Events for everyone at Jewish Book Week online

[Jewish Book Week]

Talks, Q&As, panels and debates this month and next

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Ahead of the first fully online Jewish Book Week from 27 February - 7 March we have four fantastic pre-festival events this month. As part of our Gamechangers series we have Wall Street & JFK director Oliver Stone (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/chasing-the-light/)  this Monday and Shlomo Avineri on Karl Mark (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/karl-marx-philosophy-and-revolution-2/)  next week, plus two talks suitable for all-ages, starting tomorrow with Michael Rosen (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/on-the-move/)  followed by a free event with Eduard Shyfrin (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/travels-with-sushi-in-the-land-of-the-mind/) on 18 February
View the full line-up and book (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/
Festival highlights
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/mahler-and-his-faith/

MAHLER AND HIS FAITH
27 FEB, 8.15PM GMT
Does it matter what a composer believes? Or how deeply? In the case of Gustav Mahler the evidence has been muddied by interested parties. Raised in a traditional Jewish family, he married outside the faith, converted to Christianity to become head of the Vienna Opera and was buried by a Catholic priest. Norman Lebrecht uses new research and personal discoveries to present a lecture, with musical illustrations, on how Jewish Mahler really was – or wasn’t.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/mahler-and-his-faith/)

RESCUING JEWISH CULTURE
28 FEB, 10AM
The astonishing efforts of scholars & activists to rescue Nazi-looted cultural treasures from 19 European countries after the war and return them to their rightful owners is brought to life in A Mortuary of Books by Elizabeth Gallas who joins George Prochnik to discuss.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/rescuing-jewish-culture/)
THE MIDDLE EAST: A NEW ERA 28 FEB, 9.15PM
Everything we thought we knew about Israel is changing: values, relationships with Arab neighbours, the secular-religious divide, demographics and the economy. Raphael Marcus is joined by Miri Eisen & Anshel Pfeffer to ask what the future holds.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-middle-east-a-new-era/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/oliver-kamm-mending-the-mind/

MENDING THE MIND
1 MARCH, 12PM GMT
Over a fifth of the UK's population report symptoms of depression or anxiety.Times leader writer Oliver Kamm joins Spectator assistant editor Isabel Hardman to discuss how much we really know about the condition and ways to treat it.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/oliver-kamm-mending-the-mind/)

TAKING LIBERTIES: JEWISH WOMEN POETS, 3 MARCH 12PM
>From Bible stories to re-envisioning the work of great artists, Aviva Dautch & Jacqueline Saphra explore, with conversation and readings, what it means to be a Jewish woman poet.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/taking-liberties-jewish-women-poets/)
CITIES OF STRANGERS
4 MARCH 10.30AM
Miri Rubin joins fellow historian Dominic Selwood to illuminate life in European cities from 1000-1500 AD, a benign cycle of settled populations and newcomers that was then challenged by the plague.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/cities-of-strangers/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jews-dont-count/

DAVID BADDIEL: JEWS DON'T COUNT, 6 MARCH, 8.15PM GMT
Those who think themselves on the right side of history often ignore antisemitism, argues David Baddiel with his unique combination of polemic, personal experience and jokes. He joins Toby Lichtig of the Times Literary Supplement to outline why and how, in a time of intensely heightened awareness of minorities, Jews don’t count – and why they should.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jews-dont-count/)
KNOWLEDGE UNDER ATTACK
3 MARCH 7.15PM
In Burning the Books, Bodleian Library director Richard Ovenden looks at the destruction of knowledge over the last two and a half millennia. In conversation with author & former Times literary editor Erica Wagner.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/knowledge-under-attack/)
HEINRICH HEINE: POET, WRITER, CRITIC, 4 MARCH 12PM
George Prochnik on the virtuoso German satirist and humanist, ripe for rediscovery on issues including social justice and the role of art in nurturing a more equitable society. With Jewish Review of Books editor Abraham Socher.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/heinrich-heine-poet-writer-critic/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/survivors/

SURVIVORS, 7 MARCH, 10AM
The powerful BBC1 series My Family, The Holocaust and Me featured both Rob Rinder and his mother Angela Cohen who here join Rebecca Clifford, author of Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust, a beautifully written account of 100 Jewish children out of the ruins of conflict, in a conversation chaired by former World Jewish Relief chair James Libson.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/survivors/)

As well as individual tickets (£9.50-12.50 plus free events each weekday at 1.30pm) you can save by purchasing one of our Festival Passes (https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/jewish-book-week/) . A Sunday Pass for28 February (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/sunday-28-february-digital-pass/) or 7 March (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/sunday-7-march-festival-pass/)  is £65, while for best value theFestival Pass (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/2021-festival-pass/)   (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/2021-festival-pass/) gives you access to all 46 paid-for events for £125, available to watch both live and until the end of March
View the festival brochure (https://jewishbookweek.com/main-home-page/download-the-full-programme-here/)
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