Stories. Ideas. Conversations.
Melbourne Jewish Book Week brings writers, readers and thinkers together to explore books, ideas and Jewish life. Join us for events throughout the year, or revisit past conversations in our growing video archive.
Event recordings from the MJBW2026 festival are now available — with more coming soon!
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Browse talks, panels and conversations.
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Jewish Quarterly Global Conversation (‘Hamas and its Two Million Hostages’)
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International Spotlight: 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 Michael Visontay
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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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In Search of Safe Haven: The Wandering Jew
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Telling the Untold: From War-Torn Europe to Post-War Australia
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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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Global Conversations: Shameless: Exploiting the Holocaust
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Writing Lives: Michael Visontay on ‘Noble Fragments’
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Global Conversations: Adam Kirsch in conversation with Michael Gawenda
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Writing Lives: Shifra Horn
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Global Conversations: Mindless: What’s Happened to Our Universities?
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Writing Lives: Joanne Fedler on ‘The Whale’s Last Song’
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Global Conversations: Samuel Kassow & David Slucki Discuss ‘The Rudashevski Diary’
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Melbourne Jewish Book Week Opening Night Gala: Of Ghosts and Golems
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JQ live – Whitewash: The Jews and Poland
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Journalism and its Discontents
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In conversation with Marina Benjamin: Secret Messengers – housework, sleepless nights and midlife crises
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The Ultimate Betrayal: When children are prey
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Laugh a Little: An exposé on resilience
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In conversation with Hila Blum: On Love and Literature
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Arnold Zable: A life in words
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A View From the Couch: Lifting the lid on mental health
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Shaping Identity, Writing the Soul: Memoir
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When Fact Becomes Fiction: Bringing history to life
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Don’t Look Away: New contemporary fiction
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Modern Family: The ties that bind
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For the Love of Bubba
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