With­out mov­ing he was a sub­ject of the Hab­s­burgs, the West Ukrain­ian People’s Repub­lic, the Sec­ond Pol­ish Repub­lic, the USSR and, final­ly, the Third Reich. But the artist and man described by Isaac Bashe­vis Singer as ​“one of the most remark­able writ­ers who ever lived” remained through­out a cit­i­zen of the Repub­lic of Dreams. Ben­jamin Balint, win­ner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture, this year’s win­ner of the Biog­ra­phy cat­e­go­ry for the 73rd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards, and co-author of Jerusalem: City of the Book, joins BookWeek24 with a fresh por­trait and a grip­ping account of the secret oper­a­tion to res­cue his last art­works and will be in con­ver­sa­tion with Toby Lichtig.

This event is live in Lon­don and will not be livestreamed.

This event is a part­ner­ship with Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Foun­da­tion and BookWeek24, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, and in Asso­ci­a­tion with The TLS