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Linda Grant and Jewish history

After a 拢6 million redevelopment, the Manchester Jewish Museum has re-opened. Linda Grant's new novel draws on her family history from Latvia to the Jewish community of Liverpool.

A Baltic forest in 1913, Soho and the suburbs of Liverpool and the Jewish community that grows up there are the settings for Linda Grant's new novel The Story of the Forest. She joins presenter John Gallagher, Rachel Lichtenstein and Julia Pascal for a conversation about writing and Jewish identity in the north west as we also hear about Julia Pascal's play Manchester Girlhood and look at the re-opening of the Manchester Jewish Museum with curator Alex Cropper.

Producer in Salford: Nick Holmes

https://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/ has re-opened after a 拢6 million redevelopment

Dr Rachel Lichtenstein is a writer, curator who teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester鈥檚 Centre for Jewish Studies
http://www.juliapascal.org/

You can find other Free Thinking discussions about Jewish history and identity, including:

Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, Howard Jacobson and Bari Weiss on Jewish Identity in 2020

Simon Schama and Devorah Baum on Jewish history and jokes
Howard Jacobson delivering a lecture on Why We Need The Novel and talking to Philip Dodd about his dystopian novel J

Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger and New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeevor from the Pears Institute discussing stereotypes and also anti-Semitism

Matthew Sweet in conversation with David Grossman

Jonathan Freedland exploring Jewish identity in fiction from Amos Oz, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen & Jonathan Safran Foer

Linda Grant alongside AD Miller, Boris Dralyuk, and Diana Vonnak discussing Odessa Stories and the writing of Isaac Babel.

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44 minutes

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Tue 23 May 2023 22:00

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  • Tue 23 May 2023 22:00

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