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A Gentle Introduction to Spinoza: His Life and Times

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

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 … Continue reading A Gentle Introduction to Spinoza: His Life and Times

£3 – £5

Atomic Falafel

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

  Wednesday 25th January 2017 at 8.00pm Israel, Germany, UK 2015, 93 mins, English, Hebrew, Farsi (sub-titles) Director Dror Shaul featuring Mali Levi, Michelle Treves, Michelle Treves With Iran threatening to attain nuclear power, anxious Israeli politicians and top brass gather in an underground bunker to debate a response and whether to consider a preemptive … Continue reading Atomic Falafel

£5.25

Holocaust Memorial Day

Bristol City Hall College Green, United Kingdom

Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Commemoration Annual remembrance day. Bristol Keynote speaker Barbara Winton: Nicholas Winton & the Czechoslovak Kindertransport: Turning compassion into action. In 1938 thousands fled from Hitler’s advancing army into central Czechoslovakia.  A 29 year old Londoner found himself in Prague witnessing the devastation and trauma they were suffering.  His decision to get … Continue reading Holocaust Memorial Day

Jewish Music out of the Shadows: Hidden Archives, Lost Worlds

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

  The 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 … Continue reading Jewish Music out of the Shadows: Hidden Archives, Lost Worlds

£3.00 – £5.00

An evening of silent movies starring Max Davidson

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

  The late 1920s was the heyday for film actor and comedian Max Davidson (1875 – 1950). Engaged at the famous Hal Roach Studios for a series of Jewish comedies which were set around his ‘beard’ character Max developed some of the greatest comedies of the era and yet Davidson is hardly remembered today. Standing … Continue reading An evening of silent movies starring Max Davidson

£5.25

Polack’s House and the Jewish Community at Clifton College

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

  Polack'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 … Continue reading Polack’s House and the Jewish Community at Clifton College

£3.00 – £5.00

Indignation

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

Set against the backdrop of the Korean War, a working-class Jewish student, Marcus (Logan Lerman), leaves Newark, New Jersey, to attend a small college in Ohio. There, he experiences a sexual awakening after meeting the elegant and wealthy Olivia (Sarah Gadon), and confronts the school's dean (Tracy Letts) over the role of religion in academic … Continue reading Indignation

£5.25

Jews and the Slave Trade

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

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 … Continue reading Jews and the Slave Trade

£3.00 – £5.00

Dough

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

  Take an aging white Jewish baker, add a young black Muslim immigrant, and what do you have? The ingredients story in which bridges are built across religious, racial and generations. Nat (Jonathan Pryce), who runs a kosher London bakery is struggling and facing a hostile takeover bid from a cutthroat developer who wants to … Continue reading Dough

£5.25

Social justice, Jews and the refugee experience in Britain

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

Vivienne Jackson •  Jewish Council for Racial Equality • London Race, 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 … Continue reading Social justice, Jews and the refugee experience in Britain

£4 – £6

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