This will be an opportunity to celebrate the poetry of the late Beata Duncan with selections from her collections Apple Harvest (Hearing Eye), Berlin Blues (Green Bottle Press) and the forthcoming Breaking Glass (WritesideLeft Press), all of which will be on sale on the night.
A chance to hear excerpts from three upcoming books with Ziba Karbassi reading from Lemon Sun, Marta Dziurosz reading from Renia’s Diary and Stephen Duncan reading from Beata Duncan’s Breaking Glass.
Get familiar with Moholy-Nagy’s unique perspective at a night of immersive activities. A talk by the author Valeria Carullo will be accompanied by interactive performances by experimental artist Steven J Fowler that take you to a journey into Moholy-Nagy’s world.
Join Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman as they discuss the experience of editing and contributing essays to both the US and UK editions of The Good Immigrant.
A partly staged reading inspired by international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands’ award-winning bestseller about the Nuremberg trials.
Find out what happened to The Tattooist of Auschwitz’s Cilka Klein from author Heather Morris as she discusses her latest novel at a London-exclusive event.
In partnership with The London Library and Jewish Book Week, renowned art critic, William Feaver, discusses the first volume of his landmark new work of biography of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.
The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to launch the publication of Michael Rosen’s new book The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II.
A panel discussion focussing on two new publications, with Daniel Snowman, Michael Gee, Uwe Westphal, author of Fashion Metropolis Berlin1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry and Anna Nyburg, author of The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade.
The prize-winning poet and translator will talk about his experience as a member of the Second Generation, his parent’s background in the camps, coming to the UK as a refugee from Hungary in 1956 and the creative process.
Book Launch in honour of the 20th anniversary of Exiled Writers Ink.
Trevor Avery, director of The Lake District Holocaust Project will give a talk about the first book to be published under the Second Generation imprint, Rock the Cradle by Austrian-born art therapist Marie Paneth
Cambridge Szeged Society
Susannah Wise in conversation with playwright Amy Rosenthal about the lived experience of inherited trauma and her much-praised debut novel, This Fragile Earth
“Foreigners Mum, are we foreign?”… “No”, she said. “You’re English, Daddy used to be foreign.”
New book by leading scholar Lydia Goehr, in conversation with Steven Gerrard and Daniel Herwitz.
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943):
A Life Before Auschwitz
Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Hybrid Book Launch – Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria
This event introduces a series of lunchtime lectures and museum visits that will run throughout October 2022 to mark the centenary of Lucian Freud and explore the complicated life and legacy of the Freud family.
An online talk by historian Helen Fry, based on her fascinating book Freud’s War
Jewish Book Week 2023 runs from 25 February to 5 March and as always, features a rich array of fascinating offerings. Of particular relevance to Insiders/Outsiders is the talk by Holocaust survivor and sculptor Maurice Blik on 26 February at 6.30pm and the session about Hungarian-born film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist Emeric Pressburger on […]
On Sunday 5 March at 1.30pm, as part of Jewish Book Week at Kings Place, there will be a free event in which artist Ardyn Halter son of artist and Holocaust survivor Roman Halter, will be in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen, to mark the publication by Amsterdam Books of his The Fire and the Bonfire: […]
Online event organised by bookshop.org will celebrate the poetry of Pulitizer-nominated author Lore Segal
On Tuesday 18 April at 11am, Daniel Snowman, author of the pioneering The Hitler Emigrés and one of the trustees of the Insiders/Outsiders Arts Foundation, will give an online talk ‘The Cultural Impact on Britain of the Refugees from Nazism’, moderated by Paul Smith OBE, The British Council’s Director for Germany. The event is organised […]