Join Aviva as she explores the richness of modern Jewish culture through reading Israeli, European and American literature.
Dr Aviva Dautch is the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK's Jewish arts magazine. She is a published poet, has a PhD in literature and lectures on modern Jewish literature weekly at JW3. She is a regular contributor to courses and programmes for the British Library, British Museum and BBC Radio 4 and LSJS.
27 April Coronation Special – Depictions of Kings and Queens in Modern Jewish Literature part 1: Elizabeth I - George III
4 May Coronation Special – Depictions of Kings and Queens in Modern Jewish Literature part 2 : The 19th & 20th Centuries
11 May A B Yehoshua – The Only Daughter
18 May John Stone –The Prison Minyan
25 May Shavuot Special – We will read a range of poems about the themes of the festival by Israeli and Diaspora writers
8 June Lavie Tidhar – Maror Part I
15 June Lavie Tidhar – Maror Part II
22 June Gabrielle Zevin – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
29 June Pam Fox – Jews By The Seaside
6 July Simon Parkin – The Island of Extraordinary Captives (Wingate Literary Prize winner)
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Poet wins National Gallery Commission
An award-winning Jewish poet has won a prestigious commission from the National Gallery. Dr Aviva Dautch is one of 20 authors selected to pen a written response to a new National Gallery virtual exhibition on religion and art.
Called Fruits of the Spirit: Art From the Heart, it pairs nine iconic Christian pieces “in conversation” with a more contemporary artwork.
Dautch chose to match the theme of faith with Italian painter Orazio Gentileschi’s The Finding of Moses which dates from the early 1630s.
She said, “It was a challenge to consider the relationship between art and religion”. The exhibition runs until 30 April 2023.
