Today: Art, Bernstein & Cricket

[Jewish Literary Foundation]

Events in-person and online at Book Week 24 from 2-10 March

https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/
Book Week 24 is here! After a first night of full houses with Howard Jacobson, Lemn Sissay & more, join us today at Kings Place for Jewish history, thrillers, cricket, feminist art, poetry, theatre and music - plus much more over the next week
View the full Book Week 24 line-up (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/events)
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/events/2024-03-03
Today starts at 11am with What is Jewish History For? (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/what-is-jewish-history-for) , Torah and Tradition in an Age of Doubt (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/torah-tradition-in-an-age-of-doubt)  and Genesis Emerging Writers (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/genesis-emerging-writers-2024)  followed at 12.30pm by Kindertransport and Beyond (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/the-kindertransport-what-really-happened) , Nicholas Hytner in Conversation (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/nicholas-hytner) , The State of Desire (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/state-of-desire) and, in a late addition to the programme, the special free event Jewish Dimensions of the War in Ukraine (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/jewish-dimensions-of-the-war-in-ukraine) . Several afternoon events - Philippe Sands: Lviv
Then & Now (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/philippe-sands-lviv-then-now) , Elif Shafak & Sarah Bernstein (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/elif-shafak-sarah-bernstein) , Book Week 24 Keynote: Simon Schama (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/simon-schama-book-week-24-keynote) and Marcus du Sautoy: Around the World in 80 Games (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/around-the-world-in-80-games)  - are currently sold out, but check for returns. At 3.30pm we have Frederic Raphael: Last Post (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/frederic-raphael-last-post) and Griselda Pollock joins us for Woman in Art (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/woman-in-art-helen-rosenau) . At 5pm there's YIVO and the Recovery of Jewish Memory (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/yivo-and-the-recovery-of-jewish-memory) , Art Monsters
(https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/art-monsters) and Dannie Abse Centenary Celebration (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/dannie-abse-centenary-celebration) . Then in the evening there's Bats & Mitzvahs: Jews & Cricket, (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/bats-mitzvahs-jews-and-cricket)  Itamar Rabonovich & David Aaronvitch (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/itamar-rabinovich) , Women in Intelligence (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/women-in-intelligence) , Susan Rubin Suleiman: An Immigrant Girlhood (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/susan-rubin-suleiman-an-immigrant-girlhood) , The Art of the Thriller (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/the-art-of-the-thriller)  and Leonard Bernstein: Some Other Time (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/leonard-bernstein-some-other-time) .

And our Free Fringe programme today includes: Adi Toch: Place to Place (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/adi-toch-place-to-place) , Jewish Flavours of Italy (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/jewish-flavours-of-italy) , Good for a Single Journey (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/good-for-a-single-journey) , Horror Movies in Israel (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/horror-movies-in-israel)  and a Tsitit Fringe Festival play reading (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/tsitsit-the-jewish-fringe-festival-presents-shiva-at-wits-end) .
ONLINE EVENTS AT #BOOKWEEK24
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/bookweek-online/
Our online programme (https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/bookweek-online/)  begins tomorrow and runs until Thursday: 16 events covering mental health, identity, the Talmud, Louis Jacobs, Lauren Bacall and much more. Available to book individually (https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/bookweek-online/) or save with our great value Digipass (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/digipass) .
COMING UP AT KINGS PLACE THIS WEEK
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/israeli-fiction-today

Over the last decade Israel’s literary landscape has lost luminaries Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua, but some exciting new voices have emerged. Josh Glancy is joined here by National Book Award and Wingate Prize winner Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Lavie Tidhar, described by the Daily Mail as “the leader of a new wave of Israeli literature”.
Find out more & book (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/israeli-fiction-today)

https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/mine-is-the-golden-tongue-the-hebrew-sonnets-of-immanuel-of-rome

Immanuel ben Shelomo, known as Immanuel of Rome, was the greatest Hebrew poet of medieval Italy. A contemporary of Dante’s, the beauty of his writings has fascinated scholars for over six centuries. For the first time, scholar and translator Yehudah Cohn makes all of Immanuel’s Hebrew sonnets available in English. He joins NYU London's Leya Landau in conversation. Find out more & book (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/mine-is-the-golden-tongue-the-hebrew-sonnets-of-immanuel-of-rome)

https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/good-girls

House of Glass author and Sunday Times columnist Hadley Freeman returns to the festival in conversation with award-winning journalist Tanya Gold. Her latest book Good Girls: A Story & Study of Anorexia was praised by the Wall Street Journal for “sharp storytelling, solid research and gentle humour”,
Find out more & book (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/good-girls)

https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/kafkas-trial-a-play-reading

A unique event marking the centenary of Franz Kafka's death: a play reading featuring Olivier winner Henry Goodman, National Theatre veteran Eve Matheson and West End regular Daniel Fraser, followed by a discussion with Benjamin Balint, author of Kafka’s Last Trial, Carolin Duttlinger, Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, and the National Library of Israel Stefan Litt.
Find out more & book (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/kafkas-trial-a-play-reading)

https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/herod-jeiwish-king-in-a-roman-world

A History of Judaism author Martin Goodman charts the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of Herod. Oxford’s emeritus professor of Jewish Studies examines the extensive literary and archaeological evidence to explore his Idumaean origins, his installation by Rome as king of Judaea and his presentation of himself as a Jew. In conversation with Armand D’Angour.
Find out more & book (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/event/herod-jeiwish-king-in-a-roman-world)

View the full Book Week 24 line-up (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/bookweek/24/events)
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