A VIRTUAL FEAST FOR BOOK LOVERS.
Our new way with words saw us presenting weekly online conversations which spanned almost all of the sessions we would have presented at the in-person festival.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR FULL WEBINAR PROGRAMME (PDF)
We are delighted to offer you the opportunity of watching (or re-watching) some of those sessions.
(Please note: We have endeavoured to bring all 23 of the sessions, however due to unforeseen technical problems, some of those may be missing.
We apologise for any disappointment.)
LATEST ONLINE SESSIONS
Life interrupted: A bipolar memoir
Blood on her hands: South Africa’s most notorious
female killers
Behind the headlines in an era of state capture
ABOUT US

ABOUT US
The first ever South African Jewish Literary Festival (JLF) in 2016 was a sold out event and soon became a regular occurrence on the communal calendar.
CURRENT EVENTS

CURRENT EVENTS
OUR READING

OUR READING
In an effort to bring you fresh and diverse voices, the team has pulled together new and exciting as well as longstanding favourites.
The Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town joins international communities by hosting an event that celebrates the Jewish connection to words. The festival contributes to the cultural diversity of the Jewish community and provides an inclusive meeting place for the histories and experiences of South African readers and authors.
The dedicated team of volunteers behind the event seek to create a programme that promotes constructive dialogue and discussion in the true tradition and spirit of Jewish life.
The festival enhances the Cape Town Jewish experience by creating an annual event for readers and writers, of literature that is both overtly Jewish and that which has Jewish flavour, for all ages and across the spectrum of genres. It does so without promoting any single political or religious agenda. Connections are made over “book talk”, ideas posed and challenged, opinions formed and nudged, the base of Jewish readers broadened and a niche created for this otherwise under-represented category in the local publishing arena.
