BRISTOL

Wednesday 10 December

Yiddish Food Culture: And What About the Taste?

Dr Sima Beeri preserves the recipes of her mother and mother-in-law in And What About the Taste?. The cookbook is the result of more than 30 years of culinary methods and ingredients collected on scraps of paper in five different languages. She discusses the stories of those associated with the dishes, laid out in order of the Jewish festivals.

7.30pm. £8. Redland Quaker Meeting House, Bristol, BS6 6EJ. www.davarbristol.co.uk

BOOKS & POETRY

Wednesday 12 November

Captain Guillon – The Cruel Price of Resistance in South-West France

Captain Lucien Guillon risked his and his family’s safety by issuing false papers to Jews and warning them of impending danger during the Holocaust – a role that led to his dismissal, arrest and deportation to Neuenbürg and Ravensbrook concentration camps. Historian Hamish Macdonald talks about Guillon’s remarkable moral and physical courage and unwavering solidarity with Jewish refugees.