The Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations Annual Review 2009 - 2010 The Rev Dr James Parkes in the fight against antisemitism

James Parkes, who died in 1981 aged 85, was a remarkable Christian 1. ‘Towards Jewish Maritime pioneer in the fight against antisemitism. He promoted positive 1 2 Studies’: the Parkes Institute Jewish-Christian relations and the establishment of authentic one day conference at histories of the Jewish people and their relations to non-Jews. Southampton’s National After a lifetime’s work of collecting and preserving records Oceanography Centre. relating to the Jewish experience throughout the ages, the Rev. 2. Parkes Third Year History Dr James Parkes presented the Parkes Library to the University students visit Auschwitz of Southampton in 1964 with the aim of providing, as he put it, ‘a centre for research by non-Jewish and Jewish scholars and 3. Tony Kushner at the Hull students… into the whole field of relations between Jews and memorial to the Jewish other peoples and between Judaism and other religions’. migrations from Eastern Europe Southampton’s links with Anglo-Jewry go back to the beginning of the last century when Claude Montefiore, an outstanding Jewish 4. Sir Roanld Harwood delivers scholar of the Bible and early Jewish-Christian relations, became the 19th Annual Parkes president of the University College of Southampton which was later Lecture chaired by Vice to become the University of Southampton. Much of Montefiore’s Chancellor Professor Don personal library, presented to Southampton, was incorporated Nutbeam into the massive private collection of James Parkes when the 5. Special Collections Report by Parkes Library for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations was Dr Karen Robson created. Since then, the study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations has developed significantly at Southampton, thanks to the generous 3 support of the University, private donors and public funding. The Rev Dr James Parkes in 1979 The Parkes Institute is a community of scholars, archivists, In this review librarians, students, and activists, whose work is based around Report of the Director the rich resources of the unique Parkes Library and the Anglo- of the Parkes Institute 5 Jewish Archives in the Hartley Library Special Collections. Through our research, publications, teaching, and conservation Outreach 7 work, we seek to bring the vision of James Parkes to new Conferences, Lectures and generations: to provide a world class centre for the study of Seminars in the Parkes Jewish/non-Jewish relations throughout the ages; to study the Institute 10 experience of minorities and outsiders; and to examine the The Poland Trip, report by power of prejudice from antiquity to the contemporary world. 4 5 Dr Karen Auerbach 16 Development 18 Undergraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture 19 Reports from our Honorary Fellows and Visiting Fellows 22 Reports by Members of the Parkes Institute 23 Special Collections Report 31 Parkes Library Report 32 Publications and Papers by members of the Parkes Institute 33 Members of the Parkes Front cover Caption: a Babylonian Institute 36 incantation bowl, c. 4-8th century CE, Bowl catalogue number SD 43, courtesy of the Dehays Collection, part of the research work of Dr Dan Levene of the Parkes Institute 2 3 Foreword Report of the Director of the Parkes Institute Dr Bill Brooks Professor Joachim Schlör

‘The proper study of mankind is man’ is a line Guests at the Parkes lecture: Sir Ronald Harwood from the poetry of Alexander Pope that lurks with Southampton’s Lady Mayoress and Mayor consort and (left to right) Tony Kushner, Joachim in my memory. Looking back over a personal Schlör and Vice Chancellor Don Nutbeam and academic life rooted in the dropping of atomic bombs in anger on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (my father was a POW for four years on the Thai railway and would almost certainly have died had the war in the Pacific gone on longer), I can look back on the creation of the state of Israel (well almost!), the Suez crisis, the civil rights movement in the USA, “winds of change” in Africa, the ending of Apartheid, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This The academic year started with a wonderful the former Soviet Union. Claire, whose in the transmigration of Jews (and many calls to mind another prized literary memory and moving event which also brought the dissertation was supervised by my esteemed others) from Eastern Europe via the continent - the words of the French writer/adventurer work of the Parkes Institute to the attention colleague Sylvie-Ann Goldberg in Paris, and the British Isles to the US or South and minister of culture under De Gaulle, of the University’s new management team. began teaching here in October 2009, at both America can help us to understand both the Our new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Don undergraduate and postgraduate level, and we general processes of migration and the many André Malraux: “Il y a dans la condition Bill Brookes introducing Tony Kushner’s Anglo-Jewry humaine une absurdité fondamentale en Since 1066 at its book launch in March 2009 Sir Ronald Harwood gives The Parkes Lecture Nutbeam, chaired the Parkes Lecture by are already most grateful for her contribution. individual experiences of migrants, as Tony meme temps qu’une implacable grandeur”. Ronald Harwood on 20 October, 2009. The Our traditional co-operation with the Isaac Kushner has shown in one chapter of his new The Parkes Institute is sad this year to say A message from Sir Ronald Harwood advertisement for the evening read like and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies book Anglo-Jewry Since 1066. Place, Locality The extremes of violence, intolerance and goodbye to Bill Brooks who, as the chair of the CBE,FRSL, one of the patrons this: ‘ “Playing History”: the eminent Bafta and Research at the University of Cape Town and Memory, which was published with exclusion (pace Pope) that stalk our human Parkes Institute Management Committee has of the Parkes Institute and Oscar-winning author, playwright and was reinforced by the conference on ‘Jewish Manchester University Press in May 2009 societies may, all too easily, appear constant, reigned with great diplomacy and aplomb over It was a great pleasure to give the annual screenwriter will examine the validity of Migration and the Family’ in January 2009 (and had a very successful book launch at the sapping any grounds for hope. The Parkes our twice yearly meetings. Our grateful thanks Parkes Lecture last October. The staff and historical plays and films, particularly those and will be continued with a conference on British Library). Institute, which I have watched develop go out to him for all the work he has done on students form a warm and homogenous team dealing with events leading up to World War ‘Jewish History and the Archive’ in 2011 – and In more general terms, Ronald Harwood and thrive through individual scholarly our behalf. We have benefited from his wisdom, that make you feel welcome and pleased to be 2 and the Holocaust, and reflect on why being another link with South Africa for us is, of as a playwright is concerned with crucial dedication since coming to the University experience and expertise and he has steered the with them. We were treated to a wonderful a Jew has propelled him into playing history.’ course, the work of Dr Shirli Gilbert on Music questions about ‘truth’ in narrating History of Southampton in 1975, is one important meetings with great humour as well as tactical banquet and I and my guests, including one And Ronald Harwood – who has since become in the struggle against apartheid. – and so are we. I would like to take the beacon of hope in a troubling world ensuring skill and the requisite firmness. We will miss him, of my grandchildren, had a wonderfully Sir Ronald, and our many congratulations on From Cape Town, as a 17-year old in 1951, opportunity to thank Ronald, who has also that what has been experienced is not he brought a great element of fun to the job and we enjoyable evening. So when I was asked to that! – indeed achieved something very rare Ronald Harwood took a ship and emigrated become a patron of the Parkes Institute, forgotten and that our human capacity for look forward to seeing him as an honoured guest become a patron of the Parkes Institute I had and precious by combining an account of his to England. Research into all aspects of the once more, not least for his kind words learning from our mistakes may perhaps at our future events. no hesitation in accepting. family’s and his own personal story with his history of Jewish migrations in the 19th and in the remarks he made about us in his one day overwhelm our capacity for thoughts about writing (and ‘playing’) history Professor Joachim Schlör, 20th centuries continues to remain central to contribution to this Annual Review. The misunderstanding out of ignorance. This The work of the Parkes Institute is crucial and his motivation to write the screenplays Director of the Parkes Intitute our work – but there is also a new dimension, background for both him and us is, and will report, in all its rich variety, is a proud record and their renowned research is underpinned for, among many other films, Taking Sides closely connected to the image and the idea remain, the history and the impact of the of the dedicated work and research that the by the impressive holdings of an outstanding in 2001 and The Pianist in 2002. Sir Ronald (and the memory) of the many ships that Holocaust, which leads me on to the fact that scholars of the Parkes Institute deliver day by library and archive. I can certainly advise subsequently gave permission for us to brought emigrants (and their memoirs) to during Shirli Gilbert’s maternity leave we day through their teaching, books and articles any student who might be considering include his talk on our website where it can be so many places across the world, ‘Towards found a temporary replacement in Dr Karen and international conferences, ensuring that postgraduate studies in the field of Jewish/ read in full: Jewish Maritime Studies’ was the title of Auerbach from Brandeis University. Karen, the living and growing Parkes archive is true non-Jewish Relations to look them up on their www.soton.ac.uk/parkes/news/sem0910.html to the values of its remarkable founder. It website as a first port of call. our one-day conference at Southampton who was so much more for all of us than just has been a privilege and an honour to have Ronald’s family history and his personal University’s Oceanography Centre, on 26 a ‘temp’, taught two third year courses on the After my lecture the Southampton students in trajectory touch on many points of our October, 2009 (which is reported more Holocaust, and she also managed to find time chaired the Parkes Management Committee the audience asked some excellent questions for the last six years and I would like to pay my interests and fields of research. He was born fully later in this review) and during the last to organize (helped by Claire LeFoll) a trip to and the discussion that followed was a warm in Cape Town, South Africa, to a family of session of the conference, as if pre-ordered, Poland for our students. Our grateful thanks personal tribute to the remarkable group of and friendly experience. scholars and their benefactors who have made Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, and this the beautiful new Queen Victoria put to go to Karen and we wish her all the best for Parkes the outstanding interdisciplinary I take this opportunity of wishing the Parkes background of Eastern European Jewish sea, grandly illuminated and with music her personal and academic future which centre of its kind in the world today. Institute success in their projects for the culture and history has remained central to and celebration on board – just outside the will continue, now, with a fellowship at the coming year and congratulating them on all his life and work. For us, research into Jewish window of our conference room. University of Michigan. life in Eastern Europe will be strengthened the achievements of this one. In his lecture, Ronald Harwood said that on again now since we have finally found a very arrival he kissed the earth at Southampton. Sir Ronald Harwood CBE FRSL good replacement for Natan Meir: Dr Claire Again, research into the history of the city Patron of The Parkes Institute LeFoll is a specialist on the history of Jews and port of Southampton as a key nodal point in Belarus and, in more general terms, in

4 5 Outreach

Baroness Neuberger chats to Professor Anne Curry, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the reception preceding The Sixth Form Conference on ‘The Relationship between Cultures’ the Montefiore Lecture aimed to raise awareness of Jewish Studies as a subject of study and to show the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to Humanities subjects, as well as provide an insight into the academic side of university life.

The Montefiore Lecture was delivered this A very interesting new contact that should be year by Dame Julia Neuberger and we are mentioned is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s honoured that she accepted our invitation to office for Inter-religious Dialogue. We will become one of our patrons. Julia – to whom I be presenting some of the work of the Parkes feel a kind of special bond, since her mother Institute by giving papers at Lambeth Palace was born in my home-town of Heilbronn in sometime in the next semester. We have Germany, spoke to a huge audience on the art also strengthened our ties with the newly re- of ‘Dying well and grieving well’. The event opened Jewish Museum in London and with was chaired by Professor Anne Curry who Westminster Synagogue. in the meantime, to the delight of all at the To look towards the future, the academic Parkes Institute, has been promoted to Dean year (and my directorship) ended with an of the (new) Faculty of Humanities. interesting and successful visit to the Parkes Jan Lánícek, a PhD student supervised by Institute by Sir Stuart Rose, the outgoing Tony Kushner, managed to bring together Chairman of Marks & Spencer, with whom researchers from all over Europe, and Israel, we discussed our aim of finding support for for a conference on ‘Governments in Exile’ a Lectureship for research and teaching in as part of a research project which explores the area of ‘Migration and Enterprise’. Many the responses of the anti-Hitler Allies to the thanks to Katherine O’Brien who organized Jewish plight during the Second World War. the visit and to our Vice-Chancellor Professor The international two-day symposium was Don Nutbeam who hosted us for lunch and held at the University of Southampton on 21 a fascinating conversation about possible and 22 March 2010 and focused on the various forms of co-operation between the academic governments-in-exile established in Britain world and the world of enterprise and trade during the war. – while I still think that academic work has its own merits and cannot be judged according I will leave it to my colleagues to report on to “how much money” it “brings”, the field their individual work but I would like to of such co-operations is indeed wide and congratulate Dr Dan Levene for his successful promising. application for an AHRC fellowship in 2010/11 and Dr Sarah Pearce for her promotion to a Professorship. Our informal seminars this year have been concentrating on aspects of Jewish/ non-Jewish relations on which we all work; hopefully the result of this intensive exchange will be a student-related textbook to be published with Palgrave Macmillan.

Sir Ronald Harwood answers questions from the audience at The Parkes Lecture, chaired by Vice Chancellor Don Nutbeam 6 7 Report by Dr Helen Spurling year we have set up evening classes and one Learn with US Parkes staff and doctoral students included Ian Karten Outreach Officer day events, all open to the public, on subjects Throughout this year, The Parkes Institute ‘What is Judaism and Jewishness’ by Helen that address these important topics. These Spurling, ‘The Holocaust: A Way of Looking’ Holocaust Memorial Day has been working extensively with schools events reflect the multidisciplinary research in the region. Helen Spurling, in partnership by Jaime Ashworth, ‘A Clash of Cultures? In January, members of the Parkes Institute and teaching expertise of the Parkes Institute, with Chris Fuller, works on the Learn with US Rome and the Jewish War’ by Chris Fuller, in partnership with Solent University and and present the latest developments and programme www.learnwithus.southampton. ‘Studying Jewish/non-Jewish Relations: Some Southampton City Council were involved innovative thinking on the subjects of Jewish/ ac.uk, delivering many taster lectures, examples of Jewish Life in Britain as seen in organising an event to commemorate non-Jewish Relations. workshops and seminars, and research project on TV’ by James Jordan, ‘Sensationalising Holocaust Memorial Day in Southampton. activities to sixth form students at schools Difference: Dracula, Alien Jews and the The programme included an introduction by We began in June with a themed conference and colleges both local and further afield. The British Imagination’ by Hannah Ewence Steve Hall, team vicar in Southampton City which was a unique all-day event focusing on Ian Karten MBE and Tony Kushner lectures and materials look at topics such as and ‘Poetry and Cultural Studies: Over the Centre parish, a film viewing led by James ‘Jewish Life Before and After the Holocaust’. the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the Holocaust Moon’ by Meike Reintjes. It is clear that the Jordan and recordings and photographs of The day offered a wide variety of talks Schools engaged with this year and perceptions of leadership in apocalyptic enthusiasm the speakers showed for their survivors at Windermere Camp discussed by including ‘How Britain came to terms with - Oasis Academy Lordshill literature and in politics today. The activities subjects encouraged the same interest in Tony Kushner and Aimée Bunting. Students the Holocaust’ by Tony Kushner, ‘Modern - Downe House School are designed to stretch and challenge scholarship amongst those students who took from Oasis Academy Lordshill read out photography in Tel-Aviv’ by Joachim Schlör, students, and use current research to create part. - Barton Peveril College reflections on the Holocaust led by their ‘The Bible before and after the Holocaust’ by an engaging programme that encourages - St Anne’s Convent School teacher and Parkes Honorary Fellow Graham Helen Spurling, ‘British television’s image of Summer School on ‘Jerusalem’ Jewish life’ by James Jordan and ‘Narrating students’ critical thinking, curiosity, - Tauntons College Cole. Helen Spurling acted as compère for the Also in July, Helen Spurling and Chris the Jew: Jewish Writers in Austria since scholarship, reflection and independent occasion. The event was held at the Sir James Fuller led a three day summer school, on - King Edward VI School 2000’ by Andrea Reiter. The event examined learning. In addition to the many lectures that Matthews Building at Solent University and the theme of ‘Jerusalem’, as part of the - Piggott School developments within Jewish life since the Helen Spurling has given, James Jordan and was attended by approximately one hundred ‘Access to Southampton’ scheme, which is Holocaust from the perspectives of history, Parkes PhD student Jan Lánícek have given - Woking College people. designed to help those with high potential literature, religion and culture. It was a great talks to History students at Tauntons College - Palmers College from non-traditional backgrounds to come Public Lectures success with a diverse and engaged audience on the subject of the Holocaust. to the University of Southampton. The - Lady Eleanor Holles School including many people new to Parkes. One Members of the Parkes Institute have Sixth Form Conference on sessions looked at the place and significance - St Swithun’s School participant described the event as ‘interesting, given a number of public lectures to local ‘The Relationship between Cultures’ of Jerusalem in conflicts from the ancient, community groups. Helen Spurling gave a stimulating and thought provoking’ and - Sherborne Girls School In July, The Parkes Institute in partnership medieval and modern periods of History, talk to our important partners at the Hebrew another said that it was ‘great to have the - Northwood College with the UK Office of the University of including the Roman Empire and the Jewish Congregation and CCJ in Bournemouth opportunity for discussion’. It is hoped that Southampton and the British Association for War, the First Crusade and the Israeli- - Godolphin and Latymer on ‘The Blessing on Judah: Two Traditions, this event will be the first of many. Jewish Studies held a sixth form conference Palestinian conflict. The content was - Talbot Heath School Two Interpretations’ and also spoke to the The Jewish Studies programme is running on the theme of ‘The Relationship between delivered through a mixture of lectures, Hyde900 interfaith group in Winchester. - Luckley Oakfield School two evening classes. The first course is ‘Jews, Cultures’. Twenty-five students from local seminars, independent and group study with Tony Kushner and James Jordan gave public - Bryanston School Christians and Muslims: Relations Through schools attended this one day event, which students expected to critically analyse and lectures during their visit to Sydney, Australia the Ages’, which studies key moments in the included introductory subjects on Jewish discuss a mixture of primary and secondary - Queen Mary’s College with James speaking on ‘Rudolph Cartier’s relations between Jews and their neighbours Studies and Jewish/non-Jewish Relations sources. The students were from a range - Bay House School Jewish Journey’ and Tony on ‘Exodus 1947’. throughout history, particularly discussing from the perspective of several different of schools in Hampshire and they were Everyone in The Parkes Institute values the - Ardingly College relationships with Christianity and Islam. disciplines within Humanities. enthusiastic and thoroughly engaged with the importance of working with community The second course is ‘Jews and Christians material. We certainly had some interesting - Peter Symonds College groups and we are keen to continue and on the Bible: Past and Present’. This looks The conference aimed to raise awareness discussions. One student, when asked which - Wellington College develop this area of activity. of Jewish Studies as a subject of study and at the relationship between Jews and were the best parts of the event said, “gaining - Portsmouth Grammar School Christians over their interpretation of the to show the benefits of an interdisciplinary a better knowledge about the History course Lifelong Learning - Collyer’s College Bible, beginning with the New Testament approach to Humanities subjects, as well as at Southampton, as I now know that it is The Parkes Institute is fully committed to and continuing up to the approaches taken by provide an insight into the academic side definitely a course I would love to study.” - St Vincent’s College moving beyond the immediate University different denominations today. of university life. The students enjoyed the This was an important initiative aimed not - Havant College environment to provide and promote event; one saying, “I have more of an interest only at promoting the study of Jewish/non- Full details of the programme can be found at: - Itchen College engaging learning activities and experiences now in Jewish History, I hadn’t thought about Jewish Relations, but at increasing Widening www.southampton.ac.uk/humanitieslearn/ - Carisbrooke High School for the wider community. The area of Jewish it before.” Another said, “It has allowed me to Participation at the University. Studies and Jewish/non-Jewish Relations jewish_studies/index.html see the different aspects from which a topic - South Downs College not only deals with the past to understand can be studied and interpreted.” Talks by - Sandown High School where we are today, but is of fundamental importance to knowledge of inter-cultural This worthwhile and important expansion issues that impact on today’s world. This of our outreach work has been made possible above all by the kind generosity of the Karten Foundation.

8 9 Conferences, Lectures and Seminars in the Parkes Institute Conferences

Towards Jewish Maritime Studies: Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during Roundtable Discussion and other members of Parkes Institute one day conference, World War 2, 21-22 March 2010 the Parkes Institute and several Parkes PhD 26 October 2009 Report by Jan Lánícek students chaired sessions and helped with the Report by Professor Joachim Schlör This international conference brought preparation and organization of the event. Held, appropriately, in the scenic maritime together scholars engaged in academic This conference represented the first splendour of the university’s Oceanography research on the bystanders to the Holocaust serious attempt to introduce a comparative Centre the conference, convened by Joachim through a specific and so far neglected area perspective on the theme of war-time Schlör was well attended with a mixture of of Holocaust research: Governments-in- governments-in-exile and their treatment students, academic colleagues and members Exile and their responses to the Jewish of the Jews. Moreover, several key studies of the public. plight during the Second World War. The on the major Allied powers and neutrals project – based on a comparative analysis of Rebecca Wolpe (Jerusalem) gave a paper on provided a broader perspective on the individual cases – explored whether a theory ‘Seafaring Narratives in Jewish Literature’, topic. The participants presented papers of common taxonomy can be applied across concentrating on Hebrew and Yiddish based on original research conducted over the exiled Governments’ treatment of Jewish translations of Robinson Crusoe as a tool of several years and the conference achieved a issues. Nineteen scholars - from Belgium, the Jewish Enlightenment activities; Stephanie highly successful outcome with participants Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Luxemburg, Jones from the Department of English at able to articulate several important the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, the United Southampton responded with an overview areas for further studies to come. Papers Kingdom and the United States discussed of the reading of Robinson Crusoe in the focused, among other things, on the role of what emerged as a very fruitful theme of context of Post-colonial Studies. This anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic propaganda, Holocaust research. The final Roundtable was a very good example of a necessary realpolitik, legitimacy, power, powerlessness Discussion presented a provisional taxonomy dialogue between Jewish Studies and other, and diplomacy in the political deliberation of the behaviour of these specific actors of the ‘Cultural Studies’, and it also worked with of individual governments-in-exile. In Holocaust. the second paper which was by Naor Ben several presentations stress was laid on the Yehoyada (Harvard) on ‘”The Moral Perils The event was made possible thanks analysis of war-time BBC broadcasts and of Seafaring”: Fishing, self-acculturation particularly to the generous support of their influences on the exiles’ treatment of the and the stumbling Zionist colonisation Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Jews. Other participants focused on the role of the Palestine Coast in the Interbellum based in Paris, and also received funding of the exiles’ diplomatic position and relations Period’. His respondent was François Soyer from the School of Humanities, the LASS with the major Allied powers. After the (Southampton) who put his case study in Graduate Faculty and and Vallentine Mitchell conference these themes were summarized the wider context of Mediterranean Studies. Publishers. Professor Renée Poznanski (Ben in a document by Professor Poznanski. The Christer Petley (Southampton) gave a paper Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel) and conference participants will maintain contact on ‘Maritime Commerce, The Royal Navy Professor Dariusz Stola (the Polish Academy and an email address has been set up to and the defence of the British slave system’, of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) delivered serve the purpose of exchanging ideas and to with Elizabeth Dore (Southampton) as keynote lectures, dealing with De Gaulle’s facilitate future cooperation. respondent, and finally Nick Evans (Hull) Free French and the Polish Government- Selected papers will be published with the spoke on ‘Jewish Migration in a Maritime in-Exile respectively. Six panels presented cooperation of Vallentine Mitchell Publishers World’ with a response by Tony Kushner. The contributions on the Belgian, Czechoslovak, as a special double issue of Holocaust Studies: A day closed with a reception where delegates Dutch, Luxemburg, Polish and Yugoslav case Journal of Culture and History, probably in 2011 and audience mingled and enjoyed a glass of studies with another panel devoted to the and prospectively in book form, co-edited by wine and refreshments and this was followed analysis of the responses of British, Soviet James Jordan and Jan Lánícek. by the conference dinner. and neutral governments to the Holocaust during the war. Several members of the As the principal organizer of the event, I Parkes Institute presented papers: Professor would like to thank the Parkes Institute for Tony Kushner on, The British Government supporting the idea of a conference initiated and the Holocaust’, Dr Claire LeFoll on, ‘The by a PhD student and for the help I received Soviet Union and the Jews during World War from Parkes academic staff in running the 2’ and PhD student Jan Lánícek on, ‘Nazi anti- event and preparing funding applications. Semitic Propaganda and its influence on the Special appreciation goes to Frances Clarke policy of the Czechoslovak Government-in- for her help during the whole organization of Exile’. Professor Joachim Schlör, the Director the event. of the Parkes Institute, chaired the final

Stephanie Jones (foreground, r) talks to Naor Ben Yehoyada while behind them Joachim Schlör (right) and 10 Tony Kushner talk to Elizabeth Dore . 11 Programme of events Sunday 2.1 (Hartley Library, Archives Address by Geza Vermes, FBA, Professor Sunday 5 September Reading Room, Level 4) Emeritus of Jewish Studies, University of 2.00-2.45 (Nuffield Lecture Theatre A) Chair: Charlotte Hempel Oxford, and first President of the British Melissa Raphael-Levine (University of Birmingham) Association for Jewish Studies. (University of Gloucestershire) 5.00 Philip Alexander (University of 8.30-9.30 (Nuffield Lecture Theatre A) Chair: Sarah Pearce Manchester), ‘Word versus image as Todd Endelman (University of Michigan), (University of Southampton) ways of mediating the divine presence in ‘The pursuit of aestheticism and the flight ‘Revelation, incarnation and the imaging of early Judaism’ from Jewishness’ Jewish sacred history as divine glory danced’ 5.30 Helen Spurling Chair: Tony Kushner 3.00-4.30 Parallel Sessions (1) (University of Southampton), ‘The (University of Southampton) image of God in late antique apocalyptic Sunday 1.1 (Hartley Library, Archives Monday 6 September literature’ Reading Room, Level 4) 9.00-10.30 Parallel Sessions (3) 6.00 Israel M. Sandman (University College, Professor Sander Gilman (Emory University), ‘When did the Jews Monday 3.1 (Hartley Library, Archives Chair: Tessa Rajak (University of Oxford) London), ‘Christian models, particulars become funny? A new debate about the limits of representation Reading Room, Level 4) after 9/11 or an older problem? of Jewish reinterpretations, and specific 3.30 Jane Heath (University of Aberdeen), Chair: Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford) ‘Greek and Jewish visual piety in the Letter Jewish texts: beyond the generic’ 9.00 Tessa Rajak (University of Oxford), ‘The of Aristeas’ Sunday 2.2 (Hartley Library, The Image and the Prohibition of the for conference delegates, also hosted by the scholars, representing higher education Jews of Dura and their paintings’ CETL Room 508, Level 5) Image in Judaism, 5-7 September 2010 Special Collections Unit. institutions from all parts of Great Britain and 4.00 Sarah Pearce (University of Southampton), 9.30 Sacha Stern (University College, London), Chair: Lars Fischer (Centre for the Study of Report by Professor Sarah Pearce Ireland, from Russia, Germany, Hungary, the ‘Philo and the Second Commandment’ ‘Pagan images in late antique Palestinian This was one of the largest BAJS conferences Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge) Czech Republic, Romania, the Netherlands, synagogues’ The Parkes Institute was very proud this to date, with 100 delegates in attendance and Sunday 1.2 (Hartley Library, Israel and the United States. The conference 5.00 Leena Petersen (University of Sussex), year to host the annual conference of the more than 60 papers and lectures presented. CETL Room 508, Level 5) 10.00 Margaret Williams (Open University), concluded with many delegates following ‘On aniconism and negative aesthetics British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) The full programme is reproduced below, Chair: François Guesnet ‘Symbol and text in the Jewish the walking tour of ‘Jewish Southampton’, in German-Jewish thought in the at the University of Southampton. Thanks and abstracts for all papers and lectures (University College, London) inscriptions of late ancient Rome’ led by Tony Kushner, exploring the early nineteenth/twentieth centuries’ to the generous support of the Librarian can be read online on the websites of the Victorian Jewish cemetery and the city 3.00 Maria Diemling (Canterbury Christ 5.30 Alana Vincent (Swedish Theological Monday 3.2 (Hartley Library, of the Hartley Library, and to Professor Parkes Institute and BAJS. This was the first centre. The tour highlighted the importance Church University), ‘Navigating Christian Institute, Jerusalem), ‘A theology of the CETL Room 508, Level 5) Chris Woolgar of the Special Collections UK conference to focus on the place of the of Southampton for both Jewish settlement space: early modern Jews and Christian graven image: the work of art in Benjamin Chair: Irene Zwiep (University of Amsterdam) Unit, we were able to house the conference image and the prohibition of the image in and transmigrancy, and the fascinating but images’ and Arendt’ 9.00 Patrick Koch (Hebrew University, within the Library and Archives, the home Judaism from antiquity to the contemporary neglected history of the city’s Jews taking 3.30 Kathy Aron-Beller (Gratz College of Jerusalem), ‘Approaching the divine by of the Parkes Library and Jewish Archives. world. The last two decades have witnessed 6.00 Tzahi Weiss (Divinity School, Chicago/ in religion and secular life and stories from Jewish Studies, Philadelphia), ‘Between Imitatio Dei: Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s Founded in 1975, this was the 35th annual a remarkable expansion of studies on Jewish Shalem Center, Jerusalem), ‘The literary Benny Hill through to the Titanic. allegation and reality: image desecration concept of Zelem in his Tomer Devorah’ conference of BAJS. This milestone was art and visual culture, and scholars of art depiction of the figurative image of God charges against Jews in seventeenth- remembered and celebrated at the conference history are increasingly urging that the study The success of the conference owed much to in S.Y. Agnon’s oeuvre’ 9.30 Olga Karaskova (State Hermitage with a fascinating speech by Professor Geza century Modena’ Museum, Saint Petersburg), ‘A hidden of Jewish art and visual culture should be the generosity of many individuals. Closest Sunday 2.3 (Hartley Library, Library Vermes, FBA (Emeritus Professor of Jewish 4.00 Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths, University of deer and a crowned lion: rabbinical expanded to include contributions from other to home, Chris Woolgar, Karen Robson and Conference Room, Level 4) Studies at the University of Oxford, and London), ‘Representations of Jewishness reaction on the usage of heraldry among disciplines – including archaeology, theology Jenny Ruthven (Special Collections and the Chair: Hannah Ewence first President of the British Association for in early modern western Europe’ Jews in the sixteenth century’ and religious studies, literature, history, Parkes Library) played a huge part in the (University of Southampton) Jewish Studies), outlining the growth of the sociology and anthropology – and to explore organisation and support of the conference, 10.00 Bracha Yaniv (Bar-Ilan University), ‘The Sunday 1.3 (Hartley Library, Library 5.00 Claudia Sternberg (University of Leeds), Association from sapling to flourishing tree different time periods and geographical from beginning to end; and Hannah Ewence, legitimization of prohibited images on Conference Room, Level 4) ‘Jewish representation in British cinema/ with many diverse branches. Geza Vermes regions in order to deepen our understanding a graduate student in the Parkes Institute, the Torah Ark in eighteenth-century Chair: Melissa Raphael-Levine (University of Jewish cinema in Britain/British Jewish has a special relationship with the Parkes of the importance of contexts in interpreting proved herself a remarkable professional as Eastern Europe’ Gloucestershire) cinema’ Institute, professionally (for his pioneering the ways in which Jews have seen and used conference administrator as well as the author Monday 3.3 (Hartley Library, Library scholarship on Jesus the Jew and Jewish art and visual culture. This, in essence, was of an outstanding conference paper. For 3.00 Aaron Rosen (University of Oxford), 5.30 Diana Popescu (University of Conference Room, Level 4) history), and personally (James Parkes was on what the 2010 BAJS conference aimed to do, financial support, we are very grateful indeed ‘Abraham and the hospitality of images’ Southampton), ‘The Holocaust and the the committee that appointed Geza Vermes to Chair: Andrea Reiter with a call for papers on ‘The Image and the to all our sponsors, within the University 3.30 Naftali Loewenthal (University College, educational function of Your Coloring his position at the University of Oxford, and, (University of Southampton) Prohibition of the Image in Judaism’. Due and beyond. Thanks to the generosity of our London), ‘Art and ethos: on the Book, a Wandering Installation at the in more recent times, Sarah Pearce, President to the very positive response to the call for donors, including Ian Karten OBE, Special emergence of “Hasidic Art” and “Hasidic Israel Museum, 1997’ 9.00 Isabel Wollaston (University of of BAJS 2010, was a doctoral student of Geza papers, the conference was organised into Collections, and the School of Humanities, Artists”’ 6.00 Tony Kushner Birmingham), ‘On representing and Vermes). re-representing the pain of others: the triple parallel sessions, covering the ancient we were able to offer 10 bursaries to support 4.00 Joseph Isaac Lifshitz (Shalem Center, (University of Southampton), ‘Exodus absent, the partial and the iconic in the 2010 is also the 20th anniversary of the world, medieval and early modern, modern attendance at the conference by students Jerusalem), ‘The corporealists and the 1947: “Illegal” movement of the people’ visual representation of the Holocaust’ arrival of the Anglo-Jewish Archives at the and contemporary topics, and representing and early career scholars. For permission to dialectic of the perception of God’ 6.30-7.20 Reception hosted by the Special University of Southampton. This very special a wide range of academic fields. We were reproduce images advertising the conference, Collections, University of Southampton, to 9.30 Eric Jacobson (Roehampton University), 5.00-6.30 Parallel Sessions (2) occasion for the Parkes Institute was marked delighted to welcome many distinguished we are grateful to Martha Casanave and celebrate the opening of a special Exhibition ‘The role of the past in the visual culture with a superb exhibition of the Anglo-Jewish international scholars, including our plenary Beno Rothenberg. We were delighted that celebrating twenty years of the Anglo-Jewish of Judaism’ Archives, organised by Chris Woolgar and speakers, and to provide a platform to the whole event was generously advertised in Archives at the University of Southampton. Karen Robson, which opened on the first night showcase the talents of some remarkable association with the B’nai B’rith UK European (Special Collections Gallery Exhibition of the conference, accompanied by a reception emerging (or already glittering!) stars who are Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage. Corridor, Hartley Library, Level 4) currently graduate students or early career 12 13 Left: Professor Zeev Weiss (Hebrew University Jerusalem) Centre: Tony Kushner and delegates visit Southampton’s historic Jewish cemetery Right - left to right: Professor Melissa Raphael, Rosa Reicher Delegates at the March conference on (PhD candidate, University of Heidelberg) and Professor Governments in Exile and the Jews during World Geza Vermes, FBA, first President of BAJS War II gather in the Nuffield Theatre

10.00 Rosa Reicher 11.30 Anne Lloyd (University of Southampton), Monday 5.3 (Hartley Library, Library Tuesday 6.2 (Hartley Library, 7.1 (Hartley Library, Archives Sixth Form Conference (University of Heidelberg), ‘Visualisation ‘Confronting the military stereotype: the Conference Room, Level 4) CETL Room 508, Level 5) Reading Room, Level 4) Report by Dr Helen Spurling of Holocaust commemoration in the Jewish soldier and the British Army’ Chair: Kathrin Pieren (Institute of Historical Chair: Tony Kushner Chair: Philip Alexander Following a proposal made at the AGM of the context of cultural industries in Britain’ 12.00 Edward Marshall (Royal Holloway, Research, University of London) (University of Southampton) (University of Cambridge) Manchester BAJS (July 2008), BAJS member 11.00-12.30 Parallel Sessions (4) University of London), ‘“Are you English 3.00 JanJan Lánícek (University of 9.00 Hannah Ewence (University of 12.00 Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh), Dr Helen Spurling (Ian Karten Outreach or do you live in Brighton?” Jewish Southampton), ‘Oh yes, but he is still Southampton), ‘The Jew in the eruv, the ‘The defilement of the hands as a Officer in the Parkes Institute for the Study of Monday 4.1 (Hartley Library, Archives representation on the British stage Jewish!’ Perception of the Jews by the Jew in the suburb: contesting the public canonical principle’ Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University Reading Room, Level 4) during the Great War’ Czechoslovak government-in-exile face and the private space of British 12.30 Markus Bockmuehl (University of of Southampton) led a very successful one- Chair: Martin Goodman (University of Oxford) during World War 2’ Jewry’ Oxford), ‘Qumran and the Rabbis on day sixth- form conference in July, with the ‘Toleration of variety within Judaism’ 1.30-2.30 (Nuffield Lecture Theatre A) 3.30 James Jordan (University of 9.30 Chris Penfold creatio ex nihilo’ overall aim of getting students to think about (Leverhulme Project on ‘Toleration of variant Zeev Weiss (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Southampton), ‘Images of the other: men (University of Southampton), applying for Jewish Studies or related subjects practice and theology within Judaism since ‘Figurative images in urban Jewish Galilee’ 1.00 Aron Sterk (University of Manchester), seeking God and the representation of ‘Conspicuous by its absence: the at University. The event was funded by the UK 200 BCE’) Chair: Dan Levene (University of Southampton) ‘The Epistola ad Senecam: an early fifth- Student Recruitment and Outreach Office and Judaism in 1950s British television’ handling of Jewishness in Auschwitz century Latin Jewish critique of idolatry 11.00 Joseph David (University of Oxford), 3.00-4.30 Parallel Sessions (5) the Parkes Institute, both of which are part of 4.00 François Guesnet (University College, (Svilova, 1945)’ in dialogue with late pagan philosophy?’ ‘Pluralizing and unifying the Halakhah the University of Southampton. Overall, the Monday 5.1 (Hartley Library, Archives London), ‘Images of community, imaging 10.00 Frances Mary Williams (University of from the Talmud to Maimonides’ 7.2 (Hartley Library, CETL Room 508, Level 5) event attracted 25 sixth-form students from Reading Room, Level 4) community: the iconography of the Edinburgh), ‘Seeking perfection. The Chair: James Jordan 4 local schools (Tauntons’ College, Barton 11.20 Simon Levis Sullam (University of Chair: Helen Spurling Montefiore testimonials’ renovation of the Kindertransportees’ (University of Southampton) Peveril College, St Anne’s Convent School, Oxford), ‘The Paris Sanhedrin (1807): (University of Southampton) Ruling toleration?’ 5.00-6.00 (Nuffield Lecture Theatre A) Tuesday 6.3 (Hartley Library, Library 12.00 Claire Le Foll (University of and King Edward VI School), together with 3.00 Sandra Jacobs (University College, Sander Gilman (Emory University), ‘When did Conference Room, Level 4) their teachers. There was an overwhelming 11.40 Corinna Kaiser (University of Oxford), Southampton), ‘The image of the Jews in London), ‘The image of the rainbow and the Jews become funny? A new debate about Chair: Zuleika Rodgers (Trinity College, Dublin) response from students and teachers in favour ‘Islets of toleration among the Jews of Belorussian Soviet cinema, 1924-1936’ the prohibition of gazing’ the limits of representation after 9/11 or an older of running the sixth-form conference again Curacao’ 9.00 Lars Fischer (Centre for the Study of 12.30 Brian Klug (University of Oxford), ‘The 3.30 Hedva Rosen (University of Manchester), problem?’ Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge), next year. We also hope to run larger-scale 12.00 Martin Goodman (University of Oxford): shadows in Plato’s Cave and the Molten ‘The prevalence of the image prohibition Chair: Tim Bergfelder ‘Adorno and the prohibition of the image: events jointly with BAJS members at other Chair, Roundtable Discussion Calf at Sinai: a juxtaposition’ in the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael’ (University of Southampton) the case of music’ institutions in the future. 1.00 Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford), Monday 4.2 (Hartley Library, 4.00 Emeze Kozma (Eötvös Loránd University, Tuesday 7 September 9.30 Eva-Maria Ziege (Centre for the Study of ‘Picturing the unwritten: the poetry and Parkes Institute Seminars CETL Room 508, Level 5) Budapest), ‘Image and prohibition of 9.00-10.30 Parallel Sessions (6) Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge), paintings of Josef Habib Gerez’ Chair: Tim Bergfelder image: the Unique Cherub in the Psak ha- ‘Antisemitism and the prohibition of the Tuesday October 13th Professor Phillip Tuesday 6.1 (Hartley Library, Archives (University of Southampton) Yirah we-ha-Emunah’ image in Judaism in the writings of Freud 7.30 (Hartley Library, Library Bohlman (University of Chicago) (Jointly Reading Room, Level 4) Conference Room, Level 4) with Music and Transnational Studies) 11.00 Nathan Abrams and Isamar Carrillo Monday 5.2 (Hartley Library, and Adorno’ Chair: Sarah Pearce (Southampton) Chair: Isabel Wollaston ‘Music in time, Music out of time: Migration Masso (University of Bangor), ‘The CETL Room 508, Level 5) 10.00 Bruce Kaplan (Cambridge, MA), 9.00 Hugh Williamson (University of Oxford), (University of Birmingham) and the making of the modern Mediterranean’ pixelated Jew: exploring images of Chair: Alana Vincent ‘Antisemitism: it all comes back to the ‘Was there an image of the deity in the 6.00 pm Lecture Theatre A, Avenue Campus Jewishness in video games’ (Swedish Theological Institute, Jerusalem) Second Commandment’ 12.00 Giulia Miller (University of Cambridge), First Temple?’ ‘Ari Folman’s other war: animating and 12.00 Clare Reed (University of Reading), 3.00 Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford), 11.00-11.45 (Nuffield Lecture Theatre A) Tuesday October 20th The Parkes Lecture Sir 9.30 Laliv Clenman (Leo Baeck College/King’s erasing the Holocaust in Waltz with ‘American Jews on film: the ‘The image of “Torah min hashamayim” in Irene Zwiep (University of Amsterdam), Ronald Harwood CBE FRSL ‘Playing History’ College, London), ‘The faceless idol Bashir’ representation and reproduction of the thought of Louis Jacobs’ ‘Wissenschaft des Judentums and the visual’ 6.00 pm Nightingale Building, Highfield, Jewish culture’ and images of terror: the erasure and 12.30 Shirli Gilbert (University of University of Southampton 3.30 Devorah Baum (University of Chair: Shirli Gilbert (University of Southampton) creation of images in two competing Southampton), ‘Representations of Anne Monday 4.3 (Hartley Library, Library Southampton), ‘Touching the void’ Tuesday November 3rd Professor Clare rabbinic traditions on Molekh worship’ 12.00-1.30 Parallel Sessions (7) Frank in apartheid South Africa’ Conference Room, Level 4) 4.00 Daniel Weiss (University of Cambridge), Ungerson (Emeritus Professor University of 10.00 Garth Gilmour (University of Oxford), 1.00 Sara Zalcberg (Hebrew University, Chair: Jan Lánícek (University of Southampton) ‘Equality or infinity? “The image of God” Southampton) ‘The rescue of Jews by Anglo- ‘Iconism and aniconism in the period of Jerusalem), ‘“Youths grow up with the 11.00 Tim Grady (University of Chester), in classical Rabbinic literature and in the Jewish philanthropy: the case of the Kitchener the monarchy: a new pictorial inscription cognition of being terrible sinners and ‘Memorialising the German-Jewish soldier thought of Hermann Cohen’ Camp’ 6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue from Jerusalem’ transgressors”: Negative images of in stone and print’ Campus “body” and “sexuality” in Haredi society’ 14 15 A Polish survivor of Mauthausen with two of our of the Warsaw ghetto, and the location of Students walked through the cemetery After the trip, several students drew students at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kazimierz that archive in the institute, made a great and examined several small Holocaust on their experiences in Poland in their impression on the students, since we had used memorials there. Although the cemetery essays and dissertations, including two documents from that archive extensively in visit was too brief, it helped the students studies of commemoration at Auschwitz, class. In addition, the head of a genealogy to understand subsequently the intended representations of non-Jews in Holocaust project at the institute shared his experiences effect of the memorial at Treblinka, which museums, and the Ringelblum archive of the in helping Holocaust survivors to locate is designed to evoke a Jewish cemetery. The Warsaw ghetto as a source for studying Jewish relatives more than six decades after the end students had studied the camp at Treblinka responses to the Holocaust. At the end of the of the war and in assisting hidden children in in depth during the year, including reading semester we viewed a documentary film about researching their identities. We subsequently survivor testimonies; studying the history the Warsaw ghetto from the Jewish Historical walked as a group through the sites of the of the camp’s construction, and viewing Institute, which we had not had time to view Warsaw ghetto, including the monument interviews with nearby residents in Claude while in Poland. (That film is now in the Tuesday December 1st Dr Devorah Baum Poland trip, 14-20 March 2010 Throughout the rest of the trip we referred to the ghetto uprising. We also visited the Lanzmann’s documentary. Because of Avenue Campus library.) monument to the 1944 Warsaw uprising, this, the visit to the camp site at Treblinka University of Southampton) ‘Jewish Guilt’ Report by Dr Karen Auerbach back to this talk as we discussed the wartime Two activities that had been planned but for which once again allowed us to discuss the allowed us to examine not only differences 6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus The trip to Poland with students from the experiences of Poles and the impact of post- which we did not have time were a visit to wartime experiences of the Polish population in forms of commemoration at former Nazi Special Subject module on the Holocaust war politics on memory of the Second World the small town of Kazimierz Dolny, whose Tuesday February 9th Dr Anna Akasoy more broadly and the impact of post-war camps, but also the difficulty of reconciling introduced students to key sites of Holocaust War and the Holocaust in Poland. population had been predominantly Jewish (Oxford University) ‘Between Galut and Hijra: politics on memories of the Holocaust and the graphic accounts of life in Nazi camps with memory and Jewish history in Poland, before the war, and a meeting with a group Experiences of Exile among Andalusian Jews Our visit to Auschwitz on the second day was Second World War in Poland. the physical locations in the mundane world allowing them both to encounter the of Jewish students in Warsaw. Both would and Muslims’ 6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C the core of the trip. We were led by a Polish where they took place. Several students physical locations of the history they were The last day of the trip was spent visiting be worthwhile during a future trip if time Avenue Campus guide who took us through the museum pointed out that because Treblinka is located studying and to examine forms of Holocaust exhibition while narrating a history of the the memorial at Treblinka. Prior to leaving permits. Tuesday March 2nd Professor Dan Stone in an isolated area in the forest and almost no commemoration. We visited Krakow, camp. The guide also led us through a visit we spent about an hour in the morning at (Royal Holloway) ‘The Historiography of physical remnants of the camp survived, the Warsaw, Auschwitz and Treblinka, focusing to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; this second part the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, which we Holocaust Perpetrators’ 6.00 pm Lecture problem was perhaps even more heightened on pre-war Jewish history; history of the of the tour was less structured and allowed had not had time to visit the previous day. Theatre C Avenue Campus here than at Auschwitz. Holocaust; commemoration of the Holocaust for greater reflection and more informal and the Jewish past; and the Polish historical Tuesday April 27th Dr Cathy Gelbin conversations. background. Seventeen third-year students (University of Manchester) ‘Jewish Culture and two M.A. students took part in the trip, After returning to Krakow we met as a group in the Age of Globalization’ 6.00 pm Lecture which was led by me and Claire Le Foll. and began an initial discussion of the visit to Theatre C, Avenue Campus Auschwitz. Students grappled in particular Emphasis on the pre-war Jewish historical Thursday May 13th The Montefiore Lecture: with the experiences of non-Jewish Poles at background was strongest in Krakow. We Baroness Neuberger DBE ‘Dying well and Auschwitz, encountering close-up the strong toured the city’s Kazimierz district, visiting grieving well’ 6.00 pm Lecture Theatre A, role of the camp as a site of Polish national the sixteenth-century Remuh synagogue Avenue Campus suffering. In addition, discussion focused and its adjacent cemetery as well as the on how the guide narrated the history of the Tuesday May 25th Dr James Jordan nineteenth-century Tempel synagogue, the camp and the exhibition’s emphasis on the (Southampton University) ‘The Holocaust latter providing an example of the impact of experiences of children. However, it was and Post-war British Television’ 1946-1955 Germanic-style Reform on pre-war Jewish only on the following day, during a visit to 6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus life. Only one of the students had previously sites in the Krakow ghetto, that students been in a synagogue, and they asked detailed uesday June 1st Professor Mikhail Krutikov began formulating their thoughts about their questions not only about the synagogues (University of Michigan) ‘Revisiting the Shtetl visit to Auschwitz more clearly in informal themselves but also about Jewish traditions in the 21st Century’ 6.00 pm Lecture Theatre conversations. After visiting the site of the more generally. At the Galicia Jewish C, Avenue Campus Krakow ghetto square and a small museum Museum in Kazimierz the students visited in a building where a non-Jewish Pole had Tuesday June 11th Dr Eva-Marie Ziege an exhibition of contemporary photographs operated a pharmacy in the ghetto, several (University of Cambridge) ‘The People’s of buildings associated with Jewish life students went on their own to a museum Antisemitism: American Labour and the before the Holocaust. A talk that the museum about the work camp at Plaszow, while others Jews in World War’ Two 2.00 pm room 1177, arranged for us with a Polish survivor of subsequently visited the Wawel Castle. Avenue Campus Mauthausen introduced the problem of competing memories of the Second World In Warsaw we began with a visit to the War in Poland; because the museum had historical museum, which provided a described the talk as one with a Holocaust thorough if routine introduction to the Polish survivor, the non-Jewish identity of the historical background. We then moved on speaker, a Polish man who had fought in the to the Jewish Historical Institute, where the 1944 Warsaw uprising, immediately raised director spoke with us about the building’s the question of where to fit the experiences of wartime history and the history of its most non-Jewish victims into our understanding of important archival collections. The building’s the Holocaust. role as the meeting place for the group that organized the underground archive 16 17 Development Undergraduate Studies in Jewish History Katherine O’Brien, Associate Director of Development and Alumni Relations and Culture

Far left - left to right: Mrs Liz Moss, Vice Chancellor Claire Desroches Georgia Braham and enthusiasm of lecturers in the Parkes Donald Nutbeam and Sarah Shawyer Third year History Third year History Institute is reflected in the dedication of its Left - left to right : Mrs Liz Moss, Vice Chancellor Donald students and the popularity of its courses. To Nutbeam and Rhys Griffiths I found the ‘Israel or Palestine?’ course in the Being a history undergraduate student at first semester really stimulating. To be honest, the University of Southampton has been have access to the Institute, which houses this course was the best that I have followed an absolute joy and privilege. The Parkes one of the largest collections of Jewish at university, and Dr Mark Levene and Dr Institute and the diversity of modules archives in Europe, has been an honour and Brian Klug were by far the most helpful and available in Jewish History and Culture were of huge benefit to my research. Parkes and its inspiring tutors I have worked with. Having a crucial factor in my choosing Southampton courses in Jewish History and Culture make finished my second year of university feeling and it has been above and beyond my the History course at Southampton utterly somewhat despondent and disillusioned expectations in both learning and enjoyment. unique and I would thoroughly recommend it with higher education, the course revived my Units such as ‘German Jews in Great Britain’, to anyone. interest and motivation, and this was in no ‘The Holocaust’ and ‘Modern Jewish Culture It has been another successful fundraising We have been extremely fortunate in List of donors in the period small part thanks to the teaching methods of and The Big City’ have heightened my passion year for the Parkes Institute, in spite of the receiving several significant gifts from private 1/10/09 – 30/9/10 Drs Levene and Klug and the enthusiasm for for Jewish history and were inspiration for continued economic downturn. We are individuals this year. In particular, we would - Mr L Agron scholarship that they fostered in the group. my dissertation. A particular highlight of my deeply grateful for the generosity of our like to thank our loyal friends, Mr and Mrs I can’t stress enough how grateful I am for degree was a trip to Poland, where we studied - Mrs Diana Bailey friends and supporters continue, whose Ian Karten for their continuing generous this experience and I hope that this course Jewish history and culture in relation to the philanthropy enables us to continue building support. As the largest benefactors to the - Mrs Jane Barron continues to be part of the curriculum for Holocaust, visiting former Jewish districts, on the successes we have achieved in previous Parkes Institute we are most appreciative of - Madame Bernice Dubois many years to come. synagogues, ghettos and camps. The passion years. We have been delighted to welcome their ongoing commitment. As in previous - Mrs C De Ruyter Van Duuren more new supporters to the Parkes Institute years, we have been able to offer four Masters - Mr Gordon Franks and Library Friends Membership Programme. Studentships that have been funded by The There are now a large number of people who Ian Karten Charitable Trust. These awards - Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah make an annual contribution to the Parkes are vital in helping us to attract the best and - Dr John Garfield Institute and enjoy the services and resources the brightest students to the University. - Mr Danny Habel available to our Friends, as well as priority The following list reflects all those who have - Mr Walter Kammerling invitations to the interesting and varied made a gift in the period 1/10/09 to 30/9/10. events that we host on campus. - The Ian Karten Charitable Trust If we have made any mistakes or omissions, - Mr John Mountford It was, as always, gratifying to see worthy please accept our sincere apologies. This winners of the Moss Prize presented with information is correct to the best of our - Dr Derek Pheby Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History their awards. Mrs Liz Moss presented the knowledge at the time of going to publication. - Mrs Anita Pheby awards and, together with another family As many of our supporters are aware, changes - Mr C Pyke member Mr Antony Jacobson, attended to the donor accounting systems have led and Culture - Dr Ben Steinberg the gala dinner afterwards. Sarah Shawyer to some gifts being carried forward into the won the postgraduate prize for her essay: period which begins 2/10/10 so that these Doctoral programme together the best scholars in the field from ‘Comparative Analysis of Two Testimonies will be acknowledged in next year’s Annual This has been a productive year for Tony Europe, Israel and America. Jan is editing from The Fortunoff Video Archive for Review. Kushner’s postgraduate students. Mathias the proceedings with James Jordan. He Holocaust Testimonies’ and Rhys Griffiths On behalf of the University of Southampton Seiter successfully defended his thesis in has also been teaching at Southampton at won the undergraduate prize with his essay: we would like to thank our many generous January. It explores the complexity of Jewish undergraduate and MA level and contributing ‘ “There is nothing in this world as invisible friends and supporters. identities on the borderlands of pre-1914 to the outreach work of the Parkes Institute. as a monument”: The Art of Post-Holocaust Germany, especially Alsace and Posen. We Hannah Ewence has also had a very active year Remembrance in Jonathan Safran Foer’s were delighted to hear that Mathias has Everything is Illuminated’ teaching in Portsmouth and Southampton been appointed to a two year lectureship at and helping to administer the British Portsmouth University where he will teach Association for Jewish Studies conference European history. in September. Her interdisciplinary thesis Jan Lánícek Three of Tony’s other students have just analyses the lives of east European Jews in completed their PhDs, all by the end of their Britain through many different genres and third year which is an excellent achievement. explores concepts of place and space in their Jan Lánícek’s thesis focuses on the Czech subsequent experiences in this country. government in exile and the Holocaust and Hannah is co-editing the Parkes Institute it incorporates archives from a vast range of conference ‘Whatever Happened to British collections and many different countries. Jewish studies?’ with Tony Kushner. This has been a very busy and successful The third, Lawrence Cohen, a mature year for Jan who also organised a remarkable student, has finished a remarkable study of international conference on governments the Norwood Jewish Orphanage from the in exile and the Holocaust which was held late eighteenth century to the post-Second in Southampton in April 2010. It brought World War era. This thesis looks at the 18 19 intentions of the orphanage’s organisers and Andrea Reiter’s PhD students are: Jaime of Law, Arts and Social Sciences. She also Far left: Mathias Seiter and wife Barbara on the experiences of those under their charge, Ashworth (4th year) writing his dissertation delivered a paper on ‘Lotte Kramer: A Portrait Graduation day including the previously undocumented on ‘From Nazi Archive to Holocaust of the Artist as a Middle Aged Woman in Left: Dan Levene with newly graduated PhD student Mike Morris (left) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and rebellion of the children in the 1920s. Memorial: The Auschwitz Album as Evidence Exile’ to the Conference of the Association Humanities, Professor Anne Curry and symbol in Britain and Poland’. Jaime has of Comparative Literature in New Orleans. At the other end of the process, Malgorzata contributed several modules to the History Her contribution will be published in the Wloszycka is beginning her thesis, undergraduate curriculum. In March he Association’s online publications. contrasting and comparing the post-war gave a paper ‘After Auschwitz’ (School of memory of the Holocaust in two small Humanities PG Annual Conference, ‘The MA/MRes Jewish History and Culture southern Polish towns. Much of the first Defining Moment’, 19 March 2010), and he This has been an especially successful year year has been spent choosing the two case has also written two reviews, one on Samuel for our MA in Jewish History and Culture, studies for this thesis which has now been Kassow’s Who Will Write Our History?, not least thanks to the guidance of our new done. Tom Plant, a former undergraduate and forthcoming in Journal of Modern Jewish external examiner, Dr Daniel Langton from MA student is also starting his PhD, in this Studies, and the second on Jonathan Webber’s the University of Manchester. As mentioned case exploring Jewish youth organisations Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish above, we have an amazing group. From our Reports by Parkes postgraduates Caroline Knott I loved the freedom of study and the way that in post-war Britain. Tom has been awarded Heritage of Post-war Galicia, forthcoming in own University of Southampton we have Dr Mathias Seiter Parkes Institute MA your lecturers encourage you to explore your a University of Southampton archive interests, allowing the essay assignments Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and Bradley Barnes, Sara Cotton, Toni Griffiths, My last year as a postgraduate student When I started my degree in history I had no studentship and is making extensive use of to be adapted to suit you. Thus, for Clare’s History. The title of Bettina Koehler’s (3rd Holly Legg, Caroline Knott, and Laura has been eventful, busy and challenging. specific interests, instead I wanted to use my the University’s special collections. course I wanted to write a piece that focused year) dissertation is ‘Contemporary German- Shattock, and from other Universities we In October I presented my work at a first and second years to learn a bit of every- on the surviving Jews in post-war Poland and Ongoing students include Micheline Stevens Jewish Literature as a Counter Discourse’. have Tony Biondi, Kathy Durkin, Hazel Jay, conference in Antwerp on, ‘Local memories thing before finding my passion and pursuing though this was out of the scope of the module who is carrying out fascinating work on the In December Bettina was successfully Kevin Martin, and Howard Rein. Thanks to Dr in a nationalizing and globalizing world’. it in my third year. Having discovered my keen I was offered help by Dr Karen Auberbach who recipients of Jewish philanthropic support at upgraded from MPhil to PhD. She has since Jane Gerson we have been able to emancipate Supervised by Tony Kushner, Tobias interest in Jewish history, and specifically specialised in this. The quality of help offered the turn of the twentieth century, focusing been on maternity leave and will resume her ourselves somewhat from the general History Brinkmann and Nils Roemer, I was pleased modern Jewish history I followed my third was exceptional and I enjoyed building on those with particular artistic and cultural candidature in October. Jonathan Leader (8th MA and we have been able to create our own to submit my PhD thesis ‘Jewish Identities year Holocaust module with an application for relationships with my lecturers as friends as talent. This will be the first study of Jewish year part-time) submitted his thesis, ‘Being course for ‘Research Skills in Jewish History between Region and Nation’. The thesis, a Parkes Institute Masters in Jewish History well as mentors. Though I never originally philanthropy in Britain from the ‘bottom Political and the Reconstitution of Public and Culture’ where we can offer students which I successfully defended in January, and Culture. Though I intended to focus on intended to take my History Degree to a up’, rather than from the perspective of the Discourse: Hannah Arendt on Experience, basic insights into Jewish languages, dietary explores Jewish culture and identities in the the Holocaust, I wanted to situate this period Masters in Jewish History and Culture I am so organisers. Agnese Pavule is continuing History and the Spectator Hannah Arendt’s laws, forms of settlements and also literature multiethnic borderlands of Alsace-Lorraine in the context of broader Jewish history rather glad I did and have thoroughly enjoyed every her work on the Rothschild women and Critique of Historical Judgement’ in June, and music. Many thanks also to Dan Levene, and Posen during the German Empire than simply as an isolated event, something minute of my time at the University of South- philanthropy and identity in Britain and has and a viva is being arranged for mid-October. Claire LeFoll, Andrea Reiter, and Helen between 1871 and 1914. In highlighting the which the Masters has allowed me to do. In ampton and a student of the Parkes Institute. produced interesting chapters on this theme. Diana Popescu (2nd year) is working on, ‘The Spurling who all contributed to this course significance of regional identities to Jews the first semester I studied Holocaust and Two or three new doctoral students will be contribution of post-Holocaust visual art to and made it a real Parkes Institute experience. in Germany, it shows how regional Jewish American Film with Dr James Jordan and starting their work with Tony in the autumn. the shaping of Jewish and Israeli identities’. While most of the supervision work for this identities became a bridge to imagining the Dialects of Time and Space with Professor In June Diana was successfully upgraded year’s MA dissertations is divided between larger national community. The examiners Joachim Schlör’s PhD student Hannah Farmer Joachim Schlör. I enjoyed James’ module, from MPhil to PhD candidature. She has Tony Kushner and Joachim Schlör, other were Stefan Berger from the University of had her successful second year upgrade viva with every session involving enthusiastic presented the following conference papers: members of the Parkes Institute also take Manchester and Joachim Schlör. in June 2010, shortly before going back to the debate about the issues that can be draw ‘WonderYears. An Israeli manifesto in Berlin’ an active part. Helen Spurling is currently archives in Chicago where she does research During the year I taught as a part time lecturer out of Hollywood’s representations of the (School of Humanities PG Annual Conference, supervising Tony Biondi who for his MRes is for her dissertation on Jewish Women and as well as finishing off my thesis. In addition, Holocaust. Having never before taken a film ‘The Defining Moment’, 19 March 2010), looking at the relationship between Jewish Philanthropy in Chicago. Joachim is also an an essay on regional Jewish historiography module I was challenged by a new way of and ‘Mending Broken Ties: Israeli Visual and Christian exegesis of the Book of Ruth advisor for Andrea Reiter’s PhD students based on one of my conference papers was thinking and enjoyed applying my history Art in Berlin’ (International Conference, at in Late Antiquity. Tony has uncovered some Diana Popescu and Jaime Ashworth. He published in a French edited volume on background to group discussions. Joachim’s the American Jewish Committee in Berlin: very interesting material relevant to the has acted as internal examiner for Mathias Jewish life in France and Germany during the course was equally as new and challenging ‘Analysing Jewish Europe Today. Perspectives question of Jewish-Christian relations and I Seiter’s dissertation on Jews in Posen and 19th and 20th century. involving a more conceptual exploration from a New Generation’, 17–19 April 2010). look forward to seeing the final version of his Alsace-Lorraine, supervised by Tony Kushner, of the Jewish past and present. I applied Diana’s article, ‘Teach ‘the Holocaust’ thesis. Devorah Baum is the supervisor for In September 2010 the biggest change and as external examiner, with Professor discussions of time and space learnt from to the Children – The Educational and Kevin Martin’s work on Franz Rosenzweig, occurred, however, when I took up my new Matthew Gandy from the Urban Laboratory, this course in my dissertation. In semester Performative Dimension of Your Colouring Dan Levene supports Brad Barnes’ venture post as a lecturer in Central European University of London, for a fantastic two, I took Dr Clare Le Foll’s Jewish Society Book – A wandering Installation’ has been into the world of the Aramaic and Syriac history at the University of Portsmouth. As a dissertation by Noam Leshen on Salame/Kfar and Culture in Eastern Europe module which, published in the current volume of PaRDeS. languages, and Shirli Gilbert is supervising postgraduate student and part-time lecturer Salem, a settlement on the outskirts of Tel- though focused in the early modern period, Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien Laura Shattock’s dissertation on instrumental I have been part of the Parkes Institute for Aviv. Magdalena Waligórska has successfully was helpful for understanding Jewish roots / PaRDeS. Journal of the association of Jewish music in concentration camps and ghettos the last five years. I would like to take this defended her thesis on the ‘Klezmer Revival in Eastern Europe, specifically Poland which Studies (University of Potsdam, Germany). and the use of such music in memorial opportunity to thank my PhD supervisors, in Kraków and Berlin’ at the European has been the basis of my dissertation. I also Finally, Meike Reintjes (2nd year) is working celebrations. From 2010/11 on, Shirli will colleagues and friends at the Parkes Institute University Institute in Florence where took Britain, the USA and the Holocaust, 1933 on her dissertation, ‘German Jewish Women also take over the co-ordination of the MA for all the inspiration and helpful advice, Joachim had the honour to be President of the to the Present, with Professor Tony Kushner, Poets in British Exile’. In July, Meike was programme. kindness and support I received during Jury, and two students in Potsdam, Katharina a course which sparked interesting debates. I successfully upgraded from MPhil to PhD these years. I am looking forward to keeping Hoba and Frank Schlöffel, and one in Haifa, enjoyed the seminar sessions as the smaller candidature. Meike acted as co-organiser of in touch with friends and colleagues in Gal Engelhard, will (hopefully) complete postgraduate classes allowed for more this year’s PGR conference of the Faculty Southampton and to maintaining close links their dissertations in the course of next year. involved debates and a greater exploration of with the vital and outstanding research one another’s opinions. Additionally, culture at the Parkes Institute. 20 21 Reports by Members of the Parkes Institute

Reports from our Honorary Fellows and Visiting Fellows Each year we include a section on our Honorary and Visiting Fellowship programme.

Above: Dr Patricia Skinner and Professor Tony Kushner at the book launch for Licoricia of Winchester The book launch for Rescue the Perishing. Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees at the Jerusalem Chamber Westminster Abbey Left - left to right: Eleanor Rathbone, Jenny Rathbone, Canon Nicholas Sagovsky, Susan Cohen and chairman of the Council of Christians and Jews, David Gifford Far left - left to right: Dr Susan Cohen, Patricia Rathbone, Lindsey-Jane Butlin of the CCJ , Canon Nicholas Sagovsky, the Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey, Professor Colin Holmes (in the background) and Eleanor Rathbone (in the green jacket)

Dr Susan Cohen audiences in Liverpool, Leeds, London, and Sue, who had been battling cancer for over a Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute Cardiff, and was thrilled to be interviewed decade, asked her to complete the manuscript The evening of 10 June 2010 was an extra- on BBC’s Woman’s Hour in March. Spreading and see it through to publication. the word about Eleanor’s humanitarian work ordinary experience for I was very privileged The book itself explores the dramatic history for refugees looks set to continue well into to have the official launch of my book, Rescue of Licoricia, a prominent medieval Jewish next year, and is an activity I am proud to the Perishing. Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees, businesswoman, and her family through the undertake. in the splendid surroundings of the Jerusalem turbulent thirteenth century, culminating in Chamber at Westminster Abbey. Dr Patricia Skinner her murder in 1277 and the death of her son The reception was a wonderful occasion, Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute Benedict - the only Jew to have been made a guildsman in medieval England - at the hands made possible by the generosity of the Dean At the start of the academic year, friends, of the executioner. Through painstaking of Westminster, the Council of Christians and family and distinguished guests from the research into often intractable sources, all Jews and my publishers, Vallentine Mitchell. fields of medieval studies and Jewish history written from the point of view of the English Having members of Eleanor’s family amongst joined me, Les Bartlet and Tony Kushner to fisc, Sue reconstructed a very human story the guests, along with representatives from celebrate the publication of the late Suzanne which will engage all who read the book. her alma mater, Somerville College Oxford Bartlet’s book Licoricia of Winchester: and various other organizations with which Marriage, Motherhood and Murder in the The book generated a great deal of interest she was connected, made it even more Medieval Anglo-Jewish Community (Parkes- and in the Spring I presented the book at special. Tony Kushner’s introduction to the Wiener Series, Vallentine Mitchell, 2009). Jewish Book Week (www.jewishbookweek. proceedings, and his praise for the book, left com/2010/marriage-motherhood-murder. Sue Bartlet was an honorary fellow of the me quite speechless, and will be an abiding php), and was delighted that Dr Henrietta Parkes Institute and the book launch, held at memory of the evening. Without his support Leyser, author of Medieval Women: a social the Hampshire Record Office in Winchester, there would have been no doctorate and no history of women in England 450-1500, agreed saw Tony introduce the audience to the publication. Since the book was published to introduce the session and join with Parkes-Wiener Series published by Vallentine Guarding the Jewish Built Environment: Tony in January, I have had the opportunity of Sue’s family in a further celebration of its talking about Eleanor and her refugee work to Mitchell, whilst Trish Skinner outlined how Kushner at the Hull memorial to the Jewish publication. migrations from Eastern Europe 22 23 Far left- left to right: The Dean of Westminster, Professor Colin Holmes and Tony Kushner at the book launch for Rescue the Perishing. Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey Left: Devorah Baum on the ‘Argue With A Woman’ stand

Tony Kushner Journeys which I hope to complete in the next I continue to co-edit the international journal This year I was also invited to participate Modern Jewish Studies, and I’m continuing Press in 2005, was translated into Spanish and Marcus Sieff Professor of the History of academic year. Aside from publishing several Patterns of Prejudice published by Taylor on a panel at the annual conference for the to work on various other projects (including published by Eterna Cadencia. Jewish/non-Jewish Relations articles and completing a few others, I have Francis. This journal now appears five times prestigious International Association of the co-edited special issue on Hannah This has been a very busy and successful year been working with Hannah Ewence in editing a year and has had an extremely well received Philosophy and Literature (IAPL), which Arendt for the journal New Formations, and Dr James Jordan with a wide range of activities and projects. a volume coming out of a Parkes conference special issue on Islamophobia. I continue was held in Canada in May at the University the Parkes anthology of essays on Jewish/ Ian Karten Postdoctoral Research Fellow Teaching has been perhaps dominant with held in 2008: Whatever Happened to British to play a senior role in the other two Parkes of Regina, Saskatchewan. It was fascinating Non-Jewish Relations for Palgrave) as well My work this year has continued to be responsibility for four undergraduate and Jewish Studies? Institute journals Jewish Culture and History to visit that part of the world and to hear, as my monograph. As co-convenor of the centred on a combination of teaching and Holocaust Studies and to jointly co-edit in particular, about the political struggles Association of Psychoanalysis Users, formed and research. In the first semester of the one MA courses alongside supervising seven I gave papers at a range of international the Parkes-Wiener monograph Jewish studies of the First Nations University in Canada to protest HPC proposed State regulation of 2009-2010 academic year I taught an PhD students, four of whom have been in conferences and was privileged to give the series. (which shares a campus with the University the therapeutic professions, it has also been English third year undergraduate module their final stages. It has been exciting giving Annual Lecture in Portsmouth University of Regina) and to meet various of the a busy year for our organisation in terms of on Holocaust Literature and an MA on the talks and lectures across the country but also for its Centre for European and International My work as trustee of Jewish Heritage UK people involved in setting up, running and lobbying government, added to which I have Holocaust in American Film. Both were in Sydney, Australia, which I visited for the Studies Research as well as a keynote lecture continues. This organisation has played a vital teaching at that important institution. The recently agreed to be on the new board of extremely rewarding, with the students first time. With James Jordan we are now at the 18th International Sociolinguistics role in protecting the built Jewish heritage conference as a whole was named ‘Cultures trustees for the Jewish Quarterly. Oh yes – being enthusiastic and engaged with the actively pursuing a formal partnership with Symposium. I very much enjoyed giving a of the UK, both religious and secular. I have of Differences’ and my paper, ‘Derrida and the and in the Summer I also got married. emotional and intellectual challenge which the Jewish studies centre at the University paper jointly with Parkes Institute Honorary been external examiner for PhD theses at Jewish Question’, was part of a panel specially comes with such difficult subject matter. The of Sydney which will parallel our productive Fellow, Dr Aimée Bunting, at the annual the University of London and have this role convened on ‘Encounters with Trauma: Dr Shirli Gilbert undergraduate module included a trip to the relationship with the Kaplan Centre in Cape conference of the Australian Jewish Studies at Portsmouth University for their MA in Differences Within and Across Culture’. Ian Karten Lecturer in Jewish/ Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust exhibition Town. Indeed, we are hoping to organise a Association. Historical Studies. non-Jewish Relations made possible in part thanks to a contribution conference with both these partners in 2012 Back in the UK, following on from my It was also a great pleasure to give an I have very much enjoyed working in the For most of this academic year I have been towards the cost of travel made by the English to be held in Sydney. involvement with an exhibition at the Centre introduction to Susan Cohen’s book, Rescue senior team of the Parkes Institute working on maternity leave. I returned to work in department; while the MA group made use Pompidou in Paris last year, I once again One of the most rewarding experiences in the Perishing. Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees closely as deputy to our director, Joachim May, and during the summer I continued of the University’s cinema to see a number of engaged with the art world, this time by the past twelve months has been mentoring at its launch at Westminster Abbey. Susan is a Schlör. From October as Joachim is on with research and writing, in addition to relevant films. Teaching is always a pleasure, participating at the annual Art Car Boot Sale Dr Helen Spurling, our Ian Karten Outreach former postgraduate student of ours and is an research leave I will resume the directorship preparing for my role as convenor of the but this year’s MA group, a collection of in London’s Brick Lane in June. Fellow who started in October 2009. Helen honorary fellow of the Parkes Institute. of the Parkes Institute and will aim to develop Jewish History and Culture MA programme students from MAs in Jewish History and has been adding rich dimensions to our work further the exciting work that he has initiated I was invited to be on a provocative stand in the coming academic year. My primary Culture, Creative Writing, English and It was rewarding to have a very bright and and has been a joy to work with – energetic, with our dedicated and talented team. called ‘Argue With A Woman’. Kitted out in research project focuses on Holocaust History, excelled with their commitment engaged group of undergraduate students enthusiastic and deeply talented and t-shirts advertising our services, myself and memory in South Africa, exploring the ways and passion. I am grateful to Caroline, Clare, taking my courses and I was thrilled that committed. I have also carried out a range of Dr Devorah Baum three other women encouraged visitors to in which the Nazi past shaped understandings Dan, Esha, Holly, Laura and Louise for one of them, Beckie Hurl, won the History outreach activities including lecturing to the Lecturer in English the art fair to pay a pound a minute to argue of and responses to apartheid for a broad contributing to such a rewarding year, and dissertation prize for her study of refugees in Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, This has been a big year for me. I have been with one of us. As you’d imagine, it turned out range of groups both during the apartheid to Jan Lánícek for his assistance in leading post-genocide Rwanda. This dissertation has the annual national Limmud conference, the involved in a number of fascinating and to be quite an eye-opening (and occasionally period (1948-1994) and after the transition some of the seminars. Finally in respect of also been nominated for the Royal Historical Jewish Historical Society of England, the diverse events, both at Southampton and unsettling) experience! to a multi-racial democracy. My first article teaching responsibilities, I have been advising Society’s prize for undergraduates. This Sydney Jewish Museum, the Working Class abroad. I delivered a public lecture for the on the subject, ‘Jews and the Racial State: Matt Leggatt, an English PhD candidate, on year’s MA students on our Jewish History Art was my subject again in September, when Movement Library and to various Holocaust Parkes Institute here at Southampton in Legacies of the Holocaust in Apartheid South his work on cultural responses to moments of and Culture programme have also been a joy I delivered a paper at the annual British education days. December entitled ‘Jewish Guilt’ (in the Africa, 1945-1960’, is currently under review, global crisis (be they ecological, financial or to teach and we had a very interesting and Association for Jewish Studies conference, weeks running up to that event the sight and I will present aspects of the research conflict), and have recently had the pleasure In terms of research and writing, it was a great profitable trip to the Jewish Museum which which was hosted at Southampton this year by of posters around Avenue Campus with at international conferences in Oxford and of working with Chris Penfold, a Film PhD honour to hear in the autumn that the volume, has just re-opened. Parkes Institute staff and our very own Sarah Pearce who is the current ‘Jewish Guilt’ and my name underneath was Florida later this year. I have been working candidate, who is working on a substantial which I co-edited, Place and Displacement in students were able to discuss possible future President. The conference was on Judaism somewhat disarming, to say the least!). I also on an article about representations of Anne and important project on the films of Soviet Jewish History and Memory (published in 1999) collaboration with senior members of the and the Image and my paper was called delivered an informal paper to the Parkes Frank in apartheid and post-apartheid South Jewish filmmaker Elizaveta Svilova. was successful in the National Jewish Book Jewish Museum. ‘Touching the Void’. informal research seminar series on bris milah Africa, and I presented some of this work as Awards in America in the non-fiction section. In the second semester I continued to develop It has also been extremely stimulating to work in January. This year our informal seminars Alongside these speaking engagements, I a paper at the British Association for Jewish my research project on Jews in British This volume was the third to be published out with a range of highly talented PhD students have been dedicated to presenting material have continued with my written work and Studies conference in Southampton in television. This involved regular trips to the of conferences and wider collaboration with whose work has come to completion this year. that we hope will become part of our collected research. I was particularly proud to have one September. The project is based on archival BBC’s Written Archives, Caversham and the the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the The first was Mathias Seiter who produced a anthology of essays on Jewish/Non-Jewish of my more demanding articles, ‘Respecting material that I have gathered during trips British Film Institute, London. Both have University of Cape Town. The fourth volume, remarkable thesis on Jewish identities on the Relations. In January, too, I was invited to the Ineradicable: Religion’s Realism’, accepted to South Africa, the United States, and most provided invaluable assistance and resources, relating to a conference held in Cape Town in German borderlands before the First World give a lecture at the Speakeasy Film and by the journal Textual Practice. And I have recently Amsterdam. I continue to be involved with particular thanks due to Jacqueline 2007, has been published this summer: Jewish War. Mathias successfully defended his thesis Dinner Club at the London Film School in another recent article, ‘Circumcision Anxiety’, in a large-scale public history project in the Kavanagh and Els Boonen at the BBC for Journeys from Philo to Hip Hop. I have co- in January whilst Lawence Cohen, Hannah Covent Garden. My lecture, which introduced slated for publication in a special issue of form of an educational website on the subject not only their help, but also their interest in edited this volume with my Parkes Institute Ewence and Jan Lánícek all handed in their a screening of John Cassavetes’ 1977 film, the journal Derrida Today on ‘Traces of of Music and the Holocaust, in association both my work and the work of the Parkes colleagues, Sarah Pearce and James Jordan. completed theses at the end of the academic Opening Night, starring Gena Rowlands, was Judaism in Derrida’. I also reviewed Meri-Jane with the educational organisation World ORT. Institute. I am now writing up the research as year. entitled ‘Acting Your Age: Grown-Up Women Rochelson’s new biography of Israel Zangwill, In early 2010, my book Music in the Holocaust, I continue to make progress on my major a monograph with completion expected 2011. monograph The Battle of Britishness: Migrant on Screen’. It provoked a lot of vigorous A Jew in the Public Arena, for the Journal of which was published by Oxford University debate. 24 25 Karen Auerbach leads the group of students into the Remuh synagogue in the Kazimierz district, the Jewish quarter of Krakow

Locally, Helen Spurling, Tony Kushner and Two projects which I have been taking part in modern periods. The earlier material consists I again contributed to the city’s Holocaust since 2008 came to an end this year: firstly I of elaborate amulets that were written Memorial Day commemorations, and we completed the translation of the Belorussian in Aramaic and Hebrew on earthenware remain grateful for the assistance provided chapters of the Book of Pogroms from Russian bowls during the 4th – 8th centuries CE by Graham Cole of Oasis Academy Lordshill, into French and secondly I submitted my in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), at a the Rev Steve Hall and all colleagues at Solent chapter on ‘Jews in Belorussian films’ for the time when this region was part of a Persian University, and the City Council. This is an book Kinojudaica. The image of the Jews in the empire that was ruled by a dynasty called the important part of the Institute’s commitment Russian and Soviet cinema, which is a collection Sasanians. The latter material, written in to outreach and thanks to the efforts of of essays by academics from France, Russia Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic, dates from the Helen, I have also given a number of talks in and the USA to be published by Nouveau 9th to the 15th centuries and was produced the local area which have been rewarding Monde Editions. My research for this chapter by Jews from the North African and Middle and well-received. It is hoped that this can be is based on an analysis of the Yiddish and Eastern countries which were by that time developed further in the coming year. Belorussian press in the 1920s and 1930s and under Islamic rule. Though it is clear from also provided material for the paper I gave in the fact that these materials exist in relative Dr Claire Le Foll September at the BAJS held at Southampton. abundance from both periods that there Lecturer in Eastern European In December 2009 I delivered a paper from is continuity in the use of amulets and the Jewish History my ongoing research project in Moscow for a beliefs that accompany them it is also clear To my great pleasure I was able to come to conference on ‘Soviet Judaica: history, issues, that there is a significant difference between RMS Queen Victoria, Sydney Harbour newly arrived the University of Southampton and join personalities’ at the Russian State University the two groups of materials. Our project is from its home port of Southampton the Parkes Institute in September 2009. I for the Humanities on ‘Jewish scholarship of about collaboration between scholars of completed my PhD on ‘The History and the BSSR in the Belorussian and international the two countries, the sharing of materials Representation of Jews in Belarus (1772- scientific context’. studied, and an attempt to consider the 1918)’ at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en nature of the similarities and differences This has already generated a number of to the continued excellence of Avril Alba; In April, The Iceland volcano gave me the Sciences Sociales in Paris but have spent in practice as expressed in two bodies of articles which are in various stages of the Sydney Jewish Museum’s Education Officer; chance to extend a stay in New York, initially most of the last two years in Moscow and literature that are in their extremes up to publication process. These include ‘Early Konrad Kwiet, Mariela Sztrum and Suzanne planned so that I could participate in the Minsk undertaking archival research on my 1000 years apart in age. British TV Drama and Antisemitism: The Rutland; Associate Professor in the University Association for the Study of Nationalities new project dealing with cultural transfers Case of The Prisoner’, a case study of one of of Sydney’s Department of Hebrew, Biblical World Convention, to allow me to do some In January I spent the better part of two between Jews and non-Jews in Eastern the more controversial of BBC dramas of the and Jewish Studies. Thanks to Suzanne, the research in the YIVO archives. I spent the weeks working with Professor Bohak in Tel Europe from 1905 to the Second World War. 1950s’; ‘Rudolph Cartier and ‘Left Staff File conference enabled us to strengthen links summer working on my book project on the Aviv while in July Professor Bohak came L1/2177’, an introduction to using the BBC’s between Parkes and the University of Sydney I found this first year as a lecturer quite history and identity of Jews in Belorussia and to Southampton. This was followed, in Written Archives’, for a special edition of and we are working together on a more formal intense. In October, in cooperation with preparing two new undergraduate teaching September, by a conference at which the best The Journal of British Cinema and Television; arrangement between the two institutes French, Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian modules: one third-year module ‘From of both British and Israeli specialists on the and ‘Assimilated, Alien, Other: Jews and which will enable us to work on collaborative colleagues, I submitted an application for a Pogrom to Broadway’ which scrutinizes the subject were assembled. Jewishness in British Television 1946-1955’, a projects, conferences and exchanges in the Rothschild grant for a project aiming at the creation of a modern Jewish culture both A second success in the attainment of a special edition of Jewish Culture and History coming years. inventory and analysis of Soviet archives in Eastern Europe and in diaspora, and one research grant came to me in the Easter to be edited by Tony Kushner and Hannah dealing with the religious life of Jews after new first-year course on the ‘Worlds of Marc I continue to edit Holocaust Studies, one of break when I heard that I had been awarded Ewence. 1944. We were not successful on this occasion Chagall’. the Parkes Institute’s journals, published a one year Arts and Humanities Research unfortunately. I have, of course, been very Throughout the year I have also been working in association with Vallentine Mitchell. Council fellowship, starting October 2010, busy with teaching, and designed two new Dr Dan Levene closely with colleagues in our efforts to take The journal has been strengthened by the worth £72,177. This fellowship will allow me undergraduate modules; ‘From the Czars Ian Karten Lecturer in Jewish History the work of the Institute into new areas. In appointment of Hannah Holtschneider to complete a major monograph on Jewish to the Red Stars’ which looks at the Jewish and Culture February 2010 Professor Tony Kushner and (University of Edinburgh) and Tim Grady Aramaic curse incantations from late antique experience in Imperial and Soviet Russia and A little under two weeks before the start of the The Holocaust Memorial outside I attended the annual conference of the (University of Chester) as co-editor and Mesopotamia. In addition to the book I ‘Jews and non-Jews in the Russian Empire’ teaching year I was thrilled to hear from the Sydney Jewish Museum Australian Association of Jewish Studies, reviews editor respectively, and we are will also give a series of lectures in various which is focused on the 19th century. I also British Council that I had been successful in held at Mandelbaum House, the University of looking to continue to develop its profile universities in the UK and abroad and will taught the MA module on ‘Jewish History securing one of the British-Israel Research Sydney. The conference’s title was ‘Judaism over the next twelve months through the also produce a more accessible account of it and Culture in Eastern Europe’. In March, I and Academic Partnership (BIRAX) awards and the Other’ and my paper, one of thirty- digitisation of back issues. This will make for a popular journal. seven, concerned the representation of a significant difference to the journal’s had the chance to take part in the field trip for funding of £21,926 to cover a year long Judaism in the BBC’s 1954 series Men Seeking accessibility. Over the forthcoming year we to Poland organised by Karen Auerbach for project in collaboration with Prof Gideon Both grants afford me the opportunity to God: An Enquiry into Other Men’s Faiths. While have a number of special editions arranged, her third year students and some of my MA Bohak from the University of Tel-Aviv. make great strides forward in an area of study students. whose significance to the study of Jewish we were in Sydney both Tony and I also including the publication of the proceedings The project, entitled ‘Aramaic Magical Texts history and culture is becoming rapidly delivered public lectures at the excellent, of the Governments-in-Exile conference We explored Jewish and non-Jewish Krakow from Late Antiquity’’ (AMTLA), is focused on apparent. Information about these projects recently renovated Sydney Jewish Museum. organised at Southampton by Jan Lánícek and and Warsaw and visited the extermination comparing the magical literature of Jews in and materials that are the direct result of The success of the conference and the talks the Parkes Institute. camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka. late antiquity to that of the medieval and early at the museum were thanks in no small part 26 27 Far left - left to right: Dan Levene, Professor Colin Shindler and Professor Gideon Bohak at the BIRAX reception, House of Commons in February Centre left: Gideon Bohak and Dan Levene at Tel Aviv University

them will also feed into the Virtual Magic among other things deals with the Holocaust This coming year’s major tasks will include 5-7 September. This year’s theme was ‘The I have been editing Yearbook 12 of the via Vienna and Paris to New York – where Bowl Archive (www.soton.ac.uk/vmba/index. and its hinterland) but also to do urgent work organising a weekend conference on the idea Image and the Prohibition of the Image in Research Centre of German and Austrian he never managed to become a part of the html) which I set up last year – an invaluable relating to climate change either within the of transition universities part of which will Judaism’, covering topics from the Bible to Exile Studies on ‘Exile Politics – Politics musical scene but where he acquired enough tool that has already had positive research and academic milieu or beyond it. be held at Southampton and similarly under the contemporary world, with more than in Exile’. With Professor Lucille Cairns English to make a second career after the learning impacts. the auspices of Crisis Forum at least one more 60 speakers attending. The conference from the University of Durham, I have been War, translating musical comedies into I would summarise my predicament by of the Climate Change and Violence series also marked the launch of a major new preparing a conference on ‘Jewish Identities German. One chapter of his autobiographic One such impact was my contribution to the quoting the great first century sage, rabbi of workshops. Perhaps I should add that in public exhibition organised by the Special in Contemporary Europe’ to be held between poem, ‘Leierkastenodyssee’, encapsulates the catalogue for the unique and phenomenally Tarfon: ‘The day is short, the task is great.’ the classroom this last year I have had some Collections Division, celebrating twenty years 11–13 April 2011 at the Institute of Germanic linguistic and mnemonic consequences of successful exhibition, launched earlier this There is indeed so much to do, and now as wonderful students especially those enthused of the Anglo-Jewish Archives at the University and Romance Studies in London. this life: year called ‘Angels & Demons, Jewish Magic our human community - having failed to through the recently initiated course ‘ In of Southampton. Through the Ages’ at the Bible Lands Museum heed the warnings - heads for catastrophe, Nein, Thomas Muenzer! the Face of Humanity’ which I began with Professor Joachim Schlör in Jerusalem (www.blmj.org/en/current. so little time. Few are listening and mostly, This year of study leave has provided the Nein, Freiherr vom Stein! good colleagues from within and without Parkes Institute Director php?exhID=17). like others in the small band who have opportunity to finish off various projects, Lenz, Klinger, Kleist, Novalis, the School of Humanities two years ago. As The longer I am in England, the stronger dedicated themselves to the task I find myself including a short commentary on Philo’s My collaborations with Dr Siam Bhayro long as there is a younger dynamic but also my ties to the continent seem to become Herr Knesebeck, Herr Kotzebue, oh nein! crying from the wilderness. Of course I On the Decalogue (representing the first (Exeter University), Dr. Rabbi Dalia Marx prescient generation, there is hope. Life (and once there, I start missing England…). Und selbst, cum grano salis, am fortunate to have audiences. And I am modern English-language commentary on (Hebrew Union College) and Dr James Nathan indeed goes on! Invitations this year saw me visit Munich assured that some people are listening. The the earliest commentary of any kind on the Graf Eberhardt der Rauschebart – nein, euch Ford (Bar-Ilan University) this year have also and Vienna in November, Vienna again in challenging presentation I gave this June to Ten Commandments), and to begin a major Vermiss’ ich nicht aus bloßer been ongoing and will yield the publication of Professor Sarah Pearce December, and Budapest in March. The first the International Association of Genocide new project, a new English translation and further Aramaic Incantation texts. Ian Karten Professor of Ancient three events were connected to earlier work Heimatelei, weil ich hier englisch keuch’ was described by one eminent participant as commentary on Philo’s Special Laws for the Jewish Studies (2009 was the year Tel-Aviv celebrated its Mit dem Gemuesegrocer – During the year I made a number of visits to the ‘ Sermon on the Mount’. Should I applaud Society of Biblical Literature/Brill series. This has been a rather extraordinary year 100th birthday) and to my current research, Dr Matthew Ponting (University of Liverpool) or be appalled? This year also sees the appearance of Jewish Doch zog mit Euch die Seele halali for me. A scheduled year of research leave, especially the topic of Migration and the to prepare articles on the subject of the paper Journeys: from Philo to Hip Hop (Vallentine Durch manche Schlangenhaeutung, In the circumstances one can only practice beginning in summer 2009, was thrown off Archive (Ingo Haar’s conference ‘Jewish we presented together at last summer’s Mitchell), co-edited with Tony Kushner and jihad; which means, in its authentic sense, course by a period of illness; but thanks to Migration to the Metropolises of Europe, Durch manchen Scherz, Satire, Ironie conference on Talmudic Archaeology at UCL. James Jordan, a series of essays based on continue ‘trying’. All of what I am attempting our excellent local hospital in Southampton 1848-1918: A Comparative Perspective’) and Und tiefere Bedeutung – In the articles we produce new evidence our biannual conference in collaboration has an underlying Judaic imperative. Readers and unstinting support from the University, the integration of Jewish Folklore Studies/ for recycling technologies of copper alloys with the Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Und Buechners Nervenfieber, Heines Hohn, who are interested may find more by turning I was back at work from February 2010. Volkskunde, into the wider arena of Jewish in late antiquity. The interdisciplinary Town. Finally, I was honoured this year to to the big green Jewish website and in Unfortunately, it was necessary to cancel a Cultural Studies (Barbara Staudinger and Die Rauschgebilde Grabbes approach we achieve by combining expertise be promoted to a personal Chair within particular to the piece ‘Can Jews help to stop number of planned conference and seminar Birgit Johler’s ‘Ist das jüdisch? ‘Jüdische Und Lenaus Wahnsinn wohnen, wo ich wohn’ in archaeological and textual perspectives is the department of History and the Parkes climate change? www.biggreenjewish.org/ engagements. I am very grateful to my Volkskunde’ im historischen Kontext’). Und heiligen meinen Schabbes – unique and one we plan to build upon – watch Institute. articles/can-jews-help-to-stop-climate- Boston-based colleague and co-chair of the this spot! In Budapest, I presented my research on Und Arno Holz, im Arm den Phantasus change-.php published earlier this year in Philo of Alexandria Group at the Society of Dr. Andrea Reiter the author and composer Robert Gilbert for Blechschmiedet seine Glosse This year has also been a busy teaching year Manna. I do have some ‘impact’ if that is Biblical Literature (USA), Dr Ellen Birnbaum Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages the first time. Based on my research in the with many undergraduate and graduate the terminology we now are required to (Honorary Parkes Fellow), for her help and Mir vis-a-vis, wenn ich im Omnibus and Fellow of the Parkes Institute archives of Berlin’s Academy of Arts which I students showing an interest and doing well adopt. In order to publicise the Rescue! support in this period. Ellen saw through to This year, I offered a new MA option tried to conduct in every free minute around Eastside und Westside crosse – in the topics I teach - topics that revolve History volume, History at the End of the a very successful outcome our planning for on ‘Writing Exile’ and I taught it as an the Christmas and Easter holidays, I asked Und in der Subway Rush Hour von Queens around Jewish history and beliefs from World? (published in April)I have been on the two panel discussions on Philo of Alexandria individually negotiated option. I also how we can reconstruct the cultural transfer antiquity to the early medieval period. It was BBC radio 3 programme Nightwaves, and at the Society of Biblical Literature’s Annual Zur Bronx tobt Luetzows wilde contributed a session on the culture of the of American musical culture to post-War a special thrill for me to see my PhD student subsequently on a public panel of the Anglo- Meeting in New Orleans in November 2009: Verwegene Jagd mit mir, und Hoelderlins East European stetl to our ‘Approaches to Germany and Europe. Mike Morris graduate this year having American conference in early July (‘Can ‘Philo and the Bible of Alexandria’; and ‘Philo’s Jewish History and Culture’ module and three Halbirre Abendmilde successfully defended his thesis, ‘Translation policy makers today learn from histories of De Agricultura’. Two further sessions are now Robert Gilbert was born Robert Henry sessions to the Jewish History and Culture Gruesst mich von Zinnen, die den Hudson seh’n, and Commentary of the Syriac Martyrdom the environment?). I have written a blog for scheduled on ‘Philo and the Roman World’ Winterfeld into a Jewish family in East Berlin, research skills module. Text, the Slave of Christ’. the Heritage Key website ‘10 Good Reasons for the Society of Biblical Literature’s Annual in 1899. The son of a successful Operetta Und Eckensteher Ede Why the Past can Offer us Help on Climate Meeting in Atlanta, November 2010. In March I delivered a paper to the Life composer, Jean Gilbert, he tried to balance his Und Nante, die am Drugstore Corner steh’n, Dr Mark Levene Change’ and I am a contributor to a new Histories seminar series in Modern own career between left-wing working class As President of the British Association for Orakeln stante pede Reader in Comparative History documentary film, ‘Beyond the Tipping Point? Languages and in June I contributed a songs (‘Stempellied ’, with Hanns Eisler’s Jewish Studies (BAJS) for the year 2010, I Mit mir vom Ersten Mai! Und ploetzlich knallt 2009-10 was a significant year for me in the Conversations on Climate, Action and the session on second-generation Jewish writers music) and the lighter muse of the operetta. was responsible, with a team of colleagues sense that this was the first year in which Future’, released in July 2010. Additionally in Austria to the Parkes’ Institute Cultural Author of some of the most popular songs In die Berliner Dreiheit – from the Parkes Institute and the Special I experimented with a half-time salaried I am currently organising a first syllabus Event 2010 ‘Jewish Life Before and After the in the German language and a particpant in Whopee! – der Vierte Juli in Gestalt Collections Division of the Hartley Library, existence. This has been to enable me not only on climate change and history for the HEA Holocaust’. the biggest success of them all, ‘Im weißen for organising the annual conference, held Der Knallbonbons der Freiheit. to continue writing a mega-work, volume 3 of History Subject Centre. Rößl’ (‘Little White Horse Inn’), Gilbert here at the University of Southampton from Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State (which had to leave his native Berlin and emigrate

28 29 Special Collections Report

As we can see, Germany, ‘ein alter Anzug, Dr Helen Spurling My research feeds into all the outreach weggehaengt’ (the ‘old suit, put away’) is Ian Karten Research and Outreach Fellow initiatives that I organise and deliver. It somehow still there, at least in terms of I have been at the Parkes Institute for over focuses on three interrelated themes centred language, and in the names of the German a year now, and it has been an absolutely on the interpretation of midrashic literature, poets who are somehow ‘with him’ even fantastic experience. I think it is important namely, Jewish-Christian Relations, Jewish though he by now lives in New York. I feel to introduce academic research to the History from biblical times to Late Antiquity, closely connected to all these stories about widest possible audience, and my outreach and Eschatology and Messianism. the losses and gains of language(s) in the activities over the last year have allowed me One of my major research projects is migration processes. Translation seems to to put this into effect. It has been incredibly investigation of the relationship between be the keyword for Robert Gilbert’s life-story rewarding to take my research and teaching Jewish and Christian exegesis of the book of and I will try to write that story during my and that of members of the Parkes Institute Genesis. This work examines a broad range research leave this coming autumn. to the wider community through a series of of rabbinic interpretations of the book of Apart from my responsibilities as director of educational initiatives. This year, building Genesis from the beginning of the rabbinic the Parkes Institute – part duty (meetings on existing activities, I have developed a era to early medieval times, which are studied and administration) and part pleasure (the comprehensive programme of outreach in light of the exegesis of Genesis from meetings with Dame Julia Neuberger, the work from the Parkes Institute focused on Church Fathers of the eastern tradition. Brill Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir Stuart both schools and colleges and the wider are publishing the results of this research Rose) – I have convened our MA in Jewish community, as is outlined elsewhere in the in their ‘Jewish and Christian Perspectives’ History and Culture with an exceptionally Annual Report. The support and enthusiasm Series to be in print in 2010/11. good group of students, I have taught my of members of Parkes for outreach work A second major research project I am working Special Subject on ‘Modern Israel’ and I have has been dedicated and unwavering. Also, Dr Karen Robson Cohen was an influential figure in Anglo- on is to complete revisions of my work on tried to make students aware that there is much of my work has been in partnership Senior Archivist Jewry in the first part of the twentieth Pirqe Mashiah, a Hebrew apocalyptic text, something in and to Israel beyond the conflict. with and facilitated by my connection with The Special Collections Division continues to century, serving as senior minister at the for Mohr Siebeck in the Series ‘Texte und I am happy to hand the directorship (and the UK Student Recruitment and Outreach make important additions to its holdings of Birmingham Hebrew Congregation for nearly Studien zum antiken Judentum’. This project James Parkes’ walking stick) back to Tony Office and as a team we were pleased to be Anglo-Jewish Archives. The most notable new forty years, before being elected as President focuses on a translation, commentary and Kushner and wish him good luck. awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Award this collection relating to organisations is that of of the Board of Deputies in 1949, an office he year in recognition of contributions to introduction to Pirqe Mashiah. The work the Jewish Youth Fund. The JYF was founded held for six years. Dr Cohen was the author of Dr François Soyer the University of Southampton. I was also pays close attention to apologetic motifs as with the aim of promoting and protecting some thirty books including Ancient Jewish Lecturer in History appointed Academic Director of the Part-time a possible response to streams of Christian religious, moral, educational, physical Proverbs (1911), The Teachings of Maimonides Programme Unit in Humanities, which not thought and also addresses responses to the This year I have been continuing my research and social interests of young members (1927), as editor of the Soncino Books of the only facilitates my work on Parkes lifelong rise of Islam. in Spanish and Portuguese archives on of the Jewish community in the United Bible (1945-51) and of the Soncino Pentateuch learning evening classes and events, but the persecution, by the Holy Office of the Kingdom and it provides grants to Jewish (1947). The range of subjects covered by the gives me the opportunity to develop learning Inquisition, of crypto-Jews/conversos in early organisations involved with youth work. The sermons illustrates the width of Dr Cohen’s opportunities in a range of subjects for the Modern Spain and Portugal and completing archive contains committee papers as well interests as well as the depth of his learning wider community. I very much look forward an article entitled ‘ “It is not possible to as registers of directors from 1937 onwards, and knowledge. One of his sermons, dealing to building on and expanding all of these be both a Jew and a Christian”: Converso together with papers relating to applications with Jews and citizenship, will appear in the outreach activities over the next year. Religious Identity and the Inquisitorial Trial from organisations given assistance from the Special Collections exhibition opening in September 2010. of Custodio Nunes (1604-5)’, which will be In addition to my outreach work, I have been Fund. published in the peer-reviewed Mediterranean involved in teaching on the MA in Jewish The Division also has acquired the research 2010 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Studies Review later this year. Future research History and Culture skills module. I always papers of Geoffrey Green relating to the accession of many of our Jewish collections. will continue to focus on this theme and will value the opportunity to teach about the history of Jewish personnel in the Royal Navy An exhibition ‘Faithful, dutiful, helpful citizens’: seek to expand into the fate of Conversos in rabbinic period, and midrash in particular, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. the Anglo-Jewish community and its archives the early modern New World (Mexico and and hopefully pass on my enthusiasm and Top: Girls in the library of Baron St George’s Jewish This collection provides an invaluable insight will run in the Special Collections Exhibition Settlement, 1930. Peru). interest for these subjects to others. I am Gallery from 6 September – 20 October 2010, into the connection of the Jewish community Above: A demonstration outside Wembley Arena by the looking forward to expanding my teaching with this service. with a special preview on 5 September for the Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry, 1980s further next year with a new first year module BAJS conference. It focuses especially on on Apocalyptic Literature. Another very significant recently arrived the identity and representation of the Jewish collection is that of several hundred sermons peoples. by Revd Dr Abraham Cohen (1887-1957).

30 31 Parkes Library Report Publications and Papers by members of the Parkes Institute

Parkes Librarian, printed collections, Devorah Baum Michael H. Kater, Never Sang for Hitler: The the Hartley Library Papers: Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann. Oxford, 2008. This year has seen further progress on the ‘Jewish Guilt’, public lecture for the German History, 27/4: 618-19 (2009). cataloguing of the books from the Institute for Parkes Institute, Southampton University, Jewish Policy Research, with work beginning 1 Dec 2009. Papers on the substantial collection of over 3,000 ‘The Racial State after Hitler: Remembering ‘Bris Milah’ informal seminar for the Parkes pamphlets, also deposited by the JPR. The the Nazi Past in South Africa, 1945-1960’, Institute, Southampton University, pamphlets range in date from late nineteenth Association for African Studies UK annual 19 Jan 2010 to late twentieth century, and provide conference (September 2010) contemporary views and interpretations ‘Acting your Age: Grown-Up Women on ‘Representations of Anne Frank in Apartheid of many aspects of Jewish history. Subjects Screen’, lecture for Speakeasy Film and South Africa’, British Association for Jewish include Zionism, Jewish refugees, anti- Dinner Club, London Film School, Studies conference (September 2010). Semitism, the Holocaust, Inter-faith relations, 26 Jan 2010. Jewish communities, Palestine and Israel. The ‘The music of resistance in the struggle ‘Derrida and the Jewish Question’, conference collection adds to the 2,000 pamphlets which against apartheid’, Steven S. Weinstein paper for International Association of formed part of the original Parkes Library and Holocaust Symposium (June 2010). Philosophy and Literature, University of which James Parkes valued as providing the Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, ‘Holocaust Memory in Apartheid South ‘day to day savour’ of earlier times. 24-31 May 2010. Africa’, Transcultural Memory conference, The processing of the major deposits and University of London (February 2010). ‘Touching the Void’, conference paper for donations of recent years has resulted in an British Association for Jewish Studies, Holocaust Memorial Day address and panel accumulation of over 2,000 duplicate books Southampton University, 6 Sept 2010. discussion University of Sussex (January and as part of the agreement with the Diane 2010) and Guilford Glazer Institute of Jewish Dr Shirli Gilbert Studies at Nanjing University, seventy-five ‘Music amongst Jewish Displaced Persons Publications boxes of books have been packed and shipped after the Holocaust’, American Musicological to Nanjing for addition to the Institute’s La música en el holocausto. Una manera de Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia Library. confrontar la vida en los ghetos y en los campos (November 2009). nazis, traducción de María Julia de Rusch. Further donations have been made to the Eterna Cadencia Editora, 2010 (translation of ‘Music in Displaced Persons’ Camps after the Parkes Library during the year, these include Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Holocaust’, Music and Migration Conference, a set of the Encyclopaedia Hebraica (Jerusalem, Nazi Ghettos and Camps, Oxford University University of Southampton (October 2009). 1949-1980) 32 vols., from the collection of Press 2005). Moshe Ish-Horowicz and Der Babylonische Dr James Jordan Talmud L. Goldschmidt (1925) 21 vols., a gift of ‘Jews and the Racial State: Legacies of the Publications: the Wald family. Holocaust in Apartheid South Africa, 1945- ‘“What we have gained is infinitely more than 1960’ (under review) that small loss”: Rudolph Cartier and The The Parkes Library and Jewish Studies web Dybbuk at the BBC’ in James Jordan, Tony pages continue to be revised and a list of web ‘Music and the Holocaust’ in Jonathan C. Kushner and Sarah Pearce, Jewish Journeys based resources was also included in the Friedman, ed., The Routledge History of the (Vallentine Mitchell, 2010). research guide produced for further education Holocaust (London: Routledge, forthcoming) students undertaking the Extended Project ‘‘‘We Long for a Home”: Songs and Survival James Jordan, Tony Kushner and Sarah Qualification as part of the University’s among Jewish Displaced Persons’ in “We Are Pearce, eds., Jewish Journeys (Vallentine ‘Learn with US Programme’. Here”: New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Mitchell, 2010). Persons in Post-war Germany (2010), ed. A. J. Editor, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture Patt & M. Berkowitz. Detroit: Wayne State and History. University Press, pp. 289-307. Papers: Reviews Talk: ‘Jews and Jewishness in British Jo_a Karas, Music in Terezín 1941-1945, 2nd ed. Television’, Jewish Identities workshop Pendragon Press, 2009. organized by Dr Ruth Gilbert (University of Christopher Nupen, dir. The Wonder and the Winchester), Winchester, November 2009. Grace of Alice Sommer Herz: Everything is a Seminar paper: ‘Televising Gian-Carlo Present. Allegro Films, 2009. Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street’, History Musica Judaica Online Reviews (forthcoming) and Culture of Sound research group, Southampton, January 2010. Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany. Princeton, 2007. Patterns of Prejudice, 44/3 (2010). 32 33 Conference paper, ‘Images of the Other: Papers ‘Exodus 1947: Movement of the People?’ ‘Weapons of the Strong, What will states do ‘Die Geschichte der Marranen, ein Paradigma ‘Konstruktionen und Imaginationen vom Judaism and Men Seeking God’, Sydney, ‘Jewish Families and Migration’, Annual British Association for Jewish Studies Annual in response to climate change? ‘ Movement jüdischer Identität in Österreich nach der Heiligen Land im deutschen Judentum. February 2010. Conference of the Jewish Genealogical Conference, University of Southampton, against War Remembrance Day Lecture, Shoah? Robert Menasses Die Vertreibung Berichte von unterwegs’, Aschkenas. Zeitschrift September 2010. Imperial War Museum, London, 8 November aus der Hölle’, in: Aschkenas. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden, 17. Jg., Public lecture, ‘Rudolph Cartier’s Jewish Society of Great Britain, October 2009. 2009. für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden, 20/1 (Themenschwerpunkt: Neuland – Migration Journey’, Sydney Jewish Museum, February ‘Writing Refugee History: or not’, ‘Remembering Refugees’, Working Class (forthcoming, 2010). mitteleuropäischer Juden, hg. v. Martha 2010. International Conference on Refugees, ‘The Elephant in the Room: How we integrate Movement Library, Manchester, October Keil, Peter Rauscher, Barbara Staudacher). Birkbeck College, September 2010. climate change into our teaching : some Der erzählte Jude. Der autobiographische Seminar paper: ‘Antisemitism in Post-war 2009. Tübingen 2009, pp.167-183. views from the Rescue!History’ network,’ at Gestus in den Texten jüdischer Schriftsteller British Television: The BBC and the Board Tony Kushner and Gerard Noiriel in the ‘Holocaust Bystanders’, Menorah Synagogue, the University of Winchester, 10 December und Schriftstellerinnen, in: Michael of Deputies’, One-day workshop on Race, debate on ‘Asylum and National History’, City Papers Cheshire, Annual Shoah Symposium, 2009, the University of Southampton, 12 Boehringer/Susanne Hochreiter eds.: Southampton, April 2010. University, March 2010. ‘Eine Riviera für die Juden auf der ganzen November 2009. January 2010, and the Birmingham University Zeitenwende. Österreichische Literatur seit dem Welt. 100 Jahre Tel-Aviv’, Jüdische Kulturtage Seminar paper: ‘The Myth of Silence: British Tony Kushner, ‘Negotiating and Narrating environmental history seminar series, 27 Millennium, 2000-2010 (2011 forthcoming). ‘Migrant Journeys’, Wilberforce Institute, München, 18 November 2009. Television and the Holocaust, 1946-1961’, Homelessness: Refugees from the 1930s’, January 2010. Hull University, December 2009. ‘Das Schreiben der Kinder von Exilanten’, in: Southampton, May 2010. in Barbara Schaff (ed.), Exiles, Emigres ‘Jewish Cultural Studies: Eine neue Heimat für ‘The amplification or disintegration of Handbuch der österreichischen Exilliteratur, ed. ‘Antisemitism in the Contemporary World: and Intermediaries: Anglo-Italian Cultural die Jüdische Volkskunde?’, Konferenz , ‘Ist das Public lecture: ‘From East End to EastEnders: genocide. Should we forecast future prospects Evelyn Adunka et. al. (2011 forthcoming). An Alternative Perspective, Limmud Annual Transactions (Rodophi: Amsterdam, 2010), jüdisch? Jüdische Volkskunde im historischen Jewish Life on British Television’, Parkes for mass violence in an age of anthropogenic Conference, Warwick University, December pp.255-67. Kontext’, Wien, Institut für Geschichte der Institute One-day lecture series, June 2010. climate change?’ Sheffield University, Centre Sarah Pearce 2009. Juden in Österreich und Österreichisches for the study of genocide and mass violence, 11 Publications Sixth-form lecture, with Jan Lánícek: Dan Levene Museum für Volkskunde, 19 November 2009. ‘Jews and the Titanic’, Limmud conference, December 2009. James Jordan, Tony Kushner, Sarah Pearce, ‘Approaches to the Holocaust: An Publications: December 2009. eds, Jewish Journeys: from Philo to Hip Hop ‘Conclusion and Perspectives’, Conference, Introduction to Controversies and Challenges Levene, Dan, ‘Amuletic skulls’, in Angels and ‘Weapons of the Strong, What will states (Portland, OR; Vallentine Mitchell, 2010). ‘Jewish Migration to the Metropolises in Studying the Holocaust’, Taunton’s College, ‘Windermere and Holocaust Survivors’, Demons, Jewish Magic Through the Ages, ed. do in response to climate change, A post- (also published as a special issue of Jewish of Europe, 1848-1918: A Comparative Southampton, June 2010. Southampton Holocaust and Genocide by F. Vukosavovi_ (Jerusalem: Bible Lands Copenhagen view,’ Council on Christian Culture and History 11.1-2, 2009). Perspective’, Vienna, 13 December 2009. Memorial Day, January 2010. Museum, 2010), pp. 150-153. Approaches to Defence and Disarmament Sixth-form lecture: ‘Exploring Jewish/non- (CCADD), Eccleston Square, London, 20 Jordan, Kushner, Pearce, ‘Introduction: the ‘Modern Photography in Tel-Aviv’, Annual Jewish Relations through Television’, Parkes ‘Wandering Lonely Jews’, Australian Mark Levene January 2010. Nature of Jewish Journeys’, in Jewish Journeys, Lecture for the British Association of Jewish one-day workshop for local schools, July 2010. Association for Jewish Studies Annual Publications 3-24. Studies, University of Southampton, 18 Conference, Sydney, February 2010. ‘Being a Secular (Jewish )Historian in a Time (with Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts), January 2010. Tony Kushner of Crisis’, University of Plymouth (History Pearce, ‘Egypt on the Pentateuch’s Map ‘Exodus 1947’, Sydney Jewish Museum, eds., History at the End of the World? History, Publications and Faith series), 24 February 2010. of Migration in the Writings of Philo of ‘ “Es grünt so grün”: Robert Gilbert und der February 2010. Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure ‘Foreword’ to Susan Cohen, Rescue the Alexandria’, in Jewish Journeys, pp.165-181. Transfer US-amerikanischer Musical-Kultur (Humanities Ebooks, 2010), author, ‘Defending “Business as Usual” or creating Perishing: Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees ‘Migrant Journeys’, Portsmouth University ins Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit’, Lecture introduction, ‘A Chronicle of a Death conditions for radical renewal? How will ‘Philo and the Temple Scroll’, in Kristin de (Vallentine Mitchell, 2010), pp.ix-xii. Annual Lecture, Centre for European and Series in Jewish Studies, Eötvös-Loránd Foretold?’ pp. 13-33. the University respond to the accelerating Troyer, Armin Lange, Shani Tzoref, eds, International Studies Research, March 2010. University Budapest, 22 March 2010. ‘Anglo-Jewish Museology and Heritage, 1887 crisis of the biosphere?’ LASS postgraduate The Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls ‘Afterword : From Past to Future: Prospects to the Present’, Journal for the Study of British ‘The British and American Governments and conference, keynote lecture, University of (Vandenhoeck and Rupprecht) (in press). ‘The Future of Urban Studies’, Urban for Genocide and its Avoidance in the 21st Cultures (2009), pp.11-25. the Holocaust’, International Conference, Southampton, 28 April 2010. Laboratory, University of London Annual Century’, in Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk ‘Governments in Exile and the Holocaust’, Papers Lecture, 8 June 2010. ‘Saul Friedlander, Holocaust Historiography Moses, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide ‘The Elephant in the Room, Anthropogenic University of Southampton, March 2010. ‘Philo and the Second Commandment’ and the Use of Testimony’, in Christian Wiese Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Climate Change, Genocide Studies and (British Association for Jewish Studies, and Paul Betts (eds), Years of Persecution, Years ‘Antisemitism in the Contemporary Britain’, 2010), pp. 638-659. the Challenge before us. ‘ keynote lecture, University of Southampton, 5 September of Extermination: Saul Friedlander and the ‘Islamophobia and Antisemitism Compared’, International Network of Genocide Scholars, ‘The Apocalyptic as Contemporary 2010). Future of Holocaust Studies (Continuum, 2010), conference, University of Southampton, May 2nd Global Conference on Genocide, Dialectic: From Thanatos (Violence) to Eros pp.67-80. 2010. University of Sussex, 28 June 2010. (Transformation),’ in Stefan Skrimshire ed. Joachim Schlör ‘The Nature of Jewish Journeys: An ‘Eleanor Rathbone’, launch of Susan Cohen’s Future Ethics, Climate Change and Apocalyptic Publications biography, Westminster Abbey, June 2010. Andrea Reiter Introduction’, in James Jordan, Tony Kushner Imagination (London and New York: Publications ‘How to cook in Palestine: Kurfürstendamm and Sarah Pearce (eds), Jewish Journeys: From Continuum, 2010), pp. 59-80. meets Rehov Ben Yehuda’, in Gideon Reuveni, ‘Holocaust Survivors in Post War Britain’, ‘Das Exil der zweiten Generation’, Die Furche Philo to Hip Hop (Vallentine Mitchell, 2010), Nils Roemer (eds), Longing, Belonging and Parkes Institute Day School, ‘Jewish Life ‘Can Jews Help to stop Climate Change?’, (forthcoming, 2010). pp.3-20. the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture. IJS Before and After the Holocaust’, University of Manna Essay, 107, Spring, 2010, pp. 1-4. ‘Das “Ende der Nachkriegszeit” im Werk von Studies in Judaica, 11, Leiden and Boston: Brill ‘Cowards or Heroes? Jewish Journeys, Jewish Southampton, June 2010. Anna Mitgutsch’, in: Julian Preece/Frank 2010, pp.163-182. Families and the Titanic’ in Jordan, Kushner Papers ‘Anglo-Jewish History: The Importance of the Finlay (eds): Religion in Recent German Culture, and Pearce (eds), Jewish Journeys, pp. 240-66. ‘Introduction’, Crisis Forum Climate Change ‘Berlin 1900’, in Christian Hermansen Cordua ‘Local’, Jewish Historical Society of England, Berne: Lang 2010 (forthcoming). and Violence: workshop 3 at the Institute of (ed), Manifestoes and Transformations in the Tony Kushner and Gerard Noiriel in the Leeds, July 2010. Commonwealth Affairs, University of London, Early Modernist City. Aldershot: Ashgate 2010, debate on ‘Asylum and National History’, City ‘The Language of Survival’, 18th International 9 October 2009, workshop 4 at the Praxis pp.155-170. University, March 2010._ Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Centre, Leeds Metropolitan University, 27 Southampton, September 2010. November 2009.

34 35 Members of the Parkes Institute The Parkes Institute and Library Friends Membership Programme

The Management Committee Honorary Fellows Dr Jo Reilly The ongoing financial support that Friends of the Parkes Institute of the Parkes Institute of the Parkes Institute and Library give is Donation Form Dr Gemma Romain invaluable in helping us to continue the 1. Your Details Dr Bill Brooks Dr Peter Batty (Newcastle University) Associate Dean (education) of Law Arts and lifework of James Parkes. You can help us by Name Dr Ellen Birnbaum Social Sciences Professor Mark Roseman becoming a Friend. Membership costs £20 (or (University of Boston) Address (Chair) (Indiana University, Bloomington) a larger amount if you choose) for a year. The Dr Mishtooni Bose Scheme offers its members: Professor Jane Falkingham Barbara Rosenbaum (Christ Church, Oxford) Associate Dean of Law Arts and Social Sciences - Free use of the Library Professor Miri Rubin Postcode Dr Aimée Bunting Dr Oren Ben-Dor (Queen Mary, University of London) - A copy of the Parkes Institute Annual Report Tel Email (Law) Dr Tobias Brinkmann Dr Gavin Schaffer - Invitations to book launches and receptions I would like my gift to remain anonymous (Penn State University) (Portsmouth University) Dr Mark Brown - Early notification of Parkes Institute University Librarian I am interested in more information about making a gift in my Will Professor David Cesarani Professor Clare Ungerson lectures and conferences (Royal Holloway, University of London) 2. Gift Aid Declaration Professor Chris Woolgar Dr Nadia Valman - A printed copy of any published Parkes Head of Special Collections Professor Bryan Cheyette (Queen Mary, University of London) Lectures If you are a UK taxpayer, this Gift Aid declaration enables the University of Southampton to reclaim (University of Reading) the basic rate of tax paid on your gift, increasing its value by almost one-third at no extra cost to you. Dr Karen Robson Prof. Malcolm Wagstaff - Concessionary rates for conferences Deputy Head of Special Collections Julie Clague BSc, MTh, (Emeritus Professor, University of I wish the University of Southampton to treat all donations I have made in the past 4 years and University of Glasgow - Tour of the Archives Ms Jenny Ruthven Southampton) all future donations that I make from the date of this declaration as Gift Aid donations Parkes Librarian - Option to subscribe to a range of Parkes- Rev. Richard Coggins Dr Klaus Weber (Emeritus Professor, King’s College, related journals at special reduced rates Professor Bernard Harris (University of London) Signed Date University of London) (Social Sciences) Dr Abigail Wood You may also support the work of the Dr Susan Cohen Please note: In order to Gift Aid your donation, you must have paid an amount of tax/capital Ms Katherine O’Brien SOAS Parkes Institute and Library by: gains tax at least equal to the tax we reclaim on your donation. If in the future you no longer pay (Development Office) - Arranging regular payments via a standing Prof. Henry Ettinghausen tax on your income and capital gains equal to the tax the University reclaims, you can cancel your (Emeritus Professor, University of Patrons of the Parkes Institute order with your bank declaration by contacting the Office of Development & Alumni Relations. The Board of Studies Professor Martin Goodman FBA Southampton) - Donation of relevant printed material and of the Parkes Institute Dr Ruth Gilbert Right Rev. Richard Harries, documents Please notify us if you change your name/address/tax status while the declaration is still in force. Dr Devorah Baum Bishop of Oxford (University College, Winchester) - Single cash or card donations If you pay tax at the higher rate you can claim further tax relief in your self-assessment tax return. Ms Frances Clarke Dr Tim Grady Sir Ronald Harwood CBE FRSL Administrator of the Parkes Institute - Leaving a gift in your will 3. Gift Details (University of Chester) Sir Gordon Higginson Dr Shirli Gilbert The University of Southampton is an ‘Exempt I would like to become a Friend of the Parkes Institute and Library. Please send me an Professor Colin Holmes Right Rev. Crispian Hollis Charity’ (Inland Revenue reference number application form for an external borrowers’ ticket. Professor Tony Kushner (Professor Emeritus, Sheffield University) Bishop of Portsmouth X19140) as noted in the Second Schedule of I would like to help the development of Jewish Studies at the University of Southampton and Dr James Jordan the 1960 Charities Act. Professor Brian Klug Mr Ian Karten, MBE and the realising of Parkes Institute objectives in relation to education, research and building and (St Benet’s, Oxford) Dr Claire LeFoll Mrs Mildred Karten promoting the Parkes Library collections. Dr Dan Levene Dr Tom Lawson Dr Elizabeth Maxwell would like to give a single gift of: (University College, Winchester) £20 £30 £50 £75 Other £ Dr Mark Levene Sir Howard Newby Prof. Rodney Livingstone By either: Professor Sarah Pearce (Emeritus Professor, Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger Card (see section 4) Cheque/CAF voucher (payable to the University of Southampton) University of Southampton) Dr Andrea Reiter Lord Plant of Highfield Or Dr Graham Macklin Professor Joachim Schlör Lady Helen Oppenheimer I would like to make a regular gift of: Head of the Parkes Institute (University of Westminster) £10 £20 £30 £50 Other £ Professor Peter Pulzer Dr François Soyer Dr Sophia Marshman Per: Month Quarter (see section 5) (Portsmouth University) Frederick Raphael Esq. Dr Helen Spurling Dr Joanna Newman Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks Continued over leaf Fellows of the Parkes Institute (British Library) Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth Dr Oren Ben-Dor Mr Gerald Normie Right Rev. Michael Scott-Joynt (Law) Bishop of Winchester Dr Stuart Olesker Dr David Glover (Portsmouth University) Professor Geza Vermes, FBA (English) Professor Tessa Rajak Most Rev. Rowan Williams Dr Bernard Harris (University of Reading) Archbishop of Canterbury (Social Science) 36 37 Donation Form continued 4. Card Payments (single gift payments only) I would like to donate £

Type of Card Visa Mastercard Maestro Delta Card Number

Expiry Date Start Date Issue Number (Maestro)

Security Code last three digits on the reserve of your card

Name on card

Signed Date

5. Direct Debit I would like to make a regular donation to the University of Southampton of £

Per month Per quarter 2 0 via direct debit starting on the 5th of for years This should be at least one month from date this form is completed.

I have completed the Direct Debit instructions below.

Instruction to your Bank or Building Society to pay for Direct Debit Please complete the whole form using a ball point pen and return to: Office of Development and Alumni Relations, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ Name and full postal address for your Bank or Building Society: To the Manager (Bank or Building Society) Address Thank you for your support Postcode Please return your completed form to: Name of account holder Frances Clarke, The Parkes Institute, Sort Code Account Number School of Humanities, University of Southampton, Service User Number 2 5 3 4 8 9 Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ

Reference (for office use only) More information is available from: Instruction to your Bank or Building Society: Please pay the University of Southampton Direct Debits from the account detailed in this Instruction subject to the safeguards assured by the The Office of Development and Alumni Direct Debit Guarantee. I understand that this instruction may remain with the University of Relations Southampton, and if so, details will be passed electronically to my Bank/Building Society. University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO 17 I BJ. Signed Date Telephone (023) 8059 6895 Banks and Building Societies may not accept Direct Debit instructions for some types of account. UK Bank Accounts only. Email: [email protected]

The Direct Debit Guarantee - This Guarantee is offered by all banks and building societies that accept instructions to pay Direct Debits - If there are any changes to the amount, date or frequency of your Direct Debit the University of Southampton will notify you 10 working days in advance of your account being debited or as otherwise agreed. If you request the University of Southampton to collect a payment, confirmation of the amount and date will be given to you at the time of the request. - If an error is made in the payment of your Direct Debit by the University of Southampton or your bank or building society, you are entitled to a full and immediate refund of the amount paid from your bank or building society. - If you receive a refund you are not entitled to, you must pay it back when the University of Southampton asks you to - You can cancel a Direct Debit at any time by simply contacting your bank or building society. Written confirmation may be required. Please also notify us. www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes [email protected] +44(0)23 8059 2261