Jewish Book Week
Thursday 28 February 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd is joined by a round table of guests to discuss some of the key social and cultural issues facing Britain's Jewish community as the annual Jewish Book Week takes place.
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Synagogue's are closing down; the British Jewish population is in decline, with low birth rate and intermarriage; and more than half of Jewish people are now concentrated in London.
Yet as recently as the early twentieth century the question of the alien Jew and the ability of Britain to accommodate the influx from Eastern Europe was a burning question here.
Tonight's Night Waves explores the present and future prospects for a minority in Britain that was once the minority - a minority whose relative invisibility is diminished every-time Israel and the Middle East hits the headlines.
Joining Philip Dodd to discuss the character and health of British Jewry are the novelist Howard Jacobson, the reform Rabbi Jonathan Romain, Edith Freeman, founder of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality and the orthodox Rabbi, Mendel Lew.
