#JBW2021 is here!

[Jewish Book Week]

Talks, Q&As, panels and debates online wherever you are until the end of March

https://jewishbookweek.com/

With an amazing 12,000 streaming tickets already sold we begin Jewish Book Week 2021! Tonight Jay Rayner & Pen Vogler (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/fresse-food-with-the-experts/) is followed by Norman Lebrecht on Mahler (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/mahler-and-his-faith/) , then 50+ online events about art, current affairs, faith, film, history, language, literature, nature, poetry and much more - all available to watch live or until the end of March, with individual tickets (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/) or our great value Festival Pass (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/2021-festival-pass/)
To watch events on KPlayer log in with the email address & password you used to book here: Log In | Kings Place (https://shop.kingsplace.co.uk/account/login?ReturnUrl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.kingsplace.co.uk%2fkplayer%2fmy-list%2f) . This takes you direct to your upcoming events list where you can watch live or anytime after the live broadcast until 31 March. If you have bought a Sunday Pass or Festival Pass (https://link.edgepilot.com/s/a0b7bc48/CCut9w6T3Em3-cMuNBlLKQ?u=https://jewishbookweek.com/main-home-page/download-the-full-programme-here/buy-festival-passes/)  you don't need to make any further selection as all included events will be shown.
View the full line-up and book (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)
TOMORROW AT JEWISH BOOK WEEK
https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/

#JBW2021 day 2 begins in the morning with Rescuing Jewish Culture (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/rescuing-jewish-culture/)  and Hermione Lee (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/tom-stoppard-a-life/) , followed by Jewish Pride (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jewish-pride/) , Delphine Horvilleur & Philippe Sands (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/making-sense-of-hatred/) , David Pryce-Jones & Frederic Raphael (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/david-pryce-jones-frederic-raphael/) , German Jerusalem (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/german-jerusalem/)  and Ruth Wisse & Anthony Julius (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jews-and-power/) , Then in the evening we have Liipika Pelham (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/identity-an-alternative-history/) , What Are Jews For? (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/what-are-jews-for/)  and The Middle East: A New Era (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-middle-east-a-new-era/)

Coming up over the next nine days
YESHIVA DAYS, TUES, 6PM
Cornell professor Jonathan Boyarin joins us live from New York to discuss the year he spent as student and observer at the city's oldest yeshiva, located on East Broadway.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/yeshiva-days/)
TAKING LIBERTIES, WED 12PM
Jewish Renaissance's Aviva Dautch and 100 Lockdown Sonnets author 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/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/kosher-poker/

KOSHER POKER, TUES 7.15PM
Closer playwright & Leopoldstadt director Patrick Marber made poker a key element of his debut Dealer’s Choice. President of the United States Poker Federation Peter Alson has won acclaim for his non-fiction and his novel The Only Way To Play It. They join journalist Shelley Rubenstein to discuss the game's links with writing and Jews.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/kosher-poker/)

THE HOUSE OF FRAGILE THINGS, WED, 1.30PM GMT
The Washington Post's James Macauley looks at Jewish art collectors and the fall of France
REGISTER FOR FREE (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-house-of-fragile-things/)
HIDDEN HERETICS, WED, 6PM
Ayala Fader talks to Adam Taub about the Orthodox Jews in New York who explore forbidden secular worlds in person and online.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/hidden-heretics/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/is-cancel-culture-attacking-our-liberties/

LIONEL SHRIVER,
THURS, 7.15PM
A late addition to the festival sees the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Mandibles in conversation with Sunday Telegraph columnist and author Zoe Strimpel. They will discuss her career to date and give a preview of her next novel which sees a married couple in their 80s facing 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/)

JACOB'S ADVICE, TUES 12PM
Byron Easy author Jude Cook discusses his latest novel, set amid a rise in nationalism and antisemitism in Paris, with Marina Benjamin.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jacobs-advice/)
JOURNEYS TO FREEDOM, FRIDAY 12PM
A look at the Jewish exodus from Europe before, during and after the war, chaired by Julia Neuberger.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/journeys-to-freedom/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jews-dont-count/

DAVID BADDIEL,
6 MARCH, 8.15PM GMT
The comedian and broadcaster joins TLS politics editor Toby Lichtig to discuss one of 2021's most talked-about books, current Sunday Times bestseller Jews Don't Count. With his unique combination of polemic, personal experience and jokes he outlines why and how, in a time of intensely heightened awareness of minorities, Jews are being left out.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jews-dont-count/)

https://jewishbookweek.com/event/feline-philosophy/

FELINE PHILOSOPHY
7 MARCH, 8PM GMT
Philosopher John Gray, bestselling author of Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, joins Marina Vaizey to discuss his latest book, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life. He draws on centuries of thought, including Descartes, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Schrodinger, to explore the complex and intimate links that have defined how we react to and behave with this most unlikely pet – to give us a sense of our own animal nature.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/feline-philosophy/)

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

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