h t i w p i h s r e n t r a p n I d n s o d d l c a t i p u s n 9 e o 1 H 0 e r 2 h a t t S n e h l 5 c e b m r 9 a C 9 a z 5 i n l 3 M o E 2 i o d e t t m 4 1 1 n s a a g 3 e n 4 i c h o l m e 6 e y u g b u 4 d a k n h 0 i i o 7 Q E o d b 0 m n s e e i l r h i u h h T e 2 M L T T B S T T LECTURE THEATRE 3 LECTURE THEATRE 2 SEMInAR ROOM 1 SEMInAR ROOM 10 SEMInAR ROOM 12 SEMInAR ROOM 13 BALCOnY AREA Welcome 9:45 – 10:00 Richard Wharton The Working Lives The Hidden Dynamics The Future of Jews Do We Have a Right to of Earlier Generations: Medicine or Magic? SESSIOn OnE Litvak Fiction of the Seder in Europe Damage Ourselves? Jewish Cabinet Makers, How do we Decide? Stephan Collishaw 10:10 -11:10 Clive Lawton Phillip Carmel Elazar Symon 1880-1960 Margaret Jacobi Len Smith COFFEE BREAk Sibling Rivalry: Early Why I Left the Labour The Boy Who Followed Is Israel “A Racist Jewish volunteers Jewish-Christian Can Women Become SESSIOn TWO Party Over His Father into Endeavour”? in the Spanish Civil War Relations and Their Orthodox Rabbis? Antisemitism Auschwitz 11:35 – 12:35 Noru Tsalic Ross Bradshaw Legacy Today Nechama Atlas Ian Austin Jeremy Dronfield Ann Conway –Jones LUnCH Personal Experiences A Lifetime (Mis?)spent Despite Everything, Two Breslau Jews of Antisemitism in the Jewish Architects SESSIOn THREE in Searching Price Still Includes Face the nazis: Willy Cardiac Jews Labour Party After the Bauhaus for Ancestry Biscuits and Ernst Cohn Mendy Lent 13:25 – 14:25 Barry Henley, Ruth Smeeth, Stephen Games Anthony Joseph Naomi Paul Henry Cohn Ella Taylor The Almost Lost Tradition The Civil Rights How Rich They Are: Mental Health and the Conversion to Judaism. Amid Signs of Warming Inside the Ancient of Dazzling Ashkenazi Movement Through SESSIOn FOUR The Life Story Jewish Community Why Make It So Ties, What Prospects for Hebrew kitchen. Hints, Chazanut with Specific the Lens of “Ordinary of Yehuda Amichai Barry Henley, Estelle Rowe, Difficult? Israeli-Gulf Relations? Tips and Recipes 14:35 – 15:35 Modes for Defined… Heroes” David Finlay Alfred White Norman Solomon Anna Kinshuck Angela Donen David Prager Carrie Supple COFFEE BREAk An Imam, a Priest and Our Unknown Brother: Can You Beat Judaism a Rabbi Meet in Shul… Shtetl to Ambridge – The Attack on Free SESSIOn FIvE Roma/Gypsies in Europe Into Your Child? Lior Kaminetsky, Nasir Akhtar, Haimishing the Archers Speech in Israel from 1400 Until Today 16:05 -17:05 Alan Stanton Alison Richards, Muhammad Annette Margolis Anna Roiser & Maya Ilany Margaret Brearley Amin Evans, Gerry Sykes Community Concert 17:15- 18:15 Kol Kinor, Naomi Rowe, Michael Rowe MAP OF THE EDUCATION CENTRE AT THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL Seminar Room 1 Balcony Lift Area Stairs Seminar Room 10 Seminar Lecture Lecture Room Theatre Theatre 12 2 3 Seminar Room 13 Limmud Midlands 2019 1 LIMMUD MIDLANDS 2019 PARTICIPANT’S HANDBOOK Contents Welcome to Limmud Midlands 2019 . 2 Directions to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham . 4 Important Information for the Day . 5 Thank You . 6 Limmud’s Mission Statement . 7 Progra mme Session Information . 8 Presenter Information . 12 Map . inside back cover Session Planner . back cover Limmud 1A Hall Street North Finchley London N12 8DB Tel +44 (0)20 3115 1620 Fax +44 (0)20 8446 0961 Email [email protected] Web www.limmud.org Limmud is a company limited by guarantee in England no. 3903050. Charity Commissioner’s registration no. 1083414. 2 Limmud Midlands 2019 Limmud Midlands 2019 3 WELCOME TO LIMMUD MIDLANDS FROM THE CHAIR OF LIMMUD As the organising team for Limmud Midlands Volunteers form the backbone of any Limmud venture. It is an incredible honour and privilege to wish Limmud’s unique model of volunteer-led, cross- it is a pleasure and privilege to welcome you to the If you want to help Limmud Midlands happen again Limmud Midlands a huge Mazal Tov on what promises communal, multi-generational and transformational Queen Elizabeth Hospital for the second day Limmud then why not volunteer, we would love to have you. to be an inspiring and transformative gathering! Jewish experiences is now truly global and by the end in the Midlands. We hope that you will agree that Limmud Midlands is the result of the passion of 2019 will have taken place on every continent in the So, above all, enjoy the day, and thank you all for we have an interesting and engaging programme, and commitment of a dedicated team of volunteers world – including Antarctica! We invite you to travel your contributions to making Limmud Midlands with something for all tastes. Feel free to follow your and we owe them all a huge thank you. and experience Limmuds in other parts of the UK a great day out. interests, develop new horizons, and be prepared and other countries and parts of the world. Whichever In addition to the Limmud team, we are very grateful to challenge and be challenged. Remember that Limmud you travel to, you will feel right at home. to Richard Wharton and the Chaplaincy team at the at Limmud, there is no audience, everyone is either The Limmud Midlands Team Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for all their a participant or a presenter- and the presenters help enabling this amazing Limmud to happen and are also participants! On a personal note, I spent three wonderful years to the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS being welcomed by the Birmingham community when We are very grateful to the University Hospitals Foundation Trust for providing the venue. I was a student at the University of Birmingham. It Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust who have allowed Thank you also to all those who have worked behind comes as no surprise that such a warm community, us to use their excellent conference facility and in the scenes to support the Limmud Midlands team, together with others including the Nottingham particular to the Chaplaincy team headed by Richard especially Cathy and Nadia, our UK communities’ community where I experienced my first ever Limmud, Wharton for their patience and support. liaisons and our dedicated staff with a special mention have come together to celebrate and inspire so many to Alanna, Max, Jon, Eli, Suzy and Clive. of us at Limmud Midlands. Another thank you is for YOU. You are one of over From the bottom of my heart, thank you everyone 40,000 people who have participated in nearly who has played a part – as volunteer, presenter 90 Limmuds across 42 countries around the world or participant. Limmud is what it is because of you. in the last year. You might even be one of the B’shalom, WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL 4,000 volunteers who make this happen globally. The numbers may be big but we appreciate the part that every one of you has played in building a truly BIRMINGHAM Shoshana Bloom remarkable global Limmud community – one that Global Chair, Limmud University Hospital Birmingham (“UHB”) is delighted people during their visits to hospital. There is a long- started here in the UK nearly forty years ago. to be able to host this Limmud, and on behalf of the established relationship between Chaplaincy at UHB Trust I would like to welcome you here for this and the Jewish community. Yossi Jacobs holds exciting occasion. an Honorary Contract with the Trust and provides an invaluable link with the Jewish community in the city. UHB is one of Europe’s leading hospitals with a proven international reputation for quality of care, information I hope that this day is nourishing and enlightening, technology, clinical education and training and and we look forward to strengthening further the links research. Alongside this reputation, we seek to be that already exist. FROM THE CO-CHAIR OF LIMMUD an organisation that listens well to our patients, staff FESTIVAL 2019 and the local community. Reverend Canon Richard Wharton The Trust employs a group of Chaplains from a diverse The Limmud Midlands and Limmud Festival teams The discount runs from today, 31 March, until Thursday (Chaplaincy Team Leader) cross-section of the city of Birmingham, and although hope that today will inspire you to take part in another 11 April. For more information and to book, go to we come from specific religious traditions, the presence Limmud experience in Birmingham in 2019 – Limmud https://events.limmud.org/limmud-festival-2019/apply, and support we offer is not limited to people who Festival. We are delighted to offer Limmud Midlands or call the office on 020 3115 1620 (Monday – Thursday are religious. We understand that there are times participants a special local discount. Since Limmud 9am-5pm). when we all need a compassionate, listening ear, Festival takes place right here in Birmingham, day We look forward to seeing you there! and we are frequently called upon to be alongside and non-residential places are ideal options, which you can secure now with prices frozen at the 2018 early bird discount rate! Dan Heller Co-Chair Limmud Festival 2019 4 Limmud Midlands 2019 Limmud Midlands 2019 5 DIRECTIONS TO THE QUEEN ELIZABETH IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE DAY HOSPITAL BIRMINGHAM (QE) Arrival and Badges Lunch and Refreshments By Train From the M6/M1 You can arrive any time after 09:00 .