Melbourne Jewish Book Week

28/03/2025

The Melbourne Jewish Book Week team at last week!! What a terrific event and turn out despite the 🌧️. We always enjoy interacting with our local community and authors. Sharing books is our love language ✌️📚

Who did we say “Hi” to? 👋

Featuring:
Joe Reich, Ruth Rosen, Janine Schloss, Debbie Lee, Ellen Frajman, Lee Kofman, morry frenkel
Ryan abramowitz - artist and author of the beautiful and poignant children’s picture book Elegy for an Elephant
&
Michelle Scheibner author of Hush: unraveling the legacy of family secrets

21/03/2025

Last chance to grab your tickets to this exclusive event.

📖 Join Emeritus Professor Cary Nelson and Professor as they discuss ‘Mindless: What Happened to Universities?’ Nelson’s groundbreaking essay in the latest explores how universities, once committed to truth and sharing opinions, have become sites of antisemitism, denialism, and ideological conformity.

📅 Sunday, 23 March 2025

⏰ 11am for 11.30am start

📍 East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation

Book now via the link in bio or visit:
🔗 https://events.humanitix.com/jewish-quarterly-conversation

20/03/2025

We’re just days away from the next Global Conversations event featuring the March issue of the Jewish Quarterly, ‘Mindless: What Happened to Universities?’ Join author, Emeritus Professor Cary Nelson, in conversation with Professor Kim Rubenstein as they discuss the concerning shift of modern academia.

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📅 Sunday, 23 March 2025
⏰ 11am for 11.30am start
📍 East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation

Book now via the link in our bio or visit:
🔗 https://events.humanitix.com/jewish-quarterly-conversation

05/03/2025

Global Conversations: Mindless: What’s Happened to Our Universities?

Join us for an exclusive live event with Emeritus Professor Cary Nelson in conversation with Professor Kim Rubenstein.

Based on his Jewish Quarterly essay, Cary examines how universities—once bastions of truth, knowledge, and freedom—have been overtaken by a toxic fervour. Civil discourse has collapsed, and campuses have become hotspots for hate speech, bigotry, conspiracy theories, denialism, and antisemitism.

Yet, as Cary reveals, this crisis has been decades in the making.

📅 Sunday 23 March 2025

⏰ 11am for 11.30am start

📍 East Melbourne Synagogue, 488 Albert St, Melbourne

🔗 Book now:
https://events.humanitix.com/jewish-quarterly-conversation

06/11/2024

📖Global Conversations: Samuel Kassow & David Slucki Discuss 'The Rudashevski Diary'

The November issue of The Jewish Quarterly presents the poignant diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a Jewish teenager in the Vilna Ghetto. Discovered in an attic where he and his family hid, his diary stands as a moving legacy.
Join internationally acclaimed historian, Samuel D. Kassow and David Slucki in conversation about this remarkable diary.

A rare live event Kassow specialises in the history of Ashkenazi Jewry. His illuminating introduction to The Rudashevski Diary, is evocative of his own heritage as the son of Survivors.

Presented by Melbourne Jewish Book Week, The Jewish Quarterly, the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, and the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (ACJC).

🗓️ Tuesday 12 November, 7.30pm–9pm

📍 Glen Eira Town Hall

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Get tickets on Humanitix - The Rudashevski Diary. Glen Eira Town Hall Theatrette, Glen Eira Rd & Hawthorn Rd, Caulfield VIC 3162, Australia. Tuesday 12th November 2024. Find event information.

31/10/2024

🎬 Kafka - Part 1 Screening

Explore the world of Franz Kafka at the Jewish International Film Festival’s special screening of the German-Austrian series Kafka this Sunday!

Join author & Kafka enthusiast Bram Presser as he introduces this critically acclaimed series, diving into Kafka’s love, friendships, and legacy. 📚✨

🗓️ Sunday, 3 Nov, 12:15 pm

📍 Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick

🔗Head to the link below to book

Join us for a live introduction to this critically acclaimed series delving into the enigmatic life of the greatest and most famous writer of the twentieth century.In Melbourne at Classic Cinemas, author and Kafka fanatic Br...