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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190312T193000
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UID:323-1552419000-1552424400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Women of Valour
DESCRIPTION:  \nAt the heart of growing fundamentalism in the Haredi sector lies the fate of women: rabbis have decreed bans on women driving\, installed modesty patrols\, enforced gender segregation on buses\, and caused women’s faces to be omitted in newspapers and magazines. Whilst Haredi men attempt to render women voiceless and faceless\, mainstream media does little better. Haredi women\, however\, are not all sitting silently in their floor-length clothing locked in their homes despairing their helpless fate.  In a range of texts and genresthese women have been responding to their experiences. In this talk\, Karen will draw on research from her recent book\, Women of Valor\, to highlight the work Haredi women are doing today. \n  \nKaren Skinazi is a senior teaching fellow at the University of Bristol. She has recently published Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters\, Crime Writers\, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Her writing about literature\, race\, gender\, Jewish culture\, and motherhood has appeared in academic journals and popular papers \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/women-of-valour/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190227T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190227T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20190105T190236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T190256Z
UID:319-1551297600-1551304800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:RBG
DESCRIPTION:  \nRBG is a remarkable documentary of the career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, which spans several decades\, and how she developed a legal legacy while becoming a pop culture icon.  In the 1970s Ginsburg played a leading role as a legal warrior for women’s rights.  “I ask for no favour for my sex\,” she said\, quoting the abolitionist Sarah Grimké from 1837. “All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” An astonishing woman who at 85\, having already survived bouts of cancer\, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the proverbial survivor. \n  \nUS 2018\, 97 mins\, English \nDirected by Betsy West starring Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, Jane Ginsburg\, Gloria Steinem \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/319/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,social justice
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20190105T185928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T185928Z
UID:316-1549999800-1550005200@davarbristol.co.uk
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:20190130T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190130T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20190105T185428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T185428Z
UID:311-1548878400-1548885600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:1945
DESCRIPTION:The arrival of two orthodox Jews upsets the wedding day of a rural town clerk’s son in Hungary in 1945. This drama filmed in elegant black and white is from Hungarian director Ferenc Török. It captures the collective guilt of the community who have moved into the homes and taken possession of the property of their former Jewish neighbours forcing them to face culpability and dishonour when challenged by the two men of faith. \n  \nHungary 2017\, 91 mins\, Hungarian with sub-titles (Black and White) \nDirector Ferenc Török with Péter Rudolf and Tamás Szabó Kimme \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/1945/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181211T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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:20181128T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181128T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20180828T210352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T210352Z
UID:288-1543435200-1543442400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:A bag of marbles (un sac de billes)
DESCRIPTION: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 horrible 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) \nFrance 2017\, 113 mins\, French\, German\, Russian\, Yiddish; Director Christian Duguay featuring Batyste Fleurial\, Dorian Le Clech \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/a-bag-of-marbles-un-sac-de-billes/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181113T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181113T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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:20181031T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181031T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20180828T210037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T210037Z
UID:285-1541016000-1541023200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Menashe
DESCRIPTION:“Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park\, Brooklyn\, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife\, Lea\, passes away. Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires a mother present in every home\, Rieven is supposed to be adopted by the boy’s strict\, married uncle\, but Menashe’s Rabbi decides to grant him one week to spend with Rieven prior to Lea’s memorial. Their time together creates an emotional moment of father/son bonding as well as offers Menashe a final chance to prove to his skeptical community that he can be a capable parent. \nShot in secret entirely within the Hasidic community depicted in the film\, and one of the only movies to be performed in Yiddish in nearly 70 years\, Menashe is a warm\, life-affirming look at the universal bonds between father and son that also sheds unusual light on a notoriously private community. Based largely on the real life of its Hasidic star Menashe Lustig\, the film is a strikingly authentic and deeply moving portrait of family\, love\, connection\, and community.” (taken from https://a24films.com/films) \nUS 2017\, 81 mins\, Yiddish (subtitled)  Director Joshua Z Weinstein featuring Menashe Lustig\, Ruben Nibroski \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/menashe/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181009T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181009T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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:20180926T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180926T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20180828T204458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T211102Z
UID:278-1537992000-1537999200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr story
DESCRIPTION:There can hardly be any more extraordinary story from the Hollywood golden age than that of Hedy Lamarr; an assimilated Austrian Jew\, a very beautiful star with a moderate acting talent but an untutored brilliance in science and engineering.. Her tragedy was that she was in the wrong business\, precisely that business that promotes beauty over brains – the movie business. Alexandra Dean’s excellent and important documentary about her is very instructive – a parable of modern sexual politics and assumptions about science. Lamarr was an enigma: a great brain trapped in a silly\, spurious image of glamour\, while her real talent was allowed to wither. A sad but fascinating story. (modified from Peter Bradshaw review) \nThe film has won several awards since being shown at the Tribeca Film Festival\, including a New York Times Critic’s Pick and five audience awards. J. Hoberman named it “one of the ten best films of 2017 \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/bombshell-the-hedy-lamarr-story/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180410T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180410T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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:20180328T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180328T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20180114T163229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180114T163229Z
UID:250-1522267200-1522274400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Norman: the moderate rise and fall of a New York fixer
DESCRIPTION:Norman (Richard Gere)\, a New York fixer\, knows the right people and can get things done. When an Israeli dignitary named Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi) comes to the city\, Norman decides to impress the man by buying him some very expensive shoes. It works and he establishes a strong connection to the man\, but a few years later\, when Eshel becomes the Israel prime minister\, Norman can’t communicate with him anymore\, and this threatens to destroy his reputation. \n“Israeli director Cedar impressively creates a complex and intricately detailed portrait of the web of political\, financial\, social and religious affiliations that has everything to do with how the world works. Gere presides over it all with an impressively self-effacing portrait of a man who\, while you wouldn’t want to experience him in real life\, remains fascinating onscreen from beginning to end. Of the countless hustler characters who have driven dramatic films over the decades\, Gere makes this one distinctive and different\, even if there’s no revelation of the entire man.” (Modified from review by Todd McCarthy) \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/norman-the-moderate-rise-and-fall-of-a-new-york-fixer/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180313T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20180114T162955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180114T162955Z
UID:247-1520969400-1520974800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:From Buenos Aires to Bristol - The history of Limmud\, the global Jewish educational  phenomenon
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nWith Bristol holding its first Limmud event in June 2018\, it’s time to hear what makes Limmud so remarkable.  Founded in 1980\, Limmud has spread all over the world\, empowering Jews of every stripe and type to take control of their own learning. It has pioneered modes of participatory leadership and how different Jews can learn and work together while fully respecting their deepest held differences. Still controversial amongst some for its unparalleled approach to inclusion\, there are now Limmud events in over 85 places in 44 countries across the world\, creating new educators\, offering a model for grown up Jewish life everywhere and introducing Jews to each other\, who often lived next door but never spoke. \nClive Lawton is one of the co-Founders of Limmud and served as its first Executive Director for 7 years till 2006 and subsequently as a Senior Consultant. Recognised with an OBE\, Clive is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading Jewish educators as well as an international advisor on the development of educational leadership and issues of diversity. In the early 1990s Clive was responsible for the grant that first established Davar and spoke at its inaugural event. He has been a Headteacher\, Chair of an NHS Hospital Trust\, a governor of the Metropolitan Police\, an advisor to the Home Office on Race Equality issues and a regular on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. He is currently CEO of the Commonwealth Jewish Council\, a magistrate\, scholar in residence at London’s flagship JW3 Cultural Centre\, and has authored about a dozen books. \n  \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/from-buenos-aires-to-bristol-the-history-of-limmud-the-global-jewish-educational-phenomenon/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180228T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180228T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20180114T084003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180114T084003Z
UID:244-1519848000-1519855200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Governess
DESCRIPTION:Set in the 1830s\, the story centres on Rosina da Silva\, the sophisticated eldest daughter of a wealthy Jewish Italian family living in a small enclave of Sephardic London Jews. When her father is murdered on the street and leaves behind numerous debts\, she refuses an arranged marriage to an older suitor\, declaring that she will work to support her family\, even if she has to take to the stage like her aunt\, who is a renowned singer. She decides to use her classical education and advertise her services as a governess\, transforming herself into Mary Blackchurch – a Protestant of partial Italian descent – in order to conceal her heritage. However life becomes complicated as she gets to know Charles Cavendish\, the patriarch of the house\, and his son Henry.  Minnie Driver (Rosina) gives one of her best performances with memorable beauty and the screen presence of a real star. \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-governess/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180213T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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:20180131T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180131T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20180114T083423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180114T083748Z
UID:236-1517428800-1517436000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Zookeepers Wife
DESCRIPTION:Adapted from Diane Ackerman’s 2007 non-fiction book\, the film follows Warsaw zookeepers Jan (Heldenbergh) and Antonina (Chastain) as they risk their lives to save Jewish townspeople from the Nazis by concealing them in their zoo home-turned-pig farm. From the opening scene of almost fairy-tale idyll\, life is transformed by the arrival of the Nazis.  The film contrasts life in the zoo with the neighbouring Warsaw ghetto and the struggles of its inhabitants as well as the partisans. \nThe story of the zookeepers who risked their lives repeatedly throughout the war is an incredibly moving and important story\, in and of itself. Years later\, when asked why they did what they did\, Jan Zabinski answered\, “I only did my duty—if you can save somebody’s life\, it’s your duty to try.” (Sheila O’Malley) \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-zookeepers-wife/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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:20171129T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171129T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20170825T065352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T065422Z
UID:206-1511985600-1511992800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Denial
DESCRIPTION:In 1996\, the historian Deborah Lipstadt was pursued in the UK courts by the notorious Holocaust denier David Irving\, for calling him a falsifier of history in her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. This movie version of those events\, stars Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt and Timothy Spall as Irving. Weisz plays the professional historian who is astonished to find that people expect her to debate on equal terms with sinister deniers.  Lipstadt retains the solicitor Anthony Julius\, (Andrew Scott)\, who plans a shrewd legal tactic that involves the case being heard in front of a judge\, with no jury\, to minimise Irving’s theatricals. This film\, which reasserts the primacy of truth telling its story with punchy commitment and force\, is a breath of fresh air. (modified Peter Bradshaw\, Guardian) \nUK & US 2016\, 110 mins\, English \nDirector Mike Jackson featuring Rachel Weisz\, Tom Wilkinson\, Timothy Spall \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/denial/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:drama,Film Showing,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20170825T065040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T065040Z
UID:203-1510687800-1510693200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Putting your local Jewish history on the map: the Bradford experience.
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nBradford in West Yorkshire started attracting Jews as residents as the City’s Wool Trade grew in the 1830s. The community grew as many migrants first from Germany and then from Russia made their homes in Bradford. In 1881 the first synagogue was opened in Bowland Street built by the German Jewish merchants and in 1906 the first Orthodox synagogue was opened. The Bowland Street Synagogue was awarded a grant of £50\,000 in 2011 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project entitled ‘Making their Mark’ looking at the roles of Jews in the building of Bradford. The project successfully concluded in 2013\, but the work still carries on\, helping people trace their family histories\, taking tourists round Bradford and acting as a resource for those interested in Jews and Bradford. The talk will look at what was achieved in Bradford and more important lessons for other Jewish Community Projects. \n  \nNigel Grizzard was born in London and moved North to work in Bradford as a Policy Maker for the City Council. Over many years he has been involved with many Jewish Heritage projects in Yorkshire. These include running Jewish Heritage trails in Yorkshire\, lecturing in the UK\, Canada and Israel on Jewish Heritage themes. He currently is involved with a project to document the rescue of the Adeni Jewish community by the British in 1967 and their resettlement in Stamford Hill. \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/putting-your-local-jewish-history-on-the-map-the-bradford-experience/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171025T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171025T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20170825T064752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T064752Z
UID:200-1508961600-1508968800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Felix and Meira
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnfolding on snowy sidewalks and beneath overcast skies\, “Felix and Meira” watches ever so closely as a young Hasidic wife and mother is tempted by the quirky charms of a wayward older man. Yet this tenderly observed love story isn’t about religion — or its lack — but about the attraction of difference and the undeniable need to feel alive. That’s something that Meira (Hadas Yaron) clearly longs for; chafing against the restrictions imposed by her Orthodox community\, and weary of being scolded by her bewildered husband\, Shulem (Luzer Twersky).  Though set in present-day Montreal\, this tender romance unfolds like an episode from another century\, paying the sort of careful attention to social boundaries you’d expect to find in a classic forbidden-love novel. It “distinguishes itself through its subtlety and sensitivity\, offering quiet reflection for festival and arthouse audiences”. (Peter Debruge\, Variety) \nCanada 2014\, 105 mins\, English\, Yiddish\, French (sub-titles) \nDirector Maxime Giroux featuring Martin Dubreuil\, Luzer Twersky\, Hadas Yaron \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/felix-and-meira/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:drama,Film Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171011T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171011T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170927T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170927T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20170824T065406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170824T065406Z
UID:186-1506542400-1506549600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Dough
DESCRIPTION:  \nTake 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 tear it down. When Nat’s apprentice quits\, he reluctantly hires Ayyash (Jerome Holder)\, a Muslim immigrant from Africa. Ayyash supplements the family income by selling marijuana on the side\, and when he makes an unplanned recipe alteration and mixes some into the baked goods\, business booms. “Dough” is sweet\, often funny and always nonthreatening\, a movie for those who wish the intractable realities of the world would just disappear. (Neil Glenzinger\, NY Times) \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/dough/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Film Showing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170404T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170404T211500
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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:20170329T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170329T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20170107T173208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T173208Z
UID:169-1490817600-1490824800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Indignation
DESCRIPTION: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 life. \n“Indignation\,” the directing debut of the long time independent film producer and executive James Schamus\, is a movie so insistently out of step with contemporary American cinema as to be considered practically defiant. Adapted from a novel by Philip Roth\, “Indignation” is\, like much of Roth’s late work\, concerned with\, or perhaps the better phrase is “consumed by” mortality and its inevitability. The novel’s measured prose carries a subtext of absolute rage at the arbitrary unfairness of fate. “Drawing superb performances from each and every one of his actors\, Schamus meticulously makes every shot\, and every gesture contained within that shot\, count…..Schamus’ commitment to a style\, and to the material\, yields potent results.…It brings home all the indignation of Roth’s work\, and adds some fresh fuel to that fire.” (Glenn Kenny www.rogerebert.com) \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/indignation/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170314T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170314T211500
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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:20170222T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170222T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20170107T171410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T174702Z
UID:157-1487793600-1487799000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:An evening of silent movies starring Max Davidson
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 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 out from the slick silent film stars of the time with his thick and shaggy hair\, the 5’4” tall Max played the stereotypical Old World-Jewish comic\, a personality he very much became to specialize in for the rest of his film career. \nJames Harrison from South West Silents (https://southwestsilents.com/) and DAVAR are proud to present a night celebrating the work of Max Davidson by screening three key films from Max’s time working for the great king of comedy Hal Roach. James will provide a brief background to the films before their screening. South West Silents aims to celebrate the history of cinema and share their passion for silent film with the wider cinema-going audience by producing eye opening silent film events not only in the South West of England but throughout the United Kingdom \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/an-evening-of-silent-movies-starring-max-davidson/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170214T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170214T211500
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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:20170127T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170127T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20170119T065009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T065009Z
UID:180-1485523800-1485536400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day
DESCRIPTION:Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Commemoration \nAnnual 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 involved saved the lives of 669 children and became one of the many examples of compassionate action that brought a chink of light in a dark time.  Barbara Winton will tell her father’s story and illuminate the motives that led to him taking action in the face of official reluctance. You will have the opportunity to buy a copy of Barbara Winton’s book on the day. \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/holocaust-memorial-day/
LOCATION:Bristol City Hall\, College Green\, BS15TR\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170125T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170125T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
CREATED:20170107T165452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170107T165452Z
UID:151-1485374400-1485381600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Atomic Falafel
DESCRIPTION:  \nWednesday 25th January 2017 at 8.00pm\nIsrael\, Germany\, UK 2015\, 93 mins\, English\, Hebrew\, Farsi (sub-titles)\nDirector Dror Shaul featuring Mali Levi\, Michelle Treves\, Michelle Treves \nWith 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 strike. Above ground in a dusty Negev town\, a mother-daughter team runs a falafel truck catering to troops patrolling a nearby nuclear reactor. As the widowed mother (Mali Levi) falls for a uranium-allergic German nuclear inspector\, her daughter (Michelle Treves) and computer whiz boyfriend (Idan Carmeli) stumble upon secret files that could prevent a nuclear conflagration. As the zany plotlines converge\, the Israeli teens and an Iranian youth scramble to thwart war between their countries. “Dror Shaul’s Atomic Falafel is a funny\, enjoyable and slightly subversive comedy about the conflict between Israel and a nuclear Iran. It plays like a kind of Israeli Dr. Strangelove meets War Games meets a sketch-comedy television show.” (Hannah Brown\, Jerusalem Post) \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/atomic-falafel/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Film Showing,Israeli move
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161206T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T235820
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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