New event and free series unveiled

[Jewish Book Week]

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

https://jewishbookweek.com/

With the first online Jewish Book Week starting next weekend, a reminder that our our best value Festival Pass (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/2021-festival-pass/)  allows you to watch to all events from 27 February to the end of March, live or in your own time. There is something for everybody with speakers include Gary Younge, Rachel Clarke, Howard Jacobson, Tom Bower, Miri Eisen, Rob Rinder & many more, with all events also available to book individually (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/) . And below we have details on an exciting new addition to the programme and this year's free events
View the full line-up and book (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)
JUST ANNOUNCED
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/is-cancel-culture-attacking-our-liberties/

LIONEL SHRIVER IN CONVERSATION WITH ZOE STRIMPEL 4 MARCH, 7.15PM GMT
The Orange Prize winning novelist behind We Need to Talk About Kevin & The Mandible joins columnist & author Zoe Strimpel to discuss her career to date, her latest book The Motion Of The Body Through Space -described as “scabrously funny” byThe Guardian - plus a first look at Should We Stay or Should We Go, to be published in June, as a married couple in their 80s face the realities of a decades-old pact to avoid the ignominies of ageing.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/is-cancel-culture-attacking-our-liberties/)

REGISTER FOR OUR FREE EVENTS
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-language-of-thieves/?qur=YTo0OntzOjY6InNlYXJjaCI7czowOiIiO3M6MzoiY2F0IjtzOjA6IiI7czo0OiJzb3J0IjtzOjM6IkFTQyI7czo2OiJyZWZpbmUiO3M6MDoiIjt9

Tonight on Facebook join us for Eduard Shyfrin with Rabbi Mendel Cohen (https://www.facebook.com/events/494464478618893) , then from 1-5 March our free events, all at 1.30pm GMT, are: Dr Yoel Finkelman on the National Library of Israel's collections (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/travel-yearnings/) ; Martin Puchner & Natasha Lehrer on the secret code of Rotwelsch (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-language-of-thieves/) ; Simon Wiesenthal Centre director Efraim Zuroff & Rūta Vanagaitė on Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/lithuanias-hidden-holocaust/?qur=YTo0OntzOjY6InNlYXJjaCI7czowOiIiO3M6MzoiY2F0IjtzOjA6IiI7czo0OiJzb3J0IjtzOjM6IkFTQyI7czo2OiJyZWZpbmUiO3M6MDoiIjt9) . The Washington Post's James McAuley on Jewish art collectors and the fall of France (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-house-of-fragile-things/) ; and Max Hirshfeld shares his parents' story before, during and after Auschwitz in Love in Wartime
(https://jewishbookweek.com/event/love-in-wartime/?qur=YTo0OntzOjY6InNlYXJjaCI7czowOiIiO3M6MzoiY2F0IjtzOjA6IiI7czo0OiJzb3J0IjtzOjM6IkFTQyI7czo2OiJyZWZpbmUiO3M6MDoiIjt9) .

Coming up at Jewish Book Week: Plays, plants, paranoia & pride
ELIF SHAFAK, 6 MARCH 6.45PM
After 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World Elif returns to non-fiction with How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division. In conversation with broadcaster Mark Lawson.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/how-to-stay-sane/)
JEWISH PRIDE, 28 FEB 12.30PM
Making waves upon its publication this week, educator Ben M. Freeman discusses his call-to-arms, Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, with CST head of policy & author Dave Rich.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jewish-pride/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/tom-stoppard-a-life/

TOM STOPPARD: A LIFE
28 FEB, 11.15AM GMT
One of the most admired biographers in the English-speaking world takes on one of its greatest living playwrights. Hermione Lee was given unprecedented access to the Leopolstadt and Jumpers writer's private papers and diaries, as well as speaking to figures including Stephen Spielberg, Felicity Kendal and John Boorman. A former Booker Prize chair, here she is in conversation with the Booker Foundation’s current chair, former Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/tom-stoppard-a-life/)

IDENTITY: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY, 28 FEB, 6.45M
A slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom; 170 years later a black rights activist is ‘cancelled’ for denying her whiteness. Passing author & award-winning BBC filmmaker Lipika Pelham discusses identity with Matthew Stadlen.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/identity-an-alternative-history/)
WHAT ARE JEWS FOR?
28 FEB, 8PM
The special status as God’s ‘chosen people’ has been understood in many different ways over the centuries. Adam Sutcliffe looks at Western thinking on the purpose of the Jewish people from the 17th century to the future, in conversation with Rabbi Joseph Dweck.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/what-are-jews-for/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/why-do-jews-love-the-godfather/

WHY DO JEWS LOVE THE GODFATHER?
3 MARCH, 8.30PM GMT
Jonathan Freedland is joined by Rich Cohen, author of Tough Jews & co-creator with Martin Scorsese of HBO's Vinyl, and Harlan Lebo, whose The Godfather Legacy was the official companion book, to discuss the enduring appeal of the trilogy adapted from Mario Puzo's novel.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/why-do-jews-love-the-godfather/)

GEORGE STEINER:
A CELEBRATION
7 MARCH 11.15AM
David Herman is joined by Eva Hoffman & Bryan Cheyette for a discussion of the legacy of one of the great literary critics, who over half a century explored the impact of the Shoah on modern culture and the relationship between language, literature and society.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/george-steiner-a-celebration/)
THE THIRD REICH & THE PARANOID IMAGINATION
7 MARCH 12.30PM
One of the world's leading authorities on Nazi Germany, in The Hitler Conspiracies Richard J. Evans scrutinises five long discredited but increasingly popular claims, including Churchill suppressing peace terms and  a bunker escape to South America
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/paranoia-in-the-third-reich/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/around-the-world-in-80-plants/

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 PLANTS, 7 MARCH, 4.15PM GMT
After a full-house talk at Jewish Book Week 2020, Around the World in 80 Trees environmentalist Jonathan Drori brings to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/around-the-world-in-80-plants/)

View the festival brochure (https://jewishbookweek.com/main-home-page/download-the-full-programme-here/)

============================================================
** Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jewishbookweek)
** Twitter (https://twitter.com/JewishBookWeek)
** Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/jewishbookweek/)
** Website (jewishbookweek.com)
Copyright © 2021 Jewish Book Week, All rights reserved.
 You are receiving this email as a supporter of Jewish Book Week

Our mailing address is:
Jewish Book Week
ORT House, 126 Albert Street
London, England NW1 7NE
United Kingdom
Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can ** update your preferences (https://jewishbookweek.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=afc6346993e8da54250d4cd30&id=a8591d1fb6&e=9da8a37a61&c=320c5be8e8)
or ** unsubscribe from this list (https://jewishbookweek.us6.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=afc6346993e8da54250d4cd30&id=a8591d1fb6&e=9da8a37a61&c=320c5be8e8)
.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://heinrich.co.uk/pipermail/family_heinrich.co.uk/attachments/20210218/f9938009/attachment.htm>