Rob Rinder, Gary Younge, Lionel Shriver, Tom Bower & more today

[Jewish Book Week]

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

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It's the last of nine event-packed days of Jewish Book Week 2021; after 10 today (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)  we are back later this month for three more festival events: Matthew d'Ancona (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/matthew-dancona-identity-ignorance-innovation/)  on 16 March, Louis Jacobs: Life & Legacy (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/louis-jacobs-life-legacy/)  on 18 March and Michael Rosen & Rachel Clarke (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-pandemic-the-nhs-and-me-michael-rosen-and-rachel-clarke/) on 24 March. All can be booked as individual tickets (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)  or with our Festival Pass (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/2021-festival-pass/)  and 30+ events from the festival so far remain available to book and watch on demand on KPlayer (https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/kplayer/category/jewish-book-week/)
View the full line-up and book (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)
TODAY AT JEWISH BOOK WEEK
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/survivors/

SURVIVORS, SUNDAY, 10AM GMT
James Libson is joined this morning by broadcaster Rob Rinder & '45 Aid Society chair Angela Cohen from the acclaimed BBC1 series My Family, The Holocaust and Me and historian Rebecca Clifford, author of Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/survivors/)

GEORGE STEINER: A CELEBRATION, 11.15AM
David Herman is joined by Eva Hoffman & Bryan Cheyette for a discussion of the esteemed literary critic who died last year aged 90.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/george-steiner-a-celebration/)
THE THIRD REICH & PARANOID IMAGINATION, 12.30PM
Hitler Conspiracies author Sir Richard Evans discusses with historian Trudy Gold five discredited but increasingly popular theories
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/paranoia-in-the-third-reich/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-ghetto/

THE GHETTO, 1.45PM
The ghetto has accrued numerous contrasting and complex meanings; from the heart of Jewish culture in late medieval Western Europe to the ghettoisation of African-Americans. Edie Friedman is joined by Bryan Cheyette & Guardian journalist Gary Younge.
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https://jewishbookweek.com/event/david-thomson-movie-directors/

DAVID THOMSON: MOVIE DIRECTORS, 3PM
>From the silent cinema of DW Griffith to the binge-worthy boxsets of Breaking Bad's Michelle McLaren, the man sen by many as the greatest living writer on film looks at over a century of directors, including Hitchcock, Renoir, Welles, Godard, Tarantino, Scorsese and many more, in conversation with the Film Programme's Francine Stock. BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/david-thomson-movie-directors/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/around-the-world-in-80-plants/

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 PLANTS, 4.15PM GMT
>From the seemingly familiar tomato and dandelion to the eerie mandrake and Spanish ‘moss’ of Louisiana, each story is full of surprises in the latest book from
environmentalist Jonathan Drori, author of the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/around-the-world-in-80-plants/)

PRINCE OF THE PRESS,
5.30PM GMT
Stony Brook's Joshua Teplitsky & the National Library of Israel’s Dr Raquel Ukeles discuss the unparalleled collection of over 8,000 Jewish books and manuscripts, collected by Prague rabbi David Oppenheim 300 years ago.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/prince-of-the-press/)
BORIS JOHNSON: THE GAMBLER, 6.45PM GMT
After Robert Maxwell, Tony Blair & Prince Charles, investigative journalist & biographer  Tom Bower has turned  his focus to the present Prime Minister and tonight talks to Matthew d'Ancona, who succeeded Johnson as Spectator editor.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/boris-johnson-the-gambler/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/feline-philosophy/

FELINE PHILOSOPHY, 8.30PM
"When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her"’ asked Montaigne back in the Renaissance. Present-day philosopher and Straw Dogs author John Gray joins Marina Vaizey to discuss his latest book, subtitled Cats and the Meaning of Life, drawing on centuries of thought, including Descartes, 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.
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https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-disunited-states/

THE DISUNITED STATES, 9.15PM
After a year marked by the pandemic, protests and the largest voter turnout since 1900 for an election which resulted in the oldest president ever to take office and the first female vice-president, what next for the US? Nick Cohen is joined by Lionel Shriver & Angelia Wilson to discuss past, present and future.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT NOW (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-disunited-states/)

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