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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20190105T185928Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Relly
DESCRIPTION:Rosemary grew up as the daughter of a Czech immigrant in post-war UK and Canada. She was unaware of her father’s Jewish identity and of what really happened to his absent relatives. After her father’s death\, she felt compelled to discover the truth about his family. Tracing her aunt Relly\, who had emigrated to Australia after surviving Auschwitz\, was a significant turning point in her life and her new book Finding Relly is about her journey\, both personal and logistical.Rosemary will also talk about using her book to educate schoolchildren about the Holocaust. \n  \nRosemary Schonfeld toured the world throughout the 1980s with her band Ova.  She is a professional musician and composer based in Devon. She has recorded and produced/co-produced six albums\, co-run a recording studio\, devised a teaching package for percussionists\, and is currently working on a rock opera. She has published an illustrated book of Nonsense Poetry\, Standing on Your Head\, and short stories. \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/finding-relly/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:family,holocaust,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181211T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20180828T210639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T210639Z
UID:292-1544556600-1544562000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Bagel: past\, present and future
DESCRIPTION:  \nIf smoked salmon and cream cheese bring but one thing to mind\, then you are part of a long and fascinating edible history that has brought the roll with a hole from 17th century Poland to the freezers of the modern Anglo-American home. The talk will give a cultural but light-hearted overview of this modest ring-shaped bread that has gained a place in history. \nClarissa Hyman is an award-winning freelance writer\, specialising in all aspects of food and travel taking in producers\, ingredients\, restaurants\, recipes\, food policy and consumer trends\, and she uses food as a means to explore a wider world of culture and history\, art and agriculture.  She contributes to a wide range of newspapers\, magazines and guides\, and is the author of Cucina Siciliana (Conran Octopus 2001)\, The Jewish Kitchen (2003)\, and The Spanish Kitchen (2005).  She has been shortlisted for all of the major cookery writing awards\, and twice has won the Glenfiddich Food Writer of the Year Award.  She contributed the Fruit section of Dorling Kindersley’s Ingredients (2010).  In 2013 Reaktion published her Oranges: A Global History and her next book for Reaktion “Tomatoes: A Global History” will be published in 2019. \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-bagel-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181113T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181113T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20180828T205551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T210831Z
UID:281-1542137400-1542142800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Belonging and belongings:  Jewish poetry in the UK today
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a Jewish poet?  Can a non-Jew\, like Micheal O’Siadhail\, write about the Holocaust? (See The Gossamer Wall\, Bloodaxe 2002).  Maybe the Irish and the Jews have enough in common to be able to immerse themselves in each other’s histories.  Does  a writer and in particular a poet have to belong somewhere before they can write?  Who do their poems belong to?  What part do journals like Jewish Renaissance and the Jewish Quarterly play in keeping alive the identity of Jewish poets and poetry. How important are Jewish poets like Aviva Dautch\, Poet in Residence at the Jewish Museum in London\, who also works with refugees getting them to write poetry? \nLiz Cashdan is a poet and teaches Creative Writing for the Open College of the Arts. She is former Chair of the National Association of Writers in Education. She also teaches Creative Writing for the Folk House in Bristol and in schools.  She is Poetry Editor of Jewish Renaissance and in 1996 won the Jewish Quarterly poetry prize with her historical sequence\, The Tyre-Cairo Letters based on a fragment from the Cairo Geneza   She has an MA in History from Oxford and a PhD in Literature from Sheffield Hallam University.  Her latest collection is Things of Substance: New and Selected Poems (Five Leaves Publications 2013). \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/belonging-and-belongings-jewish-poetry-in-the-uk-today/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:poetry,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181009T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181009T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20180828T204135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T204135Z
UID:275-1539113400-1539118800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Jews of India
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nDating back to the time of King Solomon\, some of the oldest Jewish communities in the world are to be found in India. In 2016\, Sonia Jackson joined a tour of Indian Jewish sites and synagogues organised by Maidenhead Synagogue and led by Ralphy and Yael Jhirad. She will give an illustrated talk about the synagogues they visited and their social and historical context. \nSonia Jackson is an Emeritus Professor at UCL Institute of Education. She is a past Chair of Davar and continues to have a strong commitment to supporting Jewish cultural life in Bristol and the surrounding area \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-india/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:India,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180410T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180410T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20180114T163537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180114T163537Z
UID:253-1523388600-1523394000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Painting Exile: R. B. Kitaj\, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff
DESCRIPTION:“The novelty of our time [is] that so many individuals have experienced the uprooting and dislocations that have made them expatriate and exiles.” The words of Edward Said encapsulate the widely-held view that exile was emblematic of the modern world. This talk will focus  upon three artists featured in the exhibition ‘Out of Chaos’ at the Laing Art Gallery in 2016-17: Frank Auerbach\, R.B. Kitaj and Leon Kossoff. They were loosely grouped under the label the ‘School of London.’ Focusing especially upon the works featured in the exhibition\, this talk will explore the different ways that exile is represented\, imagined or displaced through each artist’s particular vision; and how that vision might have been shaped by their individual historical circumstances. \nStephen Moonie is a Lecturer in Art History in the Department of Fine Art\, School of Arts and Cultures\, Newcastle University. He is an expert on modernist painting and criticism\, especially in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s. He teaches widely across many areas of art history\, and has published on various aspects of modern art and art criticism in recent years. He is currently interested in the legacy of the critical debates of the 1960s and the current role of art criticism. \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/painting-exile-r-b-kitaj-frank-auerbach-and-leon-kossoff/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:art,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180213T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20180114T083704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180211T170945Z
UID:241-1518550200-1518555600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:No poetry after Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:  \nStarting with Theodor Adorno’s much-quoted proposition that ‘After Auschwitz it is barbaric to write poetry’\, this talk will explore the tension between confronting the reality of the Holocaust and responding artistically through the medium of poetry to human experience. By focusing on individual poems by survivors such as Paul Celan and Primo Levi and English-language poets such as Anthony Hecht\, Michael Longley and Carol Ann Duffy\, the talk will tentatively consider how necessary poetry remains in the modern world. Examples of poems will be provided and can be found in the anthology\, “Holocaust Poetry”\, edited by Hilda Schiff. \nPhilip Lyons is a teacher and poet who lives in Bristol. He has taught creative writing and literary studies in a variety of settings\, including universities\, prisons and psychiatric hospitals. Since completing a PhD on Literary and Theological Responses to the Holocaust at the University of Bristol in 1988\, he has also worked in the fields of advice and guidance\, mental health\, and adult education. He is the author of one full-length collection\, “Like It Is” (Poetry Space\, 2011)\, and he has given readings throughout the South West\, including the Wells Festival of Literature and the Thornbury Arts Festival. \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/no-poetry-after-auschwitz/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:holocaust,poetry,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20170825T065748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T065748Z
UID:211-1513107000-1513112400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Kabbalah and Yoga
DESCRIPTION:Yoga is one of at least six Hindu religions as old or older than Judaism. It overlaps through serendipity with the concept of “Adam Kadmon” (original man) in Rabbi Moshe de Leon’s Zohar – published in manuscript form in the late 13th century Castile but attributed by some to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai the 2nd century Talmudic sage. The “Asanas”\, yogic postures\, are the sites of tension and muscular exercise which coincidentally are related to the Kabbalistic “sefirot” (emanations). In Jewish Zoharic mysticism\, these emanations interact with one another to express moral and psychological issues. In a parallel way\, the Yoga positions represent objects\, creatures or roles which also have “Being-related” significance. This talk will also include a demonstration of a various yoga positions. \n  \nMichael Picardie was born and brought up in Johannesburg\, South Africa and was a member of the Liberal party and the Congress of Democrats (sister party to the ANC) and was arrested after the Sharpeville shootings in 1960. He is an actor and author of plays about South Africa (Shades of Brown\, Struggle with the Boer\, Shaloma\, The Zulu and the Zeide). His father Louis passed onto him his knowledge of Indian mysticism\, Hatha Yoga\, a love of the poet Tagore and the writings of Mahatma Ghandi. He has a PhD on theatre studies and taught psychology to Social Workers (1968-86). He currently teaches Kabbalah\, Yoga and Meditation at the Bristol and West Progressive Jewish Congregation. \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/kabbalah-and-yoga/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:kabbalah,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171011T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171011T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20170824T070841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170824T070841Z
UID:193-1507750200-1507755600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Social justice\, Jews and the refugee experience in Britain
DESCRIPTION:Vivienne Jackson •  Jewish Council for Racial Equality • London \nRace\, asylum and immigration are visibly high on the UK political agenda. Europe is witnessing the greatest refugee crisis within its boundaries since the Second World War. Anti-immigration arguments are palpable in sections of the national press\, and appear to have lain behind some of the votes for Brexit. As we try to make sense of so called ‘home-grown’ terror attacks\, the experience of many Muslims in everyday life is of overt and subtle forms of discrimination and racism. In such circumstances\, what do Jewish people have to contribute to debates about migration and racial discrimination\, and is it distinctive? This talk will evaluate how Jewish voices have contributed to race and asylum debates in the UK. The talk will invite discussion about what\, if anything\, a future Jewish voice on race and asylum should sound like. \nDr Vivienne Jackson works for the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE) which is 40 years old this year. JCORE has campaigned for racial equality and building bridges between different minority communities in the UK\, as well as running practical projects to support asylum seekers and refugees. Vivienne is the project coordinator of JUMP (the JCORE Unaccompanied Minors Project)\, which pairs trained befrienders with young asylum-seekers and refugees here on their own. She has worked in NGOs and academia in the field of asylum\, race and migration since 2002. She was youth outreach office for Student Action for Refugees (STAR)\, before completing a PhD about Filipino migrant workers in Israel at the University of Bristol.  She has contributed to research for the Children’s Society on various topics relating to child and young refugees\, and worked for Right Track in Bristol\, a charity aiming to support Black and ethnic minority children at risk of trouble with the law. This talk is part of the Journey to Justice travelling exhibition in Bristol. (see http://journeytojustice.org.uk/projects/bristol/ for more details) \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/social-justice-jews-and-the-refugee-experience-in-britain/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:social justice,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170404T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170404T211500
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20170107T173540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T173839Z
UID:172-1491334200-1491340500@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Jews and the Slave Trade
DESCRIPTION:In 1991\, the Nation of Islam first published the Secret Relationships between Jews and Blacks charging Jews with controlling the Atlantic Slave trade. The book has been furiously rebutted by academics but its assertions are still circulating unquestioned on a number of popular Black History sites. How significant is this? How is the Jewish role in slavery- especially in the British Caribbean variously perceived by Black Britons today and by British Jews? What is the present state of historiography relating to Jews and the Atlantic Slave Trade? And to what extent did the controversy so engendered challenge Jewish historiography? This paper begins to consider these questions in the light of Madge’s own experience both as an academic historian (who has published on both slavery and its legacy in Britain and on ethnic identity) and as a public historian who has worked closely with both museums and Black and Jewish community and history groups in Britain. \nMadge Dresser is a Senior Research Fellow and recently retired Associate Professor in History at the University of the West of England\, Bristol and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. The author of Slavery Obscured: the Social History of the Slave Trade in Bristol (London: Continuum\, 2001\, reprinted Redcliffe Press 2007) she has a long standing interest in the history of slavery\, questions of national identity and the position of ethnic and religious minorities in British society.. In 2013 she co-authored and co-edited Slavery and the British Country House for Historic England and more recently has co-authored and edited Women and the City: Bristol 1373-2000. (Bristol: Redcliffe Press\, 2016). \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-slave-trade/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170314T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170314T211500
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20170107T172036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T173957Z
UID:160-1489519800-1489526100@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Polack's House and the Jewish Community at Clifton College
DESCRIPTION:  \nPolack’s House at Clifton College\, founded in 1878\, was the first Jewish Boarding House in an English public school. The history of the Jewish Boarding House at Clifton is closely connected to one particular family – the Polack family who provided four housemasters\, over three generations and 89 years. The House\, particularly in the early years\, was also closely connected with the Anglo-Jewish Community. It attracted boys (and later girls) from the principal Jewish communities in Great Britain. Clifton College is the only public school with its own synagogue\, enabling Jewish students to maintain their Jewish identity while being a full participant in a public school \nJo Greenbury will explore the history and traditions of Clifton’s unique relationship with the Jewish Community in this country. Jo has been at Clifton since 1989\, and was the last Housemaster of Polack’s House [1995-2005]. He continued to look after the Jewish pupils at the College until 2016\, when Lauren took up the reins and Jo took the lead as Director of the Old Cliftonian Society. \nLauren Chiren has been a Clifton College parent for eight years and placed her son at Clifton because of its rich Jewish heritage. Lauren has recently been appointed to enrich the Jewish provision and work closely with the school and PHET (Polack’s House Educational Trust)\, to raise awareness of the School’s Jewish heritage more widely. Lauren will share with you Clifton’s current enrichment programme and demonstrate how they are sharing Jewish culture and beliefs within Clifton College and the wider community. \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/polacks-house-and-the-jewish-community-at-clifton-college/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170214T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170214T211500
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20170107T170719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T170719Z
UID:154-1487100600-1487106900@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Jewish Music out of the Shadows: Hidden Archives\, Lost Worlds
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe catastrophes of the twentieth century\, most significantly the Shoah\, led to the near destruction of the rich musical heritage of Eastern European and Russian Jews. Composers\, performers and their art were either lost forever\, or else became dispersed and fragmented\, leaving only shadowy echoes of a lost world. Stephen Muir will talk about a large international research project\, “Performing the Jewish Archive”\, which aims to bring some of that music back out of the shadows. Recovered from dusty cellars in Helsinki\, abandoned suitcases in Cape Town\, and the archive of human testimony held in the memories of survivors and their families\, music allows us to glimpse the riches of that lost world\, at the same time reminding us that unless they are cherished and recorded with painstaking care and urgency\, our archives risk being lost forever along with the world that produced them. \nStephen Muir studied at the University of Birmingham\, and is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Leeds. He has published on subjects as diverse as Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas\, Dvořák’s piano-vocal arrangements\, and South African Jewish music. In 2014 he and other scholars were awarded one of the largest ever grants (£1.8 million) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for “Performing the Jewish Archive” (ptja.leeds.ac.uk). \n  \nThis event as part of a programme of events for Bristol Holocaust Memorial Day (2017) See their website for more details \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/jewish-music-out-of-the-shadows-hidden-archives-lost-worlds/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:archive,holocaust,music,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161206T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20160830T201232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161202T073341Z
UID:47-1481052600-1481059800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:A Gentle Introduction to Spinoza: His Life and Times
DESCRIPTION:Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin who laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism\, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.  Spinoza’s magnum opus\, the posthumous Ethics\, in which he opposed Descartes’ mind–body dualism\, has earned him recognition as one of Western philosophy’s most important thinkers. In this talk\, Rabbi Mark Daniels will look at his “excommunication” from the Dutch Jewish community and discuss why he was so important in the history of Western thought. \nMark Daniels is currently Rabbi of Bristol Park Row Synagogue and course director of Judith Lady Montefiore College in London. He read philosophy at Warwick University and was Chairman of the Society for Jewish Study in London from 1999 to 2009. \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-gentle-introduction-to-spinoza-his-life-and-times/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160920T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160920T213000
DTSTAMP:20260617T181224
CREATED:20160831T195607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160918T192915Z
UID:42-1474399800-1474407000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Roots and Branches of Jewish Comedy
DESCRIPTION:Where are the roots of Jewish comedy? What makes a joke Jewish? The Bible has comedy and jokes – not much\, but who’s counting?  The Talmud and early Rabbinic literature grew a special brand of Jewish humour\, as has our experience of Diaspora. Throw in some history\, the festival of Purim\, struggle\, persecution\, poverty\, Rabbinic discourse and a fear of assimilation\, and we find a rich culture of Jewish humour which everybody loves\, we hope. And if they don’t\, we will make a joke about that too. Before anyone else does…. \nMaureen Kendler is a Teaching Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies and has degrees in English Literature and Jewish Education. She is a dedicated Limmudnik and teaches there and internationally on a wide variety of Jewish texts\, ancient and modern. She broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 2 “Pause For Thought” and contributes to the Jewish Chronicle “Thought For the Week” column. \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/the-roots-and-branches-of-jewish-comedy/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Talk
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