The Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations Annual Review 2012 - 2013 Social and Human Studies tackling global challenges

The Parkes Institute, the world’s oldest and most wide-ranging centre for the 1 study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across the ages, is based on the life work of the Reverend Dr James Parkes (1896- 1981), one of the most remarkable figures within twentieth century Christianity. Ordained by the Church of England in 1926, through his work with the International Student Service and the Student Christian Movement as early as James Parkes, Oxford the 1920s, he campaigned against the rise of racist nationalism in Europe. A tireless fighter against antisemitism in all forms, including from within Christianity, Parkes helped rescue Jewish refugees during the 1930s and campaigned for the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. During the Second 3 World War he helped found the Council of Christians and Jews and worked throughout his career to promote religious tolerance and mutual respect. As part of his international campaigning, Parkes built up the Parkes Library and associated archive, which transferred to the University of Southampton in 1964. Since then, the study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations has developed significantly, thanks to the generous support of the University, private donors and public funding. A community of scholars, archivists, librarians, students and activists, the Parkes Institute’s work is based around the rich resources of the Parkes Library and the Anglo-Jewish Archives in the Hartley Library Special Collections. Through research, publications, teaching and conservation work, it seeks to bring the vision of James Parkes to new generations.

Cover image: The Jewish Cemetery, Southampton.

2 1. Parkes Institute Outreach 2 Programme Parkes Institute outreach programme goes from strength-to-strength Page 8 2. Internationalisation International collaboration and world-wide scholarships Page 18 3. Reports by Parkes Postgraduates Update on our postgraduate research Page 22 4. Reports from our Friends and Honorary Fellows Honorary Fellow, Dr Joanna Newman, reflects on her PhD research Page 24 5. Reports by Academic Members of Parkes Institute International conference held in Cape Town in April 2013 Page 28

4 In this review Report of the Director of the Parkes Institute, Professor Tony Kushner 4 Outreach 8 Conferences, Lectures and Seminars 12 Journals of the Parkes Institute 15 Development 17 Internationalisation 18 5 Reports by Parkes Postgraduates 22 Reports by Parkes Friends and Honorary Fellows 24 Reports by Members of the Parkes Institute 26 Special Collections Report and Book Launches 34 Publications and Papers 36 Members of the Parkes Institute 40 Friends Membership Programme 41

3 Report of the Director of the Parkes Institute Professor Tony Kushner

“And so you get what seems to me the most majestic, most dynamic, and at the same time, most fluid conception of God…a conception giving an equal place to the Jew, the Christian and the Humanist, challenging all of them not to sacrifice their own integrity, but to discover a relation of creative tension with each other.” James Parkes

Painting by Vera Karoly, ‘After Auschwitz’

4 Professor Tony Kushner, Director, Parkes Institute

Welcome again to our Parkes Institute Teaching remains at the heart of much of our diligent and enthusiastic supervision and the Annual Review. As ever, there is a lot to activities. You will be able to read about the unique approach of the Parkes Institute. Our report and it has been a varied and awards and nominations members of the PhD students have gone on to exciting careers interesting year for us with some very Institute have been given this past academic inside and outside academia. In this issue of exciting new elements to our programme, year in this respect. Particular mention the Annual Review we give space to two of our as well as developing the reach of our should be made to Dr Shirli Gilbert who won distinguished former PhD students, Dr existing work. As Director it is always a the Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award. This Joanna Newman and Professor Gavin pleasure to have read all the details of my is an outstanding achievement and it reflects Schaffer, both excellent examples of the colleagues’ work, to have confirmed how well on the Parkes Institute that Shirli is the foundation provided by the Institute. busy and productive they have been, and to third such recipient of this award from within James Parkes had hoped that the Institute see their new initiatives coming to the Parkes Institute team in just five years. named after him would become a world hub fruition. Next year is the fiftieth For many years now undergraduates in a for scholars and scholarship. Our anniversary of the Parkes Library and what variety of disciplines, but especially History internationalisation programme has realised was then the Parkes Centre coming to and English, have taken what amounts to a that ambition. This year we have signed Southampton. I am sure that James Parkes pathway in Jewish history and culture within further memoranda of understandings with would have been delighted to see how well their degree programme. How to recognise the University of Salzburg in Austria and St his faith in the University of Southampton that commitment and interest has proved Petersburg in Russia. Through initiatives at a has been justified, and we hope that the challenging, but I am very pleased that the Faculty-wide level, closer collaboration is in Jubilee celebrations will be a fitting tribute University as a whole and the Faculty of place with a variety of universities in Israel, to this great man of vision and integrity. Humanities in particular has developed a new and we are currently exploring agreements to framework that will enable such student One of the most pleasing new elements to our cooperate in America. In April 2013 a very enthusiasm to be recognised. From this programme has been the successful successful joint conference was held in Cape October, new students can elect to take a introduction of our well-established MA in Town, organised by ourselves, the Kaplan minor alongside their major degree Jewish History and Culture to London. The Centre at the University of Cape Town and programme, following the successful MA has established itself over many years in the Jewish Studies Centre at Sydney American higher educational model. ‘Jewish Southampton and has taught many students University. This three-way partnership is history and culture’ is one of these new from a wide range of backgrounds and from thriving and will lead to further conferences, ‘minors’ and we look forward to welcoming across the globe. It has become clear that research and outreach initiatives. new students on to the programme. The there has been a demand for the MA in ‘minor’ will make even clearer the scores of Internationally-recognised research and London from people who were unable to undergraduate courses that we teach in publications continue to be produced and travel to Southampton. Even so, with a Jewish history and culture and make more promoted by the Parkes Institute. Our three minimum of advertising, we were taken aback accessible units that are outside students’ academic journals are flourishing and this at the interest there was in delivering the MA specific disciplines. These courses rely year we were able to show the fruits of both as a part time degree. My thanks to colleagues heavily on the Parkes Library and Jewish our individual and collective research Dr Shirli Gilbert and Dr Devorah Baum who archive collections, and you can read about initiatives through stimulating book have coordinated the London MA the recent additions to and development of launches. One of these books was jointly programme, and also to our partners at the these rich resources, further adding to their edited by a colleague Dr James Jordan, and London Jewish Cultural Centre who have international importance. one of our former international students, Jan provided excellent support, encouragement Lánicek, and was based on a conference and a fine venue. The London-based MA has Beyond the undergraduate degrees and organised by Jan two years ago. This was a recruited well again for this coming academic taught MAs, the Parkes Institute’s PhD path-breaking event on the neglected role of year, and we are pleased to be able to run it programme continues to flourish. We have a governments in exile and the Holocaust, and parallel to the MA in Southampton which truly international group of students, and the volume that has emerged is a handsome continues to bring in talented students, whether ‘local’ or ‘global’ they are attracted to and important addition to the historiography including from our east European scheme. Southampton because of the richness of the and debate. Parkes Library and archive, the expert,

5 We have been very pleased to have recently Sarah Pearce gave a wonderful public lecture I would like to pay tribute to Hazel Patel, our welcomed to our team Dr Kathrin Pieren who on ‘“Out of the house of bondage?” Jewish committed Administrator, who is retiring was awarded a Rothschild Europe Research perspectives on slavery in Egypt’. This was an from the post. Hazel’s enthusiasm and Fellowship to work on the use and reception event where we were able to celebrate Sarah’s dedication to the Parkes Institute has been an of Jewish heritage centres in the UK, achievements as the Karten Professor for the inspiration and we wish her all the very best especially museums and art galleries. Study of Jewish antiquity, but also a sad for the future. We welcome Tracy Storey as Kathrin, who is a curator in Petersfield, and occasion as we marked the death of our much our new administrator who is already proving whose PhD was on the history of Jewish beloved Mildred Karten who passed away on her energy and commitment to the Parkes museums and art galleries in the UK, will be New Year’s Day. In honour of their immense team. I would also like to express my with us for two years on a part-time basis. generosity and intense interest in the Parkes gratitude to those who have supported our The Parkes Institute has played a leading role Institute, the annual series has been renamed activities through their personal generosity. in the preservation of the Jewish heritage, as the Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial Although these are difficult financial times, as especially in relation to archives and printed Lecture. you will read from our Development Officer, sources. In addition, it has academic expertise I would also like to pay tribute to some of our Joanna Watts, your support has been in many different forms of Jewish heritage other dear friends who passed away this year: incredibly impressive and has enabled us to and Kathrin’s presence will help confirm and Holocaust survivor, Trude Levi; Patron and further expand our exciting range of develop further our reputation in this scholar of early Jewish-Christian relations, programmes. important area. Professor Geza Vermes; and medieval Much has happened since James Parkes made Our programme of events was varied in historian, Barry Dobson; and Patron and that auspicious decision to choose content and approach and included the scholar of Christian-Jewish relations, Southampton in 1964, and we will have what premier of a play by Pamela Howard, a leading Elisabeth Maxwell. we hope will be a stimulating and wide- theatre designer, on the figure of Lewis Way, Outreach was at the heart of Ian Karten’s ranging programme both here and in London and a key figure in the Christian interest, and his support enabled us to to mark our jubilee. It is a privilege to be part Conversionist world in the early nineteenth develop a programme of activities including of a team that has brought James Parkes’ century. Pamela’s play attracted a wide schools, college and adult education which vision to life. audience and is now being developed further continues to grow. Through the ongoing as a musical. Professor Martin Goodman generosity of the Karten Trust and support (University of Oxford), a long-standing from the University’s Faculty of Humanities friend and advisor of the Parkes Institute, we have been able to appoint two junior gave the Montefiore Lecture, the first of our outreach fellowships for a postgraduate and three named lectures this academic year. ‘On postdoctoral fellow, Sarah Shawyer and Dr writing a history of Judaism’ was an Tom Plant respectively. You will read from entertaining and extremely thoughtful the Karten Outreach Lecturer, Dr Helen account of the challenges such a project, soon Spurling, of the important and innovative to be published as a book, presents, especially work they are doing, enabling our work to as the time frame covered antiquity through reach audiences from the teens to those who to the modern day. The Parkes Lecture was a have long since retired. We have also stimulating and provocative reassessment of launched two new initiatives this year. The early Christianity and its relationship with first, developed by Sarah Shawyer and Tom the Jewish world delivered by Professor Steve Plant, is a Parkes Institute twitter (@ Mason of Aberdeen University. His complex ParkesInstitute) which provides up-to-date but compelling argument was accompanied accounts and reports of our activities. The by a range of slides which revealed the rich second is a new Parkes Newsletter which will range of sources – written and archaeological appear twice a year via email to all Friends of – that informed his new interpretation. Also the Parkes Institute. having antiquity as its context, Professor

6 7 Outreach Dr Helen Spurling | Karten Outreach Lecturer

The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, Israel

8 It has been an important year for the development of our outreach programme, as we saw the appointment of two new junior outreach fellows - Tom Plant as Postdoctoral Fellow, and Sarah Shawyer as Doctoral Fellow, both of whom have done a superb job this year of expanding our work, and the Parkes Institute outreach programme goes from strength-to-strength.

“Outreach work was central to the life work of James Parkes, and outreach remains at the forefront of the activities of the Parkes Institute.”

9 Christian polemic against the Jews from an early printed book in the Parkes Library.

Evening Classes Images of the Holocaust’, Devorah Baum Bournemouth Mini Series This year we held two evening classes as on ‘Losing the Definite Article: Language We held our mini series at the Bournemouth part of the Lifelong Learning programme. and Identity’, Jennifer Craig-Norton on Hebrew Congregation again this year. The ‘Approaches to Jewish History and Culture’ ‘The Expulsion of Polish Jews, Kristallnacht series is organised in collaboration with was team-taught by members of Parkes and the Kindertransport: The work of the Spencer Nathan and Gerald Normie at who took a thematic approach, covering Polish Jewish Refugee Fund’ and Andrea the Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation issues as diverse as Jewish topographies, Reiter on ‘Representations of the Holocaust and speakers were as follows: Joachim philanthropy, photography and the press, in German Literature’. We received some Schlör on ‘Modern Photography in Tel- each of which resulted in lively and engaging very generous comments from the audience, Aviv’; Tony Kushner on ‘Racing against debate and were thoroughly enjoyed with one participant commenting that: [the time: Harold Abrahams, Jewishness and by the participants. Our second course speakers] “Explored subjects in a way I have Englishness’; Tom Plant on ‘British Jewish was on ‘Classical Hebrew,’ providing an not considered before which has been greatly Youth Movements’ and Helen Spurling on introduction to reading the Book of Genesis beneficial”. ‘The Significance of the Bible in Jewish in its original language and taught by Helen Our second study day was held in June on Culture’. We look forward to building on our Spurling. The students made an excellent the theme of ‘Lost in Translation? Jewish partnership in the coming year. start in the Hebrew language and were Cultures’. The speakers were Helen Spurling fantastic participants. One member of the on ‘The Bible, Translation and Jewish- Holocaust and Genocide group said: “I feel much more confident Christian Relations’, Tony Kushner on ‘The Memorial Day about the possibility of mastering the silencing of Jewish prostitutes. Lost in the At our annual commemorative event, language now. Something of the mystique of archive’, Aimée Bunting on ‘‘I Go and I Come Holocaust survivor Harry Bibring gave Hebrew has been removed!” We all enjoyed Back’: Expatriates, ‘Englishmen’ and ‘Others’ a moving account of Nazi persecution in the opportunity to study together and hope encounter Bergen-Belsen’, Tom Plant on Austria. Harry was joined by students from to carry on in the future. ‘Translating Identities: Sport in British Itchen Sixth Form College who gave their Jewish Youth Movements’ and Joachim reflections on Holocaust testimony, drawing Study Days Schlör on ‘Who translated “My Fair Lady” on their experiences in outreach workshops We also held two study days for the general into German?’. The day provoked a lot of organised by Shirli Gilbert and James Jordan. public this year. The first day was held in discussion and one participant remarked: The evening closed with a performance of November on the topic of ‘Change and “Already keenly interested, I have learned ‘In the Vicinity of Karlsberg’, inspired by the Continuity: the Impact of the Holocaust’. a lot”, and another said: “There was a wide life and death of Karel Svenk, by students The event was chaired by Tom Plant and range of subjects, many of which I hadn’t from Southampton Solent University’s Sarah Shawyer, and the speakers were come across before, which developed and Performance degree. The Parkes Institute is James Jordan on ‘Some Lesser Known increased my understanding”. particularly grateful to Southampton Solent 10 University, Itchen Sixth form College, the in a number of schemes including Learn this year was ‘Multiculturalism’. Tom Plant Holocaust Educational Trust, Southampton with US, TEAtime and Ask the Expert. Tom and Sarah Shawyer did an excellent job of City Council and the G. F. Forsey Fund for Plant has particularly enjoyed talking about organising the day, which consisted of three their support of HMD 2013. Jews in post-war British society, Sarah academic sessions on ‘Multiculturalism and Shawyer has delivered a range of talks from the Jews’, followed by a panel on university Interfaith Week Anne Frank to the Balfour Declaration and life. Students from Itchen College, Barton Members of the Parkes Institute were the Palestine Mandate, and Helen Spurling Peveril College and Queen Mary’s College key partners, along with Chris Day and developed a new day-long research project attended the day and it clearly made an the Chaplaincy, in the organisation of the for sixth-formers on apocalypticism. In impact on the students who commented University’s very successful Interfaith Week addition, our PhD students have also been that: [the summer school was] “Extremely programme from 19 to 23 November 2012. heavily involved in workshops on campus thought-provoking, varied and relevant Helen Spurling gave a talk on the legacy and held masterclasses on topics such as with informative, engaging, vibrant of James Parkes to interfaith relations, the Holocaust and Jewish identity. We teachers”. Indeed, the day was good for the which was followed by a tour of the Special have received very positive feedback for development of the students with quotes Collections section of the Hartley Library, our work in this area. Indeed, one teacher such as: “It broadened my mind”, “By the led by Karen Robson and Jenny Ruthven. from Streatham and Clapham GDST school end I felt a lot more confident about my The programme also included an interactive remarked: “A big thank you for your work future” and, “This experience has boosted exhibition of Interfaith Week’s aims and with us. We were all very impressed and my confidence in applying for further objectives and representations of the delighted with the outcomes of the day.” She education”. faith societies present at the University. added, “Students fed back on how much they All members of the Parkes Institute enjoy The exhibition, designed and curated by had learned through the process of doing the giving talks and sharing their research Sarah Shawyer and Tom Plant, included an research-based learning project, and I was with the wider community and are highly interactive faith-based board game designed very pleased with the variety of things they committed to raising awareness of issues by the junior outreach fellows. We look had learnt and realised about themselves. in Jewish Studies. This has been an forward to building on our partnership with For some, I think those lessons will stay with incredibly successful year for outreach, the Chaplaincy in the coming year. them for life!” largely due to the ongoing support of the Schools and Colleges Summer School Karten Trust without whom this work would not be possible. Mildred Karten Our work with schools and colleges has A particular highlight this year was our very sadly passed away this year, but her continued to expand this year through a summer school held in June, which is support of our outreach work was a constant number of workshops and seminars led by intended to foster an interest in the subject encouragement and inspiration, and our the Parkes outreach team. We are involved of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. Our theme successes in this area are dedicated to her. 11 Conferences, Lectures and Seminars

Ian and Mildred Karten 12 ‘Jews, Colonialism and Postcolonialism’ The Montefiore Lecture with Oscar Nemon became held in Cape Town, April 2013 Professor Martin Goodman sculptor to the royal family

Conferences The conference proved to be extremely for their support. I am also delighted that this ‘Jews, Colonialism and Postcolonialism’, engaging and enjoyable, and reflects represents a collaboration with Southampton University of Cape Town, the important and high quality work Solent University, whose drama lecturer Matt 8-10 April 2013 being undertaken in this emerging field. Fletcher has been instrumental in enabling a ‘Jews, Colonialism and Postcolonialism’ Discussions on the future direction and pre-conference performance of emeritus was the second conference to be jointly development of the project were already Professor Bob Skloot’s play ‘If the Whole organised by the Parkes Institute, the Isaac emerging by the close of the conference, and Body Dies’ which foregrounds the work of and Jesse Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies the Parkes Institute and its partners look Raphael Lemkin. Bob’s attendance at the and Research (University of Cape Town) forward to continuing their work together. performance is the consequence of a successful Fullbright Scholarship which was and the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and ‘The Future of Holocaust Studies awarded though a collaborative application Jewish Studies (University of Sydney) was Conference’, University of Southampton submitted through the work of Matt, Shirli Coordinated by Shirli Gilbert, James Jordan, 29 -31 July 2013 by Dr James Jordan Tony Kushner, Suzanne Rutland (University Gilbert, Hannah Holtschneider (Edinburgh) With sixty speakers over three days - coming of Sydney) and Milton Shain (University of and Christine Berberich (Portsmouth). from the UK, Australia, America, Sweden, Cape Town). Italy, Rumania, Israel, Germany, Holland, The conference saw the launch of the British The previous collaborative conference, Austria, Canada, Poland, and Spain - and two Association for Holocaust Studies, which will “The Holocaust and Legacies of Race in the locations, this conference brought together be hosted by Parkes/Southampton, and looks Postcolonial World, 1945 to the present” academics and educators, addressing to continue the work of the ‘Future of (April 2012), examined the tensions that fundamental questions of Holocaust Holocaust Studies’ conference by becoming a emerged when countries with an imperial scholarship and exploring current and future forum to connect academics with educators, and often murderous history of racial trends in Holocaust studies. The conference and a network for PhD students to share their exploitation under colonialism confronted had the overall aim of debating and discussing ideas and interests. the enormity of Nazi racial crimes. “Jews, these issues as challenges that we all face as Public Lectures Colonialism and Postcolonialism” sought educators and researchers, encouraging to expand on the frameworks developed engagement with these provocative questions The Montefiore Lecture: 11 March 2013 - in 2012 by exploring the connections and through exchange between academics and Professor Martin Goodman intersections between Jews, colonialism, practitioners, scholars and teachers, being Professor of Jewish Studies, University of and postcolonialism, to bring together the aware that the questions, challenges and roles Oxford sometimes contradictory approaches to this listed here often also coincide. Whilst After studying Classics at Oxford, Martin topic and to begin to constitute it as a new inevitably there remains many issues to be Goodman wrote a doctoral dissertation using field of comparative studies. The conference explored, this was a path-breaking conference early rabbinic texts to reconstruct the history was attended by delegates from America, creating dialogues that have been necessary of Galilee in the second century CE. He spent South Africa, Australia, Austria, Germany, for some time as Holocaust studies has nine years as Lecturer in Ancient History at Italy, Holland and Israel. The panels were established itself at so many different the University of Birmingham before lively and engaged, covering thematic topics pedagogic levels. returning to Oxford, first as a research fellow such as ‘Jews and the Transatlantic World’, at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish I would like to thank all of our partners in ‘Contesting Identities’, ‘South African Studies, and then (in 1991) as Reader in organising the conference, including the Landscapes’ and ‘Zionism and Colonialism’. Jewish Studies and Fellow of Wolfson Department of English at the University of The Parkes Institute was well represented, College. He has written extensively on both Southampton, the University of Winchester, with James Jordan, Shirli Gilbert, Tony Roman and Jewish history, including his book Southampton Solent University, the Institute Kushner, and Tom Plant giving papers Rome and Jerusalem, published by Penguin in of Education’s Centre for Holocaust in addition to Honorary Parkes Fellow, 2007. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Education at the University of London, the Professor Tom Lawson (Winchester) and Jewish Studies at Oxford and a Fellow of the Holocaust Educational Trust, the Higher Dr Aimeé Bunting (Latymer and Godolphin British Academy. He has been a strong Education Academy, Vallentine Mitchell and School). The keynote address was given supporter of the Parkes Institute, including Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and by Professor Atina Grossmann on “War, chair of its AHRC Research Centre (2000 – History. Particular thanks to Peter D’Sena Colonialism and the Holocaust”. 2006), and more recently as a Patron and (HEA), Alex Maws (HET), Kay Andrews external representative to its Advisory (IOE) and Stewart Cass (Vallentine Mitchell) Committee.

13 Martin’s lecture: ‘On writing a history of Why does this matter? The Jews were not a Winston Churchill. Auriel is researching her Judaism’, reflected on his recent research religion, but an ancient ethnos with a famous father’s life and works, and we hope she will project. With a chronology from antiquity to polis (Jerusalem), temple, priesthood, return to the Parkes Institute to update us on the present, it requires difficult decisions sacrifical system, and philosophical schools. her findings. about how to describe and explain the The followers of Christ were none of these relations between different strands of things, and had a problem explaining The Parkes Seminar Programme List: Judaism since biblical times. The lecture themselves. To understand the range of 2012 – 2013 investigated the problems involved, taking phenomena in early Jewish-Christian Tuesday 9 October 2012: examples from the history of the Jews over relations, from harsh anti-Jewish rhetoric to Professor Daniel Langton the past two and a half thousand years. Few Judaising movements in Christianity, we (University of Manchester) scholars have the range and breadth of should realise that Jews and Christians were ‘Jewish religious thought and Darwinism’ Professor Goodman, and he outlined the not two religions but represented Thursday 25 October 2012: intricacies and complexities of Jewish qualitatively different categories. Professor Derek J Penslar, FRSC religious identities, charting change and The Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial (University of Toronto/Oxford) continuity, consensus and conflict. Lecture: 1 May 2013 ‘State Finance, Diaspora Philanthropy, and The Parkes Lecture: 30 April 2013 – Professor Sarah Pearce, Karten Professor Israel’s Victory in the 1948 War’ Professor Steve Mason of Ancient Jewish Studies, Tuesday 6 November 2012: Professor and Kirby Laing Chair in New University of Southampton Pamela Howard, (Professor Emeritus Testament, University of Aberdeen This lecture was renamed as above in honour University of the Arts London) This was the 23rd annual Parkes Lecture, with of two very special friends of the Parkes Rehearsed reading of her scenario ‘The New previous speakers including Sir Ronald Institute - Ian who passed away in 2011 and Jerusalem : A Sussex Story’ with actors Harwood, Lord Winston, Yasmin Alibai- his wife Mildred, a year later in 2012. The co-ordinated by Stuart Olesker Brown, Alan Sillitoe, Michael Ignatieff, Linda evening was hosted by Professor Adam Grant, Sir Arnold Wesker, Jonathan Wheeler, Provost and Deputy Vice– Tuesday 4 December 2012: Dr Lars Fischer Freedland and Lord Harries of Pentregarth, Chancellor of the University, and the lecture (University of Cambridge) Steve Mason carried this distinguished was fittingly delivered by Sarah Pearce, the ‘Introducing Gertrud Mayer-Jaspers’ tradition forward. Ian Karten Professor of Jewish Studies at the Tuesday 12 February 2013: Dr Gideon Parkes Institute. Steve completed both a BA and MA in Reuveni (University of Sussex) Judaism and early Christianity at McMaster Sarah’s lecture, ‘“Out of the house of ‘Jewish Consumer Culture’ University (Canada) before moving to bondage”? Jewish perspectives on slavery in Tuesday 5 March 2013: Toronto’s St. Michael’s College for his PhD. Egypt’, provided new analytical and Professor Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck College) His larger projects reflect the interplay geographical perspectives on the Exodus ‘Psychoanalytic Hauntings: between interpreting the evidence itself story. The classic view of the Exodus The Case of The Dybbuk’ (texts but also coins, inscriptions, and celebrates the liberation of the Israelites from archaeological sites) and reconstructing the enslavement in Egypt. Provocatively, this Monday 11 March 2013: Montefiore Lecture world in which it once lived. He is currently lecture explored the impact of the Exodus – Professor Martin Goodman (Oriental lead for an international project that is tradition on Jews of the Greek and Roman Institute/Woolfson College, Oxford) producing the first historical-literary world, in which slavery was a fact of life. What ‘On writing a history of Judaism’ commentary to Josephus’ thirty volumes with did Jews – and their non-Jewish neighbours Tuesday 16 April 2013: Dr James Jordan a new translation (Brill), whilst completing a – have to say about the experiences of the (University of Southampton) historical inquiry into the Judaean-Roman ancestors of the Jews in Egypt? How did the ‘More than One Pair of Eyes: War of 66 to 73/74 CE (Cambridge University memory of the Exodus affect the ways in Transitional Transnational Identities Press). which Jews thought about Jewish origins, in Georgia Brown’s East End’ slavery, and Jewish life in Egypt under Greek Steve’s lecture ‘Did Ancient Jews and and Roman rule? Sarah’s stimulating Tuesday 23 April 2013: Christians think they belonged to ‘Religions’? performance, using Egyptian Jewish sources, Dr Daniel Wildmann Why it matters what they thought’ captured especially the writings of Philo of Alexandria, (Queen Mary, University of London) the doubtful assumption in the vibrant study challenged us to look at the classic story in a ‘German TV crime series and German of early Jewish-Christian relations whether different light. Emotions - Jews in “Tatort”’ Judaism and Christianity were two species of Tuesday 30 April 2013: The Parkes Lecture a genus religion. He argued that there was no Seminars ancient category corresponding to what we - Professor Steve Mason The Parkes Seminar Programme 2012 – 2013 call religion. The heart of the lecture (University of Aberdeen) was varied and engaging. We are grateful as examined categories the ancients did know: ‘Did Ancient Jews and Christians think ever for our guest speakers who so graciously ethnos (nation), with founding myths, laws, they belonged to ‘Religions’? Why it make the effort, often across country and customs, dress, diet, and language; polis matters what they thought’ beyond to share their expertise. Whilst not (citizen-state), the concentration of the listed below, a particularly exciting informal Tuesday 21 May 2013: The Karten Memorial ethnos, place of belonging and home to seminar was provided by Auriel Young who Lecture – Professor Sarah Pearce temples, public institutions, calendar, gave a fascinating account of her father Oscar (University of Southampton) festivals, and coins; ta hiera (sacred matters), Nemon, a Yugoslav Jewish refugee who came ‘Out of the house of bondage’? Jewish based in bloody animal sacrifice, overseen by to Britain in the 1930s. After the war he perspectives on slavery in Egypt’ ritual specialists (priests); and thiasoi or became a renowned sculptor to the royal clubs, including philosophical schools (home family and leading politicians, including of moral exhortation and study of texts). 14 Journals of the Parkes Institute

Jewish Culture and History French Rabbinate during the Great War, the longest standing journal devoted to Professor Joachim Schlör and the presentation of an original English issues of ethnicity, prejudice and all forms The journal has now found a new home with translation of An Admirer of Napoleon by of racism. The journal, published by Taylor Routledge (Taylor and Francis) and is back Semën Frug (1860–1916). Issue 14.2 presents Francis, attracts a truly international range on schedule. The editorial team – Nadia the results of a conference on ‘Jewish of contributors and its range is also global Valman and Joachim Schlör as editors, Identities in Contemporary Europe’ which in scope. This year we were delighted to add Tony Kushner as deputy editor, and Tobias Andrea Reiter and Lucille Cairns (Durham) Professor Dan Stone as full editor (joining Brinkmann as our US ‘correspondent’ – has organised at the Institute of Germanic and myself, David Cesarani and Managing Editor, made a great effort to ensure that JCH can Romance Studies in London 2011. Among the Barbara Rosenbaum as the team). We wish continue to contribute to current debates in authors are Diana Pinto (Paris), whose ideas to express our gratitude also to Jennifer the fields of Jewish Studies. This has been on the new ‘Jewish Space’ in Europe continue Craig-Norton, a postgraduate at the Parkes especially successful with issue 13.2-3 on to inform the work of many researchers, and Institute, who has played an extremely Jewish Maritime Studies, with contributions Atina Grossman (New York), the leading valuable role as assistant editor. This by Rebecca Wolpe, Naor Ben Yehoyada, researcher in the field of post-War and academic year we published a special issue Hanan Hever, and Alexandra Nocke – a post-Holocaust Jewish history in Germany. on ‘National Models of Integration and the continuation of the Parkes Institute’s earlier We are currently working on two further Crisis of Multiculturalism’ which included work on ‘Port Jews’ and at the same time issues, one on post-WW II Jewish emigration articles on France, Holland, America, the opening of a new and interdisciplinary from Eastern Europe (ed. Karen Auerbach), Australia and Britain, guest edited by field which integrates studies in literature, and the other on ‘Jewish Migration and the Christophe Bertossi (Paris) and Jan Willem sociology, and geography into Jewish Archive’, based on the contributions to a Duyvendak (Amsterdam). Individual articles Studies. Issue 14.1 contains articles by Klaus Parkes Institute/Kaplan Centre conference ranged from studies of Nicolas Sarkozy and Hödl (Graz) on ‘The quest for amusement: in Cape Town. his relationship to the politics of the Front leisure activities in Vienna 1900’, Glenda National to a study of prejudice in an English Abramson (Oxford) on Haim Nahmias’ Patterns of Prejudice seaside town. Our thanks are due to the First World War diary, Erin Corber on Professor Tony Kushner Humanitarian Trust for its generous support masculinity and the modernization of the Founded in 1967, Patterns of Prejudice is of the journal.

15 Holocaust Studies: A Journal of This year’s publications to date are: Culture and History Volume 19.1 2013 Spring Dr James Jordan Sara Bender, ‘Not Only in Jedwabne: Now nearing its twentieth anniversary, Accounts of the Annihilation of the Jewish Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and Shtetlach in North-Eastern Poland in the History, continues to publish work from Summer of 1941.’ senior and junior colleagues from around Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich, the globe, with time and space given also to Representing the Neighbours: Tadeusz the best postgraduate work. The established Słobodzianek’s Our Class and Jonathan editorial team of Tom Lawson, Hannah Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated. Holtschneider and myself is currently working on a number of interesting special Simon Geissbühler, The Rape of Jewish editions and single issues for 2014. Women and Girls during the First Phase of the Romanian Offensive in the East, July I would like to thank our fantastic copy 1941: A Research Agenda and Preliminary editor Heather Marchant for her wonderful Findings. work on the journal. Y. Michal Bodemann, Holocaust Memory or Holocaust Parody? The Tales of ‘Ernst Müller’. Discussion Forum on B.J. Epstein, ‘Inflicting Trauma: The Ethics of Writing and Teaching the Holocaust for Children’ with responses from Kay Andrews, Michael Gray and Alex Maws. Issue 19:2 Summer 2013 Sarah Casteel. ‘Calypso Jews: Holocaust Refugees in the Caribbean Literary Imagination’. Andrew Jakubowicz and Aleksandra Hądzelek, ‘The Polish Jews of Shanghai and the political sociology of historical memory’. Karolina Krysinska and Jozef Corveleyn, ‘“I was holding on to my ancestral merit”: Religious coping and the Holocaust in the light of Hasidic tales of survival’. Larissa Allwork, ‘Intercultural Legacies of the International Task Force and the Stockholm International Forum (2000): Lithuania and the British at the Turn of the Millennium’.

16 Development

The Parkes Institute has had a productive ‘Vladimir Jabotinsky’s The Five, a Discourse connections will assist us with our plans to and encouraging year of fundraising with on Odessa’. We were delighted to have Liz celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Parkes donations kindly contributed by loyal Moss representing the family and awarding Institute in 2014 with an increased presence donors, newly identified supporters and the prizes to our deserving students. in London and online. Ben Helfgott remains a several key Trusts and Foundations. supportive friend to the Institute and we are Another example of significant support for grateful to him, and others, for opening doors We were sad to report the passing of Mildred our scholarship programmes is the generous and making contacts for us. Karten in January this year, and were very glad annual gift we have once again received from that key members of Parkes staff, who worked Larry Agron. Larry is based in the US, and The Parkes Institute relies considerably on closely with both Mildred and Ian Karten rarely gets to visit us here in Southampton, the support and generosity of our donors and during their partnership with the Parkes but his support and involvement is of great gifts of all levels have a real impact, Institute, were able to visit Mildred at home importance to our Eastern European and contributing to our success. Please do in late December. Mildred, like Ian, remained London MA programmes. encourage friends, family and contacts to join enthusiastically supportive of our activity and one of our donor programmes or to talk with We are very grateful to Stanley Cohen and to they are both sorely missed by all at the us about supporting a part of our activity. his Charitable Trust for a new gift this year to Institute and the wider University. Gifts can be made online at provide much-needed annual support to our www.southampton.ac.uk/supportus/ The Ian Karten Charitable Trust continues Outreach Programme. Dr Helen Spurling donatenow the active involvement that Ian and Mildred details elsewhere in this report the successful had with the Institute during their lifetimes efforts of our outreach activity, and this new To discuss a gift in more detail, please contact and we are very grateful to the Trustees for gift from Stanley will mean yet more advances Tony Kushner or Joanna Watts their ongoing support of our programmes. to this great programme, increasing the reach via: [email protected] This year the Trust has kindly funded the Ian and its impact on local and national or on 023 8059 7727. Karten MA Scholarships and Dr Helen audiences. The Parkes Institute, and the wider Spurling’s post as Karten Outreach Fellow, to We greatly appreciate, as ever, the support University of Southampton, is very grateful to continue the momentum created by Ian’s and involvement of our Friends of the Parkes our many friends and supporters and much original decision to support these key areas of Library scheme. This important annual appreciate your involvement. We hope that activity. In addition to this the significant support enables us to fund activity we have acknowledged all of our donors in the endowment gifts, made by Ian Karten, throughout the Parkes Institute and Library following list for 2012-13, but please accept continue to support several posts within the and in the next year we plan to increase the our sincere apologies should there be any Institute. communications and activities for the errors or omissions. The support and involvement of Ian and Friends to honour their support further. Mildred Karten, and of the members of the List of donors in 2012-2013 The Hartley Circle, a group of donors to the Ian Karten Charitable Trust, has truly Mr Larry Agron University of Southampton who are transformed what we have been able to recognised for their annual support of £1,000 Mr Stanley Cohen achieve at the Parkes Institute. It is no or more, includes several donors to the Mr Gordon Franks exaggeration to credit the Kartens with Parkes Institute and we are very grateful for enabling our advancement and ensuring our Dr John Garfield the crucial funds provided to our activity by rapid progression in the last twenty years. We Mr David Gifford Hartley Circle members. This is an area of were very pleased to recognise this and growth for the Parkes Institute and we hope L S Maayan celebrate the special partnership we had with to encourage more members to give at this Mr Walter Kammerling the Kartens at the annual lecture which was level which really does provide us with the renamed this year to ‘The Ian and Mildred Mr Sidney Moss annual funding and financial security crucial Karten Memorial Lecture’. Mr John Mountford to the advancement of the Parkes Professor Sarah Pearce, who was close to the programme. Mr C Niebuhr Kartens, was well placed to present the Professor Derek Pheby The support of the Rothschild Foundation, lecture. The lecture and Sarah’s activity is which has been key in developing the Parkes Mr Jeffrey Pinnick detailed elsewhere in this report, as are the Institute in the past decade, has continued Mr Chris Pyke other areas of activity where the Kartens’ this year. It has awarded us a two-year support has made significant impact. Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe part-time Research Fellowship in Jewish Ms Carolyn Sanzenbacher We were also pleased to celebrate the heritage studies (Dr Kathrin Pieren) and has awarding of the annual Moss Prizes at the supported a major conservation programme Mr Clinton Silver Parkes Lecture, with the undergraduate prize in the Jewish archive collection. Ms Verity Steele going to Katherine Webb for her essay We have had a successful year of making new The Humanitarian Trust entitled ‘The Roman Annexation of Egypt in contacts and increasing the knowledge of our The Ian Karten Charitable Trust 30 BCE and the Treatment of the Jews’ and activity amongst interested individuals and the postgraduate prize being awarded to Professor John Wagstaff organisations. We are hopeful that these new Rebecca White for her essay entitled 17 Internationalisation

Caesarea aquaduct, Israel

Dr James Jordan Recently five-year agreements have been Dr Dan Levene - Israel The Parkes Institute takes seriously its signed with the interdepartmental centre Relationships with universities in Israel, commitment to world-class scholarship ‘Petersburg Judaica’ at the European following visits to the Hebrew University, which is truly international in scope. All of University, St Petersburg (December Tel-Aviv University and Ben-Gurion the scholars in the Institute have 2012-2017) and the Zentrum für Jüdische University last year, continue to develop. international contacts and reputations, but in Kulturgeschichte, University of Salzburg Professor Joachim Schlör from the Parkes addition to these partnerships, the Institute (February 2013-2018). These are exciting Institute is co-editing a book on Jewish cements its international presence and developments and we are looking forward to immigration in Latin America, together with standing with formal partnerships with working together over the coming years. Professor Raanan Rein, the Vice-President of similar institutions and centres. In April 2012 All of these relationships promise to extend Tel-Aviv University, and is acting as an we renewed our long-standing and deeply the reach of the Parkes Institute and its advisor to Professor Rein’s PhD student who valued partnership with the Isaac and Jessie partners, ensuring that we continue to make a writes on the contribution of Jewish Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, the significant global impact. These international immigrants to the development of the city of University of Cape Town, signing a fresh academic partnerships also allow the Bogota, Colombia. Dr Dan Levene was Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Institute to connect to museums and other invited this year to speak at an international another five years. We have also signed for bodies at a global and local level. conference organised by Tel-Aviv University the first time an MOU with the Department of on Ancient copper mining in the south of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the If you would like to know more about our Israel. Other relationships within the Faculty University of Sydney. This two agreements partnerships, be interested in visiting of Humanities have evolved, with Professor have been part of an ambitious tripartite Southampton or establishing an agreement, Tim Bergfelder from the Film Department arrangement which has looked to develop please contact Dr James Jordan on collaborating with colleagues from both research strands across three continents and [email protected] Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem on the study of Israeli has already delivered conferences on ‘The cinema. The Philosophy Department has also Holocaust and the Legacies of Race’ (Sydney built on these contacts, culminating in a visit 2012) and ‘Jews, Colonialism and from Professor Eli Friedlander who came and Postcolonialism’ (Cape Town 2013). We will gave a talk to their research seminar earlier be hosting the third event in January 2014. this year, while Professors Chris Janaway and Ray Monk from Southampton have been invited to talk in Tel-Aviv.

18 Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Doctoral programme between Southampton’s Faculty of seminar. Jennifer Craig-Norton (the Polish Professor Joachim Schlör (PhD Humanities and local schools, has managed, Kindertransport), Anne Holdorph (gender Programme Coordinator) despite the significant work he does on behalf and religion in the Jewish youth movement, Many members of the Parkes Institute are of the university, to continue with his 1880-1939) and Malgosia Wloszycka (the actively engaged in the supervision of PhD doctoral research and has already produced memory of Jews in the town of Mszana students. Their work on a wide variety of some genuinely innovative and insightful Dolna) were all upgraded to PhD status. All topics in Jewish Studies and the study of work analysing the, in his view, three have presented their work at Jewish/non-Jewish relations, from Antiquity misunderstood influence and importance of international conferences and have to the present day, and from History to Nietzsche’s reckoning with the reality of publications out or in press. Mickie Stevens is Literature and the arts, contributes to the suffering on the concerns and techniques of moving towards the close of her study of growth and the quality of our academic key figures within literary modernism. Jewish philanthropy in Britain from the ‘bottom up’ and Wendy Fidler is continuing community. Here is an overview of our Dr Shirli Gilbert: Having initially registered her intriguing work on Jewish responses to current postgraduate research students. for the MA in Jewish History and Culture, interfaith work based on interviews in the Laura Musker decided in October 2012 to Dr Devorah Baum: Mike Witcombe, my Oxford region. co-supervisee with Andrea Reiter (AHRC undertake a part-time PhD under my funded), has returned for the third year of his supervision on the subject of ‘The Effects of Dr Dan Levene: Bradley Barnes works on doctorate after a very successful time spent the Racial Laws in Piedmont during the years Syriac Charms as ‘“The direct heir of earlier researching in the Philip Roth archives on his 1938-1945’. This is a valuable and under- incantations”: questioning the most unlikely Library of Congress AHRC funded fellowship researched topic which she is well-placed to story between the most unlikely of sources’ – in Washington last year. Mike’s work has been tackle given her language skills and familiarity at the occasion of his recent upgrade from progressing well and he has also been invited with the region. Her primary challenge in MPhil to PhD the panel was ‘very satisfied by to give a large number of conference papers getting started on the PhD has been to the detailed research in the dissertation, the and presentations, including one at the organise her time so as to fit her studies in clear engagement with a technical subject auspicious and much publicised ‘Roth at 80’ with her part-time work and childcare requiring an understanding of material in an conference hosted by the Philip Roth Society responsibilities. She has made good progress array of languages, and the wide ranging in New Jersey in honour of the writer’s 80th so far, and has already begun to explore the nature of the materials discussed, which gave birthday in March this year. Mike’s work rather sparse secondary literature on her a good insight into the miraculous in Late draws on archive material little known to subject in English as well as Italian. She has Antiquity’. also made several research trips to Italy and Roth scholars in order to make a case for, in Dr Andrea Reiter: Jaime Ashworth who has located a number of relevant archives and particular, the significance of the somewhat defended his thesis ‘From Nazi Archive to scholars, with whom she has begun to be in overlooked Kepesh trilogy of novels for an Holocaust Memorial: The Auschwitz Album contact. I am satisfied with her progress thus understanding of the exaggerated but as Evidence and symbol in Britain and Poland’ far and look forward to seeing her research critically undervalued role played by sexuality last year, has contributed several modules to develop next year. in Roth’s oeuvre. Mike intends to submit a the History undergraduate curriculum. In final draft of his thesis, ‘Tender Pervert: Professor Tony Kushner: This has been a March he gave a paper ‘After Auschwitz’ Reappraising Philip Roth’s Writings on Sex’, very busy year for me postgraduate-wise. At (School of Humanities PG Annual by the end of 2013. one end congratulations to Tom Plant who Conference, ‘The Defining Moment’, 19 My two other doctoral students, both in their successfully defended his PhD on the identity March 2010); he has also written the second year, will both be upgraded by the end of Jewish youth groups in Britain after 1945. following reviews: Review of Samuel of 2013. Eva Van Loenen has been working on Tom has been active as a tutor in History and Kassow’s Who Will Write Our History?, her thesis, ‘Hasidic Thought and Identity in also as the Karten Junior Outreach Fellow forthcoming in Journal of Modern Jewish Jewish-American Literature’ and has made this year, along with his fellow postgraduate, Studies; Review of Jonathan Webber’s real headway in researching and writing on Sarah Shawyer. At the other end, we welcome Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish Hasidic history and thought, and she has Carolyn Sanzenbacher from North Carolina Heritage of Postwar Galicia, forthcoming in drawn some fascinating connections between who is beginning her PhD on the world Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and religious and secular approaches to ecumenical movement and the Jews during History. Bettina Koehler’s dissertation on storytelling. She has also been invited to the Nazi era. James Parkes will feature ‘Contemporary German-Jewish Literature as speak on her thesis work and related topics at prominently in this thesis as a figure fighting a Counter Discourse’ has been submitted, the a number of conferences, including BAJS 2013 against the dominant conversionist aims of viva voce took place in July. While Meike where she presented on the boundary the ecumenical movement when dealing with Reintjes, in her fourth year of a part-time between Jewish and Non-Jewish magic. the Jews. Carolyn and Howard Rein (the PhD, writes on ‘German Jewish Women Poets Stewart Smith, whose doctorate is funded by German Hospital and Jewish Hospitals in in British Exile’, Silke Schwaiger, in her third his work as the recipient of the first ever HEA London) successfully presented their first year, looks at the other side of the exilic studentship to support and develop links year work (or second in the case of Howard narrative with a study called ‘Identität und who is part-time) to a History postgraduate Kanon: Autoren und Texte um den Verein Exil 19 in Wien’. Georg Burgstaller is in his second MA/MRes Jewish History and Culture year and writes on music criticism and Dr Shirli Gilbert (MA/MRes Coordinator) socio-cultural perspectives in Heinrich This has been an exciting year for our MA/ Schenker’s Vienna: ‘Audience and Critics MRes programme. We welcomed an always One and the same’, and Oriane Boulay, enthusiastic group of six students to with her study ‘The Untranslatable Self? Southampton in October, and over the year Translingual Life-writing In Contemporary have seen them engage with a wide range of French Literature’ is in her first year; for Mike subjects in our taught courses, and have Witcombe, see Devorah Baum’s report above. witnessed their intellectual growth in the Professor Joachim Schlör: I am happy to pursuit of independent research. They have report that Hannah Farmer successfully also contributed to the vibrant atmosphere defended her thesis on Jewish Elite Women’s and community that we seek to foster in the Philanthropy in Chicago, 1890-1900, in January Parkes Institute. We also welcomed twelve this year. While Gal Engelhard, whose mature students to our MRes programme in dissertation on institutionalised visits by London, an exciting new initiative that we are Israeli Jews in their former German offering in partnership with the London hometowns I have advised, has been awarded Jewish Cultural Centre. The programme is a PhD degree from Haifa University in May, intended to bring the work of the Parkes my two German students, Katharina Hoba Institute to a wider audience, and by all (The notion of ‘Heimat’ among German- accounts the students have found it a Jewish immigrants in Israel) and Frank stimulating and richly rewarding experience. Schlöffel (Heinrich Loewe’s life and work) This year has seen a Faculty-wide overhaul of have submitted their dissertations to the our Master’s provision, and next year the MA/ Philosophical Faculty at Potsdam University. MRes programmes will be replaced by a single I am very much looking forward to start MA consisting of a taught element as well as a working with Maja Hultman from Stockholm, dissertation. The MA continues to be taught a former History undergraduate at by the team of international scholars who Southampton, who will research the history make up the Parkes Institute, whose fields of of the 19th century Jewish community in her expertise cover the period from antiquity to hometown. the present day. We are proud of our rich and unique programme, and look forward to another successful year in Southampton and London.

20 The Moss Memorial Prizes 2012-2013

It is always good to be able to recognise the excellent work done by our students, and this brings us to the Moss Prizes - the annual Moss Memorial Prizes in memory of Stephen Moss, who studied Law at the University of Southampton, and his mother Daphne who was President of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists. We are grateful for the generosity of the Moss Family, who with support from the Society of Women Writers and Journalists, established these prizes to be awarded annually for the best essay on a Jewish/non-Jewish related Rebecca White: Postgraduate prize Katherine Webb: topic in both an undergraduate and a Essay title ‘Vladimir Jabotinsky’s The Five, Undergraduate prize postgraduate category. Mrs Liz Moss a Discourse on Odessa’ Essay title: ‘The Roman Annexation of graciously presented Rebecca’s prize at the Having originally commenced my Egypt in 30 BCE and the Treatment of the Parkes Lecture on the evening of 30 April undergraduate degree in English Literature, Jews’ 2013. Unfortunately Katherine was on jury and ignorant to the scope of knowledge that Due to an emerging interest in ancient history duty elsewhere in the country and so unable Southampton University Humanities had to I took the decision, in my final year, to to collect her prize in person. offer, I accidentally stumbled upon Jewish specialise in Roman Imperialism and the Studies. This has turned out to be a most Jews. The course was highly stimulating, and I serendipitous discovery. Not only did I enter enjoyed a range of topics, which allowed me into a Masters; having been unexpectedly to pursue an array of exciting new primary awarded the Ian Kartan Studentship, but I sources and texts from both Jewish and managed to find my feet in academia. This non-Jewish authors. Such sources could often manifested in the privilege of being awarded be challenging to decipher, however, the the Postgraduate Moss Prize for my essay study of them gave me the ability to ‘Vladimir Jabotinsky’s The Five, a Discourse strengthen my analytical skills and be on Odessa’. confident in my interpretation of them, even when it differed from those around me. To win this award was tremendous; it gave me affirmation and confidence in my abilities. I feel privileged to have been honoured by the Having studied alongside some brilliant Parkes Institute and consider my students and for my work to be chosen was a achievements to have been greatly aided by great honour. I feel incredibly lucky to have the enthusiasm and support of my tutor, discovered the Parkes Institute and its wealth Professor Sarah Pearce. I would, therefore, of resources. like to take this opportunity of formally thanking her and, in addition, also One of the best aspects about studying under acknowledge the exceptional resources that Parkes is the lecturers and staff who are all the Parkes Library has to offer. incredibly helpful, knowledgeable, passionate and generally brilliant! I have to credit my To all undergraduates who may be successes to them, without whom I might contemplating a module in Jewish History have floundered. I wish the Parkes Institute and Culture, I cannot recommend it highly all the best for the future, and hope that it enough. goes from strength-to-strength.

21 Reports by Parkes Postgraduates

Jewish refugee children

22 Eva Van Loenen: PhD Jennifer Craig-Norton PhD Having previously studied at Durham Making Connections through the Parkes University and the University of Anglo-Jewish Archives Amsterdam, I moved from the Netherlands My PhD research, ‘Contesting Memory: to Southampton to undertake my PhD in New Perspectives on the Kindertransport’ is ‘Hasidic Jewish Thought and Identity in centred almost entirely on collections within Jewish-American Literature’ at the English the Parkes Anglo-Jewish Archives held at Department. My supervisor, Dr Devorah the University of Southampton. Within Baum and the Parkes Institute were two these collections, I located case files of some major reasons for choosing the University of 100 German-born children brought from Southampton, and I now know that I made Poland to the UK under the Kindertransport the right decision. program in three transports in 1939. These A PhD can be rather isolating, hence being files contain invaluable documentation able to attend regular lectures and seminars about the children and their families, with fellow academics in your field makes a material that has never before been cited in great difference. The Parkes seminar series Kindertransport research. presents a wide variety of scholars and I Soon after discovering these records, I began always find it interesting to learn more about searching for the people within the files, other areas of Jewish and Jewish-non-Jewish hoping to make contact with them, or, if they research. The Parkes Library, which holds were no longer living, with their families. To an impressive collection of books on Jewish date I have located fifteen living Kinder and studies, has equally proved invaluable. the families of twenty others, immeasurably Since I arrived at the end of my second year, enhancing the scope and complexity of my thesis is beginning to take shape, but I my research. Interviews with former child still have much to do. Three to four years refugees have deepened my understanding is a surprisingly brief time, and between of the documents, and families have shared writing conference papers, articles and private memoirs, photos and other material thesis chapters, I wish weeks had eight days that have helped to fill in gaps in the archival instead of seven. I look forward to teaching record. In addition, there have been many next year and writing my next chapter on moving and emotional encounters as post-war representations of Hasidic Judaism, survivors and their families are united with including Chaim Potok, who, ten years photos and documents from the archives, after first reading his work, is still one of my most of which were entirely unknown to favourite authors. them. Several survivors and family members have made visits to Southampton to view the original documents, and I have visited others in their homes to share these material traces of their past. I have felt enormously fortunate to have such an amazing archival collection at my disposal, these archives have taken me in unexpected and exciting new directions, and provided mutually rewarding interactions with many of the very people who are the subject of my PhD thesis.

23 Dr Joanna Newman

Reports from our Friends and Honorary Fellows

Mrs Diana Bailey: Friend Nazi salute, shouted PJ (perish the Jews), and ex-Chairman of the Anglo-Israel Association. The 26 April is ringed and underlined with sang Giovinezza – an Italian Fascist song. They both came to dinner the next evening, and a firm friendship was formed with both. schoolgirl enthusiasm in my small diary of When war came in 1939 both my parents were James at once threw into the pool the one 1973. interned under Regulation 18B – my mother thing I was able to spare time to do. He and on 30 May and my father two weeks later. He I was not a school girl, but in my forties when Sidney Sugarman (a friend since 1934) had spent three and a half years on the Isle of my front doorbell rang. I opened it to find a been discussing the making of a bibliography Man, whilst my mother had nine months in man with white hair, smallish build, twinkling with BB at University of Southampton. Sidney Holloway, with neither of them ever being and smiling. I knew him at once! He was the was a bookseller and publisher, and he charged. In the meantime we children had person I had longed to meet for so long, suggested the bibliography should be stones thrown at us and felt orphaned. having identified with his words and enhanced with the edition of an extract from aspirations. “I gather I have a disciple here?”, 1944 came. I joined the WRNS at age each book and some biographical details. he questioned. seventeen, and was posted to Mountbattens Identification of book and selection of quote I am a convent-educated Roman Catholic. My Headquarters in Ceylon, followed by was to be my job. Singapore. One day I saw a film of Richard father, Charles Edward Hudson, was My children were all at school, and some Dimbleby entering the Belsen camp. The fifty-four when I was born. An ex-naval beyond. Driving to Nertherton, Iwerne profound guilt I felt was beyond Commander and ex founder member of MI6, Minster was just over a half hour, so I comprehension, and altered my trajectory for he also served as British Consul in normally had a good few hours most days. It the rest of my life. A child should not carry Copenhagen. My mother Alma Violet took a long time to complete the work, as parental guilt, but the future became Derrington Hudson, then twenty-four came accuracy was important. Some of James’s compelling to me, and led to a life-long from Worcestershire, and had been taught to books could only be located at Southampton, ambition to alter the core of my thinking. I sign by Elgar. A straight-forward British but he had copies of most of his works. family, you might think. read avidly, married, had many babies, and identified more with the works of James James was quiet, funny and kind, always In 1934 my father joined the British Union of Parkes than any other visionary. It was my preparing the lunch which mostly consisted Fascists, and my mother followed, with my discussions with the local vicar about James’s of scrambled eggs, salad or soup. I deeply father soon becoming leader in Sussex, as Caption works that had led to him landing on my admired his patience with his failing health, well as a parliamentary candidate. My siblings doorstep. his fists clenched from gassing in the war; - a sister, brother and I aged ten, nine and pencils tapping the typewriter; Dorothy James was staying at The Bramble Hill Hotel seven respectively, joined in the excitement. whirling about at a great rate, enthusiastically in the New Forest (he has written about it) Oswald Mosley came to dinner, we painted and noisily. Always there were new ideas; new with his long-time friend, Kenneth Lindsey, slogans on street walls, raised our arms in pamphlets. He badly wanted to write about 24 Professor Gavin Schaffer future turbulence in the Middle East. His Although my career has taken me in a opportunity to spend three years of research chest was full of sounds, his legs failing; different direction from my initial research, and writing that has formed a backbone for all psychic energy bouncing ahead of his body. the experience of studying for a PhD has been subsequent endeavours. There was so much to be done! an underlying thread connecting and informing everything I do. It has given me a Professor Gavin Schaffer: Honorary This profoundly complicated simple man, full curiosity and thirst for knowledge, a deep Fellow of kindness, honour and humour, an ordained respect for scholarship and discovery, and an Director of Postgraduate Studies, Protestant clergyman, sat at the elegant table abiding belief in the importance of ensuring University of Birmingham (I have the table) with Sidney Sugarman - our higher education system is available to all orthodox Jew, and myself - a practising After finishing my PhD at the Parkes Institute those with the ability and desire to study, Catholic, in complete harmony and deep in 2003, I worked as a history lecturer at the regardless of financial means. encounter. Deo gratias. University of Portsmouth for seven years, Prior to my current role, I was Head of Higher prior to taking up my present post at the Dr Joanna Newman: Honorary Fellow Education at the British Library. There, I University of Birmingham. Then, as now, my Director, UK Higher Education introduced discipline focused national research focused on the history of racism, International Unit postgraduate research days, demonstrating to and, in particular, on the ways in which racial ideas operated in modern societies. I applied for the Parkes Archive Studentship researchers the range of resources that the when I was completing my Masters library could offer to support their studies. The Parkes Institute was the ideal base for my dissertation at UCL on the Jewish community My last project at the library was to work with PhD research, which compared expert in Barbados in the seventeenth and the AHRC and Indian institutions to digitally thinking about Jews with scientific eighteenth century. I had discovered a reunite the India office records, a vast constructions of black and Asian minorities. potential PhD topic while rifling through the collection from the beginnings of the East This research ultimately culminated in the Tate and Lyle archive in Sugar Wharf. Looking India Company in the seventeenth century, publication of my first book in 2008, Racial at old sugar manuals, I came across a series of through the formation of imperial Science and British Society. Since then, I have letters that had been deposited by a chemist, government to Indian Independence in 1947. moved the focus of my research onto the Edward Schonbeck, who was working for At first glance my current role is a far cry from handling of racism in the British broadcast WISCO. I subsequently found that my academic roots, but my understanding of media. Schonbeck, along with many other refugees, the history of British immigration and refugee My new book, The Vision of a Nation, explores had been interned in Jamaica as an enemy policy is providing interesting insights into the ways in which television employed the alien after finding refuge in the British West the parallels and tropes that inform current concepts of multiculturalism and race Indies. government thinking about immigration, and relations, and dealt issues such as racism and The Parkes Archive had recently acquired a its impact on international students coming immigration. As my research agendas have large collection of the papers of refugee to the UK. developed I have remained close to old organisations. The studentship allowed me to The UK Higher Education International Unit friends in Parkes. My new research (looking draw heavily on these sources and the special works closely with Southampton and other at changing cultures of comedy in the 1980s) collections in the Parkes Archive as well as universities to promote outward student aims to build even more links between my refugee memoirs and papers, US official and mobility, international exchanges of staff and new department in Birmingham and the NGO records, West Indian archives and students and provide policy and advice on the History department at Southampton. extensively on the UK’s Colonial Office and internationalisation of higher education. We As well as developing my research career, Home Office records. are currently running Science Without Borders, since leaving Southampton I have developed My three years at Southampton were, looking a large mobility scheme on behalf of the UK a strong interest in the development and back, luxurious in having the ability to and Brazil, to which Southampton has many nurturing of postgraduate communities. In concentrate solely on my research topic. I students. My job involves a lot of travel, and Portsmouth, I set up new MA programmes remember my supervisor Professor Tony wherever I go abroad, there is always a high and began to supervise postgraduate Kushner warning me that I would never have incidence of university academics and research. Building on this interest in my new that luxury again, and of course he was proved government officials who studied at role in Birmingham, I became Director of the right! My thesis examined how the colonial Southampton, and I am immensely proud to College’s Graduate School in 2011 and have empire, focusing on the British West Indies, count myself within that number. I remain an recently left this role to become the was drawn into the refugee crisis of the 1930s Honorary Fellow and continue to contribute University’s Director of Postgraduate Studies. and debates about rescue in the 1940s. It to my area of academic interest. Looking In the new fees environment, I believe that looked at the situation from West Indian, UK back, the Parkes studentship gave me the academics need to work hard to defend and and Allied governments, aid organisation and develop opportunities for postgraduates. refugee perspectives. 25 Reports by Academic Members of the Parkes Institute

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26 Dr Devorah Baum their ‘What’s Up Doc?’ festival. I worked I continue to be involved in a large-scale Lecturer with Hisham Matar on his play, ‘How To public history project in the form of an It has been another busy year during which Begin’, which was performed in theatres in educational website on the subject of Music a number of new Parkes initiatives have Cambridge, Colchester and London in July and the Holocaust (http://holocaustmusic. taken off. In particular, the first part-time 2013. ort.org) which also forms the basis for MRes degree in Jewish History and Culture an Impact Case Study for the upcoming to be taught outside of Southampton at The Dr Shirli Gilbert Research Education Framework (REF). Ian Karten Senior Lecturer in Jewish/ London Jewish Cultural Centre got off to Finally, I have accepted an invitation to non-Jewish Relations a flying start with 12 mature students. The join the Executive Board of the European course was brilliantly convened by Shirli This has been an enjoyable and productive Association of Holocaust Studies as well Gilbert, with the two of us having done the year of teaching and research. My third-year as the British Association for Holocaust majority of the teaching. We have both been Special Subject class on the Holocaust was Studies, which will be launched at the Future tremendously stimulated by the opportunity one of the most engaged and enthusiastic of Holocaust Studies conference which I am to share our subject with an entirely different I have ever taught. In October 2012 we co-organising in Southampton in July. kind of student population and have been also launched our Master’s programme in pleased with the learning outcomes. The London, an exciting new initiative that we Dr James Jordan are offering in partnership with the London students enrolled have all given excellent and Ian Karten Lecturer Jewish Cultural Centre. I have thoroughly constructive feedback on the course, which This year’s teaching has included another enjoyed teaching our first intake of twelve will help us in organising our delivery of this successful intake of students on the English students, most of whom are returning to graduate programme to future year groups. Holocaust Literature module. I have also university education and who are extremely taught on the MA and had the wonderful Another emerging initiative may be a more engaged and committed students. Also on experience of teaching on the Parkes MA formally established relationship between the teaching front, I was thrilled to receive at the London Jewish Cultural Centre, Parkes and the prestigious British journal, both a Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award one which I hope will be the start of a long The Jewish Quarterly, whose editorial board I and to be named one of the History winners association. continue to sit on. The JQ has recently moved of the new SUSU Excellence in Teaching publishers to Routledge and so may benefit Awards. Having received a Vice-Chancellor’s from an academic partner such as Parkes, Teaching Award in 2012 it was rewarding Research-wise, my work continues on a book even as it continues to offer its high-brow to be nominated (as were many others in based on the letters of Rudolph Schwab, a cultural and political content independently Parkes) for a SUSU Excellence in Teaching Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who fled of any peer review process. The JQ will also Award as ‘Outstanding Lecturer’, with to South Africa in 1936. His extraordinary this year celebrate its 60th anniversary just praise for the energy and enthusiasm for collection, which was discovered in as the Parkes Archive is set to celebrate its 50 the subject. I’m also delighted that students Johannesburg in 2009, contains over two year anniversary. recognised the valuable experience of extra- thousand letters spanning four decades curricular activities such as working with Alongside my various undergraduate and and five continents, including prolific students at Itchen College in preparation postgraduate teaching commitments this correspondence with a close childhood for Holocaust Memorial Day, and watching year, I have continued to act as a regular friend who became a Nazi. My broader a transmission of ‘South Today’ from the contributor to the bi-monthly Speakeasy research project on Holocaust memory in BBC’s studio. I would like to thank yet again Film Discussion Club at The London Film apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa Christian Scott and Shaun O’Toole at Itchen, School and have also been involved in is also proceeding apace, and I continue to plus my students Lauren Showler, Steph some other interesting research-related publish and present widely on both topics. impact activities. For instance, because of Woodhouse, Abbie Collard, Alex Brown, my interest in psychoanalysis and postwar My internationalisation activities have Faye Hotchen, Olivia Phipps, Jade Hearne, American Jewish writing. I was invited by been focused particularly in South Africa. Holly McCullough, Carla Yorukoglu, Sarah BBC Radio 4 to contribute comment and I am enjoying my ongoing work as part of Smyth and Jared Anderson. I’d also like to analysis to a documentary about the ‘Queen the curatorial team of the Johannesburg acknowledge and thank Claire Reynolds at of Teen’ Judy Blume: ‘What Is It About Judy Holocaust and Genocide Centre, which is due BBC South for making the visit to the BBC Blume?’ (aired Monday 1 April, 4pm Radio to open in 2014, and was honoured to give possible and such fun. These partnerships 4). I have also made my first foray into the the keynote address at this year’s Holocaust are greatly valued and essential in giving world of theatre! Given my research interests Memorial Day ceremony in Cape Town. the students experience of the workplace. in religion, language and deconstruction, Together with colleagues Tony Kushner I would also like to thank Holocaust survivor as expressed in my journal article published and James Jordan, I also co-organised our Zigi Shipper and his grandson Darren in Textual Practice last year, ‘Respecting the successful conference on ‘Jews, Colonialism, Richman, a former student who is now a Ineradicable: Religion’s Realism’, Booker and Post-Colonialism’ at the University successful freelance writer, who came to shortlisted Libyan writer Hisham Matar of Cape Town in April. This year I have speak to my students during that semester. It invited me to partner him as the ‘thought given addresses and conference papers in was an inspiring lecture which the students leader’ in a collaborative project between a Jena, Berlin, Cape Town, Sydney, Chicago, continue to mention. In semester two I have series of writers and thinkers commissioned London, Warwick, Cambridge, and Oxford. been on research leave and the fruits of this by the Menagerie Theatre Company for are to be found in the publications section.

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This year I have co-organised two for all students, and will promote Parkes’s but rewarding experience. I was lucky international conferences. The first in unique approach to understanding relations enough to enjoy two book launches – one in partnership with the Universities of Cape to a global audience. I am also currently London and the other in Southampton. Both Town and Sydney and held in Cape Town editing a volume on Jewish Studies and were in the form of dialogues, the former in April 2013 on ‘Jews, Colonialism and Archives with Joachim Schlör and Lisa Leff with friend Dr Edie Friedman, who is the Postcolonialism’, was attended by delegates (American University, Washington) which Director of the Jewish Council for Racial from the United States, South Africa, will contain a selection of papers from our Equality, and the latter with colleague Mark Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Holland conference in Cape Town in April 2011. Levene. It is a successful format we hope to and Israel. The second conference on the repeat with other Parkes Institute events. ‘The Future of Holocaust Studies’ was held in Professor Tony Kushner It has been a year of extensive and very Southampton and Winchester at the end of Marcus Sieff Professor of History stimulating international travel with July. Details of these can be read elsewhere in Director of the Parkes Institute conferences and papers in Paris, Cape Town, the Review. One of the highlights of the year for me was Bergen and Jena where I presented early The next twelve months promise to be busy the publication of my monograph, The Battle work on new research projects relating to and innovative, with plans for a postgraduate of Britishness, which charts the history and a variety of subjects, including migration, conference related to Parkes Institute work memory of migrant journeys into or linked the Holocaust, and ethnic and religious being organised with Tom Plant and Sarah to Britain from the seventeenth century difference. Such events enable one to catch Shawyer, to take place entirely online as onwards. up with old friends and colleagues and make an eConference. Helen Spurling, Tony Such work takes many years of research and new ones, helping me to give shape to my Kushner, and I are also looking to organise reflection, and this book began life envisaged future work. a conference in September 2015 which will as a small chapter and then became a rather The event at Paris was sponsored by the commemorate and celebrate fifty years large project. In the course of it I confronted French national museum of migration of the Parkes Library at the University histories I had only passing familiarity and I am beginning a relationship with the of Southampton. Finally, the three of us with such as those of the Huguenots in the equivalent museum in Britain which is at a are working with FutureLearn and the seventeenth century, Irish in the nineteenth much earlier stage of development. University’s CITE team to develop a MOOC century and Nigerians after 1945. (Massive Open Online Course) in Jewish/ This year I have also been involved with non-Jewish Relations. This will be a mini- As with my work on refugees, I am interested the media at different levels. In November course available free at the point of access in placing the Jewish experience in I took part in a Radio 4 ‘Document’ series comparative perspective. It is a challenging 28 programme on the BBC and the Holocaust on Jewish Pogroms in Belorussia during In terms of research, this year has seen both in Hungary. It involved historians with the Civil War, based on the sources that conclusion and new directions. My pilot different perspectives but also Hungarian I had translated for the French edition of project titled ‘The Collection of Aramaic survivors who remember the broadcasts ‘The Book of the Pogroms’. The attendance Incantations in the Berlin Museum’ that was that were made in the fateful summer of of this Convention was very fruitful and funded by the British Academy came to an 1944 when mass deportations of the Jews stimulating for me in terms of networking. end. A catalogue of this collection has now occurred. I have enlarged the circles of colleagues from been submitted for publication, and work has the Unites States (Deborah Yalen, Mayhill started on the first of four volumes that will In June I took part in a series of events Fowler) and Europe (Darius Staliunas) with include translation and commentary. to mark the 75th anniversary of the whom I want to collaborate on my current Kindertransport and was interviewed by The new Search and Research engine research project dedicated to nation- the Israeli daily newspaper, Ha’aretz. In called Samtla (Search and mining tools for building, national autonomies and cultural the summer I advised a BBC 2 television linguistic analysis - www.samtla.com) that exchanges in Eastern Europe (1905-1939). documentary on immigration in British I am developing with the Department of politics, which used Southampton as its key Between November and February, I Computer Science and Information Systems, example. I was able to provide historical contributed to History and JHC MA Birkbeck University has now come to the end perspective of the arrival of and responses to modules. In addition to a couple of seminars of its third year. Providing a search facility immigrants in Southampton’s past. for the ‘Cultures of Migrations’ and a through statistical language modelling, and session on ‘Odessa’ for the Alternative documenting comparison tools to identify It has been a busy year in Southampton History module on Port Cities, I had the local and global patterns of language use with a lively seminar and lecture series and opportunity to meet the group of passionate and change over time, Samtla is language- contributing to our MA programme here and and knowledgeable London MA students. agnostic allowing the tools to be applied also in the London Jewish Cultural Centre. I also completed the revision of an article to any language corpus or collection of I have a varied and exciting group of PhD on ‘The Institute for Belarusian Culture: documents. The current implementation students who work on very different topics The Constitution of Belarusian and Jewish provides search and comparison for Aramaic ranging from: ‘Jewish philanthropy from the Studies in the BSSR Between Soviet and texts in support of my Berlin Museum bottom up’ to ‘The role of James Parkes in the non-Soviet Science (1922−1928)’, published project, as well as for English versions of international ecumenical movement during in Ab Imperio in January 2013. This work is Genesis, from a collection of bibles ranging the Nazi era’. I was also lucky to have talented part of my ongoing project and the result of from the 13th to the 21st century. This and committed undergraduate students my participation in a French-funded project year we have been approached by various from first years through to finalists. on The Constitution of Human and Social institutions who are interested in Samtla’s Graduation is always a deeply satisfying and Sciences that will come to an end in 2013. I capabilities – watch this spot! fulfilling day, coming as it does towards the will give a paper at the final conference of A new direction of investigation is that end of the academic year, and I was delighted this project organised in Paris in November of Ethiopian magical literature. Its to co-host with Sarah Pearce for this year’s on the dialogue between natural and human wider historical and cultural contexts recipient of the University’s honorary sciences in the Belorussian journal ‘Nash contrast with the developed body of doctorate, Rabbi Julia Neuberger. It was a Krai’ (Our land). To that end, I made a field research regarding Christian magic in the pleasure to have the inspiring career of Julia trip in Minsk in July to study the journal and Mediterranean basin and Jewish magic in the presented to the students as they make their its archives. near east which is my specialism. Ethiopia’s way in the outside world. The rest of the year and most of my study history is uniquely juxtaposed to that of the Dr Claire Le Foll leave were dedicated to the preparation of my near east: its early adoption of Christianity, second book entitled Jews and Belorussia(s) its Jewish constituents, its relation to the Lecturer in Eastern European History to be published by Honoré Champion (in Mesopotamian and Egyptian Christian I have spent most of the year on leave: on French, Paris). It is now in its final stages. traditions, its use of a Semitic language are maternity leave until mid-November, and all elements through which its wider cultural on study leave in the second semester. Dr Dan Levene context is evident. I intend to investigate Back from maternity leave in November, to Reader in Jewish History and Culture to what extent the Ethiopian traditions are reconnect with research, I took part in two An exciting year with new teaching similar and/or different to that of Jewish conferences. At the Paris Conference on ‘The and research initiatives, 2012-13 was and Christian ones. Earlier this year I study of popular Jewish traditions (19th-20th characteristically dynamic. The highlight visited Ethiopia to discuss collaboration; I century)’, I presented an analysis of the role of my teaching year was my new third year gave a series of lectures and made contact of a little known ethnographer in the Russian course that deals with the emerging forms with a number of specialists at Addis Ababa empire, Moses Berlin, who, much before the of Christianity and Judaism in the Middle University. well-known ‘An-ski’, undertook the study East in the 4th-7th centuries covering topics of Jewish popular life in Russia. This work ranging from forms of asceticism, schools Dr Mark Levene will be published in a volume edited by Jean and academies and interfaith relations. It Reader in Comparative History Baumgarten and Céline Trautmann-Waller. was a pleasure to work with such a superb The period 2012-13 has almost brought to For the ASEEES Convention (Association group of Southampton students. completion the long saga of The Crisis of for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Genocide, the now two volumes of which Studies) in New Orleans, I presented a paper are scheduled for publication with Oxford 29 Jan Karski Statue in Tel Aviv University

30 University Press in December this year. Dr Kathrin Pieren Dr Andrea Reiter Finishing offers opportunities to pursue Rothschild Post-doctoral Research Fellow Reader in Modern Languages and Fellow of other important matters, most notably my In April 2013 I started my fellowship part- the Parkes Institute Rescue! History (www.rescue-history.org. time, which I am holding alongside my In addition to my undergraduate teaching in uk) activities which are currently geared part-time role as Curator and Manager of Modern Languages I also offered my Jewish towards an exploratory conference on the Petersfield Museum, a local history museum History and Culture MA option ‘Narrating historical significance of the earth science and gallery in East Hampshire. the Holocaust’. Two students took it as an concept of the Anthropocene. Having my individually negotiated topic. I supervised My research project builds on my PhD thesis head down for the completion of The Crisis one MA dissertation on ‘Women’s experience on the early history of Jewish museums and of Genocide, this previous year has left little of the Holocaust’. space for other projects. Pleasant light relief exhibitions in London, which I completed at however was provided by the Waterstones’ the Institute of Historical Research in 2011. I have also developed two new modules: one book launch for Tony Kushner’s latest The new study investigates the cultural and on ‘Approaches to German-Jewish Studies’ tour-de-force, The Battle of Britishness, in social role of Jewish museums over the last for first year students and a final year module which I was allowed, Joan Bakewell-like, to sixty years, focusing on the Jewish museums ‘Renaissance of Jewish Literature in German play the role of interviewer. Another small, in Britain. These encompass: the Jewish after the Holocaust’. Both will be open to informal highlight of a different kind was Museum, London; the Manchester Jewish students opting to do the Pathway in Jewish my participation in a local school event Museum; the Ben Uri Gallery in St John’s History and Culture. Wood; and the Jewish Military Museum in in Cordes-sur-Ciel, southern France in I served as the Chair for the Parish Pastoral Hendon. My aim is to establish how their mid-June, where I was asked to expound Council of the City Centre Church, and I roles, outlooks and operations have shifted on my Anthropocene critique from an continued to serve as a board member of the with changes in the make-up of Anglo-Jewry environmental conference in Croatia, the Research Centre for German and Austrian and of British society more generally, and previous summer. Exile Studies in London. In addition I was in view of developments in the museum invited to join the Board of Executives of the Professor Sarah Pearce sector and in the historical and art historical PEN Centre for German Writers Abroad. Ian Karten Professor of Ancient disciplines. Furthermore, I am interested in Jewish Studies finding out how today’s directors, governors, My research focused on completing my book Since August 2012 I have been Head of the curators and visitors, Jewish and non-Jewish, on Contemporary Jewish Writing Austria Discipline of History, the department in perceive the museums’ purpose and how After Waldheim which is due to appear with which the majority of my colleagues in the they regard their own contribution to it. Routledge later this year. Parkes Institute are also based. While I have In that part of the study, I will concentrate maintained only very light teaching duties on the role of Jewish museums for identity Professor Joachim Schlör this year, focusing on the MA in Jewish politics and on their potential for community Professor of Modern Jewish/non-Jewish History and Culture, I will be returning to building. Relations undergraduate teaching in the autumn with With a background in humanities and social While we are all busy planning our research a new, final year course on History and the sciences, I will apply a methodology mix of according to the Research Excellence Bible, co-taught with Dr Helen Spurling historical document and picture analysis, in Framework (REF) or similar systems for and Professor Mark Stoyle. Beyond the combination with in-depth interviews, focus assessing the quality of academic work, a University, I have carried out a range of groups and audience surveys. very important source came my way quite activities linked primarily to research and unexpectedly last year: Dr Ruth Gross education. I acted as external examiner for After studying the recent literature, I have in Berlin opened her private archive of PhD theses at the Universities of Oxford carried out a large part of the archival photographs taken, between 1933 and 1941, and Aberdeen, and I completed my fourth research at the Ben Uri Gallery. In late July, by her father Abraham Pisarek – pictures and final year as external examiner in I put my research design up for discussion at of Jewish life under Nazi rule but, contrary Hebrew Bible and Judaism at the University the World Congress of Jewish Studies held at to what we usually can see, not taken by the of Birmingham. This was also my final the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. perpetrators. year (2007-2013) as co-chair of the Philo of In addition, I have started to work on an Pictures of religious and secular life, of Alexandria Group at the Society of Biblical article about Jewish museums as minority sports and culture, of the preparation for Literature: my co-chair (Dr Ellen Birnbaum) museums for a German museums journal. In immigration through hachshara on farms and I organised a series of panels at the SBL autumn 2013 I will teach an undergraduate outside of Berlin, pictures – most of all – that conference in Chicago (November 2012), course on ‘The Jewish East End: History show how Jews in Berlin preserved their focusing on ‘Philo’s Graeco-Roman Readers’ and Heritage’ and I will also contribute to dignity. In an introductory essay, Makom and the ‘Legum Allegoriae’. I continue to the Parkes Institute Outreach Programme. Berlin, I have tried to show how Jewish serve as associate editor of the international Furthermore, I am one of the judges for this culture and Berlin’s urban culture had grown journal devoted to Philonic studies, the year’s Moss Prize. together over centuries – and how much Studia Philonica Journal. effort it cost the Nazis to tear them apart. The photographs are an amazing testimony to Jewish life in Berlin before the Holocaust.

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32 In terms of conferences and invited lectures, Muslim minorities and construct a sense In other areas, I developed a new research it has been quite a continental year. I gave of collective identity around Catholicism. project for sixth formers on apocalypticism, several papers in Graz, Vienna, Berlin, and This project offers a systematic study of and it has been valuable to hear students’ Lübeck, concentrating on cultural aspects surviving printed sources, analysing the understanding of the concept and their of urban history on the one hand and development and nature of the rhetoric and thoughts on its relevance to today’s society. migration history on the other (‘Beyond vocabulary used to depict Muslims and Jews A last highlight (there are so many!) was the the Secularisation paradigm: How religious as inherently alien and hostile groups during Parkes summer school on multiculturalism, practice constituted urban space in 19th and the early modern period. As part of this which really engaged local college students 20th Century Europe’; ‘Jewish life in the project, I have completed the first critical on the place of the Jewish people in the urban context’; and ‘Travelling as a cultural edition, study and translation into English of broader societies of which they are a part. practice in the migration process’). In March the highly-influential seventeenth-century As always, I would like to thank my Parkes 2013, I acted as co-organizer, together with Spanish anti-Semitic polemic of Fray colleagues for their enthusiasm. It is due to Professor Doerte Bischoff, of the yearly Francisco de Torrejoncillo, ‘Centinela contra their support and contribution across the conference of Germany’s Gesellschaft für Judios puesta en la torre de la Iglesia de Dios whole range of outreach activities that our Exilforschung, dedicated to the topic of (Madrid, 1674)’ which will be published work is so successful. material objects and their meaning in the by Brill in 2014. I am currently writing a migration and exile experience. We will also monograph on antisemitic conspiracy At the end of this year, I stepped down from co-edit the society’s yearbook, based on the theories in the early modern Iberian my role as Director of Lifelong Learning conference papers. world (Spain, Portugal and their overseas to focus on research, additional teaching Empires). and outreach projects. I am sad to leave my I am happy to report that our own journal enthusiastic and dedicated colleagues on Jewish Culture and History – with the new Dr Helen Spurling the Lifelong Learning team, however I am publisher Routledge (Taylor and Francis) Ian Karten Research and Outreach delighted to have taken on a new role as – is now fully back on schedule. Alongside Lecturer the Secretary of the British Association for the normal editorial work, together with Jewish Studies in which position I hope to Nadia Valman, I have edited a special issue This year began with a period of research facilitate the promotion of Jewish Studies on ‘Jewish Maritime Studies’ which has leave during which I worked on producing a in the UK and maximise the opportunity to attracted a lot of attention online, and I am draft of my commentary on Pirqe Mashiaḥ, contribute to the development of the field working with James Jordan and Lisa Leff on a Hebrew midrashic apocalypse from on a national level. I look forward to more a special issue on ‘Jewish Migration and the Palestine in Late Antiquity. I very much exciting developments in the next year! Archive’, based on the papers given at our appreciated the opportunity to get back to Parkes/Kaplan conference in 2011. writing and to developing my work on Jewish apocalypticism. I was also very fortunate I am now a member of the board of the Leo to be invited to speak at an international Baeck Summer University Berlin which has workshop on apocalypticism at the again taken place in July, and I have again University of Oxford, which was incredibly participated in the Summer University of the stimulating and gave me fresh perspectives Jewish Museum in Hohenems, Austria – one on the subject. of the most interesting and exciting places for the (re) presentation of Jewish history In terms of my research, this year has also and culture in Europe. been significant in that my long project on Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Dr François Soyer book of Genesis finally reached fruition in a book published under the title The Book of Lecturer Genesis in Late Antiquity: Encounters between At present, I am conducting research as Jewish and Christian Exegesis. It was very a Research Fellow at the University of exciting to see the book in print after years Adelaide thanks to a research award from the of dialogue with my co-author Emmanouela Australian Research Council. My research Grypeou. project is entitled ‘Cultivating Fear and Hatred of the “Other”: the development After returning from leave, I continued my of officially sanctioned anti-Semitic and work in outreach with two new colleagues, Islamophobic sentiment in Catholic Tom Plant and Sarah Shawyer, who have Southern Europe (1500-1800)’. This project made a tremendous effort to expand the examines the deliberate manipulation and Parkes outreach programme. Our work in cultivation of the fear and hatred of Jews this area is detailed in the outreach report of and Muslims by both secular governments the Annual Review, but a particular highlight and the Catholic Church in southern Europe for me this year was teaching my Hebrew between 1500 and 1800. This was part of a evening class, and working with others to deliberate drive to marginalise Jewish and read the biblical text in its original language.

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Parkes Archive Report range of committees and organisations, in Dee (Manchester University Press, 2013), Dr Karen Robson particular the League of Jewish Women and The Essenes, the Scrolls and the Dead Sea Joan Senior Archivist the International Council of Jewish Women. E. Taylor (Oxford University Press, 2012) The papers of Judith Lask Grubler (MS 376) and Collect and Record: Jewish Holocaust Projects contain copies of her writings, poetry and Documentation in Early Postwar Europe Laura The Special Collections has secured prose, with related correspondence, 1935-63, Jockusch (Oxford University Press, 2012). funding for, and recently appointed, an including poems reflecting on war and a archivist - John Rooney - to work on a With a number of publishers having series called ‘City poems’. Ian Karten, MBE 12-month cataloguing project to deliver embarked on multi-volume publication (1920-2011) came to the UK from Germany archival descriptions of the contents of the projects recently, the Parkes Library has in 1938 on a student visa to study mechanical letter books of the Secretary of the Jewish also acquired some important reference engineering. After a successful business Board of Guardians, 1881-1945. The Board books this year. These include volumes career, he founded the Ian Karten Charitable of Guardians had as its object ‘the relief from the United States Holocaust Memorial Trust in 1980 supporting opportunities of persons of the Jewish faith’ and played Museum’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos in education for the disabled. Having met a leading role in shaping Anglo-Jewish ed. Geoffrey P. Megaree (Indiana University the Revd James Parkes, whose Library and responses to the large numbers of Jewish Press, 2009), the Enzyklopädie jüdischer archive are held by the Special Collections, migrants who arrived in the UK from Geschichte und Kultur ed. Dan Diner (J.B. Ian Karten became a benefactor of the continental Europe and Russia from the Metzler, 2011), The Posen Library of Jewish Parkes Institute, based in Humanities from 1870s onwards. The creation of the archival Culture and Civilization. Vol.10: 1973-2005 ed. the 1990s. The Karten archive includes descriptions, which will be made available Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz (Yale some family material, in particular a small on-line, will facilitate access to an important University Press, 2012) and The Encyclopedia quantity of papers relating to his family in archive, broadening the understanding of the of Ancient History 13 vols. ed. Roger Bagnall Germany, most of whom perished in the role and work of this important organisation. (Wiley, 2012). A list of recently acquired Holocaust, together with papers relating to The project runs until early 2014. titles can be found by following the “More the Trust. Information” link on WebCat. Recent accessions The Archives and Manuscripts has added Parkes Library Report The Library also provides electronic access a number of collections of papers of Jenny Ruthven to an increasing number of e-books and individuals to the Anglo-Jewish Archives Parkes Librarian (printed collections), e-journals. These are listed in the online in the last twelve months. Mrs Edie Hartley Library catalogue, WebCat, which also has links Noble (1910-2005) was involved in the This year the stock of the Parkes Library has to the full text. Licence agreements have League of Jewish Women (LJW) from risen to over 28,000 items, a figure which restricted access to many of the e-resources 1957 onwards and National President of is set to increase as more of the donations in the past, but it is now possible to provide the organisation, 1973-6. Other posts received in recent years are added to the limited access to members of the public held included: Life President and National shelves. Newly published titles continue to who are able to visit the Library in person. Chairman of the Association of Jewish be acquired to support the courses run by Information about the new Walk-In Service Women’s Organisations (AJWO); British the Parkes Institute and to ensure that the can be found on the Library website and Vice President of the International Council Library keeps up-to-date in all subject areas. anyone wishing to use the service is asked of Jewish Women; Vice Chairman of the Titles added this year have been many and to contact the Enquiry Service at libenqs@ National Council on Women’s Consumer varied, including New Perspectives on Jewish- southampton.ac.uk or phone 023 8059 2180 Affairs Committee and LJW representative Christian Relations Elisheva Carlebach (Brill, in the first instance. on the Women’s National Commission. Her 2012), Sport and British Jewry: Integration, archive (MS381) reflects her work with a Ethnicity and anti-Semitism 1890-1970 David 34 Book Launches

The battle of Britishness: Migrant journeys, destination, is a little vignette in itself. The Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during 1685 to the present (Manchester and New way the receiving authorities went from the Second World War (London: Vallentine York: Manchester University Press, 2012): initial concern for the transmigrants’ Mitchell, 2013): co-edited by James Jordan Tony Kushner. wellbeing to a desire to be shot of them as and Jan Lánícek Reviewed by Mark Levene quickly as possible reads as discomfortingly 2013 saw the publication and formal launch of What is the purpose of a centre dedicated to familiar. The story of another boat, the St this volume which makes an important the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations? For Louis, a fractionally more recognisable but - contribution to the study of the Holocaust a productive yet luminous answer one could juxtaposed with the Kinder - much less and the Second World War. While the do no better than read Tony Kushner’s latest digestible Holocaust prequel, follows. After examination of bystanders to the Holocaust majestic tome. Pursuing a major Kushnerian that there is an even more searching has constituted an important part of theme, the Battle of Britishness interrogates not discussion centred on ‘black’ post-war Holocaust research in the last decades, just the experience of being a migrant or stowaways, including the West African, David historians have focused mainly on the two refugee to Britain but the political, social and Oluwale, who - as in the celebratory major Western Allied powers, the United cultural obstacles thrown up in the path of Windrush narrative - came to England to States and the United Kingdom. This book those attempting to make the journey. And make a better life for himself only to become a broadens this important research area to while there are major Jewish aspects to the victim of racism and police persecution include the other members of the anti-Hitler discussion, Kushner’s quest - as always - is to leading to his violent death in 1969. No alliance and how they helped to shape the show how these are part of a much more partially redemptive Stephen Lawrence-type attitudes and responses to the Nazi multifaceted, more interestingly complex public acknowledgement for posterity in persecution and extermination of European mosaic of interactions, albeit with often Oluwale’s case. And his turns out to be only Jewry. Specifically, it looks at the ‘Jewish common recurring elements. Behind all this one of hundreds of suspicious deaths of policy’ of the various governments-in-exile one senses two strikingly elusive Kushner mostly black people in police custody since that were established during the war in questions: what is it that makes the good, then. Indeed, Kushner is constantly London and elsewhere, offering for the first open, genuinely multicultural British society challenging the veracities of the British time a comparative perspective on an in the 21st century and what are the migration self-image, not least that of inclusivity and important topic. The book contains an myths by which that society seek to celebrate kindness to strangers That said, there is a extensive introductory essay by Antony Britishness? Kushner addresses these strain of dogged hope in this book most Polonsky, along with contributions by leading conundrums by a subtle binary organisation obviously offered through the alternative academics, including Tony Kushner, Renée of his chapters. The first in each pair is given ‘memory work’ of diaries, memoirs and Poznanski, Rainer Schulze, and Dariusz Stola. over to an examination of the ‘mythic’ Mass-Observation records, of indigènes and This book emerged from a conference rendition (Huguenots, Kindertransports, the incomers alike. Through these Kushner organised by the Parkes Institute in 2010. Empire Windrush); the latter to some usually pushes towards a provocative notion: that it is forgotten, nearly always darker migrant actually in the ambivalence and ambiguities stories. The case-study of the destitute Volga of the British-migrant relationships that this Germans, pitching up in Southampton on a society has the potential to become truly, boat from Brazil with an uncertain final richly, transformatively multifarious.

35 Publications and Papers by Members of the Parkes Institute

As the Parkes Institute gets set to celebrate its 50 year anniversary we look back at a picture from James Parkes’ International Students Movement in the 1920s (James is positioned in the centre of the picture). 36 Dr Devorah Baum ‘A Refugee from Nazi Germany in Apartheid South ‘The image of Judaism in the BBC television series Africa’, Jews, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Men Seeking God.’ University of Cape Town, April Publications conference, University of Cape Town, April 2013. 2013. ‘Circumcision Anxiety’, Textual Practice, published ‘Who Remembers?’, keynote address at annual ‘More than One Pair of Eyes: Transitional online on 8 January 2013 (print publication Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration, Cape Transnational Identities in Georgia Brown’s East forthcoming). Town, April 2013. End’, University of Southampton, April 2013. ‘Different Beyond Recognition’, reviews of Under Panel discussion with Mary Fulbrook about her new ‘The Confessional Interview and the Nazi Postcolonial Eyes, Figuring the ‘jew’ in book A Small Town Near Auschwitz, Spiro Ark, Perpetrator on Screen’, History Repeating, Contemporary British Writing by Efraim Sicher & London, January 2013. University of Southampton. Linda Weinhouse (University of Nebraska Press, ‘Forgotten Letters: A Refugee from Nazism in ’In Darkness and the Cinema’s Image of the 2012), Race, Rights & Recognition, Jewish American Apartheid South Africa’, invited public lecture Holocaust’, Salisbury, November 2012. Literature since 1969 by Dean J. Franco (Cornell hosted by Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society, ‘An Introduction to Holocaust Memorial Day’, University Press, 2012), and Modern Orthodoxies, January 2013. Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Itchen College, November 2012. Century by Lisa Naomi Mulman (Routledge, 2012), ‘The Holocaust and Jewish Responses to Apartheid’, ‘The Perpetrator in Post-war British Television’, Jewish Quarterly (Summer 2013). Association for Jewish Studies annual meeting, Parkes Study Day, November 2012. Chicago, December 2012. ‘The Wandering View: The Image of the Jew in Public Lectures ‘Revisiting Fiction’s Role in Facing History’, Steven S. British Television’, Parkes Lifelong Learning, ‘On Taking Luck Into Account’, Moshe House, Weinstein Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton, June December 2012. London, 26th September 2012. 2012. Professor Tony Kushner ‘Losing the Definite Article: Language and Identity’, Dr James Jordan Parkes Cultural Day on ‘Change and Continuity: The Publications Impact of the Holocaust’, University of Publications Southampton, November 2012. ‘“Without intending any of the most undesirable From Nuremberg to Hollywood: the Holocaust in features of a colour bar”: race science, ‘Are Critical Theories Conspiracy Theories?’, Critical the courtroom of American fictive film(in press, Europeanness and the British armed forced during Theory Seminar at Senate House, University of Vallentine Mitchell, 2013). the twentieth century’, Patterns of Prejudice vol.46 London, March 2013. With Jan Lánícek, Governments-in-exile and the nos.3-4 (September 2012), 339-374. Dr Shirli Gilbert Jews during the Second World War (Vallentine Review article: ‘Refugee history’, Oral History vol.40 Mitchell, 2013). no.2 (Autumn 2012), 114-116. Publications ‘Another man’s faith? The image of Judaism in the The Battle of Britishness: Migrant Journeys, 1685 to ‘How Should We Remember the Shoah?’ in Cape BBC television series Men Seeking God.’ Jewish the Present (Manchester, Manchester University Times [South Africa], April 2013, 9. Culture and History, 12, (3), 463-476. Press, 2012), x + 318. ‘Performing Memory: Yiddish Song and the ‘The Prisoner (1952) and the Perpetrator in Early ‘Alienated memories: migration and the silences of Holocaust’ in Jewish Quarterly 224 (2012), 40-44. Post-war British Television’ in Jenni Adams and Sue the archive’, in Joan Tumblety, ed. Memory and Vice (eds), Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi history: understanding memory as source and Literature and Film (2012) (also published in Ghettos and Camps, translated into Japanese by subject (Abingdon, Routledge, 2013), 177-193. Holocaust Studies, 17, (2-3), Autumn Issue, 207-229 Muneto Nikai (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2012). Anti-Semitism in Britain: continuity and the absence (2011)). ‘Anne Frank in South Africa: Remembering the of a resurgence?’, Ethnic and Racial Studies vol.36 ‘“And the trouble is where to begin to spring Holocaust During and After Apartheid’ in Holocaust no.3 (2013), 434-449. surprises on you. Perhaps a place you might least and Genocide Studies 26/3 (2012), 366-393. ‘Britain, America and the Holocaust: Past, Present like to remember.” This is Your Life and the BBC’s and Future Historiographies’, in Jan Lánícek and ‘Songs of the Holocaust’, in Alan Rosen, ed., images of the Holocaust in the twenty years before James Jordan (eds), Governments-in-Exile and the Holocaust Literature: A Critical Introduction Holocaust’ in Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen Jews during the Second World War (London, (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). (eds.) Britain and the Holocaust: Remembering and Vallentine Mitchell, 2013), 33-46. Talks and Papers Representing War and Genocide (Palgrave, 2013) (In Press). Papers ‘Holocaust Memory and Jewish Identity in ‘“A Strange, Special Day”. Playing a Ghost, yet Post-Apartheid South Africa’, British Association ‘In Denial? Memories of Migration in Britain’, Haunting Myself.’ The Holocaust, the Magical and for Jewish Studies annual conference, University International Conference, ‘Memoire des Migrations the Real in Elijah Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn (1993) of Kent, July 2013. Et Temps de L’Histoire’, Cite Nationale de l’Histoire in Symbolism, volume XII, edited by Axel Stahler de l’immigration, Paris, November 2012. ‘Holocaust Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa’, (in press) invited presentation at conference on ‘Ethnic ‘Rescue as a Category in Confronting the Minorities and Holocaust Memory: A Global Papers Holocaust’, Pears Institute Holocaust Memorial Day, London, January 2013. Perspective’, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, ‘“A Strange, Special Day”. Playing a Ghost, yet July 2013. Haunting Myself.’ Memory and Trauma in Elijah ‘Refugee Heritage in Britain’, Refugee Week ‘The Schwab letters book: from Germany to South Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn, University of Planning Conference, London, February 2013. Africa’, invited presentation at Institute of Historical Portsmouth July 2013. ‘Mass-Observation’s East End Report’, Jewish Research, University of London, June 2013. ‘More than One Pair of Eyes: Transitional Defence in British Jewry, Wiener Library, London, ‘Music, Art, and Literature of the Holocaust’, Mini Transnational Identities in Georgia Brown’s East March 2013. lecture series at Eden Primary School, London End’, University of Cape Town, April 2013. (June 2013).

37 ‘Heritage and Refugee History’, Museum of Dr Dan Levene ‘From where I stand: Thinking back over the last six Childhood/Queen Mary College conference on workshops while attempting to look forward,’ Crisis ‘Migration and Childhood’, London, March 2013. Publications Forum, Climate Change and Violence Workshop, 7, ‘Racing Against Time’, Parkes/Kaplan Centre With G. Bohak, ‘Divorcing Lilith: From the (Avoiding Climate Change Violence: What is to be International conference, ‘Jews, Colonialism and Babylonian Incantation Bowls to the Cairo Geniza,’ done?’) St Ethelberga’s Centre for Peace and Postcolonialism’, Cape Town, April 2013. Journal of Jewish Studies LXIII, no. 2 (2012), 197-217. Reconciliation, London, November 2012. ‘British Prisoners of War in Auschwitz’, Cape Town ‘Incantation Bowls, Babylonian,’ in R. Bagnall, S. , K. Introduction,,’ ‘Diggers Awake!’ A moment in English Holocaust Museum, April 2013. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine and R. history and its relevance to land, food, the biosphere and human potential now, ‘Rescue!’ History ‘Jews in Hampshire: Putting the Global into the Huebner, eds., The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. workshop, Kineton Sports and Social Club, Kineton, Local’, Higher Education Authority conference, (Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013), 3437-40. Warwicks, October 2012. ‘Teaching Local History’, Solent University, April Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique 2013. Mesopotamia, (Brill, 2013). ‘Is educating for sustainability sustainable in a planet on the brink? : Or how does one enable ones ‘The Battle of Britishness’, London Jewish Cultural Papers students to act well when the news is so bad?’ Centre, April 2013. ‘An introduction to early Jewish magic,’ The Keynote lecture, ENjoinED , (Educating for ‘Jewish Prostitutes and the Archive’, Parkes Institute University of Addis Ababa, February 2013. Sustainability) summer school, Primosten, Croatia, Study Day, ‘Lost in Translation’, June 2013. July 2012. ‘The rabbis’ knowledge of copper alloying is implicit ‘Harold Abrahams’, Bournemouth/Parkes Institute in laws of purity and impurity,’ Mining for Copper: seminar series, June 2013. Professor Sarah Pearce Environment, Culture and Copper in ‘Migration and Heritage’, international symposium, Antiquity,iInternational conference in memoriam of Publications University of Bergen, June 2013. Professor Beno Rothenberg at Timna, Israel, April The Words of Moses. Studies in the Reception of ‘Jews and Muslims in Contemporary Britain’, Leo 2013. Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period. (Texte Baeck Institute series ‘Jews and Muslims: British ‘Search And Mining Tools with Linguistic Analysis: und Studien zum Antiken Judentum 152) (Tübingen, Perspectives’, London, June 2013. domain specific search through statistical language Mohr Siebeck, 2013). ISBN 978-3-16-150733-5. XVIII, ‘British Immigration Control Procedures’, Second modelling,’ University of Southampton, March 2013. 404pp. Generation Kindertransport event, London, June ‘The rabbis’ knowledge of copper alloying is implicit Sarah Pearce, ed., The Image and its Prohibition in 2013. in laws of purity and impurity,’ Mining for Copper: Jewish Antiquity (Journal of Jewish Studies ‘The Battle of Britishness: The Kindertransport’s Environment, Culture and Copper in Supplements 2), 2013. 255 pp. (forthcoming). Perfect Journeys’, Leo Baeck Institute international Antiquity,iInternational conference in memoriam of ‘Introduction’, and ‘Philo of Alexandria on the symposium, London, June 2013. Professor Beno Rothenberg at Timna, Israel, Second Commandment’, in The Image and its ‘Situating Racism between the Post-Colonial and the April 2013. Prohibition in Jewish Antiquity, 1-9, 49-76. Holocaust in Britain’, international conference, ‘Search And Mining Tools with Linguistic Analysis: (forthcoming). ‘Ethnic Minorities and Holocaust Memory’, domain specific search through statistical language ‘Rethinking the Other in Antiquity: Philo of University of Jena, July 2013. modelling,’ University of Southampton, March 2013. Alexandria on Intermarriage’, Antichthon 47 (2013), 1-16. Dr Claire Le Foll Dr Mark Levene Papers Publications Publications ‘Philo on the prohibition of intermarriage’, New ‘The Institute for Belarusian culture: the ‘Climate Blues: or how Awareness of the Human End Testament Seminar, University of Aberdeen, constitution of Belarusian and Jewish studies in the might re-instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of December 2012. BSSR between Soviet and non-Soviet science History,’ Environmental Humanities, 2(2013), (1922−1928)’, Ab Imperio, 4 (2012), 245-274. 153-173. ‘“Out of the House of Bondage”: Jewish Perspectives on Slavery in Egypt’, The Ian and ‘Belorussko-evreiskii film : poiski nevozmozhnogo ? ‘Transformative Space Amidst the Reality of Mildred Karten Memorial Lecture, University of Natsional’naya politika i kino v BSSR v 1920-e i 1930-e Biospheric Emergency,’ Peace Review, 25:1 (2013), Southampton, May 2013. gody’, translated into Russian by Anastassia 33-41. ‘Josephus and the Jewish Chronicle’, AHRC Zakharevitch, in Valérie Pozner and Natacha Laurent Genocide in the Age of the Nation State, vol. 2: The Reception of Josephus Workshop, University of (ed.), Kinojudaica, (Moscow, Azbooka, Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide Oxford, June 2013. forthcoming). (London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 2005). Republished in paperback, November 2012. Papers Dr Andrea Reiter ‘Les premières recherches sur le folklore juif en Papers Publications Biélorussie et Ukraine à la fin du XIXe siècle: science ‘How German was the Holocaust?’ Holocaust With Lucille Cairns: Jewish Writers and Intellectuals juive ou science impériale ?’, Musée d’art et Educational Trust Ambassador’s conference, Queen in Contemporary Europe, special issue of Jewish d’histoire du judaïsme, Paris, November 2012. Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, July 2013. History and Culture, 14, 2-3. ‘The Belorussian People’s Republic (BNR) and Jewish pogroms during the civil war’, ASEEES Convention, New Orleans, November 2012.

38 Professor Joachim Schlör Dr François Soyer Publications Publications Jüdisches Leben in Berlin / Jewish Life in Berlin. The Persecution of the Jews of Portugal was Photographien von / Phbotographs by Abraham translated into Portuguese in January: Soyer, Pisarek, 1933-1941, ed. and with an essay by Joachim Francois (2013), A Perseguição aos Judeus e Schlör (Berlin: edition braus 2012). Muçulmanos de Portugal - D. Manuel I e o Fim da ‘Jüdisches Leben in Berlin’, (Introduction), ibid., Tolerância Religiosa (1496-1497), Edições 70, 7-33. Lisbon, 2013. ‘“Alte Wege, die wir wandern”. Vagabondage in Soyer, Francois Nowhere to Run: The Extradition of Repräsentationen des Jüdischen’ in Johanna Conversos between the Spanish and Portuguese Rolshoven, Maria Maierhofer (eds.), Das Figurativ Inquisitions during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth der Vagabondage. Kulturanalysen mobiler Centuries, in The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Lebenswelten (Bielefeld, transcript 2012), 143-162. Medieval Spain and Beyond, ed. K. Ingram, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 2012, 251-278 (chapter 12). ‘Towards Jewish Maritime Studies’ (Introduction), in Jewish Culture and History 13/1, 2012, Special Issue Talks and Papers Jewish Maritime Studies, ed. Joachim Schlör, 1-6. ‘Teaching to hate in early Modern Europe: The ‘Zum Tode Yoram Kaniuks: Dem Erinnern eine propagation of hatred through vernacular print, Sprache geben’, SPIEGEL Online, June 10, 2013, 1450-1800’, Conference at QMUL, London, www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/nachruf-auf-den- September 2013. israelischen-schriftsteller-yoram- kaniuk-a-904655.html Dr Helen Spurling Papers Publications ‘Reise als kulturelle Praxis im Migrationsprozess’, AG The Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity: Encounters Tourismusforschung, Deutsche Gesellschaft für between Jewish and Christian Exegesis, with Volkskunde, University of Graz (Austria), Emmanouela Grypeou (Leiden, Brill Academic September 2012. Publishers, 2013), 538. ‘Jenseits des Paradigmas der Säkularisierung: Zur Image conscious: Jewish visuals and visualising Jews Konstruktion urbaner Räume durch religiöse Praxis through the ages, ed. with Hannah Ewence, special im Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts’, invited issue Jewish Culture and History 12.3 (London, lecture, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Routledge, 2012). University of Vienna, October 2012. ‘The image of God in late antique apocalyptic ‘Jenseits des Paradigmas der Säkularisierung: Zur literature: the Holy One as teacher in Pirqe Mashiah,’ Konstruktion urbaner Räume durch religiöse Praxis Jewish Culture and History 12.3 (2012), 385-396. im Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts’, conference‚ Jewish and non-Jewish spaces’, Institut Talks and Papers für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt University ‘A revival in Jewish apocalyptic? Change and Berlin, November, 2012. continuity in the seventh-eighth centuries with ‘Jüdisches Leben im städtischen Kontext’, Studium special reference to Pirqe Mashiah’, University of Generale, University of Lübeck, December 2012. Oxford, March 2013. ‘Dinge des Exils’ (Introduction, with Doerte ‘The End of the World: Jewish Apocalyptic Visions’, Bischoff), Gesellschaft für Exilforschung, University Jewish Historical Society, Hove, April 2013. of Hamburg, March 2013. ‘The Bible, Translation and Jewish-Christian ‘Modern Photography in Tel-Aviv’, Bournemouth Relations’, Parkes study day, June 2013. Hebrew Congregation, May 2013. ‘The Significance of the Bible to Jewish Culture: The ‘Who translated My Fair Lady into German?’, Parkes Book of Job’, Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation, Cultural Day, June 2013. June 2013. ‘Jewish-Christian relations at the time of the rise of Islam’, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, June 2013. ‘Apocalyptic Boundaries: From Popular Culture to Rabbinic Midrash’, BAJS conference, Canterbury, July 2013.

39 Members of the Parkes Institute

The Advisory Committee of the Dr Helen Spurling Dr Joanna Newman Parkes Institute Fellows of the Parkes Institute Universities UK Mr Gerald Normie Professor Tim Bergfelder (Chair) Dr Oren Ben-Dor Bournemouth University Film Studies Law Professor Martin Goodman Professor David Glover Mr Stuart Olesker Oxford University English Portsmouth University Professor Philip Nelson Professor Bernard Harris Professor Tessa Rajak Pro Vice-Chancellor Research Social Science University of Reading Professor Anne Curry Honorary Fellows of the Parkes Institute Dr Jo Reilly Dean of Faculty of Humanities Heritage Lottery Fund Dr Peter Batt Dr Oren Ben-Dor Dr Gemma Romain Dr Ellen Birnbaum Law University College London University of Boston Dr Florian Scheding Professor Mark Roseman Dr Mishtooni Bose Music Indiana University, Bloomington Christ Church, Oxford Professor Neil Gregor Barbara Rosenbaum History Dr Aimée Bunting Godolphin and Latymer School London Dr Claire Eldridge Professor Miri Rubin Modern Languages Dr Tobias Brinkmann Penn State University Queen Mary, University of London Dr Mark Brown Professor David Cesarani OBE Professor Gavin Schaffer University Librarian Royal Holloway, University of London Birmingham University Professor Chris Woolgar Professor Bryan Cheyette Professor Clare Ungerson History and Archival Studies University of Reading Emeritus Professor, Dr Karen Robson Julie Clague BSc, MTh University of Southampton Deputy Head of Special Collections University of Glasgow Dr Nadia Valman Ms Jenny Ruthven Reverend Richard Coggins Queen Mary, University of London Parkes Librarian Emeritus Professor, King’s College, London Professor Malcolm Wagstaff Mrs Joanna Watts Dr Susan Cohen Emeritus Professor, Senior Development Manager University of London University of Southampton Office of Development and Alumni Relations Professor Henry Ettinghausen Dr Abigail Wood The Board of Studies of the Parkes Emeritus Professor, University of Haifa Institute University of Southampton Patrons of the Parkes Institute Dr Devorah Baum Dr Ruth Gilbert Professor Martin Goodman Tracy Storey University College, Winchester Administrator Dr Tim Grady Sir Ronald Harwood CBE, FRSL Dr Shirli Gilbert University of Chester Right Rev Crispian Hollis Professor Tony Kushner Professor Colin Holmes Lord Harries of Pentragarth Director of the Parkes Institute Professor Emeritus, Sheffield University Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger Dr James Jordan Professor Brian Klug St Benet’s, Oxford Sir Howard Newby Dr Claire Le Foll Dr Tom Lawson Lord Plant of Highfield Dr Dan Levene University College, Winchester Lady Helen Oppenheimer Dr Mark Levene Professor Rodney Livingstone Professor Peter Pulzer Dr Kathrin Pieren Emeritus Professor, University of Southampton Frederick Raphael Esq. Professor Sarah Pearce Dr Graham Macklin Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks, Dr Andrea Reiter University of Westminster Chief Rabbi of the British, CoCommonwealth Professor Joachim Schlör Dr Sophia Wood Dr François Soyer Portsmouth University Right Rev Michael Scott-Joynt 40 The Parkes Institute and Library Friends Membership Programme

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Signed Date Banks and Building Societies may not accept Direct Debit instructions for some types of account. UK Bank Accounts only.

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