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Chanukah is just around the corner, and we've got you a special treat...the chance to win a surprise set of 8 books sent to your door! One for every day of Chanukah and all featured in our 2026 JBW festival.

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December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Get ready to add books to your shelf because we've just revealed the longlist for our Freudenheim Translation Prize, in partnership with @thetls.bsky.social. Congratulations to all the brilliant translators and authors who've made the list!

Explore the full longlist: shorturl.at/vUltg
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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‘The Last Thing’ by Leopold Lahola, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood, has been longlisted for the inaugural 2026 Freuedenheim Translation Prize!

@jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk @juliasherwood.bsky.social

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November 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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'The Book Against Death is inevitably also a book against the twentieth century.'

Read Daniel Johnson on The Book Against Death, longlisted for the Freudenheim Translation Prize @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk
Elias Canetti’s one-man war on mortality
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November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Do you live in the UK and want to get a free copy of the JBW print programme? Then don't forget to register your interest by 12 December and we'll make sure to send a copy to your front door, packed full of event listings, schedules, and more.

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November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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BOOK OF THE WEEK: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

As we launch our 75th JBW celebrations, what could be more fitting than Daniel Deronda. Eliot’s visionary portrait of Jewish identity astonished her contemporaries and feels even more vital now.

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November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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ANNOUNCING Jewish Book Week 2026!

Join us for our landmark 75th anniversary of JBW, taking place from 28 Feb - 8 March. We’re already hard at work on a festival that reflects the richness and depth of Jewish culture today.

Get a flavour what's to come: shorturl.at/8O1LI
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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And now for...a season of book recommendations!

As the leaves fall down, it’s time to turn the leaf of a new book. Check out the best new reads to enjoy this autumn:

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November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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As we launch our inaugural playwrights programme, watch the best of theatre at JBW for free:

| John Lahr & Nicholas Hytner on Arthur Miller

| Shylock: Merchant & Matriarch

| Voices From Pinterland

| Steven Berkoff: A World Elsewhere

Watch now: shorturl.at/FaAh3
October 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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INTRODUCING our inaugural Jewish Playwrights Programme! A very special way to mark the 75th anniversary of JBW:

Joining our first-ever cohort are Rachel Bellman, Stella Green, Sam Thorpe-Spinks, Noga Flaishon, Uri Agnon, and Amitai Landau-Pope.

More info here: shorturl.at/QWHHU
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Exciting news!

Anna Ziegler's acclaimed play 'The Wanderers' is coming to the Marylebone Theatre, London, Oct 17 - Nov 29. After sold-out performances in New York and across the US, don't miss out on tickets here: shorturl.at/eBDlj
October 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Meet our non-fiction Genesis Emerging writers! @Genesis_Fndn

Stav Meishar: Award-winning performance maker/researcher /educator

Laura Godfrey-Isaacs: Interdisciplinary writer/artist

Lottie Whalen: PhD English Literature/author of Radicals and Rogues

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September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The secret to good writing?

Spending a weekend retreat at the gorgeous @CaerBerisManor with such a talented cohort of writers for this year's Genesis Emerging Writers Programme. @Genesis_Fndn

It was a joy to meet the cohort and we can't wait to see their projects develop!
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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BOOK OF THE WEEK: Daughters of the Labyrinth, by Ruth Padel

Celebrated poet, novelist and non-fiction author Ruth Padel brings her sure-footed sense of place and identity to this lyrical exploration of the end of almost 2500 years of history of the Jews of Crete.

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August 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Remember when Mark Glanville got the entire audience on their feet with this riveting performance at JBW 2025?

Joined by Pugliese group Amaraterrra and the outstanding klezmer violinist Anna Lowenstein, enjoy this musical treat on JLF Player: shorturl.at/TCoJz
August 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Didn't get a chance to see the Spectator's Sam Leith's brilliant talk at JBW about how the stories we encounter in childhood shape us?

Watch now on JLF Player, where Sam discusses his book 'The Haunted Wood' with Toby Lichtig from @thetls.bsky.social

@questingvole.bsky.social

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August 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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if you are likely to be trying to get a small child to nap or stay asleep at 3pm on a Sunday in September: BEWARE
On on Sunday 7 September at 3pm, at the UK government is testing the emergency alert system. If you have a person in your life who:

• is confused by phones
• has issues with paranoia/noise sensitivity/ptsd
• has a secret phone stashed

Give them a heads up.

www.gov.uk/alerts
About Emergency Alerts
Your mobile phone or tablet may get an emergency alert if there’s a danger to life nearby. Alerts tell you what to do to stay safe.
www.gov.uk
July 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Two more fantastic books to add to your list of summer reads! Delve into
an intimate celebration of family memory, language, and recipes from Samantha Ellis, and enjoy a moving love story written by the brilliant writer and art-historian Iain Pears.

More info here: shorturl.at/Cx5GP
July 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I was given an ultimatum.
July 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Our way for coping with the heatwaves? ☀⛱🍹

Dipping into some of our favourite new titles this summer! Check out some of the most exciting new books recently published or soon to come out.

Watch this space for more titles soon, and get your special copy of these books here: shorturl.at/Cx5GP
July 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Happy Friday news! It's that time of the week again for new releases on our JLF Player - all free to watch from the comfort of your home:

|Raoul Wallenberg: A Righteous Man

|Young Zionist Voices

|MAD Magazine: Warping America’s Brain!

Enjoy all these events and more here: shorturl.at/FaAh3
July 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Delighted to be attending this brilliant conversation with a Genesis Emerging Writers alumnus on the mystery and revelation of retreat
"Do you have an obligation to remain in the world or is there something morally admirable about withdrawing?"

An absolute treat to hear Guy Stagg delve into his new book 'The World Within' at Waterstones this evening with Josh Cohen, a fascinating book about the artistic impulse to retreat.
July 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Always great to see opportunities for submissions!
CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!

@cloudscholar.bsky.social Lola Oh and ‪@williekinard.com‬ are excited to invite submissions for Magma 94: REMIX
How will you interpret this theme?

#magma #magmapoetry #poetrysubmissions

More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

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July 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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3 DAYS UNTIL GENESIS EMERGING WRITERS APPLICATIONS CLOSE!

It's time to finesse those writing samples because June 30th is the final day to apply for our Genesis Emerging Writers Programme. If you're a budding writer of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, then this one's for you: shorturl.at/FOzWw
Applying to the programme - Jewish Literary Foundation
Home | Programmes | Genesis Emerging Writers Programme The annual Genesis Emerging Writers’ Programme covers fiction, non-fiction and poetry and includes bursaries, mentoring, peer support and an…
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June 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM