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SUMMARY:East End Jewish Life
DESCRIPTION:East End Jewish Life \nVivi Lachs • London \nVivi Lachs will introduce her new book\, East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press\, with a lively presentation and performed readings. The book offers an unparalleled view into the life\, labour\, politics and joys of London’s Jewish East End\, from its heyday in the 1890s until the 1950s. These accessible\, often humorously-written sketches capture incisive and sometimes cheeky encounters with challenges and debates of the time. They highlight the complex interactions between Jewish immigrants and their British surroundings\,\nfrom celebrating a new Torah scroll to enlisting in the British army during the First World War without citizenship. They take readers on a journey through local tradition and significant social change\, tracing the ideas and events that impacted the community. \nThe book will be on sale at a 30% launch discount price. \n\nVivi Lachs is a historian of the Jewish East End\, a Yiddish performer\, translator and associate research fellow at University College\, London. She is the co-presenter of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast\, manager of the Great Yiddish Parade\, vice chair of the Yiddish Café Trust and leads tours of the Yiddish East End. She sings and composes tunes for archive London Yiddish songs with the bands Klezmer Klub and Katsha’nes. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/east-end-jewish-life/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260225T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260225T213000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T071607Z
UID:1154-1772047800-1772055000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Golda
DESCRIPTION:Golda \nUSA/UK 2023\,100 mins\, English \nDirector Guy Nattiv\, featuring Helen Mirren\, Liev Schreiber \nSet during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973\, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction.  She must navigate overwhelming odds\, a sceptical cabinet and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger\, with millions of lives in the balance.  Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/golda/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cinema,history
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20260102T061334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T072213Z
UID:1127-1770838200-1770845400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The making of the Last Musician of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:The making of the Last Musician of Auschwitz \nToby Trackman • London \nThe Last Musician of Auschwitz is a complex\, powerful film which uses the surprising existence of music in the camp to explore the role of art in preserving a sense of humanity in the face of the most terrible violations.  Director of the film\, Toby Trackman\, will be sharing his deeply personal experience of making the film\, revealing the emotional\, moral and creative challenges that staging musical performances in Auschwitz involve. He will talk through how the film came to be\, share powerfully moving moments from the making of it\, and reflect on how the film has been received in today’s tense and uncertain atmosphere. \n \nRaised in Bristol\, Toby Trackman is an award-winning documentary director\, with a career spanning over 20 years. Known for his beautifully crafted cinematic approach\, he brings creative ambition and compelling storytelling to every project\, whether that’s with A-list superstars such Elton John and Dua Lipa\, or with contributors in the most sensitive of situations\, such as in his films double Grierson award winning film Stabbed and Life and Death in Chicago\, which both explored the trauma left behind by violent crime. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-making-of-the-last-musician-of-auschwitz/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,holocaust,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20240115T185316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T071307Z
UID:770-1710358200-1710363600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?
DESCRIPTION:The remarkable medieval moneylender\, Licoricia of Winchester rose from obscure beginnings to become the personal banker to Henry III and the richest Jewish woman in 13th century England.  Twice married\, twice widowed and the mother of four sons\, she was a self-made woman in a man-made world.  But in an age of political turmoil and rising antisemitism\, she also experienced at first hand mounting anti-Jewish legislation\, local expulsions and violent attacks that culminated in personal tragedy.   Who was this extraordinary woman\, and what lessons might medieval England hold for us today? \nRebecca Abrams is the author of several books on Jewish history\, including The Jewish Journey:  4000 years in 22 objects and Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries.  Her most recent publication is Licoricia of Winchester:  Power and Prejudice in Medieval England.  She teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford and is a regular literary critic for the Financial Times. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/licoricia-of-winchester-an-exception-who-proves-the-rule/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231115T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231115T221500
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20230829T182353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T182353Z
UID:756-1700078400-1700086500@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Shadow of the Day
DESCRIPTION:Italy 2022\, 128 mins\, Italian (with English subtitles); Director Giuseppe Piccione\, featuring Riccardo Scarmarcio\, Benedetta Porcaroli \nThe film is set in 1938 Italy.  Like the majority of his fellow Italians\, decorated war veteran and restaurant manager Luciano is a staunch supporter of the country’s fascist regime. Shortly after the Italian racial laws are introduced\, Anna\, a young beautiful woman\, turns up at the restaurant\, desperately looking for work. When Anna’s closely kept secrets are finally revealed\, Luciano\, who has fallen in love with her\, must reconsider his ideological beliefs and decide where his loyalties lie. This captivating melodrama perfectly captures the oppression and fear created by Mussolini’s brutal rule. \nFilm contains scenes of a sexual nature \nDAVAR is delighted to be showing Shadow of the Day and Matchmaking   in conjunction with UK Jewish Film Festival 2023 \nNOTE tickets to be booked from UKJFF box office: www.ukjewishfilm.org \n  \n \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/shadow-of-the-day/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cinema,history,holocaust
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231108T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20230829T180717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T180717Z
UID:744-1699471800-1699477200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Shipman and King Cinemas: a celebration of Jewish enterprise and family
DESCRIPTION:In this illustrated talk\, Jenny King tells the remarkable story of her grandfather Sam King and his journey from an impoverished Jewish immigrant family to a cinema and property mogul. Together with his friend Alf Shipman\, they fulfilled their dream of building a chain of magnificent Art Deco cinemas\, starting in the First World War with a tiny cinema in the back of a Sussex pub. Through their foresight and dedication to the world of entertainment\, Shipman and King Cinemas grew to be one of Britain’s finest independent cinema circuits\, bringing entertainment to thousands of people through two World Wars\, the Great Depression\, and the challenge of television. Alongside the success of Shipman and King is a human story of business triumph\, family bonds and personal sadness. \nCinema King: A Granddaughter’s memoir\, is available through www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk and all profits will go to the Hailsham Old Pavilion Society charity that maintains Shipman and King’s first cinema which opened in 1921. \nJennifer King is a business psychologist who co-founded a management consultancy where she specialised in working with the medical profession. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. She now works as a Leadership Coach. She lives in Bristol with her husband David Pendleton. They have two daughters and four grandchildren. ‘Cinema King’ is her first memoir. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/shipman-and-king-cinemas-a-celebration-of-jewish-enterprise-and-family/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cinema,history,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20230829T180403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T180403Z
UID:725-1697052600-1697058000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Once upon a time in Egypt - Memories of a bygone era
DESCRIPTION:In this conversation with Lisa Lipman\, Viviane will discuss her childhood in Egypt and her memories of growing up in a Jewish community which at the time numbered 80\,000 . They all left or were expelled between 1948 and 1967. The 1930s to early 1950s are considered Egypt’s golden era\, when Cairo was known as the Pearl of the Nile. Viviane will evoke a world which no longer exists and will talk about a Sephardi community with its unique customs and traditions. She will also discuss her experience as a refugee\, bringing with it both trauma and a loss of identity. \nViviane Bowell was born and raised in Cairo in a Sephardi community. Her maternal grandparents came from Aleppo in Syria and her paternal ancestors had been expelled from Spain in 1492 before settling in the Ottoman Empire. Expelled from Egypt in 1956\, Viviane’s family arrived in England as penniless refugees and were placed in a disused hostel in the West of England before moving to London.  There she attended a French school and later went to university as a mature student and obtained a law degree.  Viviane moved to Bristol nearly 20 years ago and currently volunteers for two charities supporting refugees and asylum seekers. Since publishing her memoirs and recipe book soon after Covid\, she continues to promote the little-known story of Egyptian Jews and Jews from Arab lands. \nLisa Lipman has been directing and telling stories on popular programmes and documentaries for the BBC and other channels over the last 30 years. She is very much looking forward to delving into Viviane’s own family saga. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/once-upon-a-time-in-egypt-memories-of-a-bygone-era/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Jewish food,Sephardi,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230308T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230308T220000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20230112T142800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230112T143044Z
UID:710-1678305600-1678312800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Charlotte
DESCRIPTION:Based on an expansive collection of a thousand autobiographical paintings found after the war – considered by some to be the first graphic novel – this stunningly beautiful\, animated film sheds light on the life and work of Berlin-born artist Charlotte Salomon. Restricted and haunted by antisemitic laws\, the immensely gifted Salomon was forced to leave her beloved home country for southern France\, where she continued to paint\, using her art as a way of coping with her traumatic past and troubled family. Aged 26 and pregnant\, she was murdered in Auschwitz\, leaving her paintings\, a remarkable record of mid-20th century life\, to be found after the war. Salomon’s life was tragically cut short\, but Charlotte – featuring the voice of Keira Knightley who leads a starry British cast – excels in capturing the sheer genius of her art and its lasting\, powerful legacy. \nCanada/Belgium/France 2021\, 92 mins\, English \nDirector Eric Warin\, Tahir Rana featuring Keira Knightly\, Jim Broadbent\, Helen McCrory \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/charlotte/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:art,Cinema,history,holocaust
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230222T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20230112T142143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230112T142143Z
UID:701-1677094200-1677099600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Jews of Africa
DESCRIPTION:Many suspect that the 21st century will be Africa’s century\, but for many of us the African continent remains a fairly unknown place. Least known amongst its many unknown features is the emergence of new Jewish communities to join the long-standing ones that have been there for nearly two centuries. Clive Lawton will explore some of these communities\, how they came into existence and the conundrums they throw up for the established Jewish community\, not least\, but not only\, in Israel. \nClive Lawton was made an OBE in 2016 for services to education and the Jewish community. He is CEO of the Commonwealth Jewish Council which draws together and represents about 40 communities around the globe. He was co-founder of Limmud\, is currently scholar-in-residence at JW3\, the large Jewish Community Centre in London\, an NHS tribunal Chair\, a magistrate on the Wiltshire Bench\, and runs his own international education consultancy.  Clive lectures and has published several books in the fields of religion\, moral and ethical matters\, literature\, politics\, and history. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-jews-of-africa/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Identity,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20220915T093501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T093501Z
UID:659-1665689400-1665694800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Jews and the Law in Medieval England
DESCRIPTION:England’s first known Jewish inhabitants came from Normandy soon after the Norman Conquest and by the end of the twelfth century the community in England had been granted a right of residence and a right of free movement plus a substantial degree of autonomy in intra-communal disputes by king Henry II and his sons Richard and John. From the late twelfth century onwards there survives a substantial volume of royal legislation relating to the community. Its main focus was on controlling the money-lending activity of individual Jews both in the interests of the Crown and individual Christian debtors until a statute of 1275 prohibited any future lending at interest. Other legislation echoed contemporary ecclesiastical legislation limiting social contact between Christians and Jews. The end of the medieval community came with the Expulsion of 1290 after which only a handful of Jews remained in England\, those who had converted to Christianity\, many of them living in the House of Converts in Chancery Lane in London. \nPaul Brand is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford where he was a Senior Research Fellow from 1999 to 2014. He is a medieval legal historian and the author of The Origins of the English Legal Profession and The Making of the Common Law both published in 1992 and Kings\, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England in 2003. He is editor of four volumes of The Earliest English Law Reports for the Selden Society and volume VI of Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews. He lives in retirement in rural south Warwickshire. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/jews-and-the-law-in-medieval-england/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20210913T083605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T135020Z
UID:542-1639078200-1639083600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Ghetto:  Travelling through history
DESCRIPTION:“Ghetto” is an extraordinarily complex word which is both a noun and an adjective. It has layers of contrasting meanings accrued over five hundred years and a bewildering array of settings across the globe. It refers to medieval and early modern Jewish history; black experience in the great northern cities of America in the twentieth century; nineteenth-century imaginary ghettos; and our contemporary sense of cities and countries segregated by race and class.  What makes “the ghetto” unique is that it is a place full of historical memory. Sometimes memory makes the ghetto “real”; at other times past versions of the ghetto are forgotten. But\, from the beginning\, ghettos have had a variety of histories and connotations. This talk will show how different ghettos (urban\, racial\, colonial) travel across time and space. \n  \nBryan Cheyette is Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Reading\, and a Fellow of the English Association. He has authored or edited eleven books\, most recently The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP\, 2020). He loves to travel and has held visiting positions at Dartmouth College\, the University of Michigan\, and the University of Pennsylvania\, and he also holds fellowships at the universities of Leeds\, Southampton and Birkbeck College\, London. He is a past book’s editor of The Jewish Quarterly and writes for the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish Renaissance. A self-confessed “revieweroholic”\, he reviews fiction for several British newspapers including the Times Literary Supplement and the Times Higher. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-ghetto-travelling-through-history/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,holocaust,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T220000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20210913T083946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T135217Z
UID:548-1635364800-1635372000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Sarah’s Key
DESCRIPTION:Adapted from Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel of the same name\, Sarah’s Key is an account of research by a journalist into a shameful incident in French history which intertwines with a story of a young Jewish girl from that time period. \n  \n‘In Paris in 1942 the French police round up 10-year-old Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) and her family. To save her little brother\, Sarah locks him in a closet and closely guards the key on her awful journey\, which starts at the stifling Vélodrome d’Hiver\, where Jews were packed in and made to wait for transport to the camps. Sixty or so years later\, Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas\, excellent as always)\, an American journalist married to a Frenchman\, researches an article about that roundup. Because of the article and an accident of real estate\, Julia starts to obsess about Sarah and her fate\, even as her own comfortable Parisian life begins to crumble’ (Rachel Saltz\, NY Times) \nFrance 2010\, 111 mins\, French\, English \nDirector Gilles Pacquet-Brenner featuring Kristin Scott Thomas \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/sarahs-key/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,history,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20210913T083242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T081520Z
UID:535-1634239800-1634245200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Willesden Jewish Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:Willesden Cemetery\, which opened in 1873\, is one of London’s most prestigious Jewish cemeteries.  It is run by the United Synagogue who were fortunate to be awarded a £1.7m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to open Willesden Jewish Cemetery as a place of heritage for the public.  The United Synagogue website describes the Cemetery as “a place of great tranquillity\, the cemetery charts the development of London’s Jewish community over nearly 150 years\, with graves and memorials rich in social history and genealogical detail”. Tours and since COVID\, online presentations\, seek to convey this richness to audiences by bringing alive the stories of a sample of those buried in the Cemetery.  This will be a first for Deborah presenting to a live audience outside the Cemetery. \nDeborah Cohen lives close by the Cemetery and became a volunteer tour guide in 2019.  She is a former NHS director\, and has not quite stopped working as she chairs a local safeguarding adults board\, does some consultancy\, and is a Mental Health Act manager.  Deborah describes her experience as a tour guide as being on a voyage of discovery\, as she learns more and more about the “residents” of the Cemetery\, including people who made remarkable contributions to life in the UK and beyond during their lives. \nTo register for attending either in person or virtually please book via eventbrite \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/willesden-jewish-cemetery/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201125T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201125T220000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123125
CREATED:20201004T133050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T221835Z
UID:471-1606334400-1606341600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles - CANCELLED DUE TO LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONS
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Max Lewkowicz; 2019; 97 min; English \nDirector Max Lewkowicz’s richly detailed documentary celebrates the illustrious Broadway show Fiddler on the Roof\, the evergreen shtetl-set musical first staged in 1964 with choreography and direction by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel as Teyve\, the milkman. Contributions from a range of interviewees – including people attached to the original production\, such as producer Hal Prince and lyricist Sheldon Harnick\, and famous fans of the show\, including Fran Lebowitz and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda – help to structure the history lesson about how Fiddler became a massive international hit. That account is filled out with footage of recent productions from around the world\, including one in Japanese and one by some African American high-school kids in Brooklyn \nWhat really makes this documentary are the digressions into\, among many other things\, the history of the Pale of Settlement\, who exactly was Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (who wrote the stories the show is based on)\, Marc Chagall\, and the show’s ghostly connection to the Holocaust\, even though it’s not mentioned in the show itself.  Despite its age\, this musical engages audiences\, both Jewish and non-Jewish\, all over the world and has a remarkable ability to seem relevant to every era\, including the present day with the rise of the ultra right and anti-semitism. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/fiddler-a-miracle-of-miracles/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,history
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123126
CREATED:20200901T105815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201115T113820Z
UID:442-1605209400-1605214800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Creativity against the odds:  Art and Internment during World War Two
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 80th anniversary of the British government’s controversial decision to ‘collar the lot’\, this illustrated lecture will examine the art produced in the British internment camps\, mostly but not only on the Isle of Man. It will do so in the broader context of art produced in other internment situations\, from the Japanese-American camps in the USA to the Nazi POW and concentration camps. Just what is it that makes human beings feel the urge to create in such adverse and inauspicious circumstances? To hear a recording of this talk please click on the following link which will take you to the Insiders/Outsiders youtube channel \n \nMonica Bohm-Duchen is a London-based art historian. Her book Art and the Second World War was published in 2013. She is the initiator and creative director of the nationwide\, year-long Insiders/Outsiders Festival (https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/)\, which celebrates the huge contribution made to British culture by refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe – many of whom were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British government in 1940. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/creativity-against-the-odds-art-and-internment-during-world-war-two/
LOCATION:Virtual streamed
CATEGORIES:art,history,holocaust,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123126
CREATED:20190811T143811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T143811Z
UID:363-1576179000-1576184400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Medicine in Ancient Judaism: Why does G-d attempt to kill Moses in Exodus 4?
DESCRIPTION:Directly after the burning bush scene\, G-d inexplicably tries to kill Moses (Exodus 4:24-26). Fortunately\, Moses’ life is saved by Zipporah’s enigmatic “Bridegroom of Blood” ritual. Commentators both ancient and modern have proposed many solutions by filling in the gaps\, proposing reasons such as Moses’ failing courage or procrastination. But what did this episode mean in its original setting? This talk will look at how G-d’s attempt on Moses’ life is better understood in the broader historical context of ancient medicine. In this talk\, Dr Askin will draw upon recent research from her current project\, Medicine in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism\, to explore how and why the Bible’s portrayals of medicine and healing seems so mysterious and distant to us. \nDr Lindsey A. Askin is Lecturer in Jewish Studies\, University of Bristol. She is the author of Scribal Culture in Ben Sira (Brill\, 2018)\, which is based on her doctoral thesis (University of Cambridge\, 2012-16). Her research interests include mental illness and medicine in the Bible and ancient Judaism\, scribal culture and literacy\, Ben Sira\, the Dead Sea Scrolls\, and the Book of Jubilees. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/medicine-in-ancient-judaism-why-does-g-d-attempt-to-kill-moses-in-exodus-4/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123126
CREATED:20190811T142920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T142920Z
UID:355-1573759800-1573765200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Here I am; Capturing the Stories of the South Wales Jewish Community
DESCRIPTION:There have been two projects in Cardiff over the last 10 years that have used oral history to capture the stories of the Cardiff Jewish community\, as well as preserving written records. The talk will look at how we went about it and some of the advantages of oral history\, and will give some fascinating snippets from the stories people had to tell. It will also look at what we learnt about identity and belonging and the diversity of experience of the community\, from the last Barmitzvah in a synagogue in Cologne ten days before Kristallnacht to the first Jewish wedding in Kidwelly\, a village in West Wales. \nColin Heyman was involved in the Hineni Oral History project which started the work in 2009 and John Minkes of the Jewish History Association of South Wales has continued the work over the last three years. In our other lives\, Colin is a trainer and facilitator\, John a retired criminologist. Our other joint activity is going to see Cardiff City play \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/here-i-am-capturing-the-stories-of-the-south-wales-jewish-community/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191030T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191030T220000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123126
CREATED:20190811T142528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191008T072447Z
UID:352-1572465600-1572472800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:A bag of marbles (un sac de billes)
DESCRIPTION:Last year this film was sold out\, so we are reshowing it. Canadian director Christian Duguay explores the horrors of World War Two from the perspective of two young Jewish boys living in Nazi-occupied France in Un Sac de Billes (A Bag of Marbles). Based on the acclaimed memoirs of the same name by Joseph Joffo\, A Bag of Marbles is a lavishly shot production that is brilliantly acted and is a gut-wrenching reminder of one of history’s darkest chapters. Following the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany during World War II\, brothers Maurice (Batyste Fleurial) and Joseph (Dorian Le Clech) are forced to leave their close-knit Jewish family behind for the free-zone along the French Riviera. \n Despite the grim war scenes and the dark subject matter\, Duguay has created a lavishly shot film that boasts stunning cinematography\, lush locations and beautiful period costumes. The film beautifully balances the high stake tension with some sweet and endearing moments between the two brothers and celebrates their innocence. While the film is a dark reminder of a terrible page in our history\, its heart-warming story reminds us that there are still good people in our darkest moments (modified from Daniele Foti-Cuzzola) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/a-bag-of-marbles-un-sac-de-billes-2/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,history,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191010T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T123126
CREATED:20190811T141839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T141839Z
UID:346-1570735800-1570741200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Internment of German Jews on the Isle of Man during World War Two
DESCRIPTION:During the second war German Jews living in Britain were classified as enemy aliens\, and in 1940 many were interned in camps on the Isle of Man. These included  David Memel’s father and father in law\, and David has recently visited the sites of the camps. He will discuss  the historical background to the internments\, and the experiences of internees\, mainly based on the accounts of his family. Despite the loss of freedom\, many interesting experiences resulted\, including living with a famous artist and a lion tamer. \nDavid Memel was chair of Limmud Bristol South West 2018 and is a committee member of Davar. He is a retired GP. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/internment-of-german-jews-on-the-isle-of-man-during-world-war-two/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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