Raffaello Morales on Mahler's relationship to his Jewishness, who will be joined by @seckerson and Anthony Freud OBE in conversation, followed by a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 6 from Fidelio Cafe 📆 8 Nov, Barbican Centre, 5.45pm shorturl.at/59yOK

🎵 Ahead of our upcoming event 'Dealing with the Tragic in Life: Mahler, Judaism and Beyond', watch these latest new releases on our JLF Video Player: | Mahler & Freud: A Viennese Encounter | Music of Exile | Mahler and His Faith 🔗 shorturl.at/SvRkP

For our Book of the Month we've got an incredible debut novel for you - 'Venus, Vanishing' by Rebecca Birrell. Read the prologue and Rebecca's special note on why she chose to write the book: shorturl.at/Qne7e

📽️ Watch now on our free JLF Video Player: | Hamas and its Two Million Hostages with @afalkhatib | Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes | Craig Brown: A Voyage around the Queen | Boy from the North Country 🔗 shorturl.at/SvRkP

Join us for 'Translation Salon: Kafkaesque' in partnership with @TheLondonLib. Daniel Hahn and Maïa Hruska, author of Kafkaesque, will explore the translators who saved the work of Franz Kafka from oblivion. 📆 5 November, The London Library, 7pm 🔗https://shorturl.at/RXEAm

Meet our new cohort for the 2026/27 Genesis-JLF Emerging Writers Programme! With projects exploring Black British, Yiddish and Chinese heritage and settings spanning wartime Wales to millennial Türkiye, this is our most wide-ranging cohort to date. Find out more: shorturl.at/mDLaa

Join author Will Self in conversation with Forum Chief Exec Chris Gribble about his career, his latest novel The Quantity Theory of Morality, his reflections on Jewishness and antisemitism, and the future of the novel. 📆 10 November, JW3, 7pm 🔗 Book now: @jw3london.bsky.social

"When I began writing The Nuremberg Women, I thought I was writing about a trial. The deeper I went, the more I realised I was writing about hope...the belief that we can still choose truth over lies..." - Natalie Livingstone. Explore our Book of the Month: shorturl.at/LmS9J

Ahead of our upcoming event 'Dealing with the Tragic in Life: Mahler, Judaism and Beyond', enjoy this stunning performance of Mahler's Rückert Lieder by acclaimed soprano Chen Reiss at JBW 2026. 📆 8 Nov, Barbican Centre, 5.45pm Book now: shorturl.at/59yOK @seckerson.bsky.social

Reading and learning have long had a place beside prayer on Yom Kippur. For many of us, Jewish books and ideas give us time to think about how we live and what our tradition asks of us. Wishing all those observing an easy and meaningful fast. G’mar Chatima Tova.

NEW EVENT: October 7 in Graphic Novels 🗓️ Mon 13 Oct | 6:30pm | 💻 Online | Free Israeli cartoonist Asaf Hanuka and writer and actor Omri Rose join Jonathan Sandler for a conversation about turning testimony into graphic narrative. Register now: shorturl.at/MppyM

🍎 🐝 For Rosh Hashanah, we have chosen three JLF Player films which take us through questions of faith, Jewish history and a world of Jewish learning. | Faith after October 7 |The Jewish Journey: 4,000 Years in 22 Objects |Yeshiva Days Shana Tova U’Metuka! shorturl.at/SvRkP

Can you guess from the photo what our next tour has in store? We'll take to the West End for a tour of Jewish Theatreland, following the trail of Jewish actors, impresarios, writers and producers who shaped British theatre. 📅 24 Sep, 2:30pm 🎟 shorturl.at/M6aLO

September's Book of the Month is the illuminating and enthralling 'The Nuremberg Women' by Natalie Livingstone - retelling the trial of the century through the women whose roles have long been overlooked. Read an exclusive preview and a dedicated note from the author: shorturl.at/LmS9J

📢 READING RETREAT - Just 2 rooms left - and 1 month to go! Join us in Bath for three days of books and good company, including a very special dinner with Howard Jacobson, literary sessions led by Aviva Dautch, and two nights at the beautiful Queensberry Hotel. Book now: shorturl.at/1kEkH

Summer might be fading, but our activities at the Jewish Literary Foundation are about to fill your autumn with the buzz of events, writing competitions, festival news and book talks so that winter will seem like an eternity away. 🍂 Join our newsletter to not miss a thing: shorturl.at/eB8QI

🗺️ We've launched the Jewish Children's Poetry Competition, in partnership with the @jewishchron.bsky.social! Poets aged 5–11 can share their best adventure tales (200 words or fewer) for a chance to be published & perform at Jewish Book Week 2027. 📅 Deadline: 18 Dec 🔗 shorturl.at/ZUZSh

📢 3 days left! Get your free tickets to join Hettie Judah's online talk about the passionate relationship between Kahlo and Jewish photographer Nickolas Muray. 📆 2 Sep 6pm - free, online shorturl.at/elJDg

Our new book pick: Drawing on history, politics and military thought, Lawrence Freedman examines how individuals and societies have approached strategy, and why strategic thinking continues to shape the modern world. Sign up to never miss our book recommendations: shorturl.at/eB8QI

🎉 More JBW 2026 highlights now available! Watch the best of our 75th festival on our JLF Player. |Everything is Copy: Writing Family |Hollywood & Israel |The Story of Norwood ▶️ Watch: shorturl.at/SvRkP

The @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk presents a range of Jewish literature and ideas including the flagship annual Jewish Book Week and the JLF video player. Join for talks, debates, creative opportunities, cultural experiences. @mirierubin.bsky.social

"We are dealing with material which is inherently dissonant, jarring and uncomfortable". Raffaello Morales discusses the unconventional beauty of Mahler's symphony, ahead of our upcoming event in partnership with @Fideliocaf and the @BarbicanCentre. shorturl.at/59yOK

Our new summer book pick: Widely regarded as one of the world's finest film critics, David Thomson looks back over more than a century of cinema, asking how films have entranced us, shaped our imaginations and changed the way we experience reality. Sign up to get the full list: shorturl.at/eB8QI

A new summer book soon to be released... From botanists and birders to ecologists and explorers, Joel Greenberg traces the lives of Jewish naturalists whose work reshaped our understanding of the natural world. Sign up for book picks: shorturl.at/eB8QI

🎨 Frida Kahlo - the less known story... Join Hettie Judagh for a free online talk to discover the story of Frida Kahlo and one of the other loves of her life – the pioneering colour photographer Nickolas Muray. 📆 2 Sep 6pm - free, online shorturl.at/elJDg

Inspired by true events, Black Messiahs by Steven A. Holmes follows Black American soldiers during the liberation of Europe alongside a young Jewish boy struggling to survive Nazi persecution - two stories shaped by the same war. Sign up for more book picks: shorturl.at/eB8QI

Check out this week's latest additions to the JLF Player, our free streaming platform for Jewish ideas and culture 🎥 The Genius Myth Taking Liberties: Jewish Women Poets Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern ▶️ Watch on JLF Player: shorturl.at/SvRkP

Our next book pick is Hotel Exile, by Jane Rogoyska The story of Paris's Hotel Lutetia, whose guests included artists, writers and political exiles before it became a Nazi HQ and then a return for concentration camp survivors. Sign up for more picks: shorturl.at/eB8QI

🎵 Dealing with the Tragic in Life: Mahler, Judaism and Beyond Raffaello Morales, Edward Seckerson and Anthony Freud OBE in conversation, followed by Mahler's Symphony No. 6 from Fidelio Cafe 📆 8 Nov, Barbican Centre, 5.45pm shorturl.at/59yOK @seckerson.bsky.social

Next up on our summer reading list is... The Renoir Girls, by Catherine Ostler - tracing the lives of two sisters from the Jewish Cahen d'Anvers family against the backdrop of Belle Époque Paris and the rising tide of antisemitism. Sign up for more book tips: shorturl.at/eB8QI