hearing Dogs. A Feel free to tweet at will. lv an le STAGETEXT y Arkwright Rd G a r BAG POLICY A live speech-to-text service will be d e n We strongly request that you do not provided in selected events by Stagetext s for deaf, deafened, or hard of hearing bring large bags to the venue. Any bags Finchley Rd larger than cabin size must be checked visitors. These events will be demarcated Finchley Lymington Rd Road into the Cloakroom on Concert Level -2. by the symbol above. & Frognal All bags may be subject to checks by Frognal security personnel. Lithos Rd Dresden Cl

BLACKWELL’S FESTIVAL BOOKSHOP Rosemount Rd The festival bookshop can be found in the Entrance Foyer at Kings Place. The bookshop will be open during the operating hours of the festival. Hours Blackburn Rd O2 are subject to change. Please call Jewish Centre Book Week on 0207 446 8771 or the Kings Place Box Office on 0207 520 1490 for more information. Blackburn Rd

AUTHOR SIGNINGS West Finchley Speakers will sign books after their Hampstead Road sessions on the Gallery Level -1 unless

50 51 Jewish Bookadvertisement Week 2020 Jewish advertisementBook Week 2020 THE LONDON LIBRARY AND JEWISH BOOK WEEK PRESENT THE RATLINE Philippe Sands

Wednesday 20th May 2020, 6.45pm - 8.00pm

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In THE RATLINE Philippe Sands offers a unique account of the daily life of a Nazi fugitive, the love between Wächter and his wife Charlotte, who continued to write regularly to each other while he was on the run, and a fascinating insight into life in the Vatican and among American and Soviet spies active in Rome at the start of the Cold War. Using modern medical expertise, the door is unlocked to a mystery that continues to haunt Wächter’s youngest child - what was Wächter doing while in hiding, and what exactly caused his death?

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Thursday, 12 March 2020 | 6:45 pm - 8:00 pm

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5530 JBW PG53Adverts v3.indd 1 10/12/2019 15:36 Jewish Book Week 2020 Jewish Book Week 2020 THE JEWISH DISCOUNTED TICKETS BOOK COUNCIL Jewish Book Week is an inclusive festival and our ambition is to The Council was established in 1948 to promote the reading of books on all aspects of Jewish make our events as accessible as possible. thought and culture. It puts on Jewish Book Week, presents the Risa Domb-Porjes Prize for Hebrew-English Translation and organises other book-related events throughout the year. MULTI-BUY OFFER Most events at Jewish Book Week are included in our HONORARY multi-buy offer. Book three or more events in one transaction JEWISH BOOK WEEK LIFE PRESIDENTS DIRECTOR and receive a 15% discount. Marion Cohen and Marilyn Lehrer Claudia Rubenstein YOUNG PERSON TICKETS PRESIDENT [email protected] Anne Webber We want to encourage attendance to Jewish Book Week, and to HEAD OF PRODUCTION all literary events, by younger people, and so we have partnered CO-CHAIRS Sarah Fairbairn with Kings Place to offer a special price to audience members Gail Sandler and Lucy Silver [email protected] aged under 30. We offer a limited number of ‘under 30’ tickets to TRUSTEES FESTIVAL COORDINATOR all of our events at the special price of £8.50. Antony Grossman, Robin Hilton, Sarah Gluckstein Paul Israel, Stephanie Marcus, [email protected] When booking online for events at Kings Place, enter promo code Peter Musgrave (Hon. Treasurer), ‘UNDER30’ at check-out to find this price type. Please note that SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN Gail Sandler, Lucy Silver, Tom Ryan these tickets can only be collected at our Box Office and proof of Romie Tager (Hon. Secretary), PROOFREADER ID may be requested. Terms and conditions apply. Anne Webber Nicky Mayhew ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORT COUNCIL MEMBERS crucial.tv Richard Camber, Avi Goldberg, We believe everyone should have the opportunity to experience PR some of the world’s best authors and thinkers. To support those Judith Reinhold, Philip Skelker Anna Arthur on low incomes, we are making a limited number of single tickets THANKS AND CREDIT ARE DUE TO: available to each event at a reduced price. Tickets are available on The volunteers and organisers of CST a first come, first served basis. If you’re currently suffering hardship HON SOLICITORS or are on low income or state support, please contact us for Dechert LLP details of how to apply for a low-income ticket. The tickets are not transferable, and purchases are limited to one ticket per customer. AUDITORS Wilkins Kennedy LLP Email [email protected] PROGRAMME AND WEBSITE DESIGN or call 0207 446 8771 for more details. Creative & Commercial creativeandcommercial.co.uk The Staff at Kings Place and JW3, and all the authors, artists and performers who have contributed to the festival.

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54 55 There may be lots of literary festivals but there is only one glorious Jewish Book Week – the exuberant intensity, the highs of fun and emotion; the flow of thought and passion going back and forth between us lucky writers and the audience – and you don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy every minute! Simon Schama ”

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