Part of the Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Writing Jewish Women’s Lives

At the core of OCLW’s new programme on Writing Jewish Women’s Lives, our new series of afternoon literary salons are a chance to discuss books by and about Jewish women. The two sessions in Michaelmas term will be led by author Rebecca Abrams, on the theme ‘Into the Darkness, Towards the Light: Jewish women’s lives beyond the Holocaust’.

On 21 November we welcome writer and campaigner Natasha Walter who will be in conversation with Rebecca about her new book Before the Light Fades: A Memoir of Grief and Resistance, which is one of several works that will have been discussed at the first salon. We will also be joined by a bookseller on the 21st, from whom you can buy the book and others relevant to the programme.