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Jewish And Hebrew Programme

Jonathan Romain

The Naked Rabbi: His Colourful Life, Campaigns and Controversies
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sun 26 Sunday, 26 March 2023 See this event
Dave Rich Interviewed by Rebecca Abrams

Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism is Built into our World – and how you can Change it
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Tue 28 Tuesday, 28 March 2023 See this event
Miranda Gold and Angela Findlay Chaired by Matthew Stadlen

The Traumatic Inheritance of War
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Wed 29 Wednesday, 29 March 2023 See this event
Dan Stone

The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Thu 30 Thursday, 30 March 2023 See this event
John Hosler

Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 4:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Keiron Pim Interviewed by Rebecca Abrams

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Weston Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sun 2 Sunday, 2 April 2023 See this event
Lavie Tidhar Interviewed by Lucian Hudson

Maror: Bloody Tale of the Making of a Nation
Exeter College: Marquee 4:00pm Sun 2 Sunday, 2 April 2023 See this event

Festival information:

A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere.

The Oxford Literary Festival has in my mind become the leading literary festival of the year. The organisation, the roster of speakers, the ambience and the sheer quality of it all is superb. May it now go from strength to strength each year stretching its ambition more and more. I believe it will.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions.

The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening.

I loved the whole atmosphere of the Oxford Literary Festival. From breakfast, alongside some of the attendees, who were talking books with each other a mile a minute, to the public event at The Sheldonian where everyone was lively and engaged – I felt I had arrived in a kind of literary heaven.

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

Often as an author, I only occasionally get to meet the public who buy and read my books. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget.