LSE Literary Festival discussion
Date: Monday 22 February 2016
Time: 5.15-6.45pm
Venue: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Michael Berkowitz, Professor David De Vries, Dr Sharman Kadish
Chair: Dr Joanna Newman
A discussion in honour and memory of historian Professor David Cesarani begins with reflections about his life. In the spirit of David's utopian ideals juxtaposed to relations among Jews, and between non-Jews and Jews in modern times, we introduce new books by our panel.
Michael Berkowitz is Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London and author of Jews and Photography in Britain. His previous books include The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality; The Jewish Self-Image; Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933; and Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War. His research on photography has been supported by the Center for Creative Photography (Tucson), the Ransom Center (Austin), the University of London, the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), and the British Society for the History of Science.
David De Vries is a professor at Tel Aviv University and author most recently of Strike Action and Nation-building. His other works include Diamonds and war: state, capital, and labor in British-ruled Palestine, and he was a contributor to Haifa before and after 1948: narratives of a mixed city.
Sharman Kadish is Director of Jewish Heritage UK. She has nearly 30 years experience of working in the Heritage Sector, both in the voluntary sector and in private practice. She has taught at the Universities of London and Manchester and is author of a number of books on Anglo-Jewish history and heritage, including companion architectural guides Jewish Heritage in England and Jewish Heritage in Gibraltar (2007) Her recent book The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History was shortlisted for the American Society of Historians of British Art Prize in 2013. A new edition her guidebook Jewish Heritage in Britian and Ireland was published on 2015 by Historic England.
Joanna Newman is Vice Principal of Kings College London.
Update: This event will now be taking place in the Thai Theatre, New Academic Building.
This event forms part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2016, taking place from Monday 22 - Saturday 27 February 2016, with the theme 'Utopias'.
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