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, AI, and the full spectrum of Jewish literary life today.
Early bird tickets are now on sale for the Gala Opening and the Sunday Festival Pass. Early bird tickets are on sale until Sunday July 5.
Stay tuned for Monday and Tuesday night sessions, and tickets to individual sessions.
Early Bird Sunday Day Pass & Gala tickets on sale now!
Tickets are sold through Humanitix.
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Melbourne Jewish Book Week 2026 Opening Night: “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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Beth Din Book Club: Talking Howard Jacobson’s Howl
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Remnants: When The Past Comes Home
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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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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