We’re hosting a series of events at this year’s Jewish Book Week, London’s longest-running literary festival, which takes place Saturday 28 February to Sunday 8 March. All events are at Kings Place, London, N1 9AG unless stated otherwise.
Who Jew Think You Are?: Live
Sunday 1 March • 12.30pm • £10
Join Eylan Ezekiel in a live recorded interview for his hit podcast Who Jew Think You Are?. Guest speakers will be Jordan Salama, winner of the JR-Woolf Institute Peter Gilbert Prize, who’ll discuss his Syrian-South American family; and the writer and playwright Samantha Ellis, who will share the story of her Iraqi heritage.
Short Stories on the Holocaust: From Behind the Iron Curtain
Sunday 1 March • 2pm • £10
Sasha Senderovich, co-editor and translator of In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union, joins JR’s executive director Aviva Dautch in conversation. Originally written in Yiddish and Russian, these stories tell of ordinary people living in the aftermath of the Holocaust, touching on themes of love, loss, trauma and memory. Read our review of In the Shadow of the Holocaust in the Winter 2026 issue of JR.
Latin American Journeys: Memory & Belonging
Sunday 1 March • 3.30pm • £17.50
Authors Jordan Salama and Eduardo Halfon appear in conversation with literary translator Daniel Hahn to discuss their books, which interweave family, memory and identity across generations. Salama’s Stranger in the Desert traces his Arab Jewish heritage from Syria and Iraq to Argentina, while Halfon’s Tarantula reflects on Guatemala post-Holocaust.
Jewish Stories in the Square Mile
Thursday 5 March • 12.30pm • £20 • Meet at Barbican Station, London, EC1A 4JA
A guided walking tour of the City of London and its Jewish heritage. Kicking off at brutalist marvel, the Barbican, Susannah Cohen will lead walkers past sites of literary significance, telling stories of notable names, from Dickens to Disraeli. Tour will last approximately 1.5 hours. Read more about Jewish life in the City of London in the Winter 2026 issue of JR.
The Future of Jewish Art
Sunday 8 March • 11am • FREE
How can we forge a positive future for Jewish visual art in the UK? JR’s executive director Aviva Dautch and Andrew Renton, professor of curating at Goldsmiths, tackle this question with a panel of experts. There will also be an exhibition of work by the six artists who took part in JR’s inaugural Artists’ Development Scheme, in which they explored themes of diaspora, inherited narratives and spirituality, alongside work by the international Jewish artists who mentored them during the scheme.
Philip Roth: A Life
Sunday 8 March • 2pm • £22
Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Philip Roth enjoyed a prolific and illustrious career – one that included rubbing shoulders with the Kennedys and a string of infamous romances. Stung by Life, the new biography by Stanford professor Steven J Zipperstein, recounts it all, charting Roth’s body of work within the wider story of American Jewishness, freedom and sexuality. Read our interview with Zipperstein in the Winter 2026 issue of JR.
