Jewish Book Week

58:51 | Aug 30th, 2019

In a history book that reads like a thriller, The Book Smugglers charts the incredible story of the ghetto inmates who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts — first from the Nazis and then f...Show More

1:16:15 | Aug 26th, 2019

Loathing of Jews has been a feature of Christendom since the first accusation of deicide and this, combined with enforced employment patterns – usury and trade – made the Jews the pariahs of Europe. T...Show More

35:18 | Aug 23rd, 2019

In January 2018, cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a survivor of Auschwitz, and then of Bergen-Belsen, addressed the Bundestag to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.Anita read extracts from that speech....Show More

54:28 | Aug 19th, 2019

Inspired by walking tours she devised for The Women’s Library and responding to those who encouraged her to put her words on paper, Rachel Kolsky published a guide book to London featuring the impact ...Show More

1:02:41 | Aug 16th, 2019

Marina Benjamin and Lisa Appignanesi discuss their memoirs of insomnia and grief with author and journalist Amanda Craig. In Association with the TLS

1:17:07 | Aug 12th, 2019

The Holocaust never happened. The planet isn’t warming. Vaccines cause autism. All of us deny inconvenient truths sometimes, but what happens when denial becomes ‘denialism’, a systematic attempt to o...Show More

1:04:36 | Aug 9th, 2019

Jewish Book Week hosts an edition of Literary Friction the monthly podcast about books and ideas, hosted by friends Carrie and Octavia. Listen-in for lively discussion, book recommendations and a litt...Show More

1:02:00 | Aug 5th, 2019

For a generation, public debate has been corroded by a narrow derision of religion in the name of an often vaguely understood ‘science’. Bestselling author and eminent philosopher John Gray describes ...Show More