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Video Series: Digital Events

  • Global Conversations: Hadley Freeman & Irris Makler discuss ‘Blindness: October 7 and the Left’

    Global Conversations: Hadley Freeman & Irris Makler discuss ‘Blindness: October 7 and the Left’

    In her Jewish Quarterly essay ‘Blindness’,Hadley Freeman addresses a most perplexing phenomenon that has arisen out of the Gaza war, rearing its head immediately after October 7: the exponential rise in antisemitism on a world stage. This has been all the more shocking as it has been most evidently propagated within the political left, taking many by surprise.

    In this Global Conversation, join Hadley in conversation with foreign correspondent Irris Makler for an examination of the equivocations, contortions and hypocrisy displayed by elements of the left across the political, media, arts and higher education sectors.

  • Writing Lives: Katia Ariel on ‘The Swift Dark Tide’

    Writing Lives: Katia Ariel on ‘The Swift Dark Tide’

    Katia Ariel discusses her 2024 Stella shortlisted sensation, ‘The Swift Dark Tide’, in conversation with playwright and theatre producer, Jessica Bellamy. Ariel’s memoir deftly flows between journal entry and reminiscences of a childhood in Odessa, emigration to Australia, a happy family life, and the urgency and turmoil of a same-sex love affair. The depth and honesty of this ‘Writing Lives’ is both disarming and profound.

  • Global Conversations: Javier Sinay in Conversation with Elissa Goldstein

    Global Conversations: Javier Sinay in Conversation with Elissa Goldstein

    The 1994 ‘AMIA Bombing’ was an attack on Argentina’s Jewish centre in which 85 people were killed. Join writer, editor and digital producer, Elissa Goldstein in conversation with award-winning author and journalist, Javier Sinay to discuss his remarkable essay in the May issue of the Jewish Quarterly. The essay examines the ongoing political intrigue surrounding this catastrophic crime and the reasons it remains unsolved.

  • The Other Side of the Story: Rachael Kohn in conversation with Rabbi Fred Morgan

    The Other Side of the Story: Rachael Kohn in conversation with Rabbi Fred Morgan

    The Other Side of the Story: Essays on Jews, Christians, Cults, Women, Atheists and Artists, reveals the breadth and depth of Dr Rachael Kohn’s scholarship which led to and informed her creation, production and presentation of more than 1700 programs on religion for the ABC.

    Rachael Kohn will be in conversation with Rabbi Fred Morgan, to disclose her motivations and the advantages of being an ‘outlier’.

  • Global Conversations: Eva Hoffman in conversation with Alex Skovron

    Global Conversations: Eva Hoffman in conversation with Alex Skovron

    MJBW and JQ present the latest in our series of Global Conversations. Join internationally acclaimed author and academic Eva Hoffman and Melbourne poet, writer and book editor Alex Skovron.

    Eva has written an important new essay for Jewish Quarterly about the remarkable but almost forgotten Polish Jewish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka (Gincburg), who was murdered by the Nazis in January 1945, aged just 27. The discussion – while focusing on Ginczanka, her life and her poetic legacy – will also explore some broader issues raised by the subject, as well as touching on other aspects of Hoffman’s work and concerns.

  • MJBW 2021 Summer Reading Guide — featuring Elissa Goldstein, Bram Presser and Tali Lavi

    MJBW 2021 Summer Reading Guide — featuring Elissa Goldstein, Bram Presser and Tali Lavi

    What happened around this time last year when three Jewish literary tragics entered a room to talk books? Melbourne Jewish Book Week’s bookish version of Margaret and David was a roaring success. Who knew an evening of book recommendations could be so entertaining? Expect even more this year as our passionate book aficionados – Tali, Bram and Elissa –  preview some of the biggest forthcoming books, discuss their recent reads and tell us what books they’re looking forward to reading over summer.  
  • Global Conversations: Reading the World Through Writing

    Global Conversations: Reading the World Through Writing

    Originally from New York, Lauren Elkin lived in Paris for over twenty years and now lives in London. Her most recent book No. 91/92: A Parisian Bus Diary reflects on an earlier Paris. In this conversation with critic, writer and programmer for MJBW, Tali Lavi, Lauren will talk about reading the world through writing, and her recent contribution to The Jewish Quarterly, an exploration of the work of the indomitable Vivian Gornick.
  • Lily Brett in conversation with Michaela Kalowski

    Lily Brett in conversation with Michaela Kalowski

    In this conversation, Lily Brett talks with Michaela Kalowski about ‘Old Seems to be Other People’ — and reflects on the need to move, to live and to have fun while you still can.

  • Global Conversations: The Art of Translation in the State of Israel Today

    Global Conversations: The Art of Translation in the State of Israel Today

    Presented in partnership with The Jewish Quarterly. Featuring award-winning Israeli author and journalist Nir Baram and Man Booker International prize-winning translator Jessica Cohen in conversation with The Jewish Quarterly editor Jonathan Pearlman, ‘The Art of Translation in the State of Israel Today’ will provide insights into Baram’s piece in the forthcoming issue of JQ, life in Israel since the Oslo Accords and the art of translating different voices.

  • MJBW Winter Book Club: ‘The Believer’ by Sarah Krasnostein

    MJBW Winter Book Club: ‘The Believer’ by Sarah Krasnostein

    Sarah Krasnostein — multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner — will be interviewed by journalist Meredith Lake about Sarah’s latest publication, The Believer, and her explorations into the fascinating and labyrinthine realm of belief.