One week to go: Howard Jacobson, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Wendy Joseph & many more

Sat Feb 18 18:31:08 GMT 2023

80+ events in-person & online, 25 February - 5 March including Shalom Auslander, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Philippe Sands, Adam Gopnik, Dani Shapiro & more

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Just one week until our biggest festival yet begins: 80+ talks, performances & conversations live in London & online wherever you are, featuring Shalom Auslander, Dani Shapiro, John Lahr, Hadley Freeman, Simon Callow, Helena Kennedy & many more. See our day-by-day guide below
VIEW THE FULL LINE-UP & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)

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On Sundays 26 February & 5 March at Kings Place we have our biggest programme yet of free Fringe events, from a graphic novel masterclass (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/graphic-novel-masterclass/) to a pop-up Tsittsit Jewish Fringe Festival (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/tsitsit-fringe-at-jewish-book-week/) , via the Beatles' hairdresser (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-beatles-hairdresser/) , the Kindertransport (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/refugees-and-rescuers/) and much more

JEWISH BOOK WEEK 2023 DAY BY DAY
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Our 72nd festival begins with
Howard Jacobson & Shalom Auslander (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/shalom-auslander-howard-jacobson/)  at 7.15PM, followed by Pop Starts (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/pop-starts-bob-stanley-graham-gouldman/)  at 8.30PM, with musicians Bob Stanley & Graham Gouldman on the era of Sinatra, Gershwin & more. Then #JBW2023
night one closes with What Future for American Jews? (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/what-future-for-american-jews/)  and Simon
Schama, Zoe Strimpel, Abraham Socher & Jake Wallis Simons.

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Our first Sunday features 28 events, starting at 11AM with Philippe Sands & Helena Kennedy (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-last-colony/) , Britain's Jews (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/britains-jews/) & Comic Books: Where Life Is More Absurd Than Art (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/comic-books-where-life-is-more-absurd-than-art/) . Other highlights include Simon Sebag Montefiore (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/simon-sebag-montefiore-the-world/) , Muppets in Moscow (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/muppets-in-moscow/) , Rebecca Abrams on Licoricia (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/licoricia-power-prejudice/)  & Murder at the Old Bailey (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/murder-at-the-old-bailey/) .
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/barbaric-verses/

Our online series starts on Monday 27 February with The Disrupted Mind (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-disrupted-mind/) , the first of our free 10.30AM events, followed in the afternoon by Jews and the Diamond Trade (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jews-and-the-diamond-trade/)  and Bad Jews: American Jewish Politics & Identities (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/bad-jews-american-jewish-politics-identities/) . In the evening there's Adam Gopnik: The Mystery of Mastery (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/adam-gopnik-the-mystery-of-mastery/) and The Abraham Accords (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-abraham-accords/) with Jason Greenblatt, Dahlia Scheindlin & David Horovitz.

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We start day 4 with a trio of online events: The Future Face of the Jewish State (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-future-face-of-the-jewish-state/) , Meir Kahane: Jewish Radical (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/meir-kahane-jewish-radical/) and Goodbye Eastern Europe (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/goodbye-eastern-europe/) . Then we have an evening at Kings Place, starting at 7PM with Norman Lebrecht on Beethoven (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/norman-lebrecht-on-beethoven/) , featuring pianist Daniel Lebhardt, and Landscapes of Silence (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/landscapes-of-silence/) with Hugh Brody & Juliet Stevenson. Then at 8.30PM historian Bernard Wasserstein joins David Aaronovitch to discuss A Small Town in Ukraine (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/a-small-town-in-ukraine/) , praised this week by the Guardian & the Times, and the special musical performance Barbaric Verses (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/barbaric-verses/) with bass-baritone Mark Glanville &
pianist Marc Verter.
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On Wednesday 1 March we are online with five events: A Guide for the Jewish Undecided (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/a-guide-for-the-jewish-undecided/) with rabbis Samuel Lebens & Raphael Zarum; Golda Meir's Path to Power (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/golda-meirs-path-to-power/) ; international bestseller Dani Shapiro in conversation with Mia Levitin (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/dani-shapiro-signal-fires/) ; Pulitzer-winning historian David Kertzer on The Pope at War: Pius XII, Mussolini & Hitler (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-pope-at-war-pius-xii-mussolini-hitler/) ; and The Object of Jewish Literature (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-object-of-jewish-literature/) .

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A busy day 6 of #JBW2023 begins with Hannah Arendt & Isaiah Berlin: The Feud (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/hannah-arendt-and-isaiah-berlin-the-feud/) , followed by two more daytime online events: Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/mel-brooks/) and the story of survivor Stella Levi in One Hundred Saturdays (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/one-hundred-saturdays/) . Then we have a full evening at Kings Place: At 7PM we have former Arsenal co-owner David Dein (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/david-dein/)  in conversation with FT columnist Stephen Bush, Translating Soviet Literature (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/translating-soviet-literature/) and Why We Sing (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/why-we-sing-julia-hollander/) ; followed at 8.30PM by Allan Corduner & cellist Gemma Rosefield in Precious Goods (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/precious-goods/) , Come To This Court & Cry (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/come-to-this-court-cry/) and an hour of poetry
(https://jewishbookweek.com/event/lost-loved-left-poetry-spoken-word/) with Sarah Blake, Rachel Long, Jeremy Robson & more.
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On our second Saturday we celebrate the work of Oliver Sacks and two playwrights inspired by his book Awakenings with special commission Case Histories: Sacks, Pinter & Friel  (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/case-histories-to-drama-sacks-pinter-friel/) with a star cast including Geraldine James, David Rintoul, Monica Dolan, Tom Goodman Hill & Mark Bazeley, followed by a post-show discussion on all three writers chaired by Mark Lawson. Then, in a late addition to the programme, Israel: A Fragile Democracy? (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/israel-a-fragile-democracy/) sees Julia Neuberger joined by Jonathan Freedland, Simon Schama, Natasha Hausdorff & Anthony Julius to discuss proposed changes to the judicial system and the large-scale protests they have sparked.
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This year's festival comes to a close with a packed second Sunday at Kings Place. Highlights across five rooms include John Lahr & Nicholas Hytner on Arthur Miller (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/john-lahr-nicholas-hytner-on-arthur-miller/) , Orlando Figes with The Story of Russia (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-story-of-russia-orlando-figes/) , Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/philanthropy-from-aristotle-to-zuckerberg/) ,  Joanna's Story: Read by Janet Suzman (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/joannas-story-read-by-janet-suzman/) , Bill Browder: Surviving Putin (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/bill-browder-surviving-putin/) , The Collaborators: Deception & Survival in WWII (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-collaborators-deception-survival-in-wwii/) with Ian Buruma & Simon Callow, Lapidaroum: The Secret Lives of Stones (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/lapidarium-the-secret-lives-of-stones/) with Hettie Judah & Ilana Halperon, and Hope
is a Woman's Name (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/hope-is-a-womans-name/)
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