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[Jewish Book Week]

80+ events in-person & online from 25 February to 5 March

https://jewishbookweek.com/
Our biggest festival yet starts a month today! Announcing a new event & the Jewish Children's Book Awards shortlist, plus some #JBW2023 highlights, in-person & online
VIEW THE FULL LINE-UP & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/israel-a-fragile-democracy/
ISRAEL: A FRAGILE DEMOCRACY?
4 MARCH, 8.30PM, KINGS PLACE
The opening weeks of this year saw 80,000 Israelis take to the streets of Tel Aviv, protesting the new government’s proposed sweeping changes to the judicial system.  Supreme Court president Esther Hayut denounced the move, calling it a “plan to crush the justice system”, with opposition leader Yair Lapid pledging to stand by her side “in the struggle for the soul of the country”. Not everyone agrees, however: a recent Newsweek op-ed sought to brush off the controversial move as “much ado about nothing”. As Israel’s politics become ever more polarized, we ask what lies ahead with rabbi and crossbench peer Julia Neuberger, historian Simon Schama, senior lawyer Anthony Julius, lawyer and former clerk for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel Natasha Hausdorff, and journalist Jonathan Freedland.
FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/israel-a-fragile-democracy/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/comic-books-where-life-is-more-absurd-than-art/
COMIC BOOKS: WHERE LIFE IS MORE ABSURD THAN ART
26 FEB, 11AM, KINGS PLACE
Israel's foremost graphic novelist, former editor of the Hebrew edition of MAD magazine and Artistic Director of the National Library of Israel’s Comics Residency project Rutu Modan joins graphic novel expert Ariel Kahn, to discuss her award-winning work, comic books, illustration and inventing stories where truth often has little to do with reality.  FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/comic-books-where-life-is-more-absurd-than-art/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/simon-sebag-montefiore-the-world/
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE: THE WORLD
26 FEB, 12.30PM, KINGS PLACE
>From Alexander the Great to Zelensky, via Caesars and Rothschilds, plagues and love affairs, the latest book from international bestseller Simon Sebag Montefiore is nothing less than the history of humanity itself. In The World: A Family History the historian, novelist and broadcaster takes us from the first footsteps of a family 950,000 years ago right up to present day. The multi-award-winning author of Young Stalin, The Romanovs and Jerusalem: The Biography returns to Jewish Book Week after previous sell-outs to discuss this fresh and spellbinding take on the global human story. In conversation with Natalie Livingstone. FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/simon-sebag-montefiore-the-world/)
ENCOUNTERS: JUDAISM & ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY
26 FEB, 5PM, KINGS PLACE
Is it true that Christianity is a religion of love and Judaism a religion of law? How much do Jews and Orthodox Christians have in common when they worship God? These questions and more are addressed by Nicholas de Lange, Abrahamic religions academic Elena Narinskaya & rabbi Sybil Sheridan; in conversation with Andrew Louth, an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church.
FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/encounters-judaism-and-orthodox-christianity/)
JEWS AND THE
DIAMOND TRADE
27 FEB, 12PM, ONLINE
>From South African mines to New York high society, in A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting, Saskia Coenen Snyder shows the contributions made by Jewish buyers, brokers, cutters, financiers and retailers to global industrial enterprise, highlighting how it sparked labour movements, increased demand for luxury goods and formed the basis of harmful stereotypes that still persist.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/jews-and-the-diamond-trade/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/norman-lebrecht-on-beethoven/

NORMAN LEBRECHT ON BEETHOVEN
28 FEB, 7PM, KINGS PLACE
Tracing the composer through two centuries of manuscripts, Norman Lebrecht finds that much of what we know about Beethoven is either warped, or plain wrong. He reveals a restless, rude, resourceful creator, a rebel against the rich and powerful, a relentless workaholic, a man almost of our own times. With performances from acclaimed concert pianist Daniel Lebhardt, and discussion with music writer Ariane Todes.
FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/norman-lebrecht-on-beethoven/)

A SMALL TOWN IN UKRAINE
28 FEB, 8.30PM, KINGS PLACE
Historian Bernard Wasserstein's family originated in Krakowiec; now he recounts its dramatic, hidden story across centuries of conflict as Cossacks, Swedes and Muscovites rampaged through. A Polish magnate created an arcadia of serenity, under the Habsburgs it became a typical shtetl, both World Wars left terrible legacies and today hordes of refugees flee for their lives from Ukraine to Poland. In conversation with Times columnist and author David Aaronovitch.
FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/a-small-town-in-ukraine/)
THE OBJECT OF JEWISH LITERATURE
1 MARCH, 8PM, ONLINE
With the rise of digital media, the ‘death of the book’ has been widely discussed. But the physical object itself persists. Here, through the lens of materiality and objects, Barbara Mann tells a history of modern Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and artist’s books, offering a new frame for understanding how literary genres emerge. In conversation with acclaimed poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch.
BOOK THIS ONLINE EVENT (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-object-of-jewish-literature/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/precious-goods/

PRECIOUS GOODS 2 MARCH, 8.30PM, KINGS PLACE
Winter 1942: a train passes through a forest in Eastern Europe. Destination unknown. Twin babies are aboard, only one is rescued. In the forest in a clearing beside the railway-line a poor woodcutter’ s wife is foraging for firewood in the snow, all she has ever wanted is a child…have the gods answered her prayers?

An exclusive, specially commissioned performance, translated and adapted by former Tricycle Theatre artistic director Nicolas Kent from the 2019 publishing sensation The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg. Read by Topsy-Turvy star Allan Corduner, whose credits include Yentl, Tár and Ridley Road, with original music by internationally renowned cellist Gemma Rosefield.
FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/precious-goods/)
THE STORY OF RUSSIA: ORLANDO FIGES
5 MARCH, 11AM, KINGS PLACE
No country has been so divided over its past, or reinvented its story so often, as Russia. To understand what Putin’s regime means for the future we need to unravel Russia’s
history. Historian Orlando Figes makes sense of the world’s largest nation through the vibrant characters whose stories remain so important, from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great to the bitter last days of the Romanovs. In conversation with journalist and author Nick Cohen.
FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-story-of-russia-orlando-figes/)
THE BDS WAR: FROM HOLLYWOOD TO ACADEMIA
5 MARCH, 8PM, KINGS PLACE
Two authors with books on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israel, conceived at the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism in South Africa. Ronnie Fraser focuses on the efforts to oppose the academic boycott, while entertainment industry insider Lana Melman
discusses their celebrity strategy. In conversation with David Hirsh of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/the-bds-war-from-academia-to-hollywood/)
https://jewishbookweek.com/event/hope-is-a-womans-name/

HOPE IS A WOMAN'S NAME
5 MARCH, 8PM, KINGS PLACE
An indigenous Bedouin in a Jewish state and fifth daughter in a patriarchal society, Amal Elsana Alh’jooj was a shepherd aged five. From her early teens she ran literary classes for women, marking the beginning of a career promoting policy change and shaping public opinion on Israel’s marginalised minorities. With Bidisha Mamata she discusses a life navigating interweaving systems of power and oppression while embracing every thread of her identity: Bedouin, Arab, woman, feminist, Palestinian and Israeli.
FIND OUT MORE & BOOK (https://jewishbookweek.com/event/hope-is-a-womans-name/)

And view our full programme (https://jewishbookweek.com/upcoming-events/) of 80+ talks, performances & discussions with Howard Jacobson, Sarah Blake, Shalom Auslander, Hadley Freeman, Matti Friedman, Natasha Lance Rogoff, Jason Greenblatt, Kei Hiruta & many more
Jewish Book Week and Green Bean Books are delighted to announce the shortlist for the second Jewish Children’s Book Awards. Three writers have been shortlisted:  Angela Kanter, for One One Leg; Dina Leifer, for And Eddie Had An Egg and Rebecca Marcus, for Even the Masfa. You can watch interviews with all three here (http://greenbeanbooks.com/jcba2023/) . The winner of the text award, and the winner of the illustration award, will be announced on Friday 3rd March.
https://www.thejc.com/

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