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Welcome to Jewish Book Week 2015

For our fourth year at Kings Place we have in store

for you an array of dazzling speakers, up-to-the-minute books, smouldering discussions and sizzling entertainment.

This year there are some innovations I would like to point out to you:

The Jewish Museum is our new venue for weekday lunchtime and early afternoon events. You will find the full listing of the seven events and how to book them, in the centre pages of this brochure.

Also this year, at Kings Place, the bookshop is located in the foyer. It is unmissable!

In addition, we have commissioned three emerging artists – Yoni Alter, Benedict Romain and Miki Shaw – to create site-specific works. Look out for them around the public areas.

We hope you enjoy the festival. We have tried to create events for all tastes. So, why not try something a little different this year, and afterwards, do please tell us what you think.

Lucy Silver (Festival Chair) and the Jewish Book Week team.

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19.00 The French Resistance 20

20.30 The Economy 21

20.30 The Art of the Essay 21

Thursday 26th February

19.00 The Writer's Craft 27

19.00 A Bazaar Life 27

19.00 Writing for Young Adults 28

20.30 Israel and the Diaspora 28

20.30 Eleanor Marx: A Life 28

Friday 27th February

13.00 East End Weddings 26

saturday 28th February

20.30 Israel, Present and Future 29

20.00 The King of Ivy League 29

Sunday 1st march

11.0o Where Science Meets the Bible 33

11.0o The Girl from Human Street 33

11.0o Stand Up for the Classics 33

12.3o AB Yehoshua: Jewish Culture 34

12.3o A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz 34

12.3o Financial Paradoxes 34

14.0o Stefan Zweig and Exile 34

14.00 Assaf Gavron: The Hilltop 35

14.00 The Graphic Novel 35

15.30 The New Yorker Cartoon 35

15.30 Ravensbrück; Germany 1933–49 35

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15.30 One Night, Markovitch 36

15.30 Children's Workshop on Graphic Novels (Wenlock Room) 36

17.00 Howard Jacobson Interview 36

17.0o Deborah Treisman and Hadley Freeman 36

17.0o Home Movie 37

18.3o Middle Eastern Food Scene 37

18.3o Judging book prizes: Going behind Closed Doors 37

18.3o The Reckoning 38

20.00 The New Yorker 38

20.00 Talking Jazz 38

20.0o A Secret Anglo-French War 38

Biographies 40

FESTIVAL AND VENUE Information 47

Saturday 21st February Page

20.00 The Genius of Gershwin 8

20.00 Cherchez la femme 9

Sunday 22nd February

11.00 Nineteenth Century Marx 10

11.00 Jews and the Military 10

11.00 Melintz: a Swiss Family Saga 10

12.30 Mark Rothko: the Man and His Art 11

12.30 You Say Potato... 11

12.30 Eva Schloss: After Auschwitz 11

14.00 Simon and Chloe Schama 11

14.00 Life Behind the Camera 12

14.00 The Jewish Parrot 12

15.30 Frédéric Brenner: Israel 13

15.30 The Matriarch: a Lost Classic 12

15.30 Chaim Bermant Award 12

17.00 Sir Nicholas Winton 13

17.00 Award-winning novelists: Jenny Erpenbeck and Doron Rabinovici 13

17.0o Beyond the Vatican 14

18.30 Andrew Solomon: Far from the Tree 14

18.30 The Jews of Scotland 14

18.30 The Making of the Modern World 15

20.00 A Brief History of Humankind 15

20.00 Blues in the Park 15

20.00 Jewish Heritage 15

Monday 23rd February

13.00 Gone to Ground 24

14.30 An Artist's Life 24

19.00 Women in Dark Times 16

19.00 The Rise and Fall of Sir Edgar Speyer 16

20.30 John Lahr: Tennessee Williams 16

20.30 Unlikely Spies 17

Tuesday 24th February

13.00 Bright Star in a Dark Chamber 24

14.30 Elaine Feinstein: Portraits 25

19.00 The Contemporary Art Scene 18

19.00 The Language of Peace 18

20.30 Life on and off the Stage 19

20.30 Philosophy Bites 18

Wenesday 25th February

13.00 Divided Lives 25

14.3o Jewish Archaeology 25

19.00 The Rich 20

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Festival at a Glance

Cherchez la femmeLisa Appignanesi, Stephen Frosh, John Launer, Eva Hoffman

Chair: Rachel Lasserson

Lisa Appignanesi, Stephen Frosh, Eva Hoffman and John Launer discuss how sex became a scandal, not only in the so-called “dangerous method”, psychoanalysis, but also beyond the consulting room. Early 20th century Europe was a cauldron of fertile ideas, Victorian repression, antisemitism and illicit liaisons. John Launer’s Sex versus Survival: the Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein recounts how sex and Jewishness (and Jewish sex) became a battleground between Freud and Jung. Cultural commentator Rachel Lasserson will do her best to keep this conversation within acceptable limits.

20.00–21.30 £ 12.50

SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2015

The Genius of GershwinIssy Van Randwyck, Clive Rowe, Henry Goodman

Musical Director: Michael Haslam | Script: Stewart Permutt

In our specially commissioned two-act Gershwin Review, we celebrate the melodies and wit of George and Ira Gershwin – the Boys from Brooklyn who came to define the music of their age. With performers Henry Goodman, Issy van Randwyck and Clive Rowe; musical direction and arrangements by Michael Haslam and script by Stewart Permutt – join us for an unforgettable evening of dazzling songs and the scintillating stories behind them.

20.00–22.00 £ 39.50 £29.50 £ 24.50

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21 February

You Say Potato...David Crystal, Ben Crystal

Linguist David Crystal and his actor son Ben travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English. Witty, authoritative and jam-packed full of fascinating facts, their latest book You Say Potato celebrates the myriad varieties of English and how our accents speak louder than words. Join them on this dramatic, linguistic and familial journey.

12.30–1.30 £ 10.50

J e w i s h L i v e s

Mark rothko

Annie Cohen-SolAl

Mark Rothko: the Man and His ArtAnnie Cohen-Solal | Chair: Andrew RentonMarcus Yakovlevich Rothkovitz, aka Mark Rothko, emigrated from the Russian Empire to the US aged 10 to become one of the most influential and original painters of the 20th century. Annie Cohen-Solal, the French cultural historian, has had unique access to previously unseen archival material for her Yale monograph and the result is a vivid and detailed portrait of this complex and brilliant man.

12.30–13.30 £ 10.50

Simon and Chloe Schama Unravel

the Father-Daughter BondSimon Schama, Chloe Schama | Chair: Francesca Segal

Biographer and journalist Chloe Schama dedicated her first book, Wild Romance, to her father 'who taught me how to tell a story'. Simon and Chloe engage in an intimate and lively conversation about family bonds, parental expectations, intergenerational values and the nature of creativity. Their interviewer is the journalist and novelist Francesca Segal, daughter of the late writer, Erich Segal.

14.00–15.00 £ 12.50

Eva Schloss: After AuschwitzEva Schloss

Eva Schloss recounts the story of her long journey home after the liberation of Auschwitz and looks back at her family’s culturally rich life before tragedy struck. Her story begins in Amsterdam, like Eva Schloss’s school-fellow, Anne Frank. This remarkable woman tells a tale of both tragedy and survival that induces humility and awe in all privileged to hear it.

12.30–13.30 £ 9.50

SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2015

Jonathan Sperber and Jonathan Freedland

reconsider Karl MARX Jonathan Sperber | Chair: Jonathan Freedland

Jonathan Sperber’s A Nineteenth Century Life: Karl Marx has been hailed as a 'brilliant embedding of Marx in his times.’ Marx is portrayed as a man looking over his shoulder at the philosophes of the French Revolution, while stoking the radical political flames of mid-19th century Europe. For Jonathan Freedland, who is conducting the interview, Sperber has succeeded in ‘recreating a man who leaps off the page.’

11.00–12.00 £ 12.50

Jews and the MilitaryJohn Jay, Derek Penslar | Chair: Colin Shindler

In Jews and the Military, Derek Penslar challenges the popular misconception that Jewish involvement in the military only began with Israel’s creation and examines widespread Jewish military participation throughout history. John Jay’s Facing Fearful Odds tells the story of his father Alec, a Jew, and British POW, who made five escape attempts, ultimately joining Czech partisans to confront the Nazis. This conversation will be chaired by SOAS professor Colin Shindler.

11.00–12.00 £ 9.50

Melnitz: a Sweeping Swiss Family SagaCharles Lewinsky | Chair: Josh Glancy

Charles Lewinsky’s portrait of Swiss Jewish life in his ambitious and panoramic novel Melnitz bears an astonishing resemblance to British provincial Jewish life in all its glory. Sharing Arnold Bennett’s sharp humour and acuity, Melnitz reads almost like a Swiss Five Towns, albeit one saturated with Yiddish idioms. Charles Lewinsky will be discussing his engrossing novel with Sunday Times journalist Josh Glancy.

11.00–12.00 Free

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22 February

Israel through 12 LensesSponsored by the Pears Foundation

Frédéric Brenner

One country: a dozen worlds. For the first time in the UK, Frédéric Brenner presents This Place, his astonishing project of capturing Israel and the West Bank through twelve of the world’s best-known photographers, including Josef Koudelka, Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth and Nick Waplington. The outcome is a collection of penetrating and provocative monographs, alive to all the rifts and paradoxes of this much contested space.

15.30–16.30 £ 14.50

Chaim Bermant Prize for JournalismMiriam Gross, Gerald Jacobs, Geoffrey Paul | Chair: Maureen Lipman

Maureen Lipman introduces The Chaim Bermant Award for Journalism. The award is presented in memory of the late journalist and author, at once ‘Anglo-Jewry’s voice of conscience’ and, by his own typically tongue-in-cheek designation, ‘a licensed heretic.’ Contributors are the judges: journalists Miriam Gross, Gerald Jacobs and Geoffrey Paul, with readings by Maureen Lipman.

15.30–16.30 Free

Life behind the cameraGemma Levine | Chair: Miriam Stoppard

Gemma Levine presents her photographic memoir: Just One More... With talent and verve, Gemma has photographed many of the prime movers of the 20th century, from actors to artists, prime ministers to royalty. She developed a personal relationship with many of her sitters, and, as she will divulge to Miriam Stoppard, Gemma’s vignettes are as revealing as her images..

14.00–15.00 £ 10.50

The Jewish Parrot Sponsored in Memory of Richard Norton

Francois Azar, Aude Samama

The Jewish Parrot and Other Judeo-Spanish Tales is a unique book, combining striking illustrations with folk tales recounted in both English and Judeo-Spanish. Join François Azar, who adapted and translated the tales, illustrator Aude Samama, and the Kamhis, a Sephardic family of singers, as they rejoice in the revival of a culture which, like Yiddish, has never really been forgotten.

14.00–15.00 Free - for adults and children 7+

The Matriarch: a Lost ClassicIn Association with Society of Authors

Linda Grant, Julia Neuberger | Chair: Anne Sebba

GB Stern is the little-known, but influential author of The Matriarch, originally published in 1924, the first of a series of novels to explore the scandalous life of a West London Jewish family. Linda Grant, who has called it ‘a feminist classic’, will discuss the novel’s lasting significance with Rabbi Julia Neuberger and biographer and journalist Anne Sebba..

15.30–16.30 £ 9.50

If it’s Not Impossible...

The Life of Sir Nicholas WintonIn Association with Second Generation Network

Barbara Winton | Chair: Phillippe Sands

Nicholas Winton was a young stockbroker in 1938 when he masterminded an operation to rescue 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. His daughter Barbara Winton shares with Philippe Sands the motivations that led her father to undertake such a dangerous quest and the difference one person can make to combat the forces of evil.

17.00–18.00 £ 10.50

Jenny Erpenbeck & Doron RabinoviciIn Association with Austrian Cultural Forum, London and the Goethe Institute

Doron Rabinovici, Jenny Erpenbeck | Leo Robson

To Michael Faber, Jenny Erpenbeck is ‘one of the finest, most exciting authors alive.’ Her novel The End of Days is a dynamic history of the 20th century, told through one woman’s various possible lives. In Elsewhere, Doron Rabinovici’s hilarious, fast-paced and moving novel set between Vienna and Tel Aviv, long-held family secrets simmer and the truth is never quite what it seems. The moderator is journalist Leo Robson.

17.00–18.00 £ 9.50

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22 February

Why British Jews need Jewish HeritageIn Association with English National Heritage

Sharman Kadish | Michael Berkowitz

Sharman Kadish’s expanded Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland demonstrates there is more to Britain than North London and the East End. Presenting a wealth of historic synagogues and sites from 350 years of Jewish British life, this event will no doubt spur you to go on a (Jewish) expedition of your own. The moderator is Michael Berkowitz.

20.00–21.30 £ 6.50

Yuval Harari on SapiensThe George Webber Memorial Lecture

Yuval Harari | Chair: John Gray

In Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a whirlwind journey across 70,000 years of human existence. The array of humans who inhabited the Earth has dwindled to our own very singular species. Harari traces the momentous discoveries and upheavals that profoundly transformed societies and assesses the merits of the direction in which we now seem to be headed. His conversant is philosopher John Gray.

20.00–21.30 £ 16.50

the Jews of ScotlandJudah Passow, Kenneth Collins Chair: Hugo Rifkind

Documentary photographer Judah Passow’s Scots Jews: Identity, Belonging and the Future has been exhibited in far-flung places, from Edinburgh’s Parliament to New York. Kenneth Collins’s Jewish Glasgow: an Illustrated History focuses on the Jewish contribution to this renowned city. Hugo Rifkind will take part in this exposé of the Jewish community north of the border – at once proud Scots and firmly rooted in Jewish tradition.

18.30–19.30 £ 7.50

Andrew Solomon on Far From the TreeIn Partnership with JW3

Andrew Solomon | Chair: Julia Neuberger

Psychologist Andrew Solomon’s multi-award-winning Far From the Tree: Parents Children and the Search for Identity has been a New York Times ‘10 Best Books of the Year’, described as a ‘book everyone should read.’ Andrew Solomon will talk to Julia Neuberger about his clinical experience with families who find profound meaning through their exceptional children. Andrew is a mesmeric speaker who will make you consider life anew.

18.30–19.30 £ 12.50

Beyond the Vatican:

Pope Francis and the Modern WorldIn Association with the Council of Christians and Jews

Vivien Wineman, Paul Vallely | Chair: Harry Freedman

Jewish Book Week and the Council of Christians and Jews co-present this discussion on Pope Francis, whose decrees ultimately affect not only Catholics, but everyone. Paul Vallely’s recently acclaimed biography Pope Francis: Untying the Knots has been described as resembling a ‘lost, unexpectedly literate chapter of The Da Vinci Code.’ Vivian Wineman and Harry Freedman are also participating..

17.00–18.00 £ 7.50

Jeremy Robson & Maureen Lipman: Blues in the ParkMaureen Lipman, Jeremy Robson

Actress Maureen Lipman joins poet Jeremy Robson in reading from his powerful and witty new collection of poetry – Blues in the Park – described by her as “a marvellous wry observation of the sweet, sour and savoury in life”. Maureen will also contribute a few of her own witty monologues. Expect some literary surprises, and badinage à la Lipman.

20.00–21.30 £ 9.50

Victor Sebesteyen: 1946

The Making of the Modern World Victor Sebestyen | Chair: Sam Leith

1946 was a pivotal year in which a new world was born that shaped the second half of the 20th century: empires collapsed; new states and regimes sprang into being; national and ideological boundaries were redrawn; and the Cold War was looming. Victor Sebestyen’s conversation with Sam Leith will take us from Paris to Moscow, Washington to Jerusalem and Delhi to Shanghai.

18.30–19.30 £ 7.50

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22 February

John Lahr on Tennessee Williams:

Mad Pilgrimage of the FleshJohn Lahr | Chair: David Aaronovitch

John Lahr is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, where for 21 years he was its renowned chief drama critic. His masterly biography of Tennessee Williams reveals a public persona and turbulent private life as riveting as any of the haunting characters that Williams created. John Lahr will be discussing with David Aaronovitch the inner dramas that generated some of the finest plays of the twentieth century.

20.30–22.00 £ 12.50

Peter Day and Henry Hemming

on Unlikely SpiesPeter Day, Henry Hemming | Chair: Mike Rossiter

Klop Ustinov (father of Peter) and Geoffrey Pyke were two improbable spies in the first half of the 20th century. Broadcaster Peter Day, author of Klop: Britain’s Most Ingenious Secret Agent, and Henry Hemming, author of Churchill’s Iceman – The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy, present their astounding stories. Their conversant is fellow spy-master Mike Rossiter, author of The Spy Who Changed the World.

20.30–22.00 £10.50

MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2015

Jacqueline Rose and Helena Kennedy

on Women in Dark TimesJacqueline Rose | Helena Kennedy

Jacqueline Rose’s compelling new book opens with three extraordinary women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, German–Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe, whose lives intersected with some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century. The book probes quintessential injustices both then and now and Jacqueline Rose, in conversation with Helena Kennedy, offers a new vision of feminism for the 21st century.

19.00–20.00 £ 12.50

Antony Lentin: the Rise and

Fall of Sir Edgar SpeyerAntony Lentin | Chair: Simon Kinder

Sir Edgar Speyer was a much admired US-born philanthropist who founded the Whitechapel Art Gallery, financed the construction of new tube lines, and rescued the Proms from collapse. Soon after the outbreak of WWI, however, Speyer was accused of being a spy. In Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? Antony Lentin investigates the enigmatic Speyer’s dramatic rise and fall with spy-enthusiast Simon Kinder.

19.00–20.00 £ 8.50

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Come and browse our range of Jewish interest books and also all of the speakers’ books for the talks across the 9 days of Jewish Book Week.Find us on Level 0 of King’s Place.

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Raja Shehadeh and Peter Florence:

The Language of PeaceThanks to Profile Books

Raja Shehadeh | Chair: Peter Florence

Raja Shehadeh, the award-winning human rights lawyer from Ramallah and author of Palestinian Walks, returns to Jewish Book Week to explore the politics of language and the language of politics with Hay Festival director Peter Florence. Language can be as effective as any weapon – a potent force that can engineer outcomes, exacerbate tensions and obstruct peace. Raja Shehadeh and Peter Florence will reflect on how it might be made possible for the Israelis and Palestinians to attain a language of peace.

19.00–20.00 £ 10.50

The Contemporary Art ScenePhilip Hook, Matthew Slotover | Chair: Andrew Renton

Experts in the contemporary art scene will elucidate how the global art market works and how artists ignore it at their peril. Philip Hook, senior director of modern art at Sotheby’s and author of Breakfast at Sotheby’s; director of Frieze, Matthew Slotover; and Marlborough Contemporary director, Andrew Renton, will volley ideas and facts about the contemporary art scene.

19.00–20.00 £ 12.50

Philosophy BitesDavid Edmonds, Nigel Warburton

The Philosophy Bites podcast has been downloaded 23 million times (and rising), proving there is a huge appetite for philosophical exchange on topics such as the nature of pleasure, pain, free will and humour. Its creators Nigel Warburton and David Edmunds come to Jewish Book Week bursting with fertile ideas and eager to discuss Philosophy Bites Again, a brand new selection of interviews.

20.30–22.00 £ 12.50

TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2015

The Waley-Cohens:

Life on and off the StageIn Association with Jewish Music Institute

Stephen Waley-Cohen, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, London Bridge Trio Chair: Lady Solti

Jewish Book Week and the Jewish Music Institute co-present a father-daughter conversation between theatre impresario Stephen Waley-Cohen and violinist Tamsin. Facilitated by Lady Solti, they reflect on their lives both on and off the stage. Expect musical interludes from Tamsin and other members of the Bridge Trio, cellist Kate Gould and pianist Daniel Tong, to include Mendelssohn’s Trio in C Minor

20.30–22.00 £ 12.50

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John Kampfner and

Giles Fraser on The Rich John Kampfner | Chair: Giles Fraser

The super-rich inhabit a parallel world, competing with each other for power and influence. They mesmerise and horrify us in equal measure. But is this globalised and gilded class something new? In The Rich John Kampfner researches over 2,000 years of history that starts with Ancient Egypt and Rome and culminates with the oligarchies of modern Russia and China, the tech giants of Silicon Valley and, of course, with the bankers. John Kampfner will be in conversation with Giles Fraser.

19.00–20.00 £ 10.50

Caroline Moorehead and Edward

Stourton: French ResistanceCaroline Moorehead, Ed Stourton | Chair: Anne Sebba

Caroline Moorehead’s Village of Secrets is a gripping and penetrating account of the villagers of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon who risked (and sometimes lost) their lives to save several thousand Jewish fugitives from deportation by the Vichy regime. Broadcaster Edward Stourton’s Cruel Crossing recounts the extraordinary valour of a desperate collection of disparate people, united only in their desire to escape the Nazis through navigating the Pyrenees’ treacherous Chemin de la Liberté in mid-winter. The authors will discuss with Anne Sebba these tales of surviving insurmountable odds.

19.00–20.00 £ 10.50

Martin Wolf and Mervyn

King on the Economy Martin Wolf, Mervyn King

FT Chief Economics Commentator, Martin Wolf, and former Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, discuss how far the global economy has recovered from the collapse of financial markets in 2008. In The Shifts and the Shocks Martin Wolf argues that the recovery from the crisis is far from complete. More importantly we have not learned the lessons we need to learn if we are to avoid a repeat of this devastating experience. Both the economy and the financial system remain far too fragile. More radical reforms are needed Join them for this searching conversation.

20.30–22.00 £19.50

WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2015

The Art of the Essay: Notting Hill EditionsIn Association with Notting Hill Editions

Michael Ignatieff, Phillip Lopate

Michael Ignatieff and Phillip Lopate celebrate the essay, the sine qua non of Notting Hill Editions. Cultural beacon Michael Ignatieff, who won the first Notting Hill Editions essay award in 2013, is the ideal person to attest why this literary miniature is a form worth revitalising. Phillip Lopate, essayist and Columbia University professor of writing, launches Portrait Inside My Head, his new collection on parenthood, marriage, sex and friendship.

20.30–22.00 £ 9.50

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Eleanor Marx: A Life

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Lunchtimes at The

Jewish Museum Hermann Simon: Gone to Ground Thanks to Profile Books

Hermann Simon | Chair: Henrietta Foster

Gone to Ground is derived from the tape recordings Hermann Simon made of his mother, Marie Jalowicz Simon, who survived the Second World War by throwing away her yellow star and vanishing into the city. The memoir, translated into English by Anthea Bell, is a German bestseller. Dr Simon, director of the Jewish Centre Foundation at Berlin’s New Synagogue, will talk to journalist Henrietta Foster about his mother’s extraordinary story.

MONDAY 13.00–14.00 £ 6.50

Suzanne Perlman: An Artist’s Life Suzanne Perlman | Chair: David Glasser

The intensity of Budapest-born Suzanne Perlman’s paintings matches that of her illustrious life. Now 91, her career has spanned many decades and numerous locations, including Austria, Mexico and the southern Caribbean island of Curaçao. Having adopted London as her home, her love affair with the capital is visible in every brush stroke. Suzanne will be talking to David Glasser.

MONDAY 14.30–15.30 £ 6.50

Bright Star in a Dark ChamberIn Association with Jewish Rennaissance

Robin Renwick, Frances Suzman Jowell, Janet Suzman Chair: Rebecca Taylor

Helen Suzman was the trailblazer who led South Africa’s parliamentary anti-apartheid movement. Armed with relentless determination and biting wit, she fought the white male establishment to form a groundbreaking civil rights campaign. Robin Renwick, former British Ambassador to South Africa will discuss Helen Suzman’s extraordinary life and achievements with her daughter Frances Suzman Jowell and her niece Janet Suzman, facilitated by Rebecca Taylor, editor of Jewish Renaissance.

TUESDAY 13.00–14.00 £6.50

Elaine Feinstein: Portraits - a memoir in poemsElaine Feinstein | Chair: Michael Schmidt

Elaine Feinstein has been an academic, a novelist, a playwright, a biographer and a translator, but it is for her poems that she is best-known. Her new long-awaited collection looks back at her life and the many fascinating people she has encountered. Elaine Feinstein will be talking about both her poetry and her life with fellow-poet and publisher Michael Schmidt, author of The Novel: a Biography.

TUESDAY 14.30–15.30 £6.50

Lyndall Gordon: Divided LivesIn Association with the London Jewish Cultural Centre

Lyndall Gordon | Chair: Louise Jacobs

Susie Orbach has called Lyndall Gordon a “biographer of soul”. This acclaimed biographer of Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot and Henry James turns to examine her own life in this searing memoir. Lyndall Gordon was shaped by her poetic but volatile and ill mother. From South Africa, through New York, to Oxford, the author’s life has undergone many transformations. She will be talking about her literary life and family history with director of the LJCC, Louise Jacobs.

WEDNESDAY 13.00–14.00 £ 6.50

Kenneth Marks on the Archaeology of

Anglo-Jewry in England and Wales 1656-1880Kenneth Marks | Chair: Charles Corman

Jews were readmitted to Britain by Cromwell in 1656. In just over a century their number grew from a mere handful of families to 60,000 residents, who mostly lived in London. Kenneth Marks explores the urban topography of Anglo-Jewry before the mass immigration of the late 19th century, and offers a fascinating portrayal of a community at its inception. Lawyer Charles Corman will be discussing Jewish archaeology with Kenneth Marks.

WEDNESDAY 14.30–15.30 £ 6.50

To book tickets, please email info@jewishbookweek.com, telephone 0207 446 8771 or on the door, subject to availibilty

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Boris Bennett:

East End Weddings In Association with the Jewish Museum

Michael Greisman, Rachel Kolsky Chair: Edwina Ehrman

Boris Bennett chronicled the major life events of Jewish East End families for over 25 years. His iconic photographs of East End weddings have been collated and edited by Michael Greisman and the result is a stunning testament to Jewish East End life in the early 20th century. Michael Greisman and Rachel Kolsky, a prize-winning Blue Badge guide, who contributed to the book, will discuss Bennett’s life and art with Edwina Ehrman, curator of Textiles at the V&A.

FRIDAY 13.00–14.15 £ 6.50

THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2015

A Bazaar Life: David Alliance

and Ivan FallonDavid Alliance, Ivan Fallon

Ivan Fallon, former business editor of The Sunday Times and co-author of A Bazaar Life, talks to Liberal Democrat peer, captain of industry and philanthropist, David Alliance. Leaving school at 13 to run his own business in Tehran’s bazaar, David Alliance went on to create the largest textile company in Europe. This will be a unique opportunity to hear about this exceptional life.

19.00–20.00 £ 10.50

The Writer’s Craft: Linda

Grant and AD Miller in

Conversation with Charlotte

Mendelson AD Miller, Linda Grant

Linda Grant and AD Miller, together with Charlotte Mendelson, discuss the creative process – how they arrive at their ideas and characters or, perhaps, how ideas and characters come to them. Both Linda Grant’s The Clothes on their Backs and AD Miller’s Snowdrops were shortlisted for the Man Booker prize; their new novels, Linda’s Upstairs at the Party and Andrew’s The Faithful Couple, outline the unfolding of friendships over several decades. Award-winning novelist Charlotte Mendelson, whose most recent book is Almost English, will moderate the event. Come and hear these three superb writers on the art of writing.

19.00–20.00 £10.50

To book tickets, please email info@jewishbookweek.com, telephone 0207 446 8771 or on the day, subject to availibilty

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Eleanor Marx: A LifeRachel Holmes | Chair: Rachel Cooke

Rachel Holmes talks to Rachel Cooke about her critically acclaimed biography of Eleanor Marx. Marx’s favourite daughter was a revolutionary socialist campaigner and fiery feminist. She translated Madame Bovary and directed the first British performance of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, while leading trade unions and editing her father’s key political works. She was not, however, beyond human frailty, as you will find out.

20.30–22.00 £ 10.50

a Workshop on Writing for Young Adults Keren David, Miriam Halahmy, Hilary Freeman Chair: Rachel Lasserson

Writing for young adults prompts many challenges in creating age-appropriate, but trenchant works of fiction for those who are in many ways wiser than their parents. In this two-hour workshop, authors Keren David, Hilary Freeman and Miriam Halahmy will discuss how they meet these challenges and you will have the opportunity to pitch your own ideas for a children’s or teen novel. Bring along a synopsis or first chapter. Rachel Lasserson will chair the event.

19.00–20.00 Free

Peter Beinart and Jonathan

Freedland: The Diaspora Pen is

Mightier than the Sword?Sponsored by Yachad

Peter Beinart, Jonathan Freedland

Voices have the power to sway public opinion and perhaps even determine policies. Peter Beinart, who writes for The Atlantic and Haaretz, and The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland consider how the Jewish Diaspora voice might exert a more meaningful influence on the strategies of Israel’s decision-makers.

20.30–22.00 £ 14.50

SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2015

Roger Cohen, Michael Ignatieff

and Simon Schama contemplate

Israel’s FutureSponsored by the Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust

Roger Cohen, Michael Ignatieff, Simon Schama

Last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas has sharpened perceptions of the long-standing Israel-Palestine conflict. With an ever-more uncertain future ahead, many potential scenarios – some more pessimistic than others – are debated in the region and across the world. Roger Cohen, Michael Ignatieff and Simon Schama will consider some of these scenarios and their implications for both Israelis and Palestinians.

20.30–22.00 £ 24.50

The King of the Ivy LeagueJohn Simons, Paul Simons Chair: Robert Elms

John Simons was one of the leading menswear designers in 1960s London, introducing the Ivy League look to young, fashion-obsessed Mods. A new documentary The Neat Offensive about his life and distinctive style is now in the making. Jewish Book Week presents the man himself, his son and business partner Paul Simons, and admirer and fashion aficionado, broadcaster Robert Elms.

20.00–21.00 £ 10.50

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Steve Jones: Where Science Meets the BibleSponsored by Dr Naim Dangoor CBE Founder of the Exilarch’s Foundation

Steve Jones

Science and faith are often viewed as mutually exclusive, but both are concerned with life’s most profound mysteries. Steve Jones, the world-famous geneticist, evolutionist and environmentalist, is an authority on snails, flies and people. In his latest book, The Serpent’s Promise, he reinterprets the Bible in light of modern science and, just possibly, finds answers to the epic questions that have intrigued us through the centuries.

11.00–12.00 £ 12.50

The Girl from Human Street Sponsored by Dr Naim Dangoor CBE Founder of the Exilarch’s Foundation

Roger Cohen | Chair: David Denby

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen’s memoir is an intimate and moving Jewish family history of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair and love. In conversation with New Yorker film critic, David Denby, he will talking about his inter-generational family narrative, which takes us across decades and continents.

11.00–12.00 £ 10.50

Natalie Haynes: Stand Up for the Classics Natalie HaynesFêted comedian, broadcaster and writer Natalie Haynes takes you on a whistle-stop tour of Ancient Greece and Rome. If you’ve ever wondered what Julius Caesar’s last words really were, how Sophocles invented the murder mystery, or why Jewish historian Josephus gave his name to a maths puzzle, this is the talk for you.

11.00–12.00 £ 6.50

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AB Yehoshua: Lunchtime LectureSponsored by the Felix Posen foundation

AB Yehoshua

AB Yehoshua, one of Israel’s foremost writers and public intellectuals, considers how Jewish culture is now reflected through the prism of contemporary Israeli society. What are the cultural consequences of Israel’s recent social and political upheavals?

12.30–13.30 £ 12.50

Jeremy Josse on Financial Paradoxes Jeremy Josse | Chair: Stephen Grabiner

Contrary to its dull image, the financial world is actually full of strange and wonderful conundrums. In Dinosaur Derivatives and Other Trades, Jeremy Josse, who has been an executive in some of the world’s leading financial institutions, explores the philosophical puzzles, hypocrisies and moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of the system. He will discuss the paradoxes of finance that shape our world today with media executive and JC chairman Stephen Grabiner.

12.30–13.30 £ 9.50

George Prochnik on Stefan Zweig and ExileIn association with Austrian Cultural Forum

George Prochnik | Chair: Erica Wagner

George Prochnik’s family fled Austria in the 1930s, at the same time as Stefan Zweig turned his back on Vienna for the last time. The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World muses on the consequences of exile for Zweig and other émigré writers, such as Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt and Bertolt Brecht, tracing Zweig’s tumultuous journey to his final destination, Brazil. George Prochnik talks to Erica Wagner about the dramatic effects of exile.

14.00–15.00 £ 10.50

The Art of the Graphic NovelIn Association with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge

Rutu Modan, Yirmi Pinkus, Sarah Lightman | Chair: Ariel Kahn

Join leading Israeli graphic novelists Rutu Modan (Exit Wounds), Yirmi Pinkus (Petty Business) and British artist and curator, Sarah Lightman, editor of award-winning Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, to celebrate this contemporary form of storytelling, which has exploded in popularity over recent decades.

14.00–15.00 £ 6.50

Ravensbruck and Germany 1933-49Sarah Helm, David Cesarani | Chair: Anne Sebba

Ravensbrück was the only concentration camp with solely female occupants; today it is barely known. Sarah Helm has written the definitive account of the camp, singling out many acts of heroism among the atrocities. Drawing on newly-translated testaments and research, David Cesarani’s Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-49 demonstrates the surprising lack of inevitability in the events that culminated in the Holocaust. The authors will be talking to Anne Sebba.

15.30–16.30 £10.50

Assaf Gavron: The HilltopIn association with New Israel Fund

Assaf Gavron | Chair: Sara Hirschhorn

Assaf Gavron’s prize-winning The Hilltop is a monumental and daring novel about life in a West Bank settlement. Perched between serious ideas and wild satire, vibrantly inventive storytelling and acute realism, it goes where other writers may fear to tread – to the divisive and disputed realm of the religious settlers. Assaf Gavron will be interviewed by Oxford academic, Sara Hirschhorn.

14.00–15.00 £ 9.50

Robert Mankoff: The New Yorker CartoonIn association with How To Academy

Robert Mankoff

The New Yorker cartoon is a unique and distinctive art form. Bob Mankoff, cartoonist and humourist, will demonstrate what makes this genre incomparable in an illustrated talk that will draw from his memoir: How About Never – Is Never Good for You? My Life in Cartoons.

15.30–16.30 £10.50

GOran Rosenberg and Sigrid RausingGöran Rosenberg | Chair: Sigrid RausingGöran Rosenberg is in conversation with Granta’s Sigrid Rausing about his heart-stopping memoir of his father, A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz. The work is still gathering accolades and awards, after winning the most prestigious Swedish prize for literature and the French prize for foreign fiction. Philippe Sands has called the book ‘a towering and wondrous work about memory and experience.’

12.30–13.30 £ 10.50

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Workshop on Cartoons – Zoom RockmanRutu Modan, Sarah Lightman, Zoom Rockman | Chair: Ariel Kahn

Come and learn the secrets of creating comics and cartoons. Bring your own work with you, if you like. The team includes teenage graphic artist Zoom Rockman, creator of The Zoom. Zoom is particularly keen to meet 7-11 year olds.

Wenlock Room 15.30–16.30 Free

An Interview with Howard Jacobson Sponsored by Dr Naim Dangoor CBE Founder of the Exilarch’s Foundation

Howard Jacobson | Chair: John Mullan

Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson returns to Jewish Book Week to discuss his enigmatically titled novel J with professor John Mullan. Steeped in mystery and interwoven with romance, this compelling novel explores whether the past can ever truly be left behind. Howard Jacobson, wordsmith par excellence, is a tour-de force both on and off the page.

17.00–18.00 £14.50

Deborah Treisman and Hadley FreemanDeborah Treisman | Chair: Hadley Freeman

As fiction editor of The New Yorker, Deborah Treisman is one of the most influential arbiters of literary taste on either side of the Atlantic. She selects New Yorker short stories, and edits the works of many international literary luminaries. Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman talks to Deborah about journalism in general, The New Yorker in particular and, perhaps, the up-and-coming literary wunderkinds.

17.00–18.00 £ 12.50

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen – One Night, MarkovitchBook Launch. In Association with Pushkin Press

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen | Chair: Josh Cohen

Pushkin Press at Jewish Book Week launches the English edition of Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s One Night, Markovitch, a colourful debut novel tracing the destinies of a group of young people on the eve of WWII. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen will be talking to author and analyst Josh Cohen about her characters and exploring some of the strengths and weaknesses behind the Zionist narrative. The book’s film-rights have already been bought by the director of East is East.

15.30–16.30 Free

Caroline Pick and Lisa Appignanesi:

Retrieving Lost MemoriesIn Association with Freud Museum

Caroline Pick, Lisa Appignanesi

Caroline Pick’s Home Movie is a beautifully constructed film capturing the previously veiled story of her parents’ lives in 1930s Czechoslovakia and her own childhood in 1950s Britain. An artist, film-maker and former commissioning editor at the BBC, Caroline’s editing skills have shaped a powerful testimony to a lost world. She is in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi.

17.00–18.00 £ 7.50

Going behind Closed Doors: on Judging Book PrizesIn Association with the Jewish Quarterly

Lisa Appignanesi, Natalie Haynes, Sam Leith, Erica Wagner Chair: Daniel Glaser

Book prizes are almost as commonplace as book festivals. But how are decisions actually reached? This event brings together literary award judges to disclose the inner secrets of book prize panels. Lisa Appignanesi, Natalie Haynes, Sam Leith and Erica Wagner will be held in check by neuroscientist Daniel Glaser, himself a judge of the 2014 Man Booker prize.

18.30 - 19.30 £ 10.50

How britain Fell in Love with Middle Eastern FoodTomer Amedi, Josh Katz, Sarit Packer, Itamar Srulovich Chair: Jay Rayner

Talented Israeli and Jewish chefs are taking the London restaurant scene by storm. Jay Rayner, The Observer’s restaurant critic considers the allure of Middle Eastern cooking with head chef of the Palomar restaurant, Tomer Amedi, Honey and Co’s Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovitch, and the founding chef of Zest, Josh Katz.

18.30 - 19.30 £ 12.50

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The New YorkerRobert Mankoff, David Denby, John Lahr, Deborah Treisman

New York symbolises the sweeping cultural changes of the 20th century and The New Yorker, first published in 1925, initiated many of these changes with its extensive reportage and unparalleled arts features. New Yorker leading lights: film critic David Denby, drama critic John Lahr, cartoon editor Robert Mankoff and fiction editor Deborah Treisman investigate the inimitable appeal of this great cultural institution.

20.00–21.30 £ 16 .50

a Secret Anglo-French War In Association with Ben Gurion University

Meir Zamir | Chair: Michael Goldfarb

In The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East 1940-1948, Meir Zamir uncovers a Franco-Zionist collaboration against Britain that helped shape the region at the time of the British Mandate. He will examine this clandestine conflict involving French and British intelligence with author and journalist Michael Goldfarb.

20.00–21.30 £ 9.50

Tracy Chevalier and Ella Leya talk Jazz Ella Leyar | Chair: Tracy Chevalier

Ella Leya’s childhood in Azerbaijan is the inspiration for her novel Orphan Sky. She talks to Tracy Chevalier about her colourful life and work, including her experiences with the Moscow Yiddish Theatre and the Russian State Jazz Orchestra. A natural entertainer, Ella will also perform some jazz.

20.00–21.30 £ 10.50

Bournemouth Barbara Winton will be speaking about her new book If it’s Not Impossible...The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton at the Bournemouth Central Library. Date TBA. Please email Vicki.Goldie@Bournemouthlibraries.org.uk

LeedsOn Monday, 2 March at 8.00 pm, under the auspices of the Leeds Jewish Historical Society, Barbara Winton will speak about If it’s Not Impossible...The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton at the UHC Synagogue 151, Shadwell Lane, Leeds LS17 8DW. Contact: Malcolm Sender, email msender101@gmail.com Tel: 0113 318 6403

LiverpoolOn Sunday, 15 March at 7.30 pm, Barbara Winton will speak about her new book If it’s not Impossible...The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton. For details, please email hillary@swerdlow.co.uk

ManchesterManchester is presenting an offshoot of JBW with three festival authors:

On Sunday, 1 March at 8.00pm, Barbara Winton will speak about If it’s not Impossible... The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton at South Manchester Synagogue, The Firs, Bowdon, Cheshire WA14 2TE. Contact: Harvey Bertfield, email bertfield@hotmail.com Tel: 0161 941 5342

Jewish Book Week

On-TourOn Monday, 2 March at 8.00pm, Patrick Bishop will give a talk on The Reckoning: How The Killing of One Man Changed the Fate of the Promised Land at Menorah Synagogue, 198, Altrincham Road, Manchester M22 4RZ email arts@menorah.org.uk Tel: 0161 428 7746

On Tuesday, 3 March at 8.00pm, David Cesarani will talk about his new book The Final Solution: Germany 1933-1949 at Hale Synagogue, Shay Lane, Altrincham Cheshire WA15 8NZ. Contact: Stephen Lentin, email lentin1@hotmail.com Tel: 0161 941 1612

OxfordOn Wednesday, 4 February at 7.30 pm Roger Cohen will speak about his new family memoir The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family. To ascertain venue, email: jbwontour@ojc-online.org

David Cesarani will also be giving a talk on The Final Solution: Germany 1933-1949. Details of this event will be posted on the website www.ojc-online.org

Other happeningsJBW and JW3 co-present a brunch for alternative families with special guest Andrew Solomon, held at JW3, on Sunday 22 February, from 10.30 am onwards.

Patrick Bishop: the Reckoning Patrick Bishop | Chair: Lucian Hudson

As leader of the infamous Stern Gang, Avraham Stern masterminded Jewish rebellion in Palestine against British rule. His murder in 1942 hastened the end of the British Mandate. Bestselling author Patrick Bishop talks to strategy and communications expert Lucian Hudson about the man whose life and death held such momentous historical consequences.

18.30–19.30 £ 9.50

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David Aaronovitch is a writer and broadcaster on culture, international affairs, politics and the media. A Times columnist, his last book was Voodoo Histories. p.16

Lord (David) Alliance is an Iranian born businessman, Liberal Democrat politician and philanthropist. In September 2015, Manchester Business School will be renamed in his honour. p.27

Yoni Alter is an Israeli-born visual artist and graphic designer. His work is often featured in key design publications and he recently launched his merchandise range for the Tate.

Tomer Amedi is head chef of London’s Palomar. Influences on his cuisine originate from Jerusalem and the Levant and beyond, from Spain, Italy and North Africa. p.37

Lisa Appignanesi is a prize-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction and a cultural commentator. A visiting professor at King’s College London, she is a former president of British PEN and chair of the Freud Museum. p.9, 37

Fran ois Azar is vice-president of the Sephardic society Aki Estamos and editor of the Judeo-Spanish periodical Kaminando i Avlando. He founded the Paris Ladino summer school and Lior Press. p.12

Peter Beinart teaches journalism and political science at New York’s City University. He is a senior columnist at Haaretz, and a CNN commentator. His books include The Crisis of Zionism. p.28

Michael Berkowitz is Professor of Modern Jewish History at UCL, specialising in modern Jewish identity formation and political self-representation. He is writing on the engagement of Jews with photography. p.15

Patrick Bishopwas a foreign correspondent for over 20 years, covering the Middle East for The Daily Telegraph. He is now one of Britain’s leading military historians, the author of several acclaimed books. p.38

Fr d ric Brenner is a French photographer. He spent 25 years chronicling the Diaspora, from Rome to New York, Sarajevo to Samarkand and has published five books, directed three films and exhibited worldwide. p.13

David Cesarani is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, London. The author of several prize-winning books, he has advised many institutions, NGOs and government bodies on Holocaust and post-Holocaust issues. p.35

Tracy Chevalier is a Washington-born author of seven novels. Her Girl with a Pearl Earring won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, selling four million copies worldwide. The film adaptation starred Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson. p.38

Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London and a psychoanalyst in private practice. His latest book is The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark. p.36

Roger Cohen is a well-known author and columnist, writing for both The New York Times and The International New York Times. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in 15 different countries. p.29, 33

Annie Cohen-Solal is a French cultural historian and award-winning biographer of Sartre and Leo Castelli. She has been affiliated with prestigious institutions around the world, currently Stanford, and lives between Paris and Cortona. p.11

Kenneth Collins , a doctor, is chair of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre and currently a visiting professor at the Medical Faculty of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. p.14

Rachel Cooke is an award-winning journalist. She writes for The Observer and is television critic for The New Statesman. Her recent book is Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties. p.28

Charles Corman is a corporate and charity lawyer. A former trustee of the Jewish Book Council and other boards, he was formerly a partner for Dechert, where he is now a consultant. p.25

Ben Crystal is an actor, author and producer, best known for his work on performing and promoting the works of William Shakespeare in the so-called "original pronunciation. p.11

David Crystal is a linguist, writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster. He has been a university professor and is the author of many best-selling books. p.11

Keren David worked for many national newspapers before becoming editor-in-chief for an international photo-journalism agency. The prize-winning author of books for teenagers, her next novel is set in Amsterdam. p.28

Peter Day is a broadcaster, journalist and author. He has presented Radio 4’s In Business since 1988 and Global Business for the World Service since 2000. He became business correspondent for the BBC in 1990. p.17

David Denby has been a staff writer and film critic at The New Yorker since 1998. He is the author of Great Books and Do the Movies Have a Future, a collection of his New Yorker criticism. p.33, 38

David Edmonds is a radio producer for the BBC and a senior research fellow at Oxford. He is the author of many books, including the bestseller Wittgenstein’s Poker. He co-founded Philosophy Bites with Nigel Warburton in 2007. p.18

Edwina eHrman is Curator of textiles and fashion at the V&A. She is the author of London Eats Out: 500 Years of Capital Dining and 300 Years of Bridal Fashions. p.26

Robert Elms is a broadcaster, writer and former editor of The Face, the presenter of a long-running radio show on BBC London and the author of The Way We Wore, a history of youth culture fashion. p.29

Jenny Erpenbeck is a Berlin-based opera director and award winning novelist, whose books include The Book of Words and Visitation. p.13

Ivan Fallon is now a South Africa-based media executive. He is a former chief executive of Independent News & Media and business and deputy editor of The Sunday Times. p.27

Elaine Feinstein is a prize-winning poet, novelist, playwright, biographer and translator who has written many plays for radio and television. It Goes with the Territory is her recent memoir. p.25

Peter Florence is co-founder and director of the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts. He and his team now direct cultural festivals worldwide. p.18

Henrietta Foster is a freelance producer and director, working regularly with Newsnight. She is writing a book about Hungarian Jews. p.24

Giles Fraser is priest-in-charge at St Mary’s church, Newington and former Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral. A theologian and frequent broadcaster, he writes The Guardian’s “Loose Canon” column. p.20

Jonathan Freedland is The Guardian’s executive editor and a weekly columnist. He currently presents BBC Radio 4's The Long View. The recipient of the 2014 Orwell Prize, he writes thrillers under the nom de plume, Sam Bourne. p.10, 28

Harry Freedman has a PhD in the Aramaic translation of the Torah. His Talmud: a Biography was acclaimed and his new book, The Murderous History of Bible Translations, will be published later this year. p.14

Hadley Freeman is a Guardian columnist and feature writer, whose books include Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies. p.36

Hilary Freeman is an award-winning journalist and agony aunt, who has written six novels for teenagers and young adults and been shortlisted for several awards. p.28

Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Pro-Vice-Master of Birkbeck College, London. He has written many books on the applications of psychoanalysis to social issues. p.9

Assaf Gavron is an award-winning Israeli novelist, short story writer, translator and musician, currently teaching at the University of Nebraska. He recently co-edited the anthology Tel Aviv Noir. p.35

Josh Glancy is a staff writer at The Sunday Times and the paper's deputy news editor (online). He contributes regular columns to The Jewish Chronicle, and reviews books for The Literary Review. p.10

Daniel Glaser is a neuroscientist, currently Director of the Science Gallery at King’s College, London. He was previously Head of Engaging Science at the Wellcome Trust. p.37

David Glasser is chairman and CEO of the Ben Uri Gallery. He spent 20 years in the corporate world with Marks and Spencer plc. where he pioneered the “simply food” concept. p.24

Michael Goldfarb is a journalist covering conflicts for papers such as The New York Times and The Guardian. He is author of Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance. p.38

Henry Goodman is a multi-award-winning actor, twice recipient of the Laurence Olivier award and winner of the London Critics’ Circle award. p.8

Lyndall Gordon is an award-winning biographer and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. p.25

Kate Gould has devoted most of her career to chamber music, primarily as a member of the Leopold String Trio and the London Bridge Ensemble. She is a frequent guest of the UK’s leading orchestras. p.19

Stephen Grabiner is a private media investor and philanthropist. His current positions include National Independent Director of Times Newspapers Ltd and chairman of the JC. p.34

Linda Grant writes both fiction and non-fiction. When I Lived in Modern Times won the Orange Prize and The Clothes on Their Backs, shortlisted for the Man Booker, won the South Bank Show Award. p.12, 27

John Gray is Professor Emeritus of European Thought at the LSE. A regular contributor to The Guardian, The New Statesman, and other publications, his books include Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. p.15

Michael Greisman was a property developer for many years. Now retired, he is pursuing his life-long passion for photography. p.26

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Miriam Gross is a Jerusalem-born journalist. She has been literary editor of The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph arts editor. She is a regular Spectator diarist; her memoir is An Almost English Life. p.12

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is an award-winning Israeli scriptwriter and filmmaker. She won the Sapir prize for her debut novel One Night, Markovitch. p.36

Miriam Halahmy is a PEN facilitator, author and poet, writing about controversial issues for young people. Her debut novel Hidden was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. p.28

Yuval Noah Harari lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 65,000 people signed up for his online course and he was winner of the Polonsky Prize for creativity and originality. p.15

Michael Haslam is a multi-talented musical director and musician. He has worked extensively in the West End, at the National Theatre, and on tour in the UK and abroad. p.8

Natalie Haynes is a writer, broadcaster and comedian. She is a regular guest contributor to The Independent and author of The Ancient Guide to Modern Life and a recently-published novel, The Amber Fury. p.37

Sarah Helm has written for The Sunday Times. She has been diplomatic editor for The Independent and their correspondent in Jerusalem and Brussels. Her first book was A Life in Secrets. p.35

Henry Hemming is a writer of several works of non-fiction, He is also an international journalist and lectures extensively. p.17

Sara Yael Hirschhorn lectures at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She is a regular op-ed contributor to Haaretz and other periodicals. p.35

Eva Hoffmann is a Polish-born and internationally renowned writer. Her books include Lost in Translation, Exit into History and Time. p.9

Rachel Holmes is a cultural historian, co-editor of Fifty Shades of Feminism and author of The Hottentot Venus. She is curator of the new Impossible Conversations series at the Donmar Warehouse. p.28

Philip Hook is senior director of Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby’s. His history of the Impressionist market, The Ultimate Trophy, was an FT Book of the Year. p.18

Lucian Hudson is director of communications at The Open University. He has had a successful career in the media and has chaired several non-profit organisations, including Liberal Judaism. p.38

Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian award-winning author, university teacher and former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He has also worked as a television presenter, documentary filmmaker and editorial columnist. p.21, 29

Gerald Jacobs is literary editor of The Jewish Chronicle and has contributed to most major UK publications. He wrote the first authorised biography of Judi Dench and the bestselling Sacred Games. p.12

Louise Jacobs is currently CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre, where she was previously been the cultural programmer. p.25

Howard Jacobsonis a multi-award winning author, as well as a being a regular contributor to major newspapers and journals. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question. p.36

John Jay, now an investment manager, was formerly a financial journalist. p.10

Steve Jones is Professor Emeritus of Genetics at UCL. A regular popular science broadcaster and writer, he is the winner of the Royal Society Faraday Medal and has delivered the BBC Reith Lectures. p.33

Jeremy Josse lives in New York and has co-headed the FIG teams both at Pierpont Securities and Rothschild's US. p.34

lady (frances) Jowell is an art historian. An authority on 17th century Dutch and 19th century French art, she has written on a variety of topics, including Impressionism. p.24

Sharman Kadish is a university lecturer and founder of Jewish Heritage UK. Her books include the monograph Bolsheviks and British Jews. p.15

Ariel Kahn teaches comics and graphic novels at Roehampton University. He won the Bloomsbury.com ‘New Voices’ story competition for Documents of a Family. p.35, 36

Rafael Kamhi, originally from Sarajevo, sings Sephardic songs with Grupa Ladino. He lives in France, where he performs with his children, Rachel and Renato. p.12

John Kampfner is a renowned journalist. Formerly editor of The New Statesman and Moscow correspondent for the FT, his books include Freedom for Sale and Blair’s Wars. p.20

Josh Katz trained under the Galvin brothers, worked at Ottolenghi, and helped set up Zest at JW3. He is opening Berber & Q in Haggerston in spring 2015. p.37

Lady (Helena) Kennedy is a criminal lawyer, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford and co-chair of the International Bar Association’s Institute of Human Rights, as well as an author, broadcaster and tireless legal reformer. p.16

Simon Kinder is deputy head at Gresham’s School, where he teaches history. He has a particular interest in espionage linked to the Gresham spies such as Donald Maclean and Cedric Belfrage. p.16

Lord (Mervyn) King served as Governor of the Bank of England and chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee and Financial Policy Committee from 2003 to 2013. He has many honorary fellowships and is a fellow of the Royal Academy. p.21

Rachel Kolksky is a prize-winning Blue Badge Tour guide, co-author of Jewish London. She is passionate about the human stories behind London’s buildings, including East Finchley’s Phoenix Cinema. p.26

John Lahr has been The New Yorker’s senior drama critic. His work has often been selected for Best American Essays; his acclaimed biography of Joe Orton Prick up Your Ears is among his many books. p.16

Rachel Lasserson founded the Anglo-Brazilian Shakespeare Forum, directing plays in England and Brazil. From 2007 to 2013 she was editor of The Jewish Quarterly. p.9, 28

John Launer is a doctor, family therapist and educator. He has honorary consultancies at the Tavistock Clinic and Queen Mary, University of London. p.9

Sam Leith is a writer, critic and journalist, currently literary editor of The Spectator. The latest of his four books is You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric From Aristotle To Obama. p.15, 37

Antony Lentin is a senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a barrister and former history professor for the Open University. His books include Lloyd George and the Lost Peace and General Smuts. p. 16

Gemma Levine is a photographer, whose subjects range from cultural icons to royalty. She has published 20 photographic books and presented over 60 exhibitions worldwide. p. 12

Charles Lewinsky is a Swiss screen writer, theatre director, lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of the Schiller Prize Zürcher Kantonalbank for his novel St. John's Day. p.10

Ella Leya was born in Azerbaijan. She performed with the Moscow Yiddish Theater and the Russian State Jazz Orchestra; her album of children’s songs sold three million copies and she has written songs for films. p.38

Sarah Lightman is a curator of Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women and a founder and director of Laydeez Do Comics. p.35, 36

Maureen Lipman is an award-winning actress and journalist. Her extensive work includes See How They Run, which won the Olivier Theatre Award for Best Comedy Performance, Oklahoma and Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. p.12, 15

Phillip Lopate is director of the nonfiction writing programme at Columbia University. His essays, fiction, poetry and film and architectural criticism have appeared in many prestigious collections and journals. p.21

Robert Mankoff sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1977, where he has been cartoon editor since 1997. He is editor of multiple collections of cartoons, including The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker. p.35, 38

Kenneth Marks was a businessman before undertaking many years of archaeological research first at Israel’s Caesarea Maritima and then at UCL. p.25

Charlotte Mendelson is an award-winning author and journalist. She reviews for the major broadsheets and teaches creative writing for The Guardian. Her previous novels include When We Were Bad. p. 27

A.D Miller is currently The Economist’s writer-at- large, having been the journal’s Russian correspondent. His first novel Snowdrops was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. p.27

Rutu Modan is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist. She is co-founder of the Israeli comics group Actus Tragicus and has published critically acclaimed graphic novels. p.35, 36

Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of A Train in Winter. An acclaimed biographer of Martha Gellhorn and Bertrand Russell, among others, she lives between London and Italy. p.20

John Mullan is Professor of English at UCL and Head of Department, specialising in 18th century literature. He is a regular television and radio broadcaster and writes on contemporary fiction for The Guardian. p.36

Rabbi Dame Julia Neuberger is a Liberal Democrat peer, social commentator and writer. She is Senior Rabbi at the West London Synagogue. p.12, 14

Sarit Packer is co-founder of London’s Honey & Co and co-author of the book of the same name. She trained at Butlers Wharf and under Chris Galvin at the Orrery. p.37

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Judah Passow is the winner of four world press photo awards for his coverage of conflict in the Middle East. His photographs have been published in leading journals and exhibited worldwide. p.14

Geoffrey Paul started as a journalist in Wales and Yorkshire, before becoming first editor of London’s Jewish Telegraphic Agency and then the JC. p.12

Derek Penslar is Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at Oxford. A native of California, he has taught at universities including Toronto, Harvard and Columbia. p.10

Suzanne Perlman is a Budapest-born artist. She and her Dutch husband fled Europe during World War II, settling on the island of Curaçao. The Caribbean light has continued to influence her colour palette. p.24

Stewart Permutt is a playwright and occasional actor. He leads workshops for Channel 4, the Bankside Globe and The Actors Centre and teaches creative writing. p.8

Caroline Pick is an artist, film-maker and former commissioning editor at the BBC and Channel 4. p.37

Yirmi Pinkus is a prominent Israeli illustrator and comics’ artist as well as a professor at the Shenkar College of Design. He is co-founder of the Israeli comics group Actus Tragicus. p.35

George Prochnik’s essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous journals. He lives in New York, has taught English and American Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and is editor-at-large for Cabine. p.34

Doron Rabinovici was born in Tel Aviv and lives in Vienna. He is a historian and writer and has won numerous prizes for his novels and short stories.

Issy Van Randwyck is a singer and actress. A former member of the satirical cabaret trio “Fascinating Aïda”, she has acted on stage and TV, recently starring in Raving at Hampstead Theatre, and directing episodes of Downton Abbey. p.8

Sigrid Rausing is a publisher, philanthropist, anthropologist and the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust. She co-founded Portobello Books and publishes both Granta Books and Granta magazine. Her latest book is Everything is Wonderful. p.34

Jay Rayner is The Observer’s restaurant critic. He has been Young Journalist of the Year, Restaurant Critic of the Year and Critic of the Year – but not all in the same year. His new book, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World, is out in March. p.37

Andrew Renton is director of the Marlborough Contemporary gallery and Professor of Curating at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. p.11, 18

Lord (Robin) Renwick is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. During a long and illustrious career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, he has been Ambassador to both South Africa and the US. p.25

Hugo Rifkind is an award-winning Edinburgh-born journalist, writing for The Times, The Spectator and GQ. He writes the satirical column ‘My Week’ and is a frequent panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz. p.14

Jeremy Robson, is a publisher and poet. He published high-profile authors with his own company Robson Books and set up the Robson Press in 2011. p.13

Leo Robson is a journalist specialising in literature and the arts. He is currently lead fiction reviewer for The New Statesman and is a judge on the 2015 David Cohen prize for literature. p.13

Zoom Rockman is a 14-year-old graphic novelist whose self-published comic The Zoom! won a Spirit of London Award and a prize at the International Comics Festival in South Korea. p.36

Benedict Romain is a visual artist working primarily with sculpture. His work contrasts ideas from mythology, religion, psychology with the everyday behaviour of contemporary society.

Jacqueline Rose joins the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in January 2015. She has written extensively on psychoanalysis, feminism, literature and politics. Her books include On Not Being Able to Sleep and Proust among the Nations. p.16

Goran Rosenberg is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster, essayist and documentary filmmaker and the author of several multi-translated books. p.34

Mike Rossiter is a Sunday Times bestselling author of eight books on military history, including Sink the Belgrano. His latest book, The Spy Who Changed the World, investigates the truth about Klaus Fuchs. p.17

Clive Rowe is an award-winning actor, most recently playing the lead in the much acclaimed Mother Goose at the Hackney Empire. He won the 1997 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in Guys and Dolls. p.8

Aude Samama published her first comic book En série in 2002. She is also a magazine and novel illustrator. Her style lies somewhere between expressionist painting and comics. p.12

Philippe Sands is a barrister in the Matrix Chambers and Professor of International Law at UCL. He has written several books and presented a variety of performance-related events on human rights issues. p.13

Chloe Schama lives in Washington DC. She writes for The New Republic and her first book Wild Romance: The True Story of A Victorian Scandal was critically acclaimed. p.11

Simon Schama iis Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. A writer, journalist and broadcaster, his recent two-volume Story of the Jews was made into a successful television series. p.11, 29

Eva Schloss became a professional photographer after the war. She co-founded The Anne Frank Trust in 1990 and educates people on the perils of intolerance. p.11

Michael Schmidt is writer-in-residence at St John’s College, Cambridge. An award winning poet, novelist and literary historian, he is director of Carcanet Press and editor of PN Review. p. 25

Anne Sebba is a biographer, lecturer, journalist and former Reuters’ foreign correspondent. She has written eight books and is chair of the Society of Authors. p. 12, 20, 35

Victor Sebestyen is a Hungarian-born journalist. A former foreign editor and media editor for The Evening Standard, his books include Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. p.15

Francesca Segal is a writer and journalist. Her first novel The Innocents won many awards, including the 2013 National Jewish Book Award and the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction. p.11

Miki Shaw is a visual artist, animator and graphic designer. She performs as a VJ, creating improvised projected visuals for live musical events and theatre. She also runs creative workshops.

Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian lawyer, founded the human rights organisation Al-Haq. He has written books on international law and the Middle East and in 2008 was awarded the Orwell Prize for Palestinian Walks. p.18

Colin Shindler is Professor Emeritus at SOAS and the first UK Professor of Israel Studies. He has written seven books including The Rise of the Israeli Right. p.10

Hermann Simon is a historian and directs the New Synagogue in Berlin, a partially restored synagogue established in 1988 as a centre for Jewish culture and religion. p.24

John Simons is an influential menswear designer with a shop in Marylebone. He was an integral part of the Mod

and Swinging London cultures of the 1960s, giving the Harrington jacket its name. p.29

Paul Simons had an early start in the menswear trade, helping stuff envelopes in the now legendary John Simons, his father's eponymous shop in Covent Garden, and is now based in Marylebone. p.29

Matthew Slotover is co-director of Frieze art fair, held annually in both London and New York. He was rated one of the top ten most powerful people in the art world by Art Review. p.18

Andrew Solomon , a writer, professor and psychologist, won the National Book award for The Noonday Demon; an Atlas of Depression and several other prizes for Far from the Tree. p.14

Lady (Valerie) Solti was one of the 1950s BBC’s original team of television presenters. The patroness of the World Orchestra for Peace, she is involved in many other cultural organisations, including Sadler’s Wells and the JMI. p.19

Jonathan Sperber is Curator’s Professor of History at the University of Missouri. He writes in the areas of social, political and religious 19th and 20th century history. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. p.10

Itamar Srulovich is the co-founder (with his wife Sarit Packer) of the London restaurant Honey & Co and co-author of Honey & Co: Food from the Middle East. p.37

Miriam Stoppard is a doctor, author and television presenter. Her scientific and medical programmes have included Don’t Ask Me and she has written several books on health issues. p.12

Edward Stourton is a leading BBC broadcaster. He presents Radio 4’s Sunday and his landmark programmes have included Today, Panorama and the One O’clock News. He has also written six books. p.20

Dame Janet Suzman was born in South Africa. Formerly a member of the RSC, she twice won The Evening Standard Best Actress Award, and is a patron of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, where she directed her celebrated Othello. p.24

Rebecca Taylor is the editor of Jewish Renaissance magazine. She started her career as a journalist on the news desk at The Japan Times, returning to London to work first for The Guardian, and then as news editor at Time Out. p.24

Daniel Tong devotes his musical life to performing as a soloist and chamber musician. He directs two chamber music festivals and has recently released a solo CD of works by Schubert for Quartz. p.19

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Deborah Treisman is The New Yorker’s fiction editor. She is the first woman to hold the fiction editor title since Katharine White established the department in 1925 and is the host of The New Yorker fiction podcast. p.36, 38

Paul Vallely is a writer and consultant on international development, religion and ethics. A journalist and broadcaster, he also works with aid agencies and government and church organisations. p.14

Erica Wagner was born in New York. She is former literary editor of The Times, a broadcaster and award-winning writer of many genres, including fiction, biography and poetry. p.34, 37

Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen is a theatre owner, manager, producer and chairman of RADA. He is a former chief executive of the Maybox Group, initiating multiplex cinemas. p.19

Tamsin Waley-Cohen is a violinist who performs all round the world as a soloist with many prestigious orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic and the London Chamber Orchestra. p.19

Nigel Warburton is a freelance philosopher, podcaster and

Jewish Museum EventsTo book events at the Jewish Museum, please email info@jewishbookweek.com, or telephone 020 7446 8771 or purchase a ticket on the door subject to availibility.

Kings PlaceBooking

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. Prices shown in this guide are for booking online, which is cheaper than other methods. Please add £2 to the internet price if booking over the telephone or in person.

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By phone or in personKings Place Box Office 0207 520 1490

Box office opening hours12.00–20.00 Mon, Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat

10.00–17.00 Tue

12.00–19.00 Sun

Closed on bank holidays. These hours are subject to change; please call the box office or check online for more details.

Multi-Event Ticket Offer

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SAVE 10% when you book 3 to 5 events

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Discounts on multiple ticket purchases are calculated on the online prices. Tickets must be bought in a

Festival informationsingle 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.

Ticket collection

Customers who have chosen to receive tickets by post will receive them from the end of January onwards.

Free events

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.

Returns policy

Kings Place does not offer exchanges or refunds but it 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.

Access

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. 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 advancements headsets available to visitors who do not use a hearing aid. Neck loops are also available to use with hearing aids switched to the “T” position. All areas of Kings Place are accessible to those with Guide and Hearing Dogs.

writer. He is the interviewer for the popular 'Philosophy Bites' podcast which he makes with David Edmonds. p.18

Vivian Wineman is president of the Board of Deputies and vice president of European Jewish Congress. A solicitor and property developer, he writes and lectures on Jewish history and law and is involved in interfaith work. p.14

Barbara Winton is a homeopath and nutritional therapist who also works for Herefordshire MIND and Here4Women. The launch of her biography of her father was a major event at Hay Festival 2014. p.13

Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator for The Financial Times, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy and an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham. p.21

A B Yehoshua is one of Israel’s foremost writers. The recipient of many prizes, including The National Jewish Book Award, his recent retelling of Crime and Punishment for children has been acclaimed. p.34

Meir Zamir is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, where he is founding director of the Centre for Jewish-Arab Understanding. p.38

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Stagetext

A live speech-to-text service will be provided by Stagetext for deaf, deafened and hard of hearing visitors in the following events:

• Simon and Chloe Schama Unravel the Father-Daughter Bond p.11

• Philosophy Bites p.19

• Rachel Holmes on Eleanor Marx: A Life p. 28

The provision is supported by a Grant for the Arts from Arts Council England

Venue

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.

Hall OneAssigned Seating: Select your own seat when booking.

Hall Two & St Pancras Room

All seating is unreserved and general admission. Seats may be chosen on arrival.

Late arrivals

If you arrive late for the start of an event or after an interval, Kings Place staff will do everything they can to allow you to take your seat as soon as possible. To limit disturbance to fellow audience members and artists, they may ask you to wait until a suitable break in the performance. Occasionally it may not be possible to enter once an event has started.

Vacating the halls

Between sessions each room will be vacated so that staff can prepare for the next session. Tickets will be checked each time you enter or leave the hall, so do have them ready. Please note that seats for general admission events cannot be reserved.

Photography

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.

Blackwell’s festival bookshop

The festival bookshop can be found in the Ground Level Foyer. Blackwell’s offers books by Jewish Book Week contributors 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.

Author signings

Speakers will sign books after their sessions. All signings will take place on the gallery level –1.

Food & drink

The Green & Fortune cafe 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.

Foyer art

Jewish Book Week has commissioned three emerging artists – Yoni Alter, Benedict Romain and Miki Shaw – to create site-specific works to be displayed at Kings Place for the duration of the festival. The artists have chosen to explore Jewish roots, identities and backgrounds. These works are supported by Arts Council England.

Your JourneyKings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from Kings Cross and St Pancras stations, one of London’s most connected locations, 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 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

Kings Place is easily accessible by car and is clearly singposted 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 car park is NCP London St Pancras (www.ncp.co.uk) next to St Pancras International Station. It is open 24 hours, 7 days a week including bank holidays.

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Blue badge holders can park anywhere on Crinan Street in bays which state “permit holders only” (resident bays), or in 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.

Bike

There is a Barclays Bike Hire Docking Station next door to Kings Place on Crinan Street, N1.

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HON TREASURER Peter Musgrave

TRUSTEES Marion Cohen, Stephanie Marcus, Peter Musgrave, Andrew Renton, Gail Sandler, Lucy Silver, Romie Tager, Anne Webber

COUNCIL MEMBERS Josephine Burton, Richard Camber, Marion Cohen, Jane Prevezer, Judith Reinhold, Zoe Ross, Juliet Simmons, Philip Skelker and Deborah Tammer

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Community Security Trust; The Staff at Kings Place; Ben Gurion University; Council of Christians and Jews; English Heritage; Four Colman Getty; How to Academy; New Israel Fund; The Freud Museum; The London Jewish Cultural Centre; Jewish Quarterly; Jewish Renaissance; Second Generation Network; Society of Authors; all publishers, including Granta, Haus Publishing, Notting Hill Editions, Profile Books, Pushkin Press and Yale University Press; all the authors, artists and performers who have contributed to the festival; and organisations around Britain who host Jewish Book Week on-tour.

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 both the Risa Domb-Porjes Prize for Hebrew-English Translation and the Chaim Bermant Prize for Journalism, and organises other book-related activities throughout the year.

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