Event List · General Information
Sunday, 27 February
11.00am - The People and the Book: The Impact of the Printing Press on the Formation of Jewish Culture
David Ruderman
11.00am - Community Buildings: Building Community
Alain de Botton and Alex Lifschutz
Chair: Debbie Klein
12.30pm - Anne Frank Revisited
Buddy Elias with readings by Chair: Gillian Walnes
12.30pm - Burnt Books
Rodger Kamenetz
Chair: Susannah Heschel
2.00pm - Maureen Lipman : Maureen's Monologues
2.00pm - Fifty Year Reflections of a Jewish Historian
Martin Gilbert
3.30pm - Jesus And The Jews
Susannah Heschel and Miri Rubin
3.30pm - 33 Revolutions Per Minute:
A History of Protest Songs
Dorian Lynskey
5.00pm - My Bookshelf, My Country: Understanding Israel through its Writing
Anat Hoffman
5.00pm - Stefan Zweig
Henry Goodman
6.30pm - How the Jew in Gustav Mahler changed the music of the West
Norman Lebrecht
6.30pm - Translation and Survival
Tessa Rajak
Chair: Philip Alexander
8.00pm - The Warsaw Anagrams
Richard Zimler
Chair: Elizabeth Crossley
8.30pm - All About Eve
Nir Baram, Alon Hilu, Tomer Kerman, Chair: Avi Pitchon
Monday 28 February
1.00pm - Lives Remembered
Featuring Miriam Frank and Rosemary Friedman
Chair: Rachel Lasserson
2.30pm - Flash-Fiction Writing Workshop
Tutor: Tania Hershman
3.00pm - Films
The Slow Mirror followed by Alice Sommer Herz: Everything is a Present
6.00pm - Arthur Miller Biography, Part 2
Featuring Christopher Bigsby
7.30pm - Poetry
Featuring Ruth Fainlight
8.00pm - The Hare with Amber Eyes
Featuring Edmund de Waal talks to James Harding
Tuesday 1 March
1.00pm - Refugee and Survivors Stories
Featuring Tony Grenville and Bob Moore
Chair: Ruth Deech
2.30pm - Workshops: The Afternoon Play
Tutor: Nina Rapi
3.00pm - Films
Moments and Memories followed by Continental Britons
5.00pm - Flavours of Babylon
Featuring Linda Dangoor and Bea Lewkowicz
7.00pm - Eat, Write, Love
Featuring Allegra Goodman and Yotam Ottolenghi
Chair: Charlotte Mendelson
8.30pm - Great House
Featuring Nicole Krauss
Chair: Naomi Alderman
Wednesday, 2 March
10.00am - School Morning
Featuring Jan Picnkowski and David Walser
11.45am - School Morning
Featuring Francesca Beard
1.00pm - Haunting Memories and Fractured Identities
Featuring Jenny Erpenbeck and Julya Rabinovich
Chair: Henrietta Foster
2.30pm - Workshop :Find your Poetic Voice
Tutor: Malika Booker
3.00pm - Film
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
5.30pm - Silent Words
Featuring Joanna Adorjan and Merilyn Moos
Chair: Melissa Rosenbaum
7.00pm - The Life and Legends
Featuring Tom Segev on Simon Wiesenthal
8.30pm - Guilt and Euphoria
Featuring Clive James and Pascal Bruckner
Thursday, 3 March
1.00pm - A Question of Age
Featuring Jane Miller and Cari Rosen
Chair: Ursula Owen
2.30pm - Workshop: A Story by Bedtime
Tutor: Shaun Levin
5.00pm - Banking Then and Now
Featuring Niall Ferguson
6.30pm - Meet the Author
Featuring Kevin Bloom and Janet Suzman
8.30pm - The Arabs and the Holocaust
Featuring Tom Segev and Gilbert Achc
Friday, 4 March
11.00am - ‘Translam’: Translating Anne Frank
Featuring Sam Garrett, Shaun Whiteside, Chair: Daniel Hahn
1.00pm - Berlin at War
Featuring Roger Moorhouse and Daniel Silver
Chair: Ben Barkow
Saturday, 5 March
7.30pm - The Death of Eli Gold
Featuring David Baddiel
Chair: Erica Wagner
9.00pm - True Tales with Host:
Debbie Chazen
Featuring: Stella Duffy, Benjamin Markovits and Meg Rosoff
Sunday, 6 March
11.00am - The Balfour Declaration
Featuring Jonathan Schneer
Chair: Tom Fraser
11.00am - Turbulent Times
Featuring Jon Boyd, Keith Kahn Harris, Melanie Philips, Miri Weingarten
Chair: Martin Bright
12.30pm - Tel Aviv Stories
Featuring Shira Geffen in conversation with Linda Grant
12.30pm - Who Do We Think We Are?
Featuring Jeffrey Kaye and Gary Younge
Chair: Anna Poole
2.00pm - The Punishment of Gaza
Featuring Gideon Levy in conversation with Johann Hari
2.00pm - The Escape of Freud
featuring David Cohen
3.30pm - We Had it So Good
Linda Grant in conversation with Joan Bakewell
3.30pm - An Unfinished Business
Boualem Sansal, chair: Boyd Tonkin
5.00pm - A Rift in Time
Raja Shehadeh interviewed by Jo Glanville
5.00pm - Super Sad Love Story
Gary Shteyngart in conversation with David Schneider
5.00pm - Peter Mandelson interviewed by Nick Cohen
6.30pm - Vasily Grossman
With Robert Chandler
6.30pm - Memories After My Death
Featuring Yair Lapid in conversation with Rachel Shabi
8.00pm - Last Words
The Bermant Prize followed by
Howard Jacobson in conversation with Jonathan Freedland
