The Lit is a discussion forum for a wide variety of topics covering every area of culture and history with a Jewish connection. For a list of this year’s meetings, details of how to attend (remotely or in person), and information about how to support the Lit, see this page.
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Recent Talks (some with recordings):
- 2 April Matthew Teller, Nine Quarters of Jerusalem (meeting in person)
- Monday 13 March 2023, 5:45pm, Chitra Ramaswamy in conversation about Homelands: The History of a Friendship (meeting in person: Elizabeth Templeton Lecture Theatre, New College, Mound Place, EH1 2LX)
- 26 February Film: The Song Searcher: The Times and Toils of Moyshe Beregovsky, 8pm (meeting in person)
- 26 February Film: The Song Searcher: The Times and Toils of Moyshe Beregovsky, 8pm (meeting in person)
- 8 January Kerstin Stutterheim: The Goldberg Condition, or how a famous person was forgotten and rediscovered (in person)
- 11 December, Rabbi Jonathan Romain: “Seven Major Issues Facing British Jewry” (Zoom)
- 20 November David Horovitz: Whither Israel? Analysing the Elections of 1 November 2022 (Zoom)
- 6 November: Maria Chamberlain, ‘Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish’ (Zoom)
- 23 October: Anshel Pfeffer, ‘A Postcard from Wartime Ukraine’ (Zoom)
- 29 May: Valery Rees, ‘Angels in our own traditions’ (with recording)
- 15 May, Hella Pick, ‘The vital Jewish element in a patchwork quilt’ (with recording)
- 1 May: Ruth Padel, ‘Book talk: Daughters of the Labyrinth’ (with recording)
- 24 April: Rachel Pistol, ‘Remembering Second World War Internment in Great Britain’ & Alan Morgenroth, ‘The economics of internment: as seen through the banknotes created by the “Dunera Boys” (with recording)
- 20 March: Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, ‘Galleries, Guilds, and Graves: British Orthodox Women’ (with recording)
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