Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Recent speakers and topics include
- Eva Hoffman: Memories, Contested Pasts: Some Thoughts on the Polish-Jewish Relationship.
- Dr Efraim Lev: Natural Medicinal Substances of Israel: Past and Present.
- Linda Rosen: On the Banks of the Yellow River: the Jews of Kaifung.
- Rabbi David Rose: Chasidism, Messianism and Chabadism.
- David Neville: The Portrayal of Jewish Characters in Contemporary Drama.
- Joyce Caplan: Holocaust Poetry: Light in Darkness.
- Joel Cahen: Lopes Suasso Family, Dutch Jewry Prominent in the 17th and 20th Centuries.
- Professor Marc Ellis: Towards a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
- Heather Valencia: The King of Lampedusa.
- Bill Simpson : Jews and Popular American Music and Jazz
- Sir Gerald Gordon QC: Reflections on Job
- Dr Patricia Allerston: The Venetian Ghetto in the Renaissance
- Sass Judah: The Role of the Sermon in Jewish Worship
- Professor Michael Jacobsen : Hawa Nashira Musical Evening
- Professor Christina Lodder: Naum Gabo: Jewish Artist?
- Dr Anthony Joseph : Jewish Genealogy
- Clive Lawton: What's the Big Deal about Abraham?
- Dr David Capitanchik: The Current Status of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
- Dr Seth Kunin: The Secret Jews of the American Southwest.
- Shelley Weiner, Novelist: Arnost
- Dr Ari Kummer: The Jewish Community in Austria: Past, Present and Future.
- Owen Dudley Edwards: Scott, the Jews and the American Civil War
- Professor Philip Schlesinger: W G Sebald and the Condition of Exile.
- Dr Sharman Kadish: Constructing Identity: Anglo-Jewry and Synagogue Architecture.
2006-2007 Season
- Rabbi David Rose, St Andrew’s Jews: Attitudes to Jews in the Church of Scotland.
- Dr Hannah Holtschneider Turning towards Jerusalem? Jews and the Holocaust in German Protestant Theology
- Naomi Alderman, Disobedience: The author discusses her novel and describes how she came to write it
- Rabbi Mark Solomon, The Secret Light: Islamic Influences on Jewish Spirituality.
- David Mazower, Dreams of Glory - how the Jewish Workers of Whitechapel built themselves a Yiddish Opera House in 1912
- Oron Joffe, Hebrew and Aramaic - a Friendly Embrace.
2007-2008 Season
- Rabbi Professor Marc Saperstein, Literature in Jewish Sermons
- Professor Sam Cohn on The Black Death and the Burning of the Jews
- Tamar Yellin on The Genizah at the house of Shefer.
- Professor Timothy Lim, on Literary Artistry of the Book of Ruth.
- Rabbi Nancy Morris Is it too Late for Justice? The strange history of prosecuting Nazi war criminals.
- Barry Davis on Yiddish Film: Between East and West.