Join author and poet Jenni Daiches (Calder) in conversation with playwright, director and podcaster David Neville in the opening event for the 2024 New College Festival of Books and Belief.

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Jenni's new novel ‘Somewhere Else’ covers multiple generations as it explores womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a novel that explores today’s most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.

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Jenni (also published as Jenni Calder) was born in the USA and has lived inScotland since 1971. She is the author of three previous novels and two collections of poetry. As Jenni Calder, she has published biography and literary and social history. She is a previous president and current trustee of Scottish PEN.

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This event is sponsored by the Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society, the Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre and the Edinburgh Jewish Studies research group at the University of Edinburgh, and chaired by Hannah Holtschneider.

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