JBW evenings at Kings Place

[Jewish Literary Foundation]

https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/jewish-book-week

4 March, 2026

YOUR EVENING GUIDE TO JBW

We hope you all had a joyful Purim, and may the festivities continue at Kings Place and online with our packed line-up of evening events.

>From stand-up comedy and a showcase of new Jewish playwrights to a musical celebration of Carole King and unpacking our fixation with families in literature, we’re only just getting started.

Read on for the highlights happening between now and Saturday.

“Like all the best books, we’re only just getting to the good parts.”

Last week, the Director of the Jewish Literary Foundation Claudia Rubenstein opened Jewish Book Week at 75 with these words, highlighting how an “engagement with the Jewish literary tradition is not decorative: it’s foundational”.
READ THE FULL OPENING TO JBW (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/celebrating-75-years-of-jewish-book-week)

WEDNESDAY EVENING
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/jazz-up-the-80s-with-the-jay-rayner-sextet

Join the Jay Rayner Sextet as they celebrate the greatest jazz-influenced chart hits of the 80s, including dance floor fillers by Sade, Matt Bianco, Swing Out Sister and Sting.
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/family-affairs-from-salonica-to-the-open-road

2025 Booker Prize Shortlisted novelist Benjamin Markovits and prolific critic and author Michael Arditti unpack the peculiarities of Jewish storytelling in conversation with Amanda Craig.
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/new-jewish-playwrights-a-showcase

See exciting new work from the inaugural cohort of the Jewish Playwrights Programme, followed by a discussion on the landscape of new writing in the UK.
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/making-israels-history-behind-closed-doors

Making Israel’s History: Behind Closed Doors, 7pm GMT

In this online event, political correspondent Amit Segal takes us inside the moments where history was made in real time.

THURSDAY NIGHT
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/carole-king-in-words-music

A celebration of the legendary Carole King, featuring performances of some of her greatest hits from Cassidy Janson, the star of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/hidden-histories-spies-secrets-and-survival

Helen Fry and Daria Santini present their thrilling new histories of espionage and underground networks in the 20th century, with new research shedding light on these murkiest of stories.
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/everything-is-copy-writing-family

Jewish Book Week presents Esther Freud and Miriam Robinson, two writers whose novels bring us inside the usually private rooms of the family and explode the secrets at their core.
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/stefan-zweig-a-literary-life

Stefan Zweig: A Literary Life, 5pm GMT

Rüdiger Görner re-examines Stefan Zweig’s globetrotting life and prolific output, including his influential time in England.

SATURDAY AT KINGS PLACE
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/stand-up-at-jewish-book-week

Enjoy the best new comedy stars, with Edinburgh sell-out Frankie Thompson, stand-up sensation Sarah Roberts, musician-comedian Sansha, and author turned stand-up Nihal Arthanayake.
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/the-future-of-liberal-democracy

Editor of The Spectator and former Cabinet minister Michael Gove joins a panel of thinkers and writers to discuss the health of the principles and traditions that underpin liberal democracy.

AND MORE TO COME ON SUNDAY…

Enjoy £5 tickets for under 30s, free online sessions, free fringe events and 15% off when you book three or more events.
EXPLORE THE FULL PROGRAMME (https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events-list)

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