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Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman and Jonathan Freedland - guests at this year's Jewish Book Week - talk with Matthew Sweet about anti-Semitism, the Jewish novel, and tracing Jewish family history.

Howard Jacobson's most recent novel is called Live a Little
Bari Weiss has published How to Fight Anti-Semitism
Hadley Freeman's book tracing her family history is called House of Glass
Jonathan Freedland's latest novel under the pen name Sam Bourne is called To Kill a Man

Jewish Book Week runs at venues in London, including JW3 and Kings Place, until Sunday 8 March.

In the Free Thinking programme archive and available to download as an Arts & Ideas podcast you can hear:
Howard Jacobson delivering a lecture on Why We Need The Novel /programmes/b0b949cx and talking to Philip Dodd about his dystopian novel J https://www.bbc.com/programmes/b04hyvk5
Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger and New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeevor from the Pears Institute discussing stereotypes and also anti-Semitism /programmes/m00050d2
Matthew Sweet in conversation with David Grossman /programmes/b03x1p4l
Simon Schama and Devorah Baum debating Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity /programmes/b098hz1m
Jonathan Freedland exploring Jewish identity in fiction from Amos Oz, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen & Jonathan Safran Foer /programmes/b07vws14

Producer: Emma Wallace