Politics, prose, poetry, plagues & prejudice

[Jewish Book Week]

Events online wherever you are and a return to in-person in June

https://jewishbookweek.com/

Another absorbing addition to our spring season, plus register now for next week's free event (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-golden-rule/) with novelist Amanda Craig
Upcoming Jewish Book Week events (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)
JUST ANNOUNCED:
NATAN SHARANSKY, 20 MAY, 6.30PM BST
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/never-alone-prison-politics-and-my-people/

>From years in harsh solitary confinement as a Soviet political prisoner to serving in four successive Israeli governments and receiving the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the former Jewish Agency head's memoir Never Alone is a classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.

Live from Israel he is joined by his co-author, award-wining historian Gil Troy and Jewish Chronicle columnist Miriam Shaviv for a discussion of his extraordinary life and career.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/never-alone-prison-politics-and-my-people/)

THE GOLDEN RULE, TUESDAY, 7PM BST
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-golden-rule/

The Lie of the Land author & former Times children's book critic Amanda Craig joins Samantha Ellis to discuss her latest  Women's Prize longlisted novel and career to date.
REGISTER FOR THIS FREE ONLINE EVENT (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-golden-rule/)

PLAGUE & PREJUDICE, 9 MAY, 7PM BST
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/plague-and-prejudice/

To mark the relaunch of The Jewish Quarterly, this special online event sees Julia Neuberger joined by House of Glass author Hadley Freeman on the Holocaust family memoirs of Esther Safran Foer & Arianna Neumann and Simon Schama on the relationship between antisemitism and scientific scepticism.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/plague-and-prejudice/)

FROM OUR VIDEO ARCHIVE: BETWEEN THE LINES
https://vimeo.com/260881538
One of the mentors for the Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers' Programme (https://jewishbookweek.com/genesis-jewish-book-week-emerging-writers-programme/)  is poet Sophie Herxheimer, who joined Bidisha, Ros Schwartz & Cécile Menon for this 2018 event on the relationship between writer, translator and reader.

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