Melbourne Jewish Book Week 2026 brings together an extraordinary gathering of Australian and international writers across four days of interviews, panels, poetry, performance, and conversation. This year’s theme, ‘Connections’, threads through every session: untold family histories, genre fiction from romance to satire, standing up for truth in a post-truth era, the AI conundrum, and the full spectrum of Jewish literary life today.
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MJBW 2026 is proudly supported by:
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Melbourne Jewish Book Week 2026 Opening Night Gala: “If You Don’t Laugh…..”
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Jewish Quarterly Global Conversation (‘Hamas and its Two Million Hostages’)
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Ayelet Tsabari in Conversation with Lee Kofman
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Remnants: When The Past Comes Home
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Beth Din Book Club: Talking Howard Jacobson’s Howl
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International Spotlight: Rachel Cockerell in Conversation with Deborah Stone
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Romancing the Novel
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Death, Grief and Finding the Light
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DMG: Reborn: A New Work by Galit Klas
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Upstanders Not Bystanders
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International Spotlight: Yishay Ishi Ron in Conversation with Ben Lindner
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Nazis in Australia: Fact, Fiction, Print and Screen
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Intersections: Shared Histories, Different Journeys
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Telling the Untold: From War-Torn Europe to Post-War Australia
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In Search of Safe Haven: The Wandering Jew
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Back from the Brink: The Impact of PTSD
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The Art of Satire: New Jewish Fiction
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The Big Book Balagan: Books We Love
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The Human Touch: Creativity In The Age of AI
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Closing Conversation: Jonathan Freedland
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Pop-up Poetry
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MJBW Festival 2026 Closing Night: Out of the Depths, a Musical Soirée