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"With Jewish Book Week now into our eighth decade, Howard Jacobson, who has been speaking at the festival for almost half of our existence and predates us by just 10 years, delivers a specially created keynote: How the Jews Invented Disappointment. The Booker winner explains: “When asked to name what Jews were best at, I used always to say ‘argument’. Disputatiousness is our element, I insisted, but I don’t expect you to agree with me. Today I’d say something different. Today I’d say that what defines Jews essentially is disappointment. Disappointment is the poetry of the Jewish soul."""

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"With Jewish Book Week now into our eighth decade, Howard Jacobson, who has been speaking at the festival for almost half of our existence and predates us by just 10 years, delivers a specially created keynote: How the Jews Invented Disappointment. The Booker winner explains: “When asked to name what Jews were best at, I used always to say ‘argument’. Disputatiousness is our element, I insisted, but I don’t expect you to agree with me. Today I’d say something different. Today I’d say that what defines Jews essentially is disappointment. Disappointment is the poetry of the Jewish soul."""

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Speakers: Eli Amir When his Uncle Hizkel is arrested, Kabi and his family face an uncertain future as do all Jews living in Baghdad. It is 1950 and each member of Kabi’s circle has a different dream: his mother wants to return to the Moslem quarter where she felt safer; his father wants to emigrate to Israel and grow rice there; Salim, his headmaster, wants Arabs and Jews to be equal, and Abu Edouard just wants to care for his adored doves. Born storyteller, Eli Amir, tells us about Baghdad and the period when Jews faced a most uncertain future, the subject of his beautiful novel, The Dove Flyer at long last available in English.

The Dove Flyer

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Speakers: Eli Amir When his Uncle Hizkel is arrested, Kabi and his family face an uncertain future as do all Jews living in Baghdad. It is 1950 and each member of Kabi’s circle has a different dream: his mother wants to return to the Moslem quarter where she felt safer; his father wants to emigrate to Israel and grow rice there; Salim, his headmaster, wants Arabs and Jews to be equal, and Abu Edouard just wants to care for his adored doves. Born storyteller, Eli Amir, tells us about Baghdad and the period when Jews faced a most uncertain future, the subject of his beautiful novel, The Dove Flyer at long last available in English.

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