The Lit is now in recess for the summer. We’re currently planning the 5787 (2026/2027) season. We’ll post the programme here as soon as our plans mature.
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Recent Talks (some with recordings):
- The Lit is in Recess
- 12 April, 2:30pm : Moshe Koppel, Unplugged: Jewish Wisdom in the Age of AI (By Zoom)
- 22 March 2026: Sharon Mail, An Unbreakable Bond: The Targu Mures Holocaust Survivors And Their Scottish Saviours – A Story That Had To Be Told
- 22nd February 2026: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger & César Merchán-Hamann, on Jewish Languages and Book Culture (with recording)
- 1st February 2026: Anthony Julius, on Abraham: The First Jew (with recording)
- 11 January 2026 Phil Alexander, Klezmer – Now and Then, There and Here. In person.
- 30 November 2025: Mark Solomon, on Works of Emancipation: Jewish Themes in the Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer. (In person)
- 16 November 2025: Gavin Shaffer, on An Unorthodox History. (In person)
- 7 November 2025, 1pm: Manya Wilkinson, on Lublin. (In person at the New College Festival of Books and Belief, New College, Mound Place.)
- 19 October 2025, 2:30pm Opening Talk by Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller on Daybreak in Gaza. (In person)
- 27 April 2025 Sharon Kivity, Ruth Jordan’s “Daughter of the Waves”. (In person)
- 23 March 2025: Alan Meerkin Distilling Israelis. (Zoom)
- 9 March 2025: Daniel Sonabend The 43 Group and Their Fight Against Britain’s Fascists (1946-50). (In person).
- 16 February 2025: Itamar Rabinovich The Gaza War in Perspective. (Zoom).
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