Revelation at JW3
Taking inspiration from Shavuot as the festival of the first fruits of the harvest, this year JW3 invite you to join them for a night of exploring new ways of engaging with our ancient tradition and Jewish culture. In conversation with with Raphael Zarum, Joseph Dweck, Max Bloom, Francesca Ter Berg, Aviva Dautch, Michael Rosen, Sophie Herxheimer, Nicole Zisman, Emma Brand, Ally Rosenberg and Kenneth Awele Okafor.
This is an online event. A link to join will be included in your confirmation email upon booking. If you are a member, your members discount will apply when you checkout.
Prague: A Virtual Tour with JR
Venture overseas with Jewish Renaissance as Aviva chairs an online expedition to the Czech Republic’s capital. Led by a panel including novelist Shalom Auslander, Czech writer Irena Dousková, and Leo Pavlát, director of the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Please register below to receive the streaming link, which will be sent out one day before the event.
FREE www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/events/prague-virtual-tour
TAKING LIBERTIES: JEWISH WOMEN POETS
From Bible stories to re-envisioning the work of great artists, Aviva Dautch and Jacqueline Saphra explore, with conversation and readings, what it means to be a Jewish woman poet. Previously poet-in-residence at the Jewish Museum and commissioned by Bradford Literature Festival and the British Museum, Dautch has read her work on BBC Radio 4 and at the Southbank Centre. Saphra’s 100 Lockdown Sonnets is the latest landmark in a career that has including a Saboteur Award, Guardian poem of the month and making the TS Eliot Prize shortlist with All My Mad Mothers.
This is an online streaming event. After the live broadcast, ticket holders and on-demand bookers will be able to watch this performance until midnight on 31 March.
£9.50 www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/taking-liberties-jewish-women-poets-online-streaming-event/
Manchester Limmud
The first ever Manchester Day Limmud Online took place on took place on Sunday 7th February 2021. Alongside speakers such as Rafi Zarum, Nicola Schindler and Marie van der Zyl, Aviva spoke about the life and work of one of Manchester’s prominent literary sons in her talk Louis Golding: Bloomsbury’s Mancunian Jew.
Jewish Renaissance January Issue Launch: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Jewish Renaissance announces a special evening to celebrate Trio, a newly discovered short story by Jewish Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. Extraordinarily, the story came to light alongside three dozen love letters written to four different women in multiple languages, found hidden between the leaves of books in a donation made to the Singer archive at Florida’s Atlantic University.
Trio is published for the first time in English in the January 2021 issue of JR, the launch of which we will also be celebrating on the night. We’ll be joined by renowned actor and audiobook narrator Juliet Stevenson, who’ll read extracts of the story live, Singer scholar David Stromberg and Eddy Portnoy, historian of Yiddish pop culture.
A recording of the event is available via the link below.
Paul Celan Centenary Celebration
Aviva and the JR team are thrilled to announce a special evening in celebration of the centenary of internationally lauded poet Paul Celan, hosted in association with Insiders/Outsiders. Guest speakers include Canadian writer Anne Michaels, artist/filmmaker Gideon Koppel and Monica Bohm-Duchen (Insiders/Outsiders), who’ll discuss Anselm Kiefer's artistic response to Celan's poetry. Discover more about the life and work of Celan in the Oct 2020 issue of JR.
Please register below to receive the Zoom link, which will be sent out the day before the event.
The Cholera Wedding: A Magical Ritual to End an Epidemic
In the 19th century, a peculiar ritual emerged among East European Jews to stop the spread of an epidemic. Communities married off their marginalised members – orphans, beggars, those with disabilities – in a cemetery. Join Aviva and the JR team for a unique talk as we unpick this bizarre phenomenon with Professor Natan Meir, a scholar of Jewish social, cultural and religious history. He’ll examine the historical and literary sources that illuminate this hidden corner of Jewish life. Hosted in partnership with the Lyons Learning Project.
Please register below to receive the Zoom link, which will be sent out the day before the event.
elimmud2 South Africa
Limmud South Africa went online for their first ever eLimmud in May this year. After a hugely successful event, and lots of positive feedback, eLimmud2 will be taking place on 25 October 2020 at 5pm (3pm GMT). Alongside panellists such as Dennis Davis, Ann Harris and Philippe Sands, Aviva will be speaking about her poetry in relation to the work of Yehuda Amichai in her talk Prophet or Traitor? Yehuda Amichai (and me).
This is an online event, and tickets can be purchased via www.quicket.co.za/events/117431-elimmud-sa-nov-2020/#/
Jewish Renaissance October Issue Launch: Jewish Washington DC
Sunday 18 October marks the launch of Jewish Renaissance’s October magazine. This issue explores the potential consequences of the US elections for the American Jewish community and Jews across the world, teaming up with the Capital Jewish Museum, Washington DC, for an exploration of the Jewish side of the city.
Josh Glancy, Washington bureau chief for The Sunday Times joins us for a discussion and Q&A alongside local politician Elissa Silverman, an independent council member for DC, and Sabrina Sojourner, educator, writer and Jewish community chaplain. Discover more about DC’s Jewish roots in the Oct 2020 issue of JR.
Please register below to receive the Zoom link, which will be sent out the day before the event. If you register after 5pm on Thu 15 Oct, you will receive the link one hour before the event on Sunday.
Jewish Detective Fiction
Explore the kosher crime scene and find out why detective fiction is such a heavily Jewish genre. From Batya Gur's pensive intellectual character Michael Ohayon, finding bodies on kibbutzim and Israeli university campuses, and Harry Kemelman's day-by-day escapades with Rabbi Small, from husband-and-wife duo Faye and Jonathan Kellerman's American murder mysteries, and to recent developments in Jewish Scandi-Noir. Led by Aviva Dautch on Thursdays.
Hear Our Voices
In a two-part special for Ellul (the last month in the Jewish calendar), join Aviva Dautch on Mondays in reading a selection of modern poetry by Israeli and Diaspora poets, responding to and rewriting the High Holiday liturgy. Explore the relationship between prayer and poetry and find out how listening can become as much of a creative act as speaking. Poets covered include Yehuda Amichai, Zelda Mishkovsky, Hava Pinhas-Cohen, Marge Piercy and Asher Reich. Poems and prayers will be provided in both Hebrew and English; no previous reading or language knowledge required.
We Sigh For Houses
Aviva Dautch will discuss her family history, poetry and how she’s responded creatively to life under lockdown on BBC Radio 4. Listen to the half-hour programme live at 4.30pm or catch up afterwards on BBC Sounds.
Leon Uris's Exodus
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the film Exodus, based on Leon Uris’s popular historical novel about the 1947 immigration ship Exodus and the founding of the State of Israel. David Ben-Gurion remarked on the book: “As a piece of propaganda, it’s the greatest thing ever written about Israel.” In this four-week course, led by poet and Jewish Renaissance’s executive director Aviva Dautch, the group will read extracts and watch clips, exploring the impression they made on wider popular culture as well as the criticisms of racism levied against them. Participants will also reflect on the long-term impact on the families of both the real-life refugees, whose story it was based on, and the British soldiers who turned them away. No previous knowledge or reading/viewing necessary.
£10, £40 whole series. www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/leon-uriss-exodus
Rosalind Franklin Centenary Celebration
Official launch to celebrate the July 2020 issue of Jewish Renaissance magazine and 100 years since the birth of pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin. Guests include actor Juliet Stevenson and biophysicist Dr Rivka Isaacson. Chaired by Aviva Dautch. This is an online event held via Zoom.
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