Dear TotHites
Below you will find details of the first part of our winter programme and dates to diarise up to the end of the year.
We hope to see many of you at our events.
Best wishes, Janet
TOTH PROGRAMME NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2024
Wednesday 20th November at 2.15 pm at Shul
Peter Barber:
“Revolutionary restaurateurs and political crimes: a late Victorian tale”
Peter Barber worked for the British Library from 1975 to 2015, finally serving as head of maps and topography. He was responsible for and wrote the books accompanying several major exhibitions and has published extensively in the fields of map history, London history, Highgate and Hornsey history and the history of Swiss and particularly Swiss-Italian emigration into this country. He is currently President of the Hornsey Historical Society and a trustee of the Memorial Scrolls Trust.
Wednesday 4th December at 2.15pm at Shul
Richard Abramson:
“Vengeance in Venice”, giving a different slant on Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
Richard had a mathematical background, qualifying as an actuary in 1976. His career was mostly spent in advising on pension schemes in a variety of consultancy firms. On retirement ten years ago, he decided to follow up an interest in Shakespeare by taking a masters degree in Shakespeare Studies at Royal Holloway College. Shortly afterwards he set up Shakespeare study groups at Hampstead Garden Suburb u3a, which have been running successfully ever since. He is married with four children and six grandchildren, and currently is chairman at Hampstead Synagogue.
Wednesday 18th December at 2.15pm at Shul
Film show: “ Above and Beyond”
In 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence. As members of ‘Machal’ — volunteers from abroad — this ragtag band of brothers not only turned the tide of the war, preventing the possible annihilation of Israel at the very moment of its birth, they also laid the groundwork for the Israeli Air Force. ABOVE AND BEYOND is their story. The first major feature-length documentary about the foreign airmen in the War of Independence, ABOVE AND BEYOND brings together new interviews with pilots from the ’48 War, as well as leading scholars and statesmen, including Shimon Peres, to present an extraordinary, little-known tale with reverberations up to the present day.