Sunday 15 September

Join us for our 15th Leeds Day Limmud! Experience a stimulating and inspiring day long cultural event in Limmud’s unique style, offering a variety of sessions at any one time. There will be something for everyone covering history, text study, discussions, Israel, community and culture.

 

Book your place now!

Ticket prices

Adults £43 standard price

Child +12 & Students £22 standard price

 

Venue: Weetwood House Hotel, Otley Rd, Leeds LS16 5PS.

 

Confirmed Presenters & Sessions:

Full programme and timetable available to download: Leeds Limmud Handbook

 

Panel Session: A Discussion on Topical Issues that affect the Community- join a discussion on some topical issues that affect the Jewish community today and challenge the panel members with your views. Chair: Simon Myerson, with Rachel Creeger, Aviva Dautch, Robert Dyson, Gideon Falter and Patrick Morrow.

Barry Abis – Jewish Contributions to Music

Tessa Ackerman and Salma Arif – Jewish Muslim Women’s Network

Anton Alexander – The Elimination of Malaria in Palestine in Early 20^th Century

Trevor Avery – Lake District Holocaust Project

Warren Bank – The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition & its Magnificent Music

Simone Colp – Should we be helping people outside of our community?

Jeremy Conway – How I became a Rabbi

Alan Craig – Prosecuting the Netanyahus:  Justice or Politics?

Rachel Creeger – Oy, How We Laughed!

Benjamin Crowne – What does the UK’s Jewish future look like?

Jeff and Sylvie Curtis – Volunteering in the Ethiopian Jewish Community

Aviva Dautch – Shakespeare and the Jews

Angela Donen – Inside the Ancient Hebrew Kitchen – Hints, Tips and Recipes

Max Donen – Depicting the Holocaust in Videogames: Taboo? Or challenge?

Robert Dyson – From Budapest to Switzerland via Belsen

Gideon Falter – From the frontline: the latest inside view of the fight against antisemitism in politics and anti-semitic crime

Richard Fay – Vessels of song: journeys through the world of Klezmer

Eva Frojmovic and Jay Prosser – Memory objects in our libraries and in our attics: why Cecil Roth collected things that few others were interested in.

Simon Glass and Richard Taylor – The Jews of Leeds

Ros Goldfarb -Shaare Zedek Medical Centre: A Place of Hope for Israel, Hope for the World

Nigel Grizzard and Merv Lebor – 40+ years of change in Leeds Jewry

Fabian Hamilton – The Labour Party’s ‘Peace Doctrine’

Samantha Harvey – Jews in Harbin: Chinese Whispers

Robin Jacobs – And You Think You Know What Magen David Adom Does!

Keith Kahn-Harris  – Two Sessions: Choose your Jew: The rise of selective ‘anti-semitism’ and Britain’s most notorious Jews: the story of a photo.

Jason Kleiman – Moral Dilemmas – How Do We Make the Right Decisions?

Miriam Lorie – I’m a feminist but I… sing Eshet Chayil

Diana Matut – When Yiddish was Young: A Short Introduction to Old Yiddish Language and Literature

Dolf Mogendorff – My Family & the Dutch Jewish Holocaust Experience.

Patrick Morrow – The Pope, the Covenant and Living Judaism: What is and is not Affirmed?

Simon Myerson – The Great Plague and Lag Ba’Omer

Jeffrey Newman and Caroline Glassberg-Powell – Jews, Extinction & Rebellion.

Anthony Ogus – Jewish Music and the Third Reich

Miriam Osner – The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Jewishly or How Do You Declutter

Griselda Pollock – Cultural studies and teaching the Shoah/Holocaust in a contemporary university

Laurence Saffer – Am I biased? You be the Judge.

Ruth Steinberg and Eva Frojmovic – Let the Golem Return

Bruce Thompson – Echoes of Contempt – Judeophobia and the Church

Frank Vigon – Mark Gertler:  Inside out  – an ecstasy of destruction

Julia Kay – Jewish dance from the Bible to today – a storytelling session with Jewish music and movement.

 

If you have any queries, please do contact the Limmud Office by email office@limmud.org or phone, 020 3115 1620