Name: The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
Start: 2026-05-13T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-13T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Redland Quaker Meeting House

November 2025
UK Jewish Film Festival – Once Upon My Mother / Beshert
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Celebrating a mother’s love in its most profound form, and as Jewish tradition dictates, also its most passionate, Once Upon My Mother, based on Roland Perez’s bestselling autobiographical novel, is an absolute gem of a film: a big-hearted, colourful, emotional yet funny portrayal of excessive, boundless, parental love, spanning decades. France, 1963. Heartbroken to learn … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
UK Jewish Film Festival – Pink Lady / To Fly or Float
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Set in Jerusalem’s strictly Orthodox community, this story centres on the marriage of a Haredi couple, Bati (Nur Fibak — Israeli Film Academy Best Actress nominee for Ahed’s Knee), and her husband, Lazer (Uri Blufarb, The Stronghold). When Bati discovers that Lazer is being blackmailed with photographs of him with another man, the couple navigates … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
December 2025
Yiddish Food Culture: And What About the Taste?
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Growing up in Lithuania and Israel before finally settling in England, where I have lived for more than 30 years, I ended up with a huge collection of recipes on scraps of paper in five different languages. Many of the dishes I cook today I learnt from my mother and mother-in-law at a time when … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
January 2026
Last Musician of Auschwitz
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How can there be music in the worst place in the world? Told through the words of victims of the camp who played and created music during the terrors of the Holocaust, this film shows how music could be a lifeline, a way to give testimony and even a way to resist. Woven throughout are … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
February 2026
The making of the Last Musician of Auschwitz
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The 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 … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
Golda
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Set 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 … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
March 2026
East End Jewish Life
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Vivi 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 … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
Park Avenue
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Fiona Shaw and Katherine Waterston give mesmerising performances in British Jewish director Gaby Dellal’s latest feature Park Avenue. When Charlotte runs away from her controlling husband and isolating life as a rancher, she returns to the apartment of her mother, Kit, in an affluent building on the famed, titular street. There, Charlotte rekindles her teenage … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
April 2026
The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
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Whilst the Church of England from 1942 with the formation of the Council of Christians and Jews has issued numerous statements condemning antisemitism, it was not until 2019 that the C of E’s Faith and Order Commission published its formal guidance on how the C of E’s relationship with Judaism should theologically and practically be understood. … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
May 2026
The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece
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Francesca Beauman will talk about the Crooked Cross by Sally Carson, a lost masterpiece from the 1930s that quickly became a word-of-mouth, best-seller when it was reprinted by Persephone Books last year. The novel charts the rise of the Nazis between December 1932 and August 1933 in a small town in Bavaria, as seen through … Continue reading The Crooked Cross by Sally Carson: A Rediscovered Lost Masterpiece

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