Previous Meetings
2010-2011 Season - President’s Report (pdf)
- Alex Goldberg: On Interfaith
- Emily Michelson: Conversionary preaching to Jews in the Roman Ghetto
- Alan Shenkin: Primo Levi’s periodic table — Chemistry or Literature?
- Film Evening: The Band’s Visit, or Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (2007)
- Donald Bloxham: The perpetrators of the Holocaust and their motivations
- Nathan Abrams: Remote Jews? Small Jewish communities
- Mark Solomon: How many ways can you sing Kaddish?
- J. David Simons: The Liberation of Celia Kahn
2009-2010 Season - President’s Report (pdf)
- Antony Lerman: The End of Antisemitism?
- J. David Simons: The Credit Draper
- Eyal Poleg: From Warriors to Martyrs and Back Again: The Maccabees in Medieval Judaism and Christianity
- Sir Jeremy Beecham: The New Israel Fund
- David Kaufman: ‘Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt’: a History of the History of the Holocaust
- Bill Shakman: Kabbalistic Reflections on the Passover Story
- Claudia Nocentini: Natalia Ginzburg and the construction of identity
- Anne Joseph: Ross Bradshaw, Ellen Galford: The Sea of Azov
2008-2009 Season - President’s Report (pdf)
- Fiona Frank: Hannah Frank, Jewish Artist
- Susannah Heschel: Aryan Theology
- Margaret Brearley: Nazism and Nature; some roots of the Holocaust
- Claire Ungerson: The rescue of Jewish men from Greater Germany in 1939; the case of the Kitchener Camp in East Kent
- Joachim Hemmerle: Yiddish puppet theatre “Hakl-Bakl”
2007-2008 Season
- Marc Saperstein: Literature in Jewish Sermons
- Sam Cohn: The Black Death and the Burning of the Jews
- Tamar Yellin: on The Genizah at the house of Shefer.
- Timothy Lim: on Literary Artistry of the Book of Ruth.
- Nancy Morris: Is it too Late for Justice? The strange history of prosecuting Nazi war criminals.
- Barry Davis: Yiddish Film: Between East and West.
2006-2007 Season - President’s Report (pdf)
- Nicholas de Lange: On Translating Amos Oz
- David Rose: St Andrew’s Jews: Attitudes to Jews in the Church of Scotland.
- Hannah Holtschneider: Turning towards Jerusalem? Jews and the Holocaust in German Protestant Theology
- Naomi Alderman: Disobedience: The author discusses her novel and describes how she came to write it
- Mark Solomon: The Secret Light: Islamic Influences on Jewish Spirituality.
- David Mazower: Dreams of Glory – how the Jewish Workers of Whitechapel built themselves a Yiddish Opera House in 1912
- Oron Joffe: Hebrew and Aramaic – a Friendly Embrace.
2005-2006 Season – President’s Report (pdf)
- Bernard Jackson: History and Authority in the Halakah: The Problem of the Agunah
- Jenni Calder: David Daiches
- Susannah Heschel: Abraham Geiger: the Rabbi as Historian
- Nathan Abrams: The Jewish Dream Factory: Jews and the American Film Industry
- Catherine Lockerbie: The Edinburgh Book Festival
- Ross Bradshaw: Jews in the Spanish Civil War
- Gary Gilbert: Between Assimilation and Difference: Aspects of Jewish Identity in the Ancient World
- Colin Shindler: The Triumph of Military Zionism: Nationalism and the Origins of the Israeli Right
