Julia Neuberger talks to Richard Holloway at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

The recent history of Corbyn’s Labour Party shows that antisemitism remains a problem for British society. But headlines brought more confusion than clarity in debates about definition. Westminster peer and West London Synagogue’s Senior Rabbi Julia Neuberger makes a vital intervention with Antisemitism, a succinct study of where it comes from and what it is now, and shares her expertise with Richard Holloway in this event filmed live at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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