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JGSGB/JHSE Specialist Talk – Sun July 3rd 2022 2pm – “Just Passing Through: Interactions With the World, 1938-2021” by Daniel Snowman

There is no JGSGB meeting next Sunday due to Shevuot, but an upcoming special meeting in about a month in the JGSGB Programme is a joint meeting between the JGSGB and the Jewish Historical Society of England (JHSE) by Zoom and in person at the Jewish Museum, Camden, London.
 
Here are the details:

• Date: Sunday July 3rd 2022
• Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem; 15:00 Switzerland
• Title: “Just Passing Through: Interactions With the World, 1938-2021”
• Speaker: Daniel Snowman
• Venue: Zoom details below, and/or in-person at the Jewish Museum London, Albert Street, London, NW1 7NB
• Essential: To attend in person please email programme@jgsgb.org.uk to avoid paying Museum entrance.
• Description: We will celebrate a book that is as much an autobiography as a history of Britain, and of English Jews: Just Passing Through: Interactions with the World, 1938–2021. In the book, historian Daniel Snowman writes of a Jewish child's memories of the War, gives colourful inside accounts of life in Cambridge, JFK's America (including Civil Rights) and the new University of Sussex, of the BBC in its heyday, choral concerts under the world's top conductors and extended visits to the Arctic and Antarctic. Daniel watches Churchill making one of his final speeches, interviews Harry Truman about Hiroshima, spends a week in Bayreuth with Wagner's daughter-in-law, meets Pope John-Paul II, Isaiah Berlin and Lord Snowdon, while getting to know Placido Domingo and the most famous among the 'Hitler Emigres'.

About Daniel Snowman
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Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge and Cornell, and at 24 was a Lecturer at the University of Sussex. For many years, he worked at the BBC where he was responsible for a wide variety of radio series on cultural and historical topics. Since 2004, Daniel has held a Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London).

After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A on the talk.

The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself!

If you have problems joining please email chairman@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts.


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Leigh Dworkin is inviting you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: JGSGB/JHSE Specialist Talk: "Just Passing Through: Interactions with the World, 1938-2021"" by Daniel Snowman
When: Jul 3, 2022 02:00 PM London

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUud-CpqzgjH9Djur88vDsBqFENzyq...

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Keep well!

Leigh Dworkin
Chairman, JGSGB

P.S. Don't forget to register for the virtual IAJGS Conference before May 31st 2022 to receive early-bird pricing! See https://s4.goeshow.com/iajgs/annual/2022/registration_form.cfm for more info. The conference is from 21st - 25th August 2022.

P.P.S. If you've missed any recent JGSGB talks, check out:
"Thoroughly Modernising Millie-What the Dickens?" by Bernard Miller at https://youtu.be/XQY62FJ69Fs
"The Dvorkins of Brest-Litovsk" by Leigh Dworkin at https://youtu.be/FTPIDv5ctSY
"From Tashkent to Paris - the story of a Bukharian Jewish family" by Eve Weinberg at https://youtu.be/nbcVKMU0grw
Enjoy!

 

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