Bradford Reform Synagogue

Collecting Jewish Life

Items acquired by the Jewish Museum London are presented in this three-part exhibition, each focusing on an individual initiative. One features photographs of Jewish everyday life (Collecting Inclusive Stories), celebrating the diverse identities within the religion in modern society; another showcases the impact 7 October has had on British Jews (Documenting the Present); and the third, Reflections, portrays audiences’ reactions to the stories expressed within the museum’s collections.

Until 13 November

BD1 3BW. www.bradfordsynagogue.co.uk 

Holocaust Centre North, Huddersfield

Through Our Eyes

This is an interactive multimedia exhibition driven by survivor testimony, focusing on 16 children and young people who survived Nazi persecution across Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. See personal photos, artefacts and documents, together with an original prisoner uniform and other items from the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. The survivors reveal their experience of discrimination, persecution, escape, hiding, ghettos, forced labour, concentration camps and liberation.

No end date specified

HD1 3DH. 01484 471939. www.hcn.org.uk

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity

In the first exhibition of William Kentridge’s sculpture outside of South Africa, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents over 40 works by the Jewish artist. The Pull of Gravity takes audiences on a multisensory journey into Kentridge’s world, using a variety of materials, including metals, paper, plaster, wood and found objects. Alongside the pieces, a series of short films will be shown across 20 metres of screens that wrap around viewers, revealing an insight into Kentridge’s studio and the workings of his mind. Read more about William Kentridge’s work in the Spring 2025 issue of JR.

Until 19 April

WF4 4JX. www.ysp.org.uk

Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 November

Whitby Literature Fest

The inaugural celebration of Whitby’s writers and their works sees household names as well as local talent presenting novels, short stories, plays and poetry inspired by the town. Events of Jewish interest include actor Miriam Margolyes, known for her brutal honesty, discussing her latest book, The Little Book of Miriam with Lucina Hawksley, a descendant of Charles Dickens (8 Nov); TV personality, and grandson of a Holocaust survivor, Rob Rinder, will be in conversation with Jim Grant (aka Lee Child) about the author’s new collection of autobiographical essays that reveal stories behind his Jack Reacher books (8 Nov); Rinder will also take a deep dive into the lives, scandals and heartaches of the Mitford Sisters with publisher Leticia Lentini and Jessica Mitford’s son Benjamin Treuhaft (9 Nov).

Times and prices vary. Whitby Spa Pavilion Theatre, North Yorkshire, YO21 3EN. www.whitbylitfest.org.uk

Thursday 11 December

Pre-Chanukah Whisky Tasting

Lord Mayer Councillor Dan Cohen leads this annual Chanukah whisky tasting, where participants can sample five cask-strength whiskies. Followed by dinner, including festive delicacies like latkes and doughnuts.

8pm. From £36. Chabad Lubavitch Leeds, LS17 8AD. www.judaismlive.com  Top of Form