Jewish Book Week Tomorrow, Jewish Book Week begin…
Jewish Book Week
Tomorrow, Jewish Book Week begins. Most of the events are in London, but there are some in Manchester too.
It seems to have a more varied content than the middlebrow horrors of the Cheltenham and Bath literary festivals (so-and-so talks about how life influences art, etc). On Sunday, there�s a discussion of 1,000 years of Hebrew poetry. The awkward website illustrates this with the cover of a book by the late Yehuda Amichai, whose poems, translated by Ted Hughes, are a wonderful introduction to a tradition alien to most of us non-Jews. It should also help redress the impression of Jews perennially focussed on the Holocaust.
Elsewhere, there�s a talk on Jews and sex (�Neurotica�) featuring Vanessa Feltz, interviews with the omnipotent Will Self and Esther Rantzen, and a roundtable discussion on the legacy of Freud featuring Jonathan Miller and Adam Phillips.
And with Tony Parsons nowhere to be seen, what more could you ask for?
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