Events
AJR organises a number of events each year such as Holocaust Memorial Day remembrance services in January and Kristallnacht memorial services in November, as well as supporting other national events such as Yom HaShoah. Other events include our September Serenade where we welcome members and their families to enjoy a delicious lunch and top-class operatic entertainment, an annual trip (to Norfolk in 2018) and various conferences and other cultural events throughout the year.
The Jewish astronaut who is out of this world!
Wednesday 19 May 2021 at 6pm. Register here for this free event. NASA Astronaut, Dr Gregory Chamitoff will tell us about his two missions to the International Space Station, his space walks and research.
Jewish Country Houses, Collections and National Memory
Thursday 6 May 2021 at 2pm. Register here for this free event. Join us for this fascinating talk by Abigail Green (University of Oxford) and Tom Stammers (University of Durham). Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy and its feudal origins....
SS St Louis Anniversary Event
Thursday 13 May 2021 at 6pm. Register here for this free event. The AJR is pleased to offer this event on the 82nd anniversary of the day the SS St Louis sailed from Hamburg to Havana, 13 May 1939. We will hear from Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener, both passengers on the SS...
David Nasaw, author of The Last Million
Wednesday 12 May 2021 at 6pm UK-time. Click here to register. Historian David Nasaw will discuss his new book, The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold war, with Martin Mauthner, regular contributer to the AJR Journal. The book explores what happened to the one million Holocaust...