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4 Sept
7.30
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Online
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Joshua in the Sky
Rodge Glass
Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre
Author Rodge Glass will discuss his new book Joshua in the Sky in conversation with David Ian Neville. Rodge Glass’s nephew Joshua died the same day he was born, from a blood condition they both share. Joshua in the Sky charts the five years around Joshua’s life and death as Rodge attempts to make sense of this loss. A family memoir and a memorial to his short life, it asks the questions: Whose life deserved to be remembered, and how?
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8 Sept
7.30
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Edinburgh
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Melting Pot: Rachel Cockerell
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
On June 7th 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamt, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather. It marks the beginning of the Galveston Movement, a forgotten moment in history when 10,000 Jews fled to Texas in the lead-up to WWI. Rachel Cockerell was born and raised in London. Melting Point is her first non-fiction book.
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27 Oct
7.30pm
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Glasgow
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0141 620 2500 |
That Swing Sensation: Tribute Concert
Cosgrove Care
Multi award winning journalist Katie Goodman will talk Big band evening capturing the essence of Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and many more.
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7 Nov
5.30
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Edinburgh
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Somewhere else: Jenni Daiches
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Somewhere Else is an epic generational novel following Rosa Roshkin and her father’s violin across twentieth century Europe. Jenni Daiches was born in the USA and has lived in Scotland since 1971. She is the author of three previous novels and two collections of poetry.
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17 Nov
7.30
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Online
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Saving Israel from herself: fighting the occupation and the government:
David Shulman
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
David Shulman a philologist and cultural historian is an Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the author of several books. He is also a long-term activist in Ta’ayush, an Israeli peace group working in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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1 Dec
7.30
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Edinburgh
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Loving Strangers: Jay Prosser
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Loving Strangers is a family memoir that builds a bridge across the terrible divides of our times. It’s a Jewish book, but not just a Jewish book. It moves Jewish writing away from its customary setting of the Holocaust and Europe, transporting Jewish identity instead to Iraq, India, China and Singapore. It shows Jews integrating with others, not divisive, not separate: not antagonistic. Jay Prosser is Reader in Humanities at the University of Leeds, where he specialises in Jewish studies and creative nonfiction.
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15 Dec
7.30
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Online
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TThe Queen of Sheba and the Real in the Study of
the Biblical Past: Jillian Stinchcomb
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
The Queen of Sheba is famous for visiting Solomon at the height of his rule. The biblical story is brief and bereft of many details such as her name, her background, or her home country. Who was she, really? Jillian Stinchcomb is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and the Department of History at Towson University (Maryland, USA).
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12 Jan 2025
7.30
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Edinburgh
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Listening for God in Torah and Creation:
Jonathan Wittenberg
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Jonathan Wittenberg was born in Glasgow in 1957, to a family of German Jewish origin with rabbinic ancestors on both sides. He trained for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College London, receiving ordination in 1987. He has worked as rabbi of the New North London Synagogue and has taken a leading role in the development of the Masorti Movement for traditional non-fundamentalist Judaism in England. In 2008 he was appointed Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism in the UK.
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26 Jan
7.30
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Edinburgh
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The Lost Café Schindler: Meriel Schindler
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oskar Schindler, of Schindler’s List fame? Or Hitler’s Jewish doctor – Dr Bloch? What really happened on Kristallnacht, the night that Nazis beat Kurt’s father half to death? When Kurt died in 2017, Meriel felt compelled to resolve her mixed feelings about him, and to solve the mysteries he had left behind.
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23 Feb
7.30
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Online
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The Gaza War in Perspective:
Itamar Rabinovich
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Itamar Rabinovich is the president of the Israel Institute (Washington and Jerusalem). He was Israel's Ambassador to the United States in the 1990s and former chief negotiator with Syria between 1993 and 1996, and the former president of Tel Aviv University (1999–2007). Currently he is professor emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, distinguished global professor at New York University and a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution
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9 Mar
7.30
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Edinburgh
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The 43 Group and Their Fight Against Britain's Fascists (1946-50):
Daniel Sonabend
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War II. In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in London they found a revived fascist movement inspired by Sir Oswald Mosley and stirring up agitation against Jews and communists. Many felt that the government, the police and even the Jewish Board of Deputies were ignoring the threat; so they had to take matters into their own hands, by any means necessary. Daniel Sonabend holds degrees in Politics, Intellectual History, and Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Nottingham, University of Cambridge, and Birkbeck College.
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23 Mar
7.30
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Online
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Distilling Israelis: Alan Meerkin
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Details to follow
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27 Apr
7.30
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Edinburgh
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Ruth Jordan’s Daughter of the Waves:
Sharon Kivity
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Born in 1921 in British Mandate Palestine, Ruth Jordan chronicles her remarkable childhood in this award-winning autobiography. Seen from the fresh perspective of a young girl, this is a poignant and witty account of growing up in a seaside suburb of Haifa called Bat Galim (Daughter of the Waves). Jordan seamlessly weaves together personal anecdotes with the epoch-making events of her time. Sharon Kivity is Ruth Jordan’s daughter. A pioneering journalist, she was one of the first women to achieve a senior post at the BBC.
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