Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and World Affairs Editor at The Guardian, Julian Borger in conversation with Rachelle Unreich, author of ‘A Brilliant Life’. They will be discussing Julian’s breakthrough, investigative memoir, ‘I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust’.
Video Series: Live Events
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An evening with Jonathan Seidler
Melbourne Jewish Book Week is opening their Schools Program to the public for one special evening.
Join Chanie Stock, Wellbeing Coordinator at The King David School in conversation with Jonathan Seidler, author and freelance journalist, as he discusses his memoir ‘It’s a Shame About Ray’. A deeply personal account of family, love and the power of music. The discussion will address issues of mental health and family trauma / suicide.
Tickets are free for school-age students.
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Rami and Bassam’s Peacebuilding Tour: An MJBW and KDS Event
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin are from ‘enemy’ sides but are self-proclaimed ‘brothers’.
Rami is a Jewish Israeli from Jerusalem who lost his daughter Smadar in a Palestinian suicide bombing in 1997, the same year Bassam’s daughter Abir was born. Bassam, who grew up in Hebron, was a former fighter who had spent time in an Israeli jail where he saw the film Schindler’s List that changed his life. His daughter, Abir was tragically killed aged 10 years old, by the bullet of Israeli border police.
Their grief bonded the two and forged a joint path of dialogue and reconciliation, rather than hate and revenge, which is the subject of Colum McCann’s award winning book Apeirogon.
In an age of polarisation, their example and message of peace and reconciliation is vital, the rarer it becomes. PLUS61J Media brings them to Australia for the first time, to share a unique encounter. In Rami’s words: “no one can listen to us and remain the same.” -
Keynote Conversation: David Grossman
In a Melbourne first, one of the most respected writers of our times, David Grossman, will speak to Tali Lavi in an intimate conversation about love, vulnerability and home, encompassing his recent novel More Than I Love My Life, and his life’s work.
David Grossman is an international guest and will be appearing via live video-link.
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Opening Night Gala: In Our Nature
Join us as Melbourne Jewish Book Week presents In Our Nature – an opening night of original storytelling featuring writers, musicians and performers live on stage at Melbourne’s Memo Hall.
Travel to landscapes near and far, real and imagined, thriving and disappearing. Meet creatures of flight, fur, and fancy from places urban and remote, vast and infinitesimal. Hear private encounters with the living world that brought with them inexorable change. And peer into those geographies of the soul – landscapes we carry inside us that guide our engagement with the outside world.
Featuring writers Mireille Juchau, Marina Benjamin (UK), Simon Tedeschi, Daniel Sherell (US), Byran Walpert (NZ), Karen Hitchcock, Kyra Maya Phillips, multidisciplinary artist and musician Anita Lester, pianist, composer and songwriter Gideon Preiss and shadow artist and theatre director Lynne Kent. Hosted and produced by writer and audio maker Jaye Kranz.