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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171011T193000
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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:20170927T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170927T220000
DTSTAMP:20260408T031056
CREATED:20170824T065406Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170404T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170404T211500
DTSTAMP:20260408T031056
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:20260408T031056
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
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CREATED:20170107T172036Z
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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:20260408T031056
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:20260408T031056
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:20260408T031056
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:20260408T031056
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:20260408T031056
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:20161201T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161201T230000
DTSTAMP:20260408T031056
CREATED:20161106T191253Z
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SUMMARY:Jewish Blues – celebration and soul at Saint Stephen’s Church
DESCRIPTION:The Blues of Jewish Eastern Europe – music to make you dance\, laugh & cry – come to Saint Stephens’ in a concert on 1st December featuring the London Klezmer Quartet (LKQ)\, with support from Bristol band Chai for All.\n\n \nThe London Klezmer Quartet’s old and new melodies on fiddle\, clarinet\, accordion and double bass\, and colourful stories about musicians’ lives and times\, take you on a journey from the Baltic to the Black Sea and beyond\, delving deep into the celebratory and soulful music of Jewish eastern Europe. Prepare to be engaged in backing vocals\, the occasional tear and plenty of toe-tapping – if not all-out dancing! – as you join the LKQ party.\nThe band’s new CD\, ‘To the Tavern’ is their fourth\, and tells a dawn-to-dawn story of a klezmer band’s arrival in a central European town that they recreate in performance\, combining the subtleties of the original tradition with a kick-the-chairs-over ability to party.\n\nFormed in 2009 by four London-based klezmorim with a shared interest in the traditional playing style\, LKQ brings fresh life to an almost-lost instrumental folk tradition through a huge repertoire of dance tunes and lyrical melodies – some self-composed. The band also features the irresistibly sonorous vocals of multi-tasking bass player Indra Buraczewska in traditional laments\, a Warsaw Yiddish theatre hit with a hint of jazz (‘Goodbye New York’) and even a song about beetroot soup.\n\nChai for All is led by veteran trumpeter David Mowat\, once in Bristol’s legendary Klezmernauts. Chai For All bring together New York Yiddish songs delivered by charismatic Dutch chanteuse Marianna Moralis\, Arabic Music played by the astonishing German oud player and guitar harmony maestro Knud Stuwe with the versatile Saudi Arabia-born Simon Leach on derabukka\, and jazz-singed klezmer classics. They’ll be joined by clarinet virtuoso Katie Stevens. A “highly skilled” and “class act” notes 24/7 columnist Tony Benjamin (in Venue Magazine) . With roots in traditional klezmer\, it stretches out way beyond.\n\nTickets: £10 on door (advanced booking advised) or £11 from Bristol Ticket Shop http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/161201STSJEWI1\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-blues-celebration-and-soul-at-saint-stephens-church/
LOCATION:St. Stephen’s Church\, 21 St Stephen's Street\, Bristol\, BS1 1EQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:klezmer music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161130T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161130T213500
DTSTAMP:20260408T031056
CREATED:20160320T170612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160831T182209Z
UID:12-1480536000-1480541700@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Peggy Guggenheim Art Addict
DESCRIPTION:USA 2015\, 95 minutes\, English\nDirector Lisa Vreeland\, featuring Peggy Guggenheim \nBack by popular demand. This film was sold out last season and as many members did not get in\, we have given it a second viewing. This documentary film about the life of the art collector Peggy Guggenheim\, is constructed around rediscovered audiotapes from the late 1970s  and includes several classic film extracts (1929 to 1997).  A colourful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it\, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century\, she collected not only art\, but artists. Her personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett\, Max Ernst\, Jackson Pollock\, Alexander Calder\, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy\, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art. \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/peggy-guggenheim-art-addict/
LOCATION:Avon
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161108T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161108T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T031057
CREATED:20160830T201438Z
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UID:45-1478633400-1478640600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:A Relationship Revisited: The Reformation and the Jews
DESCRIPTION:The advent of the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century sent shock waves through Europe. The emerging Christian confessions had to return to fundamental questions relating to their claims to authority\, their understanding of doctrine\, and their collective identity. In all of these\, their relationship with Jews – both biblical and contemporary – was central. The Reformation undoubtedly witnessed a sharpening of tensions between Christians and Jews\, and some deeply unpleasant pronouncements by the former; but it also saw a growing awareness of shared interests\, and efforts at collaboration and enhanced mutual understanding. This talk will seek to sketch out a more nuanced picture of this relationship in a comparative European perspective. \nKenneth Austin is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Bristol. His first book\, From Judaism to Calvinism: The Life and Works of Immanuel Tremellius (c.1510-1580) was published in 2007. He is currently writing a full-length study of the Jews and the Reformation. His other research interests include the history of scholarship\, and friendship and correspondence networks in the Renaissance and the Reformation. \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-relationship-revisited-the-reformation-and-the-jews/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161026T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161026T220000
DTSTAMP:20260408T031057
CREATED:20160831T174120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T184147Z
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SUMMARY:Son of Saul
DESCRIPTION:Hungary\, France\, Israel\, USA 2015\, 107 mins\, cert 15\, subtitled \nDirector László Nemes\, featuring Geza Rohrig\, Levente Molnar\, Urs Rech \nThis devastating and terrifying film by László Nemes is set in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp in 1944. Saul\, played by the 48-year-old Hungarian actor Géza Röhrig\, is a Jewish prisoner who has been made part of the Sonderkommando. They must manage the day-to-day business of herding bewildered prisoners out of the trains and up to the very doors of the gas chambers and then removing the bodies. With staggering audacity\, Son of Saul begins with something other\, comparable movies would hardly dare approach even at the very end – the gas chamber itself. Here is where Saul discovers the body of a boy\, whom he believes to be his son\, and sets out to find a rabbi among the prisoners to give him a proper burial.  Röhrig’s performance is transfixing\, without ever drifting into the realm of actorly pretence. The final image of his face – transformed by events that may be real or hallucinatory – is extraordinary. Son of Saul reopens the debate around the Holocaust and its cinematic thinkability\, addresses the aesthetic and moral issues connected with creating a fiction within it and probes the nature of Wittgenstein’s axiom “whereof one cannot speak\, thereof one must remain silent”. (amended from Peter Bradshaw’s Guardian review) \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/son-of-saul/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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SUMMARY:Concert to celebrate Steve Reich's 80th Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Concert to celebrate 80th birthday of Steve Reich \nSteve Reich: Different Trains; Clapping Music; City Life; Proverb; Know What is Above You \nA concert celebrating Steve Reich’s 80th birthday and his remarkable contribution to contemporary classical music. He is one of a handful of composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history. The minimalist works Different Trains and City Life (performed with visuals) both use amplification alongside samplers and recordings of speech fragments\, while Clapping Music has become one of his most famous and accessible works. \n“Different Trains” concerns a journey through Reich’s childhood covering the years 1939 to 1942 when he travelled back and forth between New York and Los Angeles with his governess (Reich’s parents were divorced). She is interviewed along with Lawrence Davis\, a retired black porter\, who worked the trains between New York and Los Angeles. Had Reich been in Europe at this time\, his Jewish faith would have caused him to experience very different train journeys\, hence the title. The work falls into three movements: America before the war\, Europe during the war\, and the subsequent post-war situation. \nDAVAR members are eligible for a 10% discount on any ticket. Please use the DAVAR code when booking \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/concert-to-celebrate-steve-reichs-80th-birthday/
LOCATION:St George’s Bristol\, Great George Street \, Bristol\, BS1 5RR\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160928T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160928T220000
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SUMMARY:My Nazi Legacy
DESCRIPTION:UK  2015\, 95 mins\, PG  Director David Evans featuruing Philippe Sands\, Nilklas Frank\, Horst von Wachter \nThis outstanding documentary about history and guilt from author and human rights lawyer Philippe Sands concerns the two elderly sons of prominent officials in Nazi Germany. Sands interviews Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter\, the sons of Hans Frank and Otto Wächter\, respectively (among their other grim distinctions) the Nazi governor of occupied Poland and Nazi governor of Galicia in Ukraine. It becomes disturbingly clear that although Frank Jr has come to terms with what his father did\, Wächter Jr is still in denial – wriggling\, squirming\, trying to claim that his father was not personally guilty. Increasingly angry\, Sands confronts him with documentary proof that Otto Wächter had substantial administrative responsibility for the slaughter of Ukrainian Jews\, including Sands’s own family. It is a chilling demonstration of how the poison of the past can live in the bloodstream of the present. (amended from Peter Bradshaw’s Guardian review) \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/my-nazi-legacy/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160920T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160920T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T031057
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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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