Jewish Identity in 2020

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Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman and Jonathan Freedland - guests at this year's Jewish Book Week - talk with Matthew Sweet about anti-Semitism, the Jewish novel, and tracing Jewish family history. Howard Jacobson's most recent novel is called Live a Little Bari Weiss has published How to Fight Anti-Semitism Hadley Freeman's book tracing her family history is called House of Glass Jonathan Freedland's latest novel under the pen name Sam Bourne is called To Kill a Man Jewish Book Week runs at venues in London, including JW3 and Kings Place, until Sunday 8 March. In the Free Thinking programme archive and available to download as an Arts & Ideas podcast you can hear: Howard Jacobson delivering a lecture on Why We Need The Novel https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b949cx and talking to Philip Dodd about his dystopian novel J https://www.bbc.com/programmes/b04hyvk5 Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger and New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeevor from the Pears Institute discussing stereotypes and also anti-Semitism https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 Matthew Sweet in conversation with David Grossman https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03x1p4l Simon Schama and Devorah Baum debating Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098hz1m Jonathan Freedland exploring Jewish identity in fiction from Amos Oz, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen & Jonathan Safran Foer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07vws14 Producer: Emma Wallace