David Baddiel, Elif Shafak & more still to come

[Jewish Book Week]

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

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On Sunday we have another packed online line-up with Rob Rinder, David Thomson, Eva Hoffman, Bryan Cheyette, Gary Younge, Tom Bower, Lionel Shriver, Richard Evans, Nick Cohen & many more, available as individual tickets (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/) , our Sunday Pass (https://shop.kingsplace.co.uk/26381/26398)  or our best value Festival Pass (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/2021-festival-pass/) . And before that we have five fantastic events today & tomorrow!
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TODAY AT JEWISH BOOK WEEK
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/a-human-history-of-the-oceans/

A HUMAN HISTORY OF THE OCEANS, 10.30AM GMT
90% of global trade is still conducted via bodies of water, which have also been pivotal to the spread of ideas and religion since the first century. Wolfson History Prize winner David Abulafia joins Sam Leith to discuss our relationship with the seas & oceans that surround us.
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https://jewishbookweek.com/event/journeys-to-freedom/

JOURNEYS TO FREEDOM, 12PM
Julia Neuberger hosts a discussion of the Jewish exodus from Europe before, during and after the war. In Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and The Flight from Nazism 1933-1945, Joanna Newman reveals the little-known story of Jewish refugees making their way to Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad. And in The People on the Beach Rosie Whitehouse charts the 1946 journey of 1,000 Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy.
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https://jewishbookweek.com/event/love-in-wartime/

LOVE IN WARTIME, 1.30PM FREE ON FACEBOOK (https://www.facebook.com/jewishbookweek)
The Holocaust remains a subject difficult to grasp and almost impossible to document. Award-winning photographer Max Hirshfeld searched for decades for the right way to share his Auschwitz survivor parents’ story of love and perseverance before, during and after. The result was Sweet Noise and he is joined this afternoon by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Chief White House Domestic Policy Advisor to Jimmy Carter, who contributed an essay to the book.
Still to come at Jewish Book Week
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/how-to-stay-sane/

ELIF SHAFAK: HOW TO STAY SANE, TOMORROW 6.45PM GMT
TED speaker & activist Elif Shafak , Booker-nominated last year for 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World joins Mark Lawson with her concise and urgent call for conscious optimism in the age of division How To Stay Sane In An Age Of Division.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/how-to-stay-sane/)

https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jews-dont-count/

DAVID BADDIEL: JEWS DON'T COUNT, TOMORROW 8.15PM GMT
Those who think themselves on the right side of history often ignore the history of antisemitism, Baddiel argues in his bestselling combination of reasoning, polemic, personal experience and jokes. In conversation with Toby Lichtig live from Kings Place.
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 PLANTS, SUN, 4.15PM
Environmentalist Jonathan Drori takes us from the seemingly familiar tomato & dandelion to the eerie mandrake, the Spanish ‘moss’ of Louisiana and beyond!
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/around-the-world-in-80-plants/)
IDENTITY, IGNORANCE, INNOVATION, 16 MARCH 7PM
Matthew d'Ancona joins us with his call for new ways of  challenging political extremism, bombastic populism and democratic torpor on both Left and Right.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/matthew-dancona-identity-ignorance-innovation/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-pandemic-the-nhs-and-me-michael-rosen-and-rachel-clarke/

THE PANDEMIC, THE NHS AND ME, 24 MARCH, 7PM GMT
 Michael Rosen spent much of 2020 in hospital suffering from Coronavirus and Many Different Kinds of Love mixes stunning new prose poems with the moving diaries of the NHS staff who saved his life. Dear Life author Dr Rachel Clarke gives an unflinching but hopeful account of her time on the Covid-19 wards in Breathtaking. They will be in conversation with  Jewish Renaissance editor  Rebecca Taylor.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-pandemic-the-nhs-and-me-michael-rosen-and-rachel-clarke/)

Our independent bookselling partner Blackwell's has created a special Jewish Book Week online shop (https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/collection/Jewish_Book_Week_2021/-186865) with books from this year's authors, with significant savings on most titles
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