jewish book week 18-28 february 2016 kings place, london

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JEWISH BOOK WEEK
18-28 FEBRUARY 2016
KINGS PLACE, LONDON
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WELCOME TO
JEWISH BOOK WEEK 2016
A huge welcome to you all.
This year’s festival sweeps through the
ages, looking back to the dawn of time
and forward into the future of the cosmos.
What was the relationship between the
Greeks and the Jews? Do art and religion
have a shared future? Where will
tomorrow’s physics take Einstein’s
theories of space-time and gravity?
We bring you revolutionary ideas: did
a vital spark ignite all life on earth?
Is energy the fount of all civilisations?
Will technology topple the professions?
There just weren’t enough days in our
nine-day ‘week’ to fit everything in,
so this year’s festival has become a
moveable feast. Like the universe, we
are ever-expanding.
We are very excited about our line-up
of guests and hope you will be too.
Dynamic personalities predominate,
with many renowned writers, thinkers
and actors, and others you may
discover for the very first time.
Drop in to ‘The Space’ on the balcony level
for free informal talks and conversations.
Look out for our newly-commissioned
artworks. Also, don’t miss our cracking
weekday afternoon talks at JW3.
We hope that the gravitational force of
the festival will impel you to Kings Place
night after night and hold you there over
both weekends.
Look forward to seeing you in February.
Lucy Silver (director)
and the JBW team
OUR
SPONSORS
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PATRONS
David and Judy Dangoor – Patrons of Science at Jewish Book Week
Simon and Alison Ryde – Supporters of Glow Fund
Edith and Ferdinand Porjes Charitable Trust
The Shoresh Charitable Trust
BENEFACTORS
John S Cohen Foundation
Sheila and Denis Cohen Charitable Trust
Robert Gavron Charitable Trust
Greenbrook Industries
KC Shasha Charitable Foundation
George and Carmel Webber Memorial Trust
Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation
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SUPPORTERS
David & Marion Cohen; Charles & Ruth Corman; Avi & Alison Goldberg; Robin & Inge Hyman;
Denis Raeburn; Jonathan Levy & Gabrielle Rifkind; Michael & Gail Sandler;
The Silver Family; Romie & Esther Tager; Anne Webber
THANKS ALSO TO
Mrs Denise Cohen; Stanley Cohen OBE; Anthony & Lily Filer; Lord Stanley Kalms;
Ken & Jean Marks; Eric & Phyllis Stoller
We also wish to thank our Anonymous Patrons and Benefactors
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FESTIVAL
AT A GLANCE
WEDNESDAY 13 JANUARY
H1
19:00 FRANK – the film
19:00 How Human Values Evolve
H1
The Romanovs:
20:30
Rise and Fall, 1613 – 1918
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20:00 Life Moves Pretty Fast
20:00 Some Enchanted Evening
13:00 Fertile Imaginations
37
H2
12:30 In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
30
JW3
14:30 Captivating Fictions
38
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12:30 Loose Connections
30
H1
19:00 The Vital Question
24
H1
14:00 The House by the Lake
31
H2
19:00 The 3rd Woman
24
H2
14:00 Waking Lions
31
31
17:00 Let’s Talk about Love and Death
16
H1
20:30 History’s People
25
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14:00 The Ignorant Maestro
H2
17:00 The Maisky Diaries
16
H2
20:30 Black Horse Ride
25
H1
15:30
S TP
17:00 The Ambassador
16
H2
15:30 Forgotten Fictions: The Wise Virgins
32
S TP
15:30 Nordic Noir Jewish Style
32
H1
17:00 Shylock is my Name
33
H2
17:00 Art and Religion in the 21st Century
33
S TP
17:00 Scary Old Sex
33
H1
18:30 Not in God’s Name
34
H2
18:30 Catch the Jew!
34
S TP
18:30 Five Selves
34
H1
20:00 The Soho Chronicles
35
H2
20:00
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20:00 Akiva: Life, Legend and Legacy
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H1
18:30
Ben Okri and Marcus du Sautoy:
Narrative Wizardry
THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY
JW3
9
H2
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18:30 Last Folio
18:30
The Murderous History
of Bible Translations
20:00 The Jewish Face of Britain
H1
H2
H2
19:00 Human Rights for Our Times
11
H1
20:30 Some Enchanted Evening
10
S TP
H2
20:30 This is London
11
20:00 The Liberation of the Camps
20:00 The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
H1
H2
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H1
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11:00
11:00
11:00
Einstein: the Man
Unexpected Israel
Be Fruitful and Multiply!
12:30 The Great A B: The Extra
38
19:00 Statins: To Take or Not to Take
26
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19:00 Abba Eban: A Biography
26
H1
20:30 Going Up
27
H2
20:30 The Future of the Professions
27
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MONDAY 22 FEBRUARY
JW3
13:00 Stolen Legacy
36
JW3
14:30 Born Survivors
36
FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY
39
13:00 Spies: Fact and Fiction
SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY
12
20
H1
19:00 The White Road
H2
Bewilderments: Reflections on the
19:00
Book of Numbers
20
H1
20:30 Putin’s Russia
21
H2
20:30 Fault Lines
21
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12
13
H2
12:30 Drawing the Genie from the Bottle
13
S TP
12:30 The Best Place on Earth
13
JW3
13:00 Who was Moses?
37
H1
14:00 Einstein in the 21st Century
14
JW3
14:30 Anti-Semitism
37
H2
Raoul Wallenberg:
14:00
A Righteous Man
14
H1
KL: A History of the Nazi
19:00
Concentration Camps
22
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14:00 Jonathan Unleashed!
14
H2
19:00 Jews and Photography in Britain 22
H1
15:30 Judith Kerr: A Storyteller’s Life
15
H1
20:30
H2
15:30 Scandalous Socialites
15
H2
20:30 The Health Gap
S TP
15:30 You Don’t Have to Live Like This
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TUESDAY 23 FEBRUARY
Party Animals:
Growing Up Communist
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JW3
SUNDAY 21 FEBRUARY
14:30 Operation Thunderbolt
19:00 Jews in the Classical World
Peggy Guggenheim:
The Shock of the Modern
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Between Tel Aviv and Moscow:
A Life of Dissent 17
H2
H1
13:00
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JW3
THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY
H1
JW3
H1
JW3
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PAGE
MONDAY 8 FEBRUARY
H1
WEDNESDAY 24 FEBRUARY
H1
19:00 Woody Allen: Film by Film
28
H2
Their Promised Land: My
19:00
Grandparents in Love and War
28
H1
20:30 The Big Debate
28
What Happened at the Metropole:
A Play in Two Acts
35
35
LUNCHTIMES AT JW3
36
MORE JBW EVENTS
40
JBW ON TOUR
41
SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY
H1
11:00
The Life of Saul Bellow
29
H2
11:00
The Rise of the Israeli Right
29
BIOGRAPHIES
43
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11:00
A Woman on the Edge of Time
29
FESTIVAL & VENUE INFORMATION
48
H1
12:30 Love, Art and Literature 30
THE JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL
50
KEY
H1
HALL 1
H2
HALL 2
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ST PANCRAS
JW3
JW3
THIS EVENT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE KINGS PLACE MULTI-BUY TICKET OFFER
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PREVIEW
EVENTS
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WEDNESDAY, 13 JANUARY
FRANK
Jake Auerbach presents a screening of his film FRANK, to coincide with Frank
Auerbach's current exhibition at Tate Britain. See page 40 for more details.
H1
19:00
£ 9.50
MONDAY, 8 FEBRUARY
HOW HUMAN VALUES EVOLVE
Ian Morris
Chair: Michael Cox
Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology and history, Professor Ian Morris puts
forward a compelling new argument that the evolution of the human values that underpin
civilisations is driven by the most basic force of all: energy. His ideas have far-reaching
implications, not only for our understanding of the past, but also for the shape of things to
come. He is in conversation with LSE Director of IDEAS, Professor Michael Cox.
H1
19:00-20:00
£ 9.50
THE ROMANOVS: RISE AND FALL, 1613 - 1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Chair: Kate Williams
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the
world’s surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest
empire? And how did they lose it all? In conversation with historian and broadcaster
Professor Kate Williams, Simon Sebag Montefiore draws on new archival research to tell
a story of triumph and tragedy, love and death, a universal study of power and how the
scene was set for Russia to become the country we know today.
H1
20:30-22:00
£ 9.50
SATURDAY, 13 FEBRUARY
LIFE MOVES PRETTY FAST
Hadley Freeman
Chair: Francesca Segal
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
www.littman.co.uk
Hadley Freeman hosts a Saturday night Valentine’s Special at JW3 based on her latest
book, Life Moves Pretty Fast. With clips from particular favourite films, Hadley explains
why the 1980s was a truly dazzling decade in cinema history and why, in her opinion, no
period since has produced such an influential stream of movies. Hadley Freeman talks to
Costa Prize-winning novelist Francesca Segal.
JW3
20:00-21:30
£ 12.00
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All JBW events at Kings Place should be booked through Kings Place.
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MUSICAL
EVENINGS
SATURDAY
20 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY 18 &
HUMAN RIGHTS AND VALUES
FOR OUR TIMES
Susan Neiman, Francesca Klug
Chair: Helena Kennedy
Professor Francesca Klug invites us to consider what is
distinctive about the ethics and practice of human rights,
exploring such topics as British and Enlightenment values
and natural and legal rights. Philosopher Susan Neiman
also explores moral and social issues in posing (and
providing some answers to) the question: why grow up?
Anticipate a heady and exhilarating conversation led by
Helena Kennedy QC.
SOME ENCHANTED EVENING:
THE MUSIC OF
RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
H2
Issy Van Randwyck, Clive Rowe and Henry Goodman
THIS IS LONDON
Written by Stewart Permutt
This event has live subtitling by Stagetext.
Henry Goodman, Issy van Randwyck and Clive Rowe
return to bring you an evening full of song, anecdotes and
glamour, celebrating the songs, shows and lives of these
two Greats of the Golden Age of the Broadway and
Hollywood musical and their lasting influence on musical
theatre. With musical direction by Michael Haslam and
script by Stewart Permutt.
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H1
H1
20:00-22:00
20:30-22:30 £ 9.50
Ben Judah, Josh Glancy
Music arranged by Michael Haslam
Thursday
Saturday
19:00-20:00
£ 39.50
£ 29.50
£ 24.50
In This is London: Life and Death in the World City, Ben
Judah takes the lid off a new London, where over one-third
of its population are immigrants, immersing himself in their
sometimes hidden worlds. From the richest to the poorest,
he takes us on a tour of this ever-changing city. What is our
response? With Sunday Times feature writer Josh Glancy.
H2
20:30-22:00
£ 9.50
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SUNDAY
21 FEBRUARY
EINSTEIN: THE MAN
With thanks to David and Judy Dangoor
In Association with Yale University Press
Steven Gimbel
Chair: Robert Winston
Einstein was not only the most famous scientist of the
20th century but a prominent political campaigner, actively
engaged in international affairs, with courageous and
outspoken views on issues ranging from anti-Semitism to
nationalism, the atomic bomb and the Cold War. American
philosopher Professor Steven Gimbel discusses his highly
accessible and absorbing biography Einstein: His Space
and Times with Robert Winston.
H1
11:00-12:00
£ 10.50
UNEXPECTED ISRAEL
Ruth Corman
Chair: Henry Knobil
Stories You Never Read in the Media
Ruth Corman
In Unexpected Israel, Ruth Corman’s words and
photographs bring people and places to life with curious,
humorous and moving stories you seldom read in the
media: from caviar to camels, owls to oranges, and
pomegranates to pilgrims, as well as unimaginable tales of
heroism and unique personalities. Chaired by Henry Knobil.
H2
11:00-12:00
£ 9.50
In his provocative book The Pater, Elliot Jager tackles a
near-taboo topic: the Orthodox Jewish attitude towards
infertility and what it feels like to be a childless Jewish man.
In conversation with Guardian journalist Simon Hattenstone
he also grapples with the concept of paternity and his
complex relationship with his own father.
12
A B Yehoshua
Chair: Oliver Kamm
A B Yehoshua is as creative, humorous and
provocative as ever in The Extra, exploring themes
familiar to him of love, family relationships and artistic
ambitions, set mainly in an ever-changing Jerusalem.
His interviewer is journalist Oliver Kamm.
H1
12:30-13:30
£ 12.50
DRAWING THE GENIE FROM THE BOTTLE
Jancis Robinson
Chair: Nicholas Lander
To mark the publication of the expanded 4th edition of
her much-lauded Oxford Companion to Wine, the FT’s
wine critic Jancis Robinson talks to the newspaper’s
food critic Nicholas Lander (who also happens to be
her husband) about a life spent sipping and swilling
the fermented juice of the grape. Described by
Decanter magazine as ‘the most respected wine critic
and journalist in the world’, Jancis writes daily for
jancisrobinson.com. She advises on many cellars,
including that of Her Majesty the Queen.
H2
12:30-13:30
£ 10.50
THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH
Ayelet Tsabari
Chair: Samantha Ellis
Elliot Jager
Chair: Simon Hattenstone
11:00-12:00
In Association with the New Israel Fund and Halban Publishers
Sponsored by the Jewish Book Council, USA
BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!
S TP
THE GREAT A B: THE EXTRA
£ 6.50
Winner of the prestigious 2015 Sami Rohr Prize for
Jewish Literature with her debut collection of short
stories, The Best Place on Earth, Ayelet Tsabari
discusses her internationally acclaimed fiction,
peopled with characters at the crossroads of
nationalities, religions and communities, with writer
and playwright Samantha Ellis.
S TP
12:30-13:30
FREE
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EINSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY
JUDITH KERR: A STORYTELLER’S LIFE
Judith Kerr
Chair: Nicolette Jones
In Association with Yale University Press
Pedro Ferreira, Steven Gimbel, Andrew Jaffe
A century after the publication of Einstein’s general theory of
relativity, which totally transformed our understanding of space,
time and gravity, and thus the entire physics of the universe,
astrophysicists Professor Pedro Ferreira and Professor Andrew
Jaffe join Steven Gimbel, philosopher and author of Einstein: His
Space and Times, to evaluate the significance of Einstein’s scientific
theories in the 21st century.
H1
14:00-15:00
Judith Kerr is acknowledged as one of the world's finest writers for
children and young adults. Among her best-loved classics are Mog,
The Tiger Who Came to Tea and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
She talks about her life and books, including her latest illustrated
novel, Mr Cleghorn’s Seal, with writer, critic and broadcaster
Nicolette Jones.
H1
15:30-16:30
£ 10.50
SCANDALOUS SOCIALITES
Natalie Livingstone, Claudia Renton
Chair: Anne Sebba
RAOUL WALLENBERG: A RIGHTEOUS MAN
Natalie Livingstone’s captivating The
Mistresses of Cliveden and Claudia
Renton’s Those Wild Wyndhams
provide two fascinating chronicles of
the ways in which exceptional
women challenged, evaded and
exploited the expectations of their
times. Anne Sebba facilitates this
exploration of sex and power,
passion and romance, dramatic lives
and tragic devastation.
In Association with World Jewish Relief, Quercus and the Anglo-Swedish Society
Ingrid Carlberg
Chair: Philippe Sands | Readings by: Henry Goodman
Ingrid Carlberg, winner of the prestigious August Prize for her
seminal biography Raoul Wallenberg, joins Philippe Sands QC, to
explore the extraordinary life and unique contribution of this
‘Righteous Man’. As Sweden’s Special Envoy to Budapest in 1944,
Wallenberg’s heroism and ingenuity at the height of the Holocaust
saved countless lives while ultimately costing him his own. With
readings by Henry Goodman.
H2
14:00-15:00
£ 9.50
£ 10.50
H2
JONATHAN UNLEASHED!
Have you ever wished there was a handbook on How to be a
Person? That’s exactly how Jonathan Trefoil feels as he struggles to
meet the demands of adult life. With Jonathan Unleashed, a
romantic comedy set in Manhattan, the wryly funny prize-winning
author Meg Rosoff presents her first novel for adults, a quirky take
on the Bildungsroman. Rowan Pelling chairs.
14
14:00-15:00
£ 9.50
YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS
Meg Rosoff
Chair: Rowan Pelling
S TP
15:30-16:30
£ 6.50
Ben Markovits
Chair: Tim Martin
From one of the UK’s most admired novelists, Ben Markovits,
comes You Don’t Have to Live Like This, a darkly comic and brutal
vision of contemporary America in the wake of the global financial
crisis. The Telegraph’s Tim Martin talks to Ben Markovits about his
compelling new novel.
S TP
15:30-16:30
£ 6.50
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LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE AND DEATH
BEN OKRI AND MARCUS DU SAUTOY:
NARRATIVE WIZARDRY
Andrew Solomon, Julia Neuberger
Andrew Solomon, author of international best-seller
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and Rabbi
Julia Neuberger take the association between loss and
depression, so acutely observed in Freud’s Mourning and
Melancholia, as the starting point for a free-ranging
conversation about love, loss, grief and the human condition.
H1
17:00-18:00
£ 10.50
THE MAISKY DIARIES
Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri and mathematician Professor
Marcus du Sautoy make a delightfully surprising and dynamic
duo as they explore narrative and form in literature and maths.
Expect a breathtaking and unforgettable tour-de-force from two
consummate storytellers, with novelist and academic Professor
Elleke Boehmer as their guide.
£ 9.50
Katya Krausova
Chair: Roger Graef
Yuri Dojc returned to his family’s home in Eastern Slovakia to find
that time had stood still since the day in 1942 when three-quarters
of the Jewish population were transported to the camps. His
hauntingly beautiful photographs of remnants of a dynamic culture
– abandoned synagogues, a Jewish school, decaying books –
powerfully evoke this. Katya Krausova, co-founder of Portobello
Pictures and co-creator of Last Folio, presents this unique project,
which includes extracts of filmed interviews with survivors. She is
in conversation with documentary-maker Roger Graef.
£ 10.50
H2
18:30-19:30
£ 9.50
THE AMBASSADOR
THE MURDEROUS HISTORY OF BIBLE TRANSLATIONS
Matt Rees
Chair: Jenni Frazer
In Association with the Council of Christians and Jews
Award-winning crime writer Matt Rees teamed up with the
late Yehuda Avner, adviser to Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak
Rabin and Menachem Begin, to write The Ambassador, an
‘alternative’ historical novel set in Nazi Germany. What if
Israel had been founded before the Holocaust? Might its
existence have changed the course of European history?
Chaired by journalist Jenni Frazer.
S TP
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18:30-19:30
LAST FOLIO
The diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to the UK from
1932-43, discovered and scrupulously edited by Professor
Gabriel Gorodetsky, offer unprecedented insight into events
surrounding the Second World War. Maisky enjoyed unique
access to key players in British public life – politicians,
diplomats, press barons, intellectuals and royalty – as well as
being privy to the impact of personal rivalries within the
Kremlin on Soviet policy, providing an extraordinary view of
two radically opposed worlds. The FT’s John Thornhill chairs.
With readings by Henry Goodman.
17:00-18:00
Ben Okri, Marcus du Sautoy
Chair: Elleke Boehmer
H1
Gabriel Gorodetsky
Chair: John Thornhill | Readings by: Henry Goodman
H2
17:00-18:00
£ 6.50
Harry Freedman, Michael Ipgrave
Chair: Raphael Zarum
The Bible has been translated more than any other book in any
language and, astonishingly, controversial translations underlie a
large number of religious conflicts that have plagued the world.
Join author Harry Freedman, Bishop Michael Ipgrave and Rabbi
Raphael Zarum as they analyse the surprising damage inflicted
by troublesome translations.
S TP
18:30-19:30
£ 7.50
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The Maisky Diaries
Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s
1932–1943
Ivan Maisky • Edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky
THE JEWISH FACE OF BRITAIN
Simon Schama
Simon Schama returns with a unique event devised
exclusively for JBW. In his recent book, exhibition and BBC
TV series, The Face of Britain, Schama examines portraits
by some of the UK’s greatest artists of the 20th and 21st
centuries. In this talk, he looks at the paintings of Auerbach,
Bomberg, Kitaj and Kossoff – British artists, who also
happen to be Jewish.
H1
20:00-21:30
£ 12.50
THE LIBERATION OF THE CAMPS
Dan Stone
Chair: Daniel Wildmann
Historian of Ideas, Professor Dan Stone, presents his
unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years
following the liberation of the concentration and
extermination camps to reveal the complex challenges –
psychological as much as physical – faced by liberated
survivors and those helping them reclaim their shattered
lives. Dan Stone is in conversation with Daniel Wildmann.
H2
20:00-21:30
£ 9.50
THE JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE
Judges: Tahmima Anam, Samantha Ellis, Hugo Rifkind and
Jonathan Wittenberg
Chair: Nicola Christie
Find out who is in the running to win 2016’s prestigious
JQ-Wingate Prize as this year’s judges, Hugo Rifkind,
Samantha Ellis, Tahmima Anam and Rabbi Jonathan
Wittenberg, discuss the shortlist with Jewish Quarterly
editor Nicola Christie. Past winners include: Amos Oz,
David Grossman, Zadie Smith, Imre Kertész, Oliver Sacks,
WG Sebald and Shalom Auslander.
S TP
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20:00-21:30
FREE
‘A fascinating and invaluable source on wartime relations between
Moscow and London … a triumph of meticulous scholarship and
enlightened publishing.’ – David Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement
72 b/w illus. Hardback £25.00
The Liberation of the Camps
The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath
Dan Stone
‘Dan Stone’s history of the liberation of the camps is remarkable for the
vast array of its sources, its extremely detailed inquiry and, nonetheless,
for its highly readable narrative. It will remain a reference for years to
come.’ – Saul Friedländer, author of Nazi Germany and the Jews
24 b/w illus. Hardback £20.00
Yale Jewish Lives Series
‘An excellent short
biography … Prose
is a subtle and
attentive chronicler
of the antisemitism
that operated in her
subject’s life.’
– Kathryn Hughes,
Guardian
‘Gimbel packs it
all in – science that
changed the world,
the personal disasters,
the celebrity – and
the uncomfortable
reassessment of what
being a Jew meant to
him.’ – New Scientist
12 b/w illus.
Hardback £16.99
Hardback £14.99
And coming in Autumn 2016: Moses by Avivah Zornberg
YaleBooks
tel: 020 7079 4900
www.yalebooks.co.uk
MONDAY
22 FEBRUARY
MONDAY
22 FEBRUARY
PUTIN’S RUSSIA
Peter Pomerantsev, Arkady Ostrovsky
Chair: James Harding
THE WHITE ROAD
As a foreign correspondent in
his own country, Arkady Ostrovsky
has experienced Russia’s modern
history first-hand. From the
suddenly wealthy, to the media,
to the Kremlin spin doctors, in
The Invention of Russia he explores
those who have shaped the new
Russia. Peter Pomerantsev
describes his unique journey into
the surreal heart of 21st century
Russia in his award-winning Nothing
is True and Everything is Possible.
They are in conversation with BBC
Director of News and Current
Affairs James Harding.
Edmund de Waal
Accompany Edmund de Waal on his
personal pilgrimage along The White Road,
which tells the story of his obsession with
porcelain – ‘white gold’ – and the lure it has
held for those who have encountered
it: from Jesuit missionaries in 17th-century
China, via the palaces of Versailles and
Dresden, to the chemist shops of 18thcentury Plymouth and the darkest moments
of 20th-century history.
H1
19:00-20:00
£ 9.50
BEWILDERMENTS:
REFLECTIONS ON THE BOOK
OF NUMBERS
H1
Avivah Zornberg
Chair: Stephen Frosh
Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of
Numbers describes the profound existential
scepticism of the Children of Israel’s
forty-year wandering through the
wilderness, a generation who are the
receivers of the Torah, are fed on miracles
and nurtured directly by God. Drawing on a
variety of sources, including the mystical
and Hasidic, author and scholar Avivah
Zornberg discusses their predicament with
Professor Stephen Frosh.
H2
20
19:00-20:00
£ 9.50
20:30-22:00
£ 14.50
FAULT LINES
David Pryce-Jones
Chair: Jonathan Foreman
In his memoir, David Pryce-Jones, former literary editor
of the Financial Times and Spectator and author of
several major works, reveals his complex origins. Born
in Vienna, he is the Eton and Oxford-educated son of
writer Alan Pryce-Jones, while his mother, Therese
Fould-Springer, was a Viennese heiress. He talks about
his life, simultaneously very English and singularly
exotic, with journalist Jonathan Foreman.
H2
20:30-22:00
£ 9.50
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TUESDAY
23 FEBRUARY
Nikolaus Wachsmann
Chair: Anne Sebba
In a landmark work of history, Professor
Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an
unprecedented, integrated account of the
Nazi concentration camps from their
inception in 1933 through to their demise in
the spring of 1945. KL: A History of the Nazi
Concentration Camps is described by Mark
Mazower as ‘history writing of the highest
order’ and ‘surely one of the outstanding
books written on the Third Reich in the past
decade.’ Chaired by Anne Sebba.
19:00-20:00
PARTY ANIMALS:
GROWING UP COMMUNIST
David Aaronovitch
Chair: Stephen Grosz
KL: A HISTORY OF THE NAZI
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
H1
TUESDAY
23 FEBRUARY
In conversation with psychoanalyst
Stephen Grosz, award-winning journalist
David Aaronovitch describes growing up
in a communist North London family. In
re-examining his own memories and
studying old secret service files, he uncovers
the unspoken shame and fears that provide
the unconscious background to his own
existence as a party animal.
H1
20:30-22:00
£ 10.50
£ 9.50
THE HEALTH GAP
JEWS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
IN BRITAIN Michael Marmot
Chair: Henry Marsh
Michael Berkowitz
Chair: Francis Hodgson
Until now, little attention has been paid
to the pioneering role of Jews in all facets
of British photography, from the mid-19th
century to the Queen’s controversial
2007 photo-shoot with Annie Leibovitz.
Professor Michael Berkowitz has
conducted the first-ever historical
investigation of the vital contribution Jews
have made to photography’s history. He
discusses his findings with photography
critic Francis Hodgson.
H2
19:00-20:00
There are obvious factors that influence
how long a person or society can be
expected to live – income, diet, and
education, for example – and others that
are more surprising. Did you know that
the higher your rank in social and office
hierarchy, the longer your life expectancy?
Epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot talks
to neurosurgeon Henry Marsh about
new evidence from around the world that
has the potential to make us look afresh
not only at health and societies, but also
at ourselves.
£ 9.50
H2
22
20:30-22:00
£ 10.50
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WEDNESDAY
24 FEBRUARY
Nick Lane
Chair: Adam Rutherford
What was the bolt of energy that ignited
life on this planet? Why are there only
two sexes? Why do we age and die?
Evolutionary biochemist Nick Lane talks to
geneticist and presenter of Radio 4’s Inside
Science, Dr Adam Rutherford, about the
theories he expounds in The Vital Question,
which some suggest could be as influential
as the Copernican Revolution.
19:00-20:00
HISTORY’S PEOPLE
The George Webber Memorial Lecture
Margaret MacMillan
Chair: Antony Beevor
THE VITAL QUESTION
H1
WEDNESDAY
24 FEBRUARY
£ 10.50
Professor Margaret MacMillan interrogates
the past with fellow-historian Antony
Beevor to consider the role of individuals
and their behaviour. In her thoughtprovoking new book, History’s People:
Personalities and the Past, Margaret
MacMillan considers the impact of character
and personality on historical events,
analysing the interplay between individuals
and their worlds, from Roosevelt to Nixon,
Lord Beaverbrook to Margaret Thatcher, to
the revelatory diaries of Victor Klemperer.
H1
20:30-22:00
£ 12.50
BLACK HORSE RIDE Victor Blank, Ivan Fallon
THE 3RD WOMAN
Jonathan Freedland
Chair: Mark Lawson
The 3rd Woman is a high-concept thriller set
in a world in which the USA bows to the
People’s Republic of China, corruption is rife
and the government dictates what the
‘truth’ is. Jonathan Freedland explores the
genesis of his novel about an individual’s
quest for justice, in conversation with
author and broadcaster Mark Lawson,
whose most recent fiction is The Deaths.
H2
24
19:00-20:00
£ 9.50
Ivan Fallon reveals what really occurred
on perhaps the worst single day in banking
history, bringing together the accounts of
all the power players involved in this
dramatic saga. It includes the key roles
played by the Governor of the Bank of
England, the Prime Minister and the
Treasury. He revisits this unforgettable
time with the then-chairman of Lloyds
(the Black Horse bank), Sir Victor Blank,
in a unique public interview.
H2
20:30-22:00
£ 10.50
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THURSDAY
25 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY
25 FEBRUARY
STATINS: TO TAKE OR NOT TO TAKE
Ben Goldacre
Science writer Dr Ben Goldacre specialises in exposing the flaws in
modern medicine. In Do Statins Work? The Battle for Perfect
Evidence-Based Medicine he turns his attention to statins – the
single most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the developed
world, taken by over 100 million people. We know they do some
good, but we don’t know exactly how much, which are the best, or
how common are the side effects. Ben Goldacre offers us the tools
we need to make our own decisions.
19:00-20:00
£ 10.50
JEWS IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
Edith Hall, Tessa Rajak
Experts on the Classical world, Professor Edith Hall and Professor
Tessa Rajak, discuss the relationship between the Greeks, the Jews
and other civilisations in the Classical era. How did the Greeks regard
the Jews, and what did the Jews think about the Greeks? Was there
a cross-fertilisation of ideas and social mores? And why, may it be
whispered, were the Greeks so much more successful in transmitting
their ideas and culture to other civilisations than the Jews?
H2
19:00-20:00
Asaf Siniver
Chair: Natasha Lehrer
Abba Eban: A Biography is the first examination for almost 40 years
of the man whose exceptional skill as a spokesman for Israel in the
international arena elicited wide scale admiration. Historian Asaf
Siniver, in conversation with journalist Natasha Lehrer, explores the
influence and achievements of this South African-born politician
and diplomat who served as Israel’s first Ambassador to the UN and
Ambassador to the USA in the decade 1949-59, subsequently
becoming Israel’s Foreign Minister.
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19:00-20:00
Richard and Daniel Susskind
Frederic Raphael talks with Joan Bakewell about his
memoir, Going Up, a dazzling piece of virtuoso prose
writing that is fabulously indiscreet but also deeply
moving, laced throughout with wit and erudition. Raphael
describes experiences that were later absorbed in his
memorable novels and screenplays. He also discusses his
latest novel, Private Views.
H1
20:30-22:00
£ 10.50
In The Future of the Professions, Professor Richard
Susskind and Daniel Susskind predict the transformation
and decline of today’s professions and the systems that
will replace them as technology re-invents the way we all
work. This provocative book depicts a society where
we will neither need nor want doctors, lawyers, architects
or other professionals in ways that are recognisable to
us today.
H2
20:30-22:00
£ 9.50
£ 9.50
ABBA EBAN: A BIOGRAPHY
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THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSIONS
Frederic Raphael
Chair: Joan Bakewell
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SATURDAY
27 FEBRUARY
SUNDAY
28 FEBRUARY
WOODY ALLEN: FILM BY FILM
THE LIFE OF SAUL BELLOW
Jason Solomons
Chair: Robert Elms
In Association with The Times Literary Supplement
Zachary Leader
Chair: David Herman | Readings by: Henry Goodman
Everyone has their favourite Woody Allen film – whether it's one
of his nervous but hilarious urban romances such as Annie Hall or
Manhattan, or the later, lighter dramas such as Vicky Cristina
Barcelona or Blue Jasmine. Film critic Jason Solomons and
broadcaster Robert Elms have been discussing films on the radio
every week for over 15 years. Join BBC Radio London’s renowned
filmic double act as they talk Woody Allen – and probably jazz.
H1
19:00-20:00
In conversation with journalist David Herman, Zachary Leader
charts the rise to fame and fortune of one of the greatest American
prose writers of the 20th century. Having been granted
unprecedented access to previously restricted material, Leader
offers a vivid portrait of Saul Bellow up to the publication of Herzog
in 1964, tracing his turbulent life away from his desk as well as his
towering literary achievements. With readings by Henry Goodman.
£ 10.50
H1
11:00-12:00
£ 10.50
THEIR PROMISED LAND:
MY GRANDPARENTS IN LOVE AND WAR ‘a pioneering, up-to-date, fact-filled review of more than a century of the Zionist chronicle as viewed
through the prism of the Jewish right. shindler offers a brilliant analysis of how an opposition evolved
to become the leading movement in Israel today; it is a must-read for everybody wishing to grasp
whither the country is moving after nearly seventy years of national independence.’
– efraim Halevy, ninth director of the mossad and chairman of the shazar state Institute
for Jewish History
‘this timely and important book achieves two things. It offers a fascinating and masterful history of
the political right in Israel from the earliest days of the Zionist movement to the present day, and it
confirms Colin shindler’s status as one of the world’s leading scholars on modern Israel.’
– rory miller, Professor of Government, Georgetown University, school of Foreign
service, Qatar
‘Colin shindler has succeeded in placing the right wing within the wider context of changing social
and political values in Israel, drawing strongly on the ideological history of revisionist Zionism and
its leaders, and showing how changing demographics and growing enfranchisement have changed the
political stakes, not only for internal Israeli politics but also in terms of Israel’s relations with the Jewish diaspora and global politics. shindler has provided us with a well-researched analysis of the growth
of the right wing, which is of critical importance for anyone – students, diplomats or just interested
outsiders – trying to gain a deeper understanding of contemporary Israel and its political structures.’
– david newman, Professor of Geopolitics and dean of the Faculty of Humanities
and social sciences, ben-Gurion University of the negev
‘the Israeli parliamentary elections of 1977 saw a transfer of power to the right after several decades
of Labor Zionist and left-wing hegemony. Power has changed hands several times since 1977, but
through most of this period Israeli politics have been dominated by the right. the right wing itself
has been transformed in the process and netanyahu’s Likud is very different from begin’s party. both
experts and the broad public are beholden to Colin shindler for his ability to explain and present
these complex developments in a profound and clear fashion and to put them in the larger context of
Zionist and Israeli history.’
– Professor Itamar rabinovich, President of the Israel Institute, Washington and tel aviv
‘Colin shindler has given us a brilliant book about one of the most intriguing stories of the evolution
of the Israeli right – from Jabotinsky to netanyahu. this excellent book, written with unusual clarity
and authority, smoothly guides readers through the labyrinth of Israeli politics.’
– Vladimir rumyantsev, tomsk state University, russia
‘With his new study, Colin shindler has produced a tour de force. this is a carefully researched, comprehensive and detailed study, shedding light on Jabotinsky’s complexities, as well as lesser-known
personalities. this is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the domination of the Israeli
right in Israeli politics today.’
– suzanne d. rutland, oam, Professor, University of sydney
H2
19:00-20:00
£ 9.50
the rise of the israeli right
Ian Buruma, author of Year Zero, brings to life a remarkable
sixty-year marriage that survived many shocks and the span of two
world wars. In Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and
War, Buruma pays homage to achievements that included helping
twelve Jewish children to escape Nazi Germany and find new lives
in Britain. His spellbinding story tells of the sustaining power of a
family’s love and devotion through very dark days. Ian Buruma is in
conversation with Adam Thirlwell.
shindler
Ian Buruma
Chair: Adam Thirlwell
the rise of the
israeli right
From odessa to Hebron
colin shindler
THE RISE OF THE ISRAELI RIGHT
Colin Shindler
Chair: Derek Penslar
The Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago.
Its election was described then as ‘an earthquake’ and its
reverberations endure. In The Rise of the Israeli Right, Professor
Colin Shindler poses important questions – How did the Right rise
to power? What are its origins? – tracing its development from the
birth of Zionism to modern times. Professor Derek Penslar chairs.
H2
11:00-12:00
£ 9.50
Cover image: right-wing settlers wave Israeli flags
to celebrate Israel day in old Jerusalem, Israel.
Photo courtesy of © nik wheeler / alamy.
Cover design by Holly Johnson
THE BIG DEBATE
Sponsored by Simon and Alison Ryde as
supporters of Glow Fund
Howard Jacobson, Melanie Phillips,
Simon Schama
Chair: Jonathan Freedland
Tonight’s debate addresses the critical issues
and challenges confronting Jews today.
Anticipate a dynamic discussion concerning,
inter alia, politics, religion and society.
H1
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20:30-22:00
£ 24.50
A WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME
Jeremy Gavron
Chair: Anne Karpf
Jeremy Gavron’s searching account of his mother, who was rarely
talked about after her death, documents the all-too-short life of
Hannah Gavron, as he pieces together the events and pressures that
led to her suicide when he was just four. Jeremy Gavron discusses
his deeply personal and moving memoir with columnist, writer and
sociologist Anne Karpf.
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11:00-12:00
£ 6.50
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SUNDAY
28 FEBRUARY
SUNDAY
28 FEBRUARY
LOVE, ART AND LITERATURE
THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE
Hannah Rothschild, Francine Prose
Chair: Erica Wagner
Thomas Harding
Chair: James Harding
Celebrated New York author and critic
Francine Prose frequently turns her
attention towards art and artists, as
she did in her study of Caravaggio.
The new Chair of the National Gallery,
Hannah Rothschild, author of The
Improbability of Love, also knows a thing
or two about art. Their conversation
with Erica Wagner ranges freely over
their writing and passions.
Thomas Harding, prize-winning author of Hanns and Rudolf, talks to
his cousin, BBC News and Current Affairs Director, James Harding,
about The House by the Lake. This groundbreaking history of
Germany from the late 19th century to the present day is vividly
recounted via the stories of the inhabitants of their modest
family-built summer house set on a beautiful lake outside Berlin.
H1
12:30-13:30
H1
14:00-15:00
£ 10.50
£ 12.50
IN WARTIME: STORIES FROM UKRAINE
WAKING LIONS
In Association with World Jewish Relief
In Association with Pushkin Press
Tim Judah
Chair: Ben Judah
In his new book, veteran war reporter Tim Judah examines the
impact of ongoing conflict on the inhabitants of Ukraine. He talks to
mothers, soldiers, businessmen, poets and politicians, whose
memories of a contested past shape their attitudes, allegiances and
hopes for the future. With his son Ben Judah he discusses how these
stories paint a vivid picture of a nation trapped between powerful
political and historical forces.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Chair: Josh Glancy
Rapidly following her acclaimed debut One Night Markowitz,
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s second novel, Waking Lions, is a gripping,
suspenseful and morally devastating drama that looks at the
darkness inside us all. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen discusses her work
with Josh Glancy.
H2
H2
12:30-13:30
£ 9.50
LOOSE CONNECTIONS
THE IGNORANT MAESTRO
Esther Menell, Jeremy Lewis
Chair: Michele Hanson
Itay Talgam
Esther Menell joins forces with fellowpublisher Jeremy Lewis, author of a new
biography of David Astor, to throw light
on the endlessly fascinating world of
publishing. They recall larger-than-life
characters such as publishers Andre
Deutsch and Anthony Blond, and writers
Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Edmund White.
Esther Menell’s memoir is a counterpoint
to her friend and colleague Diana Athill’s
publishing memoir Stet. Guardian journalist
Michele Hanson chairs.
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14:00-15:00
12:30-13:30
£ 9.50
In The Ignorant Maestro, symphony orchestra conductor Itay
Talgam draws on his experience on the podium to reveal the
conductor’s art. Turning to six of the most iconic conductors – from
the dictatorial Muti to Bernstein – Talgam’s anecdotes and insights
will change the way you think about listening, humility and the
unpredictable path to brilliance.
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14:00-15:00
£ 6.50
£ 6.50
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SUNDAY
28 FEBRUARY
SUNDAY
28 FEBRUARY
SHYLOCK IS MY NAME
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM:
THE SHOCK OF THE MODERN
Howard Jacobson
Chair: Alex Clark
Francine Prose
Chair: Julia Peyton-Jones
In conversation with Co-Director of the Serpentine Gallery, Julia
Peyton-Jones, best-selling author Francine Prose presents a vivid
portrait of Peggy Guggenheim, tracing her life on both sides of the
Atlantic – from her avant-garde gallery in midtown New York to her
astonishing museum on Venice’s Grand Canal. With her unique
collecting habits, paradigm-changing discoveries, celebrity
friendships, failed marriages and scandalous affairs, there was
nothing remotely monochrome about the life of Peggy Guggenheim.
H1
15:30-16:30
Written with Howard Jacobson’s customary originality, energy
and wit, Shylock is My Name is the Man Booker Prize-winner’s
profound and provocative re-telling of The Merchant of Venice in
a contemporary setting. Howard Jacobson talks to the Guardian’s
Alex Clark about his interpretation of Shylock’s story, asking what
it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the
modern world.
H1
17:00-18:00
£ 10.50
£ 10.50
FORGOTTEN FICTIONS: THE WISE VIRGINS
ART AND RELIGION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
In Association with the Society of Authors
In Association with Three Faiths Forum
Lyndall Gordon, Victoria Glendinning
Chair: Anne Sebba
Aaron Rosen, Leni Diner Dothan, Ben Quash
JBW joins forces with the Society of Authors to celebrate
Persephone Press’s new edition of Leonard Woolf’s forgotten
classic, The Wise Virgins. Written on the Woolfs’ honeymoon in 1912,
the semi-autobiographical novel examining moral, personal and
social dilemmas, is discussed by Leonard Woolf’s biographer
Victoria Glendinning and literary biographer Lyndall Gordon, with
Anne Sebba.
H2
15:30-16:30
Aaron Rosen has conducted the first in-depth study of an
international roster of contemporary artists who use their work to
explore religion’s cultural, social, political and psychological impact
on today’s world. He is joined by artist Leni Diner Dothan, who has
created a specially-commissioned artwork for JBW 2016, and
Reverend Professor Ben Quash.
H2
17:00-18:00
£ 9.50
£ 7.50
NORDIC NOIR JEWISH STYLE
SCARY OLD SEX
Harri Nykänen, Kristina Ohlsson
Chair: Adam LeBor | Interpreter: Merja Nykänen
In Association with Bloomsbury
Nordic Noir has swept the world. Two of Northern
Europe’s most celebrated crime fiction writers,
Finland’s Harri Nykänen, creator of Jewish
detective Ariel Kafka, and Kristina Ohlsson,
one of Sweden’s foremost crime writers, introduce
their latest Jewish-themed page-turners to UK
audiences with fellow crime writer Adam LeBor.
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15:30-16:30
FREE
Arlene Heyman
Chair: Irma Kurtz
In conversation with Irma Kurtz, Arlene Heyman,
New York psychoanalyst and Bernard Malamud’s
muse, introduces her debut collection of short
stories, revealing what really goes on in people’s
minds, relationships and their beds. Raw, tender,
funny, truthful and often shocking, Scary Old Sex
is a fierce exploration of the chaos and beauty
of life.
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17:00-18:00
£ 6.50
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SUNDAY
28 FEBRUARY
SUNDAY
28 FEBRUARY
NOT IN GOD’S NAME
THE SOHO CHRONICLES
Jonathan Sacks
Chair: Daniel Finkelstein
William Kentridge
Chair: Matthew Kentridge
In his book The Soho Chronicles, Matthew Kentridge
documents the series of ten animated films made
over 22 years by his brother, the internationallycelebrated artist William Kentridge. Set in their
home city of Johannesburg, the films feature
William’s alter ego, Soho Eckstein. The brothers
discuss the evolution of technique, themes and ideas
over time as the films – originally conceived as a
distraction, something to fill the gaps between
exhibitions – have magnificently exceeded their brief.
In his powerful and timely new book, Not in God’s Name, Rabbi Jonathan
Sacks, in conversation with Daniel Finkelstein, tackles the phenomenon of
religious extremism. If religion is perceived to be part of the problem, he
argues, it must also form part of the solution. To understand this, you first
have to recognize the concept of ‘altruistic evil’, of violence committed in the
name of God, and only by understanding our collective past will we be able
to build a better future.
H1
18:30-19:30
£ 12.50
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With thanks to Mr and Mrs M Green
In Association with the Wiener Library
Tuvia Tenenbom
Chair: David Aaronovitch
Who is Tuvia Tenenbom, alias Tobi the German, the Bnei Brak-born gonzo
journalist who goes where others fear to tread? Everywhere Tobi ventures
he encounters anti-Israel sentiment or self-hating Jews. What does David
Aaronovitch make of the conclusions Tenenbom draws from the adventures
of his alias? Come and find out.
18:30-19:30
£ 24.50
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE METROPOLE:
A PLAY IN TWO ACTS
CATCH THE JEW!
H2
20:00-21:30
£ 10.50
What Happened at the Metropole is written by Adam Fergusson
and Caroline Moorehead. It is a docudrama derived from the
records of a meeting held by the International Red Cross in Geneva
in 1942 in response to newly available evidence about the death
camps. The play features characters based on real historical figures.
An enacted play-reading presents leading actors, to include
Eleanor Bron, Philip Fox, Ilan Goodman, Nicholas Jones and
Sian Thomas.
Directed by Tristram Powell, with script editing by Honor Borwick.
The performance will be followed by a Q&A with Adam Fergusson
and Caroline Moorehead.
FIVE SELVES
Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein
Chair: Mekella Broomberg
H2
Scholar and author Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein’s beautiful collection of
short stories describes the ‘five selves’ of modern Israeli identity, covering
diverse themes from intergenerational concepts of identity to mourning a
father’s death. She is in conversation with Mekella Broomberg, JW3’s Head
of Arts and Culture.
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18:30-19:30
FREE
20:00-21:30
£ 10.50
AKIVA: LIFE, LEGEND AND LEGACY
Reuven Hammer
The legendary Akiva ben Josef has fascinated
Jews for centuries. One of the most important
early Jewish sages, his theology is still pondered,
argued over and revered today. Rabbi Reuven
Hammer throws new light on one of Judaism’s
most powerful scholars.
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20:00-21:30
£ 6.50
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AT JW3
LUNCHTIMES
AT JW3
TUESDAY, 23 FEBRUARY
WHO WAS MOSES?
Avivah Zornberg
MONDAY, 22 FEBRUARY
STOLEN LEGACY
In association with the Second Generation Network
Dina Gold
Chair: Melanie Phillips
Dina Gold’s Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for
Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18, Berlin is a gripping story
of her battle to reclaim the majestic six-storey building
seized by the Nazis from her once-prominent Berlin family.
Dina Gold outlines the unfolding of this unusual narrative
in conversation with Melanie Phillips.
13:00-14:00
£ 8.00
£ 12.00 double bill
In Association with the Austrian Cultural Forum
In Born Survivors Wendy Holden recounts the tale of
three exceptional women. Priska, Rachel and Anka were
strangers to each other, but they all survived the death
camps, as did their new-born babies. Sixty-five years
later the three ‘miracle babies’ met for the first time at
Mauthausen on the anniversary of the camp’s liberation.
Wendy Holden will be joined by Eva Clarke, one of the
survivors, to be interviewed by the journalist Jenni Frazer.
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£ 8.00
ANTI-SEMITISM
In Association with Biteback Publishing
Frederic Raphael
Chair: David Pryce-Jones
14:30-15:30
Wendy Holden, Eva Clarke
Chair: Jenni Frazer
TICKETS
13:00-14:00
In his powerful new polemic, Anti-Semitism, renowned novelist and
screenwriter Frederic Raphael considers why intense hostility has been
directed so relentlessly towards Jews for more than two millennia. Frederic
Raphael is joined by David Pryce-Jones in a penetrating analysis of this
crucial perennial question.
BORN SURVIVORS
14:30-15:30
The life of Moses is full of ambiguity. He is one of the most significant
figures in Jewish history, making a uniquely potent contribution to both the
Jewish religion and the Jewish nation, yet he grew up as an Egyptian. His
extraordinary legacy and dual identity willl explored by the eminent scholar
Avivah Zornberg.
£ 8.00
£ 8.00
WEDNESDAY, 24 FEBRUARY
FERTILE IMAGINATIONS
Tracy Chevalier, Esther Freud
Chair: Olivia Lichtenstein
Tracy Chevalier and Esther Freud, two of
our finest novelists, are both contributors to
Reader, I Married Him – a soon-to-be-published
anthology of stories inspired by Jane Eyre.
They talk about the creative process, their
stories, writing historical fiction, and their
latest novels, At the Edge of the Orchard and
Mr Mac and Me, with documentary-maker
Olivia Lichtenstein.
13:00-14:00
£ 8.00
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LUNCHTIMES
AT JW3
LUNCHTIMES
AT JW3
WEDNESDAY, 24 FEBRUARY
FRIDAY, 26 FEBRUARY
CAPTIVATING FICTIONS
SPIES: FACT AND FICTION Polly Samson, Virginia Baily
Chair: Linda Kelsey
Mishka Ben-David, Adam LeBor
In Association with Halban Publishers
Mishka Ben-David served in Mossad as a
high-ranking officer. Now a full-time novelist, he
writes tense thrillers about Mossad agents
worldwide. Forbidden Love in St Petersburg is his
second translated novel and he talks about his
time in Mossad and how it informs his writing.
Adam LeBor is the author of several acclaimed
works of non-fiction, including City of Oranges
and a biography of Milosevic. His gripping thrillers
are international bestsellers. The Reykjavik
Assignment is his second novel to feature rogue
ex-Mossad agent Yael Azoulay.
Two of our fastest-rising literary stars, author and
editor Virginia Baily and Polly Samson, journalist,
author and lyricist for some of Pink Floyd’s most
celebrated songs, share a platform to discuss
their compelling new novels Early One Morning
and The Kindness with former magazine editor
and author Linda Kelsey.
14:30-15:30
£ 8.00
THURSDAY, 25 FEBRUARY
13:00-14:00
BETWEEN TEL AVIV AND MOSCOW:
A LIFE OF DISSENT GETTING THERE
Nir Arielli
Chair: Anastasia Belina-Johnson
Find JW3 at 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET.
The story of Leah Trachtman-Palchan’s migration from Eastern
Europe to Palestine in 1921 proved anything but predictable. Her
association with the Communist movement in Palestine led to her
deportation by the British to the Soviet Union for 30 years,
throwing her into the path of some of the most pivotal events of the
20th century. Her great-nephew, historian Nir Arielli, has edited her
memoir and discusses this extraordinary life with musicologist
Anastasia Belina-Johnson.
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13:00-14:00
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Centre, 400m away. Free parking on
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after 7pm (6.30pm side roads) Mondays
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In 1976 a group of German and Palestinian terrorists hijacked an Air
France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris, eventually forcing it to land in
Uganda. Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe,
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FRANK
BOURNEMOUTH
MANCHESTER
Wednesday, 13 January
Wendy Holden will speak at Bournemouth
Manchester is presenting a series of
JBW satellite events featuring five
Festival authors:
Central Library about her book Born
Jake Auerbach presents a screening
of his film FRANK, to coincide with
Frank Auerbach's current exhibition at
Tate Britain.
Survivors, the story of three exceptional
women and their babies who survived the
horror of the Nazi death camps. Eva Clarke,
one of the ‘miracle babies’, will join her.
“FRANK is a film I thought I would never
make. When the exhibition, now at Tate
Britain, opened in the Kunstmuseum Bonn
in June 2015, I filmed the show so that Frank
(Auerbach) could see how it looked. I am a
filmmaker and a little while ago we set up a
projector and I filmed his responses to
seeing the work after a break of up to 60
years. The result is a film that unfolds an
obsessive painter’s personal manifesto.”
Jake Auerbach
H1
19:00
Date: TBA. Please email:
vicki.goldie@bournemouthlibraries.org.uk
LEEDS
On Tuesday January 5 at 8pm, under the
auspices of the Leeds Jewish Historical
Society, the United Hebrew Congregation
Leeds and UJIA, historian and broadcaster
Saul David will present his new book
Operation Thunderbolt at the UHC
Synagogue, 151 Shadwell Lane LS17 8DW.
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is free – we’d love to see
you there!
Two young artists have been
commissioned to create
artwork for JBW Kings Place.
Leni Diner Dothan and
Miranda Lopatkin examine
the connections between
love, life and art. Look out for
our specially commissioned
art installations throughout
the building.
On Wednesday March 2 at Yeshurun
at 8pm, Dan Stone will discuss
The Liberation of the Camps.
Telephone: 0161 428 8242 or
email: office@yeshurun.org.uk
Colin Shindler will present The Rise of
FESTIVAL BOOKSHOP
the Israeli Right at the UHC Synagogue,
Telephone: 0161 928 2050
Blackwell’s will once again
run our festival bookshop on
the entrance level at Kings
Place. All signings for
speakers’ books will take
place on the balcony level
following their events.
151 Shadwell Lane LS17 8DW.
£ 9.50
On Monday February 29 at 8pm, under
the auspices of the Leeds Jewish
Hebrew Congregation Leeds, Professor
At Kings Place’s balcony level
this year we look forward to
welcoming you to ‘The
Space’. This area, created by
designer Elizabeth Harper,
will host informal talks,
readings and discussions on
both Sundays. Drop in to
take part in the ‘Death’ Café,
to hear poetry readings and
bite-sized talks. Everything
happening at ‘The Space’
Telephone: 0161 428 7746 or
email: arts@menorah.org.uk
On Sunday March 6 at Bowdon
(in conjunction with Hale) at 6pm,
Colin Shindler will be speaking on
The Rise of the Israeli Right; and at 8pm
Thomas Harding will talk about The House
by the Lake.
Historical Society and the United
ART AT JBW 2016
On Sunday February 28 at Menorah
at 6pm Wendy Holden and Eva Clarke
will discuss Born Survivors with Gita Conn
and at 8pm Saul David will present
Operation Thunderbolt.
For more information on both of these
events, please contact Malcolm Sender:
Phone 0113 318 6403 mobile: 07726 325 524
or email: msender101@gmail.com
LIVERPOOL
On Thursday February 25, former Mossad
agent turned novelist Mishka Ben-David
will present his thriller Forbidden Love in
St Petersburg at the Lee Park Golf Club,
Childwall Valley Road L27 3YA.
For more information please email:
hilary@swedlow.co.uk
OXFORD
On Thursday February 18 David
Aaronovitch will present his latest book
Party Animals: My Family and Other
Communists with Rebecca Abrams
at The Oxford Jewish Centre.
For further information please telephone:
07525 785 200 or email: enquiries@ojc-online.org
A number of Festival speakers will also
give talks at London schools, including
Thomas Harding, Steven Gimbel, Nikolaus
Wachsmann and Avivah Zornberg.
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VICTOR BLANK, business leader, former
CEO and Chairman of the Charterhouse
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MICHAEL COX is Director of LSE IDEAS
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Relations at LSE. He is currently writing a
history of LSE. p9
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writer, novelist and columnist. Her first
novel, A Golden Age, was the Best First
Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth
Writers’ Prize. p18
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NIR ARIELLI is Lecturer in International
ELEANOR BRON is a stage, film and
television actress and author. She joined
the cast of The Archers in 2014 and plays
Patsy’s mother in Absolutely Fabulous.
p35
LENI DINER DOTHAN is an Israeli-born
JAKE AUERBACH runs an independent
film company. His work has been
broadcast and shown in museums around
the world. p9, 40
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SAMANTHA ELLIS, brought up in
IAN BURUMA, award-winning journalist,
writer and historian, is Professor of
Journalism, Human Rights and Democracy
at Bard College, New York. p28
ROBERT ELMS is a broadcaster, writer
and former editor of The Face, the
presenter of a long-running radio show
and the author of The Way We Wore, a
history of youth culture and fashion. p28
INGRID CARLBERG is a celebrated
Swedish author and journalist. Her
biography of Raoul Wallenberg was
awarded the August Prize for the best
Swedish work of non-fiction. p14
IVAN FALLON is a South Africa-based
media executive, formerly CEO of
Independent News & Media and Business
Editor and Deputy Editor of The Sunday
Times. p25
TRACY CHEVALIER is a Washingtonborn prize-winning novelist whose
forthcoming projects include Reader, I
Married Him, a collection of short-stories
inspired by Jane Eyre, and a re-telling of
Othello. p37
ADAM FERGUSSON has been a
writer and broadcaster on culture,
international affairs, politics and the media.
A Times columnist, his books include
Voodoo Histories. p23, 34
History and Politics at the University of
Leeds, whose previous books include
Fascist Italy and the Middle East: 1933-40.
p38
VIRGINIA BAILY, bestselling novelist,
founder and co-editor of short-story
journal Riptide, is also editor of Africa
Research Bulletin. p38
JOAN BAKEWELL, author, journalist,
broadcaster and President of Birkbeck
College, sits in the House of Lords. Her
most recent book is Stop the Clocks. p27
EMANUELA BARASCH-RUBINSTEIN,
Israel-based writer, scholar and blogger,
has published academic books in the
humanities, mainly on understanding
Nazism in a cultural context. p34
ANTONY BEEVOR, eminent historian,
whose books have sold more than six
million copies and been translated into
numerous languages. His latest is
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ANASTASIA BELINA-JOHNSON,
musicologist, writer, presenter and opera
director, is deputy head of Undergraduate
Programmes at the Royal College of
Music. p38
World Literature in English at the
University of Oxford, a novelist, biographer
and judge of the 2015 Man Booker
International Prize. p17
and Culture at JW3, was formerly curator
of Jewish Book Week. p34
NICOLA CHRISTIE, editor of the JQ,
has written for most UK broadsheets,
and is the Film Programmer for UK Jewish
Film. p18
ALEX CLARK is a leading literary
journalist and broadcaster who writes for
the Guardian and the Observer and makes
regular appearances on BBC Radio 4. p33
MISHKA BEN-DAVID served in the
Mossad for twelve years. Now an author,
whose eight books include spy novels,
he lives outside Jerusalem. p39
EVA CLARKE was born at the gates of
Mauthausen on 29th April 1945. She
regularly speaks in association with the
Holocaust Education Trust. p36
MICHAEL BERKOWITZ is Professor of
Modern Jewish History at UCL and editor
of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions
of the Jewish Historical Society of
England. p22
RUTH CORMAN is an art consultant,
journalist and photographer who works on
design projects worldwide. Her first book
was a life of the photojournalist David
Rubinger. p12
History at the University of Buckingham.
His critically-acclaimed books include Zulu,
Victoria’s Wars and 100 Days to Victory.
p38
artist and architect whose work explores
narrative themes from the biblical, classical
and mythological worlds. p33, 40
London’s Iraqi-Jewish community, is a
bestselling author whose books include
How to be a Heroine, and a judge of this
year’s JQ-Wingate Prize. p13, 18
journalist, politician, MEP, and special
adviser to the Foreign Office. His five
books include When Money Dies, a history
of the Weimar inflation. p35
PEDRO FERREIRA, Professor of
Astrophysics at the University of Oxford,
is author of The Perfect Theory, an
acclaimed ‘biography’ of General
Relativity. p14
DANIEL FINKELSTEIN, formerly adviser
to John Major and William Hague and a
former executive editor of The Times,
remains a Times columnist and associate
editor and sits in the House of Lords. p34
JONATHAN FOREMAN, journalist,
film critic and Co-founder of Standpoint
magazine, is now their Writer-at-Large and
writes for publications including The New
Yorker and the Telegraph. p21
PHILIP FOX is a film and television actor,
known particularly for comic roles. He has
also performed in many productions for
BBC Radio 4, most notably adaptations of
Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods and Mort.
p35
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BIOGRAPHIES
JENNI FRAZER, Glasgow-born
award-winning Jewish journalist, formerly
assistant editor of the JC and now a
freelance writer for UK national and Jewish
newspapers. p16, 36
BEN GOLDACRE, award-winning writer,
JAMES HARDING, a former editor of
ANDREW JAFFE is Professor of
JONATHAN FREEDLAND, the
Guardian’s executive editor, Opinion,
weekly columnist, and winner of the 2014
Orwell Prize, has also written bestselling
thrillers as Sam Bourne. p24, 28
HENRY GOODMAN is a leading actor,
THOMAS HARDING, a journalist and
ELLIOTT JAGER, Jerusalem-based
freelance journalist, former editorial page
editor at the Jerusalem Post and founding
managing editor of Jewish Ideas Daily
(now Mosaic). p12
HARRY FREEDMAN is a writer and
academic with a PhD in Aramaic. His
previous books include The Talmud: A
Biography. p17
HADLEY FREEMAN, author of The
Meaning of Sunglasses and Be Awesome,
is a staff writer for the Guardian and a
contributor to US Vogue. p9
ESTHER FREUD was an actress before
writing her first novel, Hideous Kinky,
which was turned into a film. A former
Granta Best Young British Novelist, she
has published seven novels. p37
STEPHEN FROSH, Professor of
Psychology and Pro-Vice-Master of
Birkbeck, is author of numerous academic
books including For and Against
Psychoanalysis. p20
JEREMY GAVRON, former foreign
correspondent in Africa and India, is
author of two works of nonfiction,
including Encore Award winner The Book
of Israel, and three novels. p29
STEVEN GIMBEL is Professor of
Philosophy at Gettysburg College. His
latest books examine the impact of Jewish
heritage on Einstein’s science, politics and
life. p12, 14
JOSH GLANCY is a feature writer and
the deputy editor of The Sunday Times
News Review. He also contributes to the
JC and reviews books for the Literary
Review. p11, 31
VICTORIA GLENDINNING, biographer,
novelist and critic, has written about the
lives of many eminent writers including
Leonard Woolf. She is currently writing a
novel about nuns. p32
DINA GOLD, former BBC investigative
journalist and producer, lives in
Washington, DC. She is a senior editor at
Moment magazine and Co-Chair of
Washington Jewish Film Festival. p36
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BIOGRAPHIES
Guardian ‘Bad Science’ columnist
2003-2011, broadcaster and medical
doctor, specialises in unpicking scientific
claims. p26
twice recipient of the Laurence Olivier
award and winner of the London Critics’
Circle Award. He has recently starred as
Volpone in the Trevor Nunn production.
p10, 14, 16, 29
ILAN GOODMAN is a RADA-trained
actor who has appeared extensively on
stage in the UK, most recently in Joshua
Harmon’s Bad Jews. p35
LYNDALL GORDON, an award-winning
literary biographer, is Senior Research
Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Her
most recent book is a memoir: Divided
Lives. p32
GABRIEL GORODETSKY is a Quondam
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and
Professor Emeritus of History at Tel Aviv
University. p16
ROGER GRAEF, documentary-maker,
journalist and author, was awarded the
BAFTA Fellowship Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2014. p17
STEPHEN GROSZ, a practising
psychoanalyst and author of the
bestselling The Examined Life, teaches at
the Institute of Psychoanalysis and in the
Psychoanalysis Unit at UCL. p23
AYELET GUNDAR-GOSHEN is an Israeli
author, scriptwriter and filmmaker who has
won awards for her screenplays and films
and the Sapir Prize for her debut novel
One Night, Markovitch. p31
EDITH HALL is Professor of Classics
at King’s College London, a frequent
broadcaster, and author of over 20
acclaimed books on the classical era. p26
REUVEN HAMMER is a world renowned
scholar, Jewish educator and leader and
winner of two National Jewish Book
Awards. p35
MICHELE HANSON, a Guardian writer
for 30 years, whose autobiography What
the Grown-ups were Doing was a Sunday
Times bestseller. p30
The Times, is BBC Director of News and
Current Affairs. p21, 31
author, was shortlisted for the 2013 COSTA
Biography Award and winner of the
JQ-Wingate Prize for his bestselling Hanns
and Rudolf. p31
Astrophysics and Cosmology at Imperial
College, London. p14
ELIZABETH HARPER trained as a
NICHOLAS JONES is a RADA-trained
English character actor whose many
stage, film and television appearances
include Philomena, Kavanagh QC, Foyle’s
War and Spooks. p35
MICHAEL HASLAM, musical director,
NICOLETTE JONES is a writer, critic and
broadcaster, specialising in literary and
arts journalism. She has been children’s
books editor of The Sunday Times for
more than two decades. p15
theatre designer at the Bristol Old Vic
Theatre School and works on productions
in London and Bristol. p40
conductor and pianist, is also a skilled
arranger and orchestrator who has
worked extensively in the West End, at the
National Theatre and on tour. p10
SIMON HATTENSTONE, features writer
and interviewer for the Guardian, also
writes books including two e-book
compilations of interviews with actors and
major sporting figures. p12
DAVID HERMAN produced TV
programmes before becoming a freelance
writer for journals including the JC,
Prospect, Standpoint and the New
Statesman. p29
ARLENE HEYMAN a psychiatrist/
psychoanalyst practising in New York, is
the recipient of Woodrow Wilson,
Fulbright, Rockefeller and Robert Wood
Johnson fellowships. p33
FRANCIS HODGSON, Professor in the
Culture of Photography at the University
of Brighton, is photography critic for the
FT and one of the founders of Prix Pictet.
p22 WENDY HOLDEN, journalist and former
foreign and war correspondent at the
Telegraph, is author and co-author of
more than thirty books. p36
MICHAEL IPGRAVE, Bishop of
Woolwich, is current Chairman of the
Council of Christians and Jews. p17
HOWARD JACOBSON, writer of 13
novels and five works of nonfiction,
commentator and essayist. He has won
numerous awards including the 2010 Man
Booker Prize for The Finkler Question.
p28, 33
BEN JUDAH, journalist, foreign
correspondent and author of Fragile
Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of
Love with Vladimir Putin. p11, 30
TIM JUDAH is an author, reporter and
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE is a renowned
South African artist who exhibits
worldwide and is the recipient of
numerous awards and honours. He
recently directed Alban Berg’s Lulu for The
Metropolitan Opera. p35
JUDITH KERR is the celebrated author
and illustrator of internationally acclaimed
children’s books including Mog, The Tiger
Who Came to Tea and When Hitler Stole
Pink Rabbit. p15
FRANCESCA KLUG is a visiting
professor and former Director of the
Human Rights Futures Project at the LSE
Centre for the Study of Human Rights. p11
HENRY KNOBIL, a company director,
was born in Vienna in 1932. He has an
honorary doctorate from Bar Ilan
University and has chaired many boards.
p12
KATYA KRAUSOVA, Czechoslovakian-
born independent film and documentary
maker, is Co-Founder of Portobello Films
which made the Oscar-winning Kolya. p17
political analyst for The Economist. His
books include The Serbs: History, Myth
and the Destruction of Yugoslavia and
Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know.
p30
IRMA KURTZ joined Cosmopolitan as
OLIVER KAMM is a leader writer and
NICHOLAS LANDER, the FT’s
columnist for The Times whose book on
grammar, Accidence Will Happen: The
Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage,
was published in 2015. p13
agony aunt in 1972. A frequent
broadcaster, she has also written three
self-help books, two novels and three
travel books. p33
restaurant critic and author of The Art of
the Restaurateur, is a previous owner of
the celebrated Soho restaurant,
L’ Escargot. p13
ANNE KARPF, writer, broadcaster,
Guardian columnist and sociologist, is author of several books including The War
After: Living With The Holocaust. p29
NICK LANE, Reader in Evolutionary
Biochemistry at UCL, is author of three
acclaimed books on evolutionary
biochemistry which have sold more than
100,000 copies worldwide. p24
LINDA KELSEY, former editor of
Cosmopolitan and SHE, contributes to
numerous magazines and national
newspapers and writes novels about
women’s lives and relationships. p38
MARK LAWSON is a journalist,
HELENA KENNEDY sits in the House of
Lords, is a QC and campaigns tirelessly for
social justice. The recipient of numerous
honours, she has just been appointed
Chair of the Booker Prize Foundation. p11
MATTHEW KENTRIDGE is a
management consultant and author,
currently writing a novel for children. The
Soho Chronicles is his first collaboration
with William Kentridge. p35
broadcaster and author. A Guardian
columnist, he presented Radio 4’s flagship
arts programme Front Row between 1998
and 2014, and now presents Mark Lawson
Talks To… on BBC Four. p24
ZACHARY LEADER is Professor of
English Literature at Roehampton
University and author of many books. p29
ADAM LEBOR is a British journalist,
writer and novelist living in Budapest. His
books include the Orwell Prize shortlisted
Hitler’s Secret Bankers and the bestselling
City of Oranges. p32, 39
NATASHA LEHRER, writer, translator
and editor, writes for publications
including the TLS, the Guardian and the JC
and is literary editor of the JQ. p26
JEREMY LEWIS spent the first half of his
career in book publishing before
becoming a full-time journalist and
biographer. He is Editor-at-Large of the
Literary Review. p30
OLIVIA LICHTENSTEIN is a BAFTA
award-winning documentary-maker,
former editor of BBC’s Inside Story and
author of two novels including Mrs
Zhivago of Queen’s Park. p37
NATALIE LIVINGSTONE, began her
career as a Daily Express feature writer
and now writes for a variety of magazines
and newspapers. The Mistresses of
Cliveden is her first book. p15
MIRANDA LOPATKIN has exhibited her
work at the National Portrait Gallery, the
Jewish Museum, PM Gallery and the Ben
Uri Gallery and national and international
private galleries. p40
MARGARET MACMILLAN is Warden of
St Antony’s College and Professor of
International History at the University of
Oxford. Her Paris 1919: Six Months that
Changed the World won the Samuel
Johnson Prize and she is the recipient of
numerous other awards. p25
BENJAMIN MARKOVITS grew up in
Texas, London and Berlin. He teaches at
Royal Holloway, University of London and
is author of eight novels as well as essays,
stories, poetry and reviews. p15
MICHAEL MARMOT, knighted in 2000, is
Professor of Epidemiology and Public
Health at UCL and President of the World
Medical Association. He is currently
Bernard Lown Visiting Professor at
Harvard. p23
HENRY MARSH, a consultant
neurosurgeon at London’s Atkinson
Morley’s/St George’s Hospital from
1987-2015, is author of the award-winning
memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death
and Brain Surgery. p23
TIM MARTIN is a writer and critic, with a
regular column in the Daily Telegraph. p15
ESTHER MENELL arrived in England as a
child at the outbreak of WW2; Oxford was
followed by a long career in publishing at
André Deutsch as a colleague of
Diana Athill. p30
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BIOGRAPHIES
CAROLINE MOOREHEAD is the New
York Times bestselling author of, among
many books, A Train in Winter, the first in
her Resistance Trilogy. Village of Secrets,
the second, was shortlisted for the Samuel
Johnson Prize. p35
JULIA PEYTON-JONES has been
IAN MORRIS, Willard Professor of
MELANIE PHILLIPS, award-winning
Classics at Stanford University, is Philippe
Roman Chair in History and International
Affairs at LSE IDEAS for 2015-16. p9
SUSAN NEIMAN, an American moral
philosopher who has taught at Yale and
Tel Aviv Universities, is currently Director
of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Her
previous books include Moral Clarity. p11
JULIA NEUBERGER is Senior Rabbi at
journalist and author, is best known for
her weekly column, now appearing in
The Times about political and social
issues and her appearances on Radio 4’s
Moral Maze. p28, 36
PETER POMERANTSEV, a former
consultant for the EU and World Bank,
spent ten years making TV documentaries
in Moscow and is now a London-based
journalist. p21
West London Synagogue. A cross bench
member of the House of Lords and social
commentator, she writes and broadcasts
on a variety of social and religious issues.
p16
TRISTRAM POWELL is a film and
television director whose credits include
adaptations of the novels The Ghost
Writer by Philip Roth and Falling by
Elizabeth Jane Howard. p35
HARRI NYKÄNEN, born in Helsinki, was
FRANCINE PROSE, Distinguished Writer
a well-known crime journalist before
turning to fiction in 1986. His thrillers
feature Jewish-Finnish detective Ariel
Kafka. p32
in Residence at Bard College, literary critic,
arts commentator and author of more
than 20 books both fiction and nonfiction. p30, 32
HUGO RIFKIND, an award-winning
Edinburgh-born journalist, writes for The
Times, the Spectator and GQ and is a
frequent panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The
News Quiz. p18
SIMON SCHAMA, Professor of Art
ITAY TALGAM, a protégé of Leonard
Bernstein, has conducted prominent
orchestras and ensembles worldwide and
teaches leadership to Fortune 500
companies. p31
KATE WILLIAMS, Professor of History at
JANCIS ROBINSON, the first person
outside the wine trade to pass the Master
of Wine exams, travels the world as the
FT’s wine correspondent and is an
award-winning TV presenter. p13
SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE is an
TUVIA TENENBOM, author, journalist
and dramatist, founder of the Jewish
Theater of New York and author of the
bestselling Alone Among Germans. p34
ROBERT WINSTON, Professor of
AARON ROSEN, lecturer in Sacred
ANNE SEBBA, biographer, lecturer,
Traditions & the Arts at King’s College
London, previously taught at Yale, Oxford
and Columbia and is a guest curator at
London’s Jewish Museum. p33
journalist and former Reuters foreign
correspondent, has written eight books
and is chair of the Society of Authors.
p15, 22, 32
ADAM THIRLWELL is the author of three
novels, Politics, The Escape and Lurid &
Cute. His work is translated into 30
languages and he has twice been selected
as one of Granta’s Best of Young British
Novelists. p28
JONATHAN WITTENBERG is Senior
Rabbi of Masorti Judaism UK. A leading
writer and thinker on Judaism, he is Rabbi
of the New North London Synagogue. p18
MEG ROSOFF, Boston-born and
FRANCESCA SEGAL, is a writer
and journalist. Her first novel The
Innocents won many awards, including
the 2013 National Jewish Book Award and
the 2012 Costa First Novel Award. p9
Harvard-educated, moved to London in
1989. She has won or been shortlisted for
20 international prizes including the
Carnegie Medal. p14
CLIVE ROWE is an award-winning actor
ASAF SINIVER, Reader in International
Security at the University of Birmingham,
specialises in the politics, diplomacy and
history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. p26
DAVID PRYCE-JONES was born in
KRISTINA OLHSSON, now a full-time
BENJAMIN QUASH, Professor of
crime writer, previously a CounterTerrorism Officer at OSCE, she worked for
the Swedish Security Service and Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. p32
Christianity & the Arts at King’s College
London, has been academic convenor of
the Inter-Faith Programme at Cambridge’s
Faculty of Divinity. p33
ADAM RUTHERFORD, biologist, writer,
broadcaster and presenter of BBC Radio
4’s Inside Science, is an honorary Research
Fellow at UCL and scientific adviser on
many well-known movies. p24
ARKADY OSTROVSKY is a Russian-
TESSA RAJAK is Professor Emeritus of
born, British journalist who has spent
fifteen years reporting from Moscow,
first for the FT and then as bureau chief for
The Economist. p21
Ancient History at the University of
Reading and Senior Research Fellow at
Somerville College, Oxford. p26
ROWAN PELLING, broadcaster
and journalist, writes regularly for the
Daily Telegraph, is the Daily Mail’s
relationship columnist and has been a
Man Booker Prize judge. p14
FREDERIC RAPHAEL, author of essays
and fiction, won a Royal Television Society
Award for his adaptation of his novel The
Glittering Prizes and an Oscar for the 1965
film Darling. p27, 37
DEREK PENSLAR is Stanley Lewis
MATT REES is a crime writer and
Professor of Israel Studies at Oxford.
A native of California, he has taught at
several universities including Toronto,
Harvard and Columbia. p29
journalist. His first of four mysteries about
Palestinian sleuth Omar Yussef won the
UK Crime Writers Association ‘New Blood’
Dagger. p16
STEWART PERMUTT won a Fringe First
CLAUDIA RENTON is a practising
barrister who has also acted with the RSC
and National Theatre. Her book Those
Wild Wyndhams won the Slightly Foxed
Best First Biography Prize 2014. p15
eminent historian and novelist, whose
bestselling books, including Jerusalem:
The Biography, have been published in
over 40 languages. p9
COLIN SHINDLER is Professor Emeritus
and Pears Senior Research Fellow at
SOAS, and author of eight books. p29
BEN OKRI has published ten acclaimed
novels, including the 1991 Booker Prize
winning The Famished Road, as well as
collections of poetry, short stories and
essays. p17
Vienna and has been a distinguished
journalist, editor, author and commentator
for more than five decades. p21, 37
History and History at Columbia
University, writer, journalist and
broadcaster has written and presented
40 films for the BBC. p18, 28
HANNAH ROTHSCHILD, writer and film
director, was recently appointed chair of
the National Gallery and is also a vice
president of the Hay Literary Festival. p30
whose work spans theatre, TV and film, in
productions ranging from comedy, drama
and the classics to musical theatre. p10
Award at Edinburgh for Real Babies Don’t
Cry. Other work includes Unsuspecting
Susan starring Celia Imrie and Love and
Lust In Lewisham. p10
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Director of the Serpentine Gallery since
1991. In 2008 she was made both
Professor at the University of the Arts,
London, and Senior Fellow of the RCA.
p32
BIOGRAPHIES
ANDREW SOLOMON, writer, activist,
SIAN THOMAS is a Welsh actress who
has appeared on stage, TV and in films
such as Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix in which she played Amelia
Bones. p35
JOHN THORNHILL, deputy editor of
the FT and a former FT bureau chief in
Moscow, Asia editor, Paris bureau chief
and European editor. p16
AYELET TSABARI, an Israeli-Canadian
of Yemeni descent, is the recipient of the
2015 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
p13
lecturer on psychology, politics and the
arts; winner of the National Book Award
for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of
Depression and the Wellcome Prize for Far
From the Tree. p16
ISSY VAN RANDWYCK is a triple Olivier
Award nominee whose recent theatre
work includes Closer Than Ever, Raving
and A Further Education. p10
JASON SOLOMONS, author of Woody
Allen: Film by Film, is one of the UK’s
best-known film critics and interviewers
on channels including the BBC, Sky Arts
and London Live TV. p28
EDMUND DE WAAL is one of the
world’s leading ceramicists. His bestselling
family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes
won many awards. p20
POLLY SAMSON, a fiction writer and
lyricist for Pink Floyd, has published two
collections of short stories and two novels,
Out of the Picture and The Kindness. p38
DAN STONE, Professor of Modern
NIKOLAUS WACHSMANN is Professor
PHILIPPE SANDS, Professor of
International Law at UCL, is a QC
attached to Matrix Chambers and writes,
broadcasts and creates performancerelated events on human rights. p14
DANIEL SUSSKIND lectures in
ERICA WAGNER, New York-born literary
MARCUS DU SAUTOY is the Simonyi
Professor for the Public Understanding of
Science and Professor of Mathematics at
the University of Oxford, broadcaster and
author. p17
RICHARD SUSSKIND is President of the
Society for Computers and Law and IT
adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of
England. p27
JONATHAN SACKS, former Chief Rabbi,
is currently Professor of Judaic Thought at
New York and Yeshiva Universities
and Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible
at King’s College London. He sits in the
House of Lords. p34
History at Royal Holloway, London, is
author or editor of over 14 books, including
Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe
Since 1945. p18
Economics at Oxford. He previously
worked in the Prime Minister’s Strategy
Unit, No 10’s Policy Unit, and as a Cabinet
Office senior policy adviser. p27
the University of Reading and author of
both biographies and novels, writes for
many newspapers and journals and is a
frequent TV presenter. p9
Science and Society at Imperial College,
London, holds many prestigious positions
and honours and sits in the House of
Lords. p12
A B YEHOSHUA, a leading Israeli author
and social and cultural commentator, is
recipient of many prizes including the
National Jewish Book Award. p13
RAPHAEL ZARUM, Dean of the London
School of Jewish Studies and a Rabbi, he
has also published papers on Quantum
Chaos Theory. p17
AVIVAH ZORNBERG teaches Torah at
Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. A visiting
professor at the LSJS, she lectures
internationally in Jewish, academic and
psychoanalytic settings. p20, 37
of Modern European History at Birkbeck
and author of the prize-winning Hitler’s
Prisons. p22
editor of Harper’s Bazaar, former literary
editor of The Times, a broadcaster and
award-winning writer in many genres,
including fiction, biography and poetry.
p30
DANIEL WILDMANN is a historian and
film scholar. He is Acting Director of the
Leo Baeck Institute London and Senior
Lecturer in History at Queen Mary,
University of London. p18
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BY PHONE & IN PERSON
Kings Place Box Office 020 7520 1490
BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS
12:00 – 19:00 Mon
10:00 – 17:00 Tue
12:00 – 20:00 Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat
12:00 – 19:00 Sun
MULTI-BUY TICKET OFFER
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HALL TWO & STP ST PANCRAS ROOM
All seating is unreserved.
LATE ARRIVALS
If you arrive late for the start of an event or after an
interval, we appreciate that you will want to take your seat as soon as possible. Kings Place staff will do everything
they can to assist. To limit disturbance to fellow audience
members and artists, they may have to ask you to wait
until a suitable break in the performance. Occasionally it
may not be possible to enter once the event has started.
VACATING THE HALLS
Between sessions it will be necessary to vacate each room so
that staff can prepare the venue for the next session. Tickets
will be checked each time you enter or leave the hall, so
please ensure you have them ready to present. Please note
that seats for general admission events cannot be reserved.
PHOTOGRAPHY
FREE EVENTS
BLACKWELL’S FESTIVAL BOOKSHOP
Jewish Book Week offers some events free of charge.
To attend a free event you need a ticket, which can
be reserved in advance from the Box Office, up to
two tickets per person. If you are unable to use your
ticket please let the Box Office know as early as
possible. Late-comers to free sessions may have
their tickets re-allocated.
The festival bookshop can be found in the Ground Level
Foyer. Blackwell’s offers books by Jewish Book Week
contributor and other titles of interest. The bookshop will
be open at least 30 minutes before the start of the first
session and until 30 minutes after the end of the last
session each day. Opening times subject to change.
YOUR JOURNEY
Kings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from King’s
Cross and St Pancras stations, one of London’s most
connected locations in London, and now the biggest
transport hub in Europe.
TUBE: The nearest tube station is King’s Cross St Pancras,
on the Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City,
Piccadilly, Northern and Victoria lines. The station has
step-free access from the platform to street level.
FOOT: Kings Place is situated on the Grand Union Canal
towpath. From the tube station the quickest route is via
the new King’s Boulevard. You may also walk up York Way.
TRAIN: King’s Cross St Pancras and Euston mainline rail
stations are nearby. Eurostar travellers from Europe arrive
at St Pancras International.
BUS: The 390 from Archway to Notting Hill Gate stops on
York Way. King’s Cross St Pancras is also served by routes
10, 17, 30, 45, 46, 59, 63, 73, 91, 205, 214, 259 and 476.
CAR AND PARKING: Kings Place is easily accessible by
car and is clearly signposted in the immediate area. If you
are using satnav the postcode is N1 9AG. The building is
not in the Congestion Charge Zone. Kings Place has no
public car parking. The nearest public car park is at St
Pancras International Station on Pancras Road, open
24 hours/7 days a week including bank holidays.
DISABLED PARKING: Blue badge holders can park Euston
Station
anywhere on Crinan Street in bays which state ‘permit
holders only’ (resident bays) or pay and display bays,
free of charge and without time limit, as well as in disabled
bays. Blue Badge holders may park on a single or double
yellow line up to a three hour maximum limit, subject to
loading or unloading restrictions or where the road is too
narrow to park safely. Crinan Street is adjacent to Kings
Place and offers level access to the building.
KINGS PLACE
90 York Way
London N1 9AG
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Taking pictures is prohibited during events, performances
and concerts and in exhibitions. This also holds true for
film, video and sound recordings whether inside a hall or
around the building. Kings Place and Jewish Book Week
may take pictures or film during your visit for later
promotional use. For all other purposes prior written
permission is required to film.
The provision is supported by a grant from
Arts Council England.
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Customers who have chosen to receive tickets by post
will receive them from the end of January onwards.
Please note that we do not post tickets abroad. If you
would prefer to collect your tickets they will be available
to collect during opening hours from January or will be
available for collection on the day of the event.
A live speech-to-text service will be provided by Stagetext
for deaf, deafened or hard of hearing visitors. These events
will be demarcated by the symbol above.
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HALL ONE
All areas of Kings Place are accessible to those with Guide
& Hearing Dogs.
BATTLEBRIDGE
BASIN
Crinan St
SAVE 10% WHEN YOU BOOK 3 TO 5 EVENTS
This offer is available online or by calling or visiting the
Box Office. Discounts on multiple ticket purchases are
calculated on the online prices. Tickets must be bought
in a single transaction and are subject to availability.
The Multi-Buy offer applies to most, but not all, events
in Jewish Book Week. Events not eligible for the offer are
marked as such in the programme and online. Multi-Event
ticket offer does not apply to any JW3 Events.
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This year as part of the 2016 JBW Fringe, set designer,
Elizabeth Harper, is dressing The Space, located on gallery
level -1, where the fringe events will be held. JBW has also
commissioned two artists – Leni Diner-Dothan and
Miranda Lopatkin – to create pieces reflecting the festival’s
theme of Life, Death and Everything In Between. The
works will be displayed on -2 level at Kings Place for the
duration of the festival. These works are supported by
Arts Council England.
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Closed on Bank Holidays. Please note these hours are
subject to change based on venue performance schedule.
Please call the Box Office or check online for more details.
Some events may be subject to a change of venue and/or
start time. Please check for up-to-date information at the
box office, on the Kings Place and Jewish Book Week
websites, or on the information screens at Kings Place.
JBW FRINGE
The Box Office has an induction loop to help those with
hearing aids. An infrared system is installed in Hall One
and Two, with hearing advancement headsets available
for visitors who do not use a hearing aid. Neck loops
are also available to use with hearing aids switched to
the ‘T’ position.
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ONLINE
www.kingsplace.co.uk/jbw
Secure online booking 24 hours
VENUE
Monday – Wednesday: 11am – 11pm
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 11am – 12 midnight
Restaurant: 12pm – 3pm & 5 – 10.30pm
Bar food: 12pm – 10.30pm
Sunday menu: 11am - 10.30pm
Kings Place aims to be accessible to everyone, and all
performance spaces offer suitable seating for wheelchair
users. Please let the Box Office staff know when booking
if you have any access requirements or for a copy of
the Kings Place Accessibility Guide email
access@kingsplace.co.uk.
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Except where shown in the listings, events are held at
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG. Tickets can
be bought through the Kings Place Box Office or online at
www.kingsplace.co.uk/jbw. All prices shown in this guide
are for online booking, which is cheaper than other
methods. Please add £2 to the internet price if booking
over the telephone or in person.
OPENING TIMES
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BOOKING KINGS PLACE
The Green & Fortune Café will offer a selection of kosher
sandwiches and snacks. The Rotunda Bar is the ideal place
to meet or enjoy a drink after a talk.
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Kings Place does not offer exchanges or refunds but is
happy to offer to re-sell tickets once all house seats have
been sold and the event is deemed a sell-out. All re-sales
are at the discretion of the Box Office. Tickets that have
been sold will be refunded in the form of a Kings Place gift
certificate valid for 12 months, which can be used in full or
part payment for tickets for future events at Kings Place.
FOOD & DRINK
BIKE: There is a Barclays Bike Hire Docking Station next
door to Kings Place on Crinan Street, N1. For
recommended cycling routes visit www.tfl.gov.uk or call
London Travel Information on 020 7222 1234.
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RETURNS POLICY
For JW3 venue information, see pages 36 and 39.
Speakers will sign books after their sessions. All signings
will take place on the gallery level, -1.
York Way
BOOKING JW3
AUTHOR SIGNINGS
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THE JEWISH
BOOK COUNCIL
The Jewish Book Council was established in 1948 to promote the reading of books on all
aspects of Jewish thought and culture. The JBC puts on Jewish Book Week, presents the
Risa Domb-Porjes Prize for Hebrew-English Translation, and organises other book-related
activities throughout the year.
HONORARY LIFE PRESIDENTS
JEWISH BOOK WEEK OFFICE TEAM
Marion Cohen and Marilyn Lehrer
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
PRESIDENT
Anne Webber
Lucy Silver
lucy@jewishbookweek.com
CO-CHAIRS
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Gail Sandler and Lucy Silver
HONORARY SECRETARY
PROJECTS COORDINATOR
HONORARY TREASURER
Miranda Segal
miranda@jewishbookweek.com
TRUSTEES
“Standpoint is a superb
publication, always
intellectually stimulating
and insightful in
its analysis”
Former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
Sarah Fairbairn
sarah@jewishbookweek.com
Romie Tager
Peter Musgrave
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intellectual and
visual delight”
HON SOLICITORS
Dechert LLP
Marion Cohen, Stephanie Marcus, Peter
Musgrave, Andrew Renton, Gail Sandler,
Lucy Silver, Romie Tager, Anne Webber
AUDITORS
COUNCIL MEMBERS
PROGRAMME AND WEBSITE DESIGN:
Josephine Burton, Richard Camber, Avi
Goldberg, Michael Goldhill, Judith Reinhold,
Zoe Ross, Juliet Simmons and Philip Skelker
Creative & Commercial
www.creativeandcommercial.co.uk
Wilkins Kennedy LLP
Susan Hill
FOR SPECIAL CONSULTANCY:
Nicky Mayhew
WE WISH TO THANK:
The Community Security Trust; the Staff at
Kings Place and JW3; all the authors, artists
and performers who have contributed to
the festival; and organisations around
Britain who host Jewish Book Week on tour.
To subscribe visit standpointmag.co.uk
or call 0844856635
£37.80 for 12 issues
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