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Norman: the moderate rise and fall of a New York fixer

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

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 … Continue reading Norman: the moderate rise and fall of a New York fixer

£5.25

Painting Exile: R. B. Kitaj, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

“The novelty of our time 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 … Continue reading Painting Exile: R. B. Kitaj, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff

£3 – £6

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr story

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

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 … Continue reading Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr story

£5.25

The Jews of India

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

  Dating 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 … Continue reading The Jews of India

£3 – £6

Menashe

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

“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 … Continue reading Menashe

Belonging and belongings: Jewish poetry in the UK today

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

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 … Continue reading Belonging and belongings: Jewish poetry in the UK today

£3 – £6

A bag of marbles (un sac de billes)

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

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 … Continue reading A bag of marbles (un sac de billes)

£5.25

The Bagel: past, present and future

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

  If 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 … Continue reading The Bagel: past, present and future

£3 – £6

1945

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

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 … Continue reading 1945

£5.75

Finding Relly

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

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 … Continue reading Finding Relly

£3 – £6

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