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Join us for 50+ talks, Q&As, panels and debates online this month and next

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With a fortnight until Jewish Book Week 2021 begins, we're excited to announce three extra events - added to our best value Festival Pass (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/2021-festival-pass/)  alongside 50+ talks, Q&As, panels & debates including David Baddiel, Delphine Horvilleur, Jay Rayner, Elif Shafak & Jonathan Freedland - as well as available to book individually below
View our full line-up and book (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)
EXTRA EVENTS JUST ANNOUNCED!
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-pandemic-the-nhs-and-me-michael-rosen-and-rachel-clarke/

THE PANDEMIC, THE NHS & ME
24 MARCH, 7PM GMT
Two bestselling writers who experienced the Coronavirus crisis first hand, as patient and doctor. Michael Rosen, who spent six weeks in an induced coma, shares stunning new poems and the moving diaries of the doctors & nurses who saved his life in Many Different Kinds of Love. Dr Rachel Clarke follows the acclaimed Dear Life with Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a time of pandemic, her unflinching but hopeful account of her time on the Covid-19 wards.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-pandemic-the-nhs-and-me-michael-rosen-and-rachel-clarke/)

MATTHEW d'ANCONA: IDENTITY, IGNORANCE, INNOVATION
16 MARCH, 7PM
Matthew d'Ancona joins us to mark the publication of his latest book, a call-to-arms subtitled Why the old politics is useless & what to do about it.  The former Spectator editor invites us to think afresh, away from the assumption that after Brexit, Trump and the pandemic that things will ‘go back to normal’.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/matthew-dancona-identity-ignorance-innovation/)
LOUIS JACOBS: REASON TO BELIEVE
18 MARCH, 8PM
Richard Bolchover, Rabbi Michael Harris & Harry Freedman discuss the life & legacy of the rabbi at the centre of one of the biggest schisms in Anglo-Jewish history, the runaway winner of the Jewish Chronicle’s Greatest British Jew poll, who went on to serve the New London Synagogue for over three decades.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/louis-jacobs-life-legacy/)
We continue our look at highlights from the online line-up, with history, literature, poker, politics & more from 27 February - 7 March
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/david-pryce-jones-frederic-raphael/

DAVID PRYCE-JONES & FREDERIC RAPHAEL
28 FEB, 3PM GMT
Two wonderful writers team up to take us through a lifetime of literary encounters. In Signatures David Pryce-Jones offers insights into the extraordinary authors he has met over the last eight decades; from visiting Isaiah Berlin as a child to meeting Muriel Spark, Arthur Koestler, Saul Bellow and many more. He will be in conversation with author & Oscar-winning screenwriter Frederic Raphael.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/david-pryce-jones-frederic-raphael/)

JEWS AND POWER
28 FEBRUARY 5.30PM
Historian Ruth R. Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power, from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords. In conversation with lawyer & author Anthony Julius.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jews-and-power/)
KOSHER POKER
2 MARCH 7.15PM
Shelly Rubenstein is joined by playwright Patrick Marber & US Poker Federation president Peter Alson for a discussion of the card game long associated with both writers & the Jewish community.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/kosher-poker/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/hidden-heretics/

HIDDEN HERETICS
3 MARCH, 6PM GMT
What if openly questioning your religious faith would mean losing your family & the only way of life you have ever known? Mitzvah Girls author Ayala Fader tells the fascinating & often heart-wrenching stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York who surreptitiously explore forbidden secular worlds in person & online. The anthropology professor discusses her five years of fieldwork with Adam Taub.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/hidden-heretics/)

MODERN JEWISH LITERATURE
2 MARCH 8.30PM
In The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People & Their Books in the Twentieth Century Adam Kirsch looks at writers from Kafka to Kushner. He is joined here by award-laden novelists Dara Horn & Howard Jacobson for a discussion of writing that changed the world.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/modern-jewish-literature/)
THE DISUNITED STATES
7 MARCH 9.15PM
After the tumultuous tenure of Trump, what is next for America? After a year marked by the pandemic and protests Observer columnist Nick Cohen is joined by novelist Lionel Shriver & politics professor Angelia Wilson to discuss what the years ahead might bring.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-disunited-states/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/a-human-history-of-the-oceans/

A HUMAN HISTORY OF THE OCEANS, 5 MARCH, 10.30AM
Seas & oceans have been pivotal to the spread of ideas & religion since the Polynesians in the first century - and still account for 90% of global trade. Wolfson History prize winner David Abulafia joins Sam Leith to discuss our relationship with the bodies of water that surround us.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/a-human-history-of-the-oceans/)

View the festival brochure (https://jewishbookweek.com/main-home-page/download-the-full-programme-here/)
>From our friends at UK Jewish Film
https://ukjewishfilm.org/film/your-honor/

Don't miss the gripping, original Israeli TV series Your Honor only on UK Jewish Film On Demand. A dark, character-driven watch about a once-honest judge forced to shed his morals in order to protect his son. Find out more and rent the box-set: ukjewishfilm.org/film/your-honor/

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