The Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations Annual Review 2015 - 2016 In summer 2016, Kathrin Pieren and Tony Kushner organised the first Parkes International Workshop on 1 Jewish Heritage, generously supported by the Rothschild Foundation Europe (Hanadiv). See page 13 for the full report. Here, the value of the hand-in-hand of museum work and academic research was illustrated by the excellent talk by Dr Alla Sokolova, Curator at the State Museum of the History Religions in St Petersburg and Lecturer at the European University of St Petersburg. She presented the results of a field study related to an exhibition of Jewish family heirlooms that she organised a few years ago. The exhibits, many of them everyday items such as photographs or pieces of clothing, were charged with meaning by the lenders, Jewish individuals, some of whom are shown in the pictures on this page.
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2 1. Natalia F. shows her 2 father’s tallit 2. Boris F. with a Kiddush glass 3. Ulia O. with candlesticks and a wine decanter 4. The Holy Union Temple in Bucharest 5. Mrs. L. during the interview 6. Mr Futeran at his home in Tomash’pol 7. INGER Hersh (cover), KHASHCHEVATSKY M. (text), In Shveren Gang, Kharkov, 1929
5 In this review Report of the Director of the Parkes Institute, Professor Joachim Schlör 4 The Parkes Jubilee Celebrations 7 In memoriam David Cesarani (1956 to 2015) 8 Parkes Institute Outreach Report 2015-16 10 Conferences, Workshops, Lecturers and Seminars 13 Journals of the Parkes Institute 16 Development 17 Internationalisation 18 6 MA report 19 The Moss Memorial Prizes 2015-2016 21 Reports by Parkes Postgraduates 22 Reports by Parkes Friends and Honorary Fellows 23 Reports by Academic Members of the Parkes Institute 24 Special Collections Report 32 Publications, Papers, Talks and Awards by Members of the Parkes Institute 33 Members of the Parkes Institute 36 The Parkes Institute and Library Friends Membership Programme 37
3 Report of the Director of the Parkes Institute Professor Joachim Schlör Support for refugees and the commitment to take a clear stand against all forms of xenophobia and antisemitism belong to the legacy of James Parkes whose library – donated to the University of Southampton in 1964 – remains the foundation on which the Institute is built.
4 Dr Anna Koch joins the team
Last year’s seminar series began with a presentation by Barbara Loftus, an artist based in Brighton. In her artwork, the painter brings to life the evidence she has found in the German State Archives to reconstruct the lost Berlin world of her German-Jewish mother, Hildegard, and the fate of her family:
Barbara also presented the 30 minute film and the discussion panel was chaired by resource centre Jewish Heritage Europe, ‘Lieder ohne Worte’ which accompanied her writer and film-maker Naomi Gryn. This Cilly Kugelmann, the programme director Berlin exhibition at the Ephraim Palais in event was the last in a series of lectures, of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, and Jakub 2013. For me, this quiet and modest work, an workshops and outreach activities that Nowakowski, the director of the Jewish individual’s very personal approach to the celebrated the development of the Parkes Museum Galicia in Krakow. The aim of this overly-large events of the 20th Century and Library and Institute over the last 50 years. conference was to bring together academics, their over-loud resonance in our It also highlighted the growing presence of heritage practitioners, students and anybody contemporary lives, stands symbolically for the Parkes Institute, and the University, interested in Jewish heritage to exchange the work we have all done at the Parkes in London. experiences, develop skills, expand their Institute over the last year. Admittedly, there professional networks and establish working We will relaunch our London-based MA are ‘big’ topics to discuss, and we don’t shy partnerships. It was an important aim to programme in Jewish History and Culture in away from them, the most important surely assemble speakers and participants from the October 2016, and preparations have been being the arrival of refugees from Syria and entire heritage sector, including archives, made throughout the summer. The other countries on the shores of the European museums and built heritage conservation, programme will take place at the JW3 Jewish continent – Tony Kushner reports on his because we believe that these areas and Cultural Centre on Finchley Road and will be experience of a visit to the island of institutions share many challenges and could led by our new teaching fellow Dr Anna Koch. Lampedusa in these pages. Support for benefit from closer collaboration. The Anna’s PhD dissertation, ‘Home after refugees and the commitment to take a clear workshop was supported by the Rothschild Fascism? How Italian and German Jews stand against all forms of xenophobia and Foundation Europe, and we hope that it was Rebuilt their Lives in their Countries of antisemitism belong to the legacy of James just the first in a series of further conferences. Origin, 1945-1955’ was supervised by Marion Parkes whose library – donated to the Andrea Reiter acted as the co-host of this Kaplan at NYU. She has put together an University of Southampton in 1964 – remains year’s Gesellschaft für Exilforschung annual exciting teaching programme for London- the foundation on which the Institute is built. conference in Aberystwyth. More based students and I am happy to welcome In the same way we all are dedicated to the information on this and other events, among her to the team. strengthening of Interfaith Dialogue. This them Claire Le Foll’s workshop on ‘Shades of was made very visible at a public event at Kathrin Pieren and Tony Kushner organised Soviet Jewish Life’, can be found later on West London Synagogue last June. Our guest a well-attended workshop on ‘Jewish Heritage these pages. speakers were Baroness Julia Neuberger, Lord and Its Communities’. Speakers included Richard Harries and Imam Monowar Hussain, Ruth Ellen Gruber, who heads the online
5 Baroness Julia Neuberger at the Jewish cemetery The Warsaw Ghetto map on a monument in the The POLIN Museum and Nathan Rapaport’s in Heilbronn, 28 January 2016 district of Muranów, Ghetto Monument
Still, the centre of our work lies in the It is of the highest importance to save, to James Jordan has taken over our Outreach research activities of our members. A wide store, to document, and to analyse such work from Helen Spurling and is leading a temporal and spatial range of topics, from individual sources. But they also need to be group of dedicated MA and PhD students who Antiquity to the modern era, is covered, as made accessible to a wider public, in actively promote the ideas of the Parkes you will see in the individual reports. For the museums and other heritage institutions. Institute to schools and to the general public. purpose of this introduction, I would like to Last year’s Parkes Lecture was delivered by Helen’s and James’ outreach report can be focus on the field that the artist Barbara the Chief Curator of the core exhibition in the found later on these pages. Loftus has made so impressively her own: newly-opened POLIN Museum of the History As ever, I would like to thank all colleagues, German-Jewish history and culture, and the of Polish Jews. Professor Barbara including Jenny Ruthven at the Parkes Library emigration of Jews from Germany after 1933 Kirshenblatt-Gimblett discussed the and Karen Robson from Special Collections as a transnational experience: Shirli Gilbert challenge ‘to recover a thousand-year history and all admin staff, Lorraine Rood and Tracy has recently completed a book, ‘From Things of Jewish life in the very places where millions Storey in particular, for their dedicated work. Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the of Jews perished’. The POLIN Museum was I also extend my thanks to Joanna Watts and Holocaust’ a study based on the letters of awarded the ‘European Museum of the Year’ her team at the Office for Development and Rudolf Schwab, a German-Jewish refugee prize, and we are very proud that Barbara Alumni Relations for all the efforts they have who fled to South Africa in 1936. Through the found the time to come to Southampton and made to enlarge the group of supporters and lens of Rudolf’s extraordinary present her work. donors of the Parkes Institute – and a very correspondence with family and friends For the second time in a row a student from heartfelt thank you to all Friends and donors across the world, Shirli reconstructed a Southampton has been selected as the who have again supported our work. relationship that will hopefully, as she says, undergraduate winner of the prize awarded ‘cast new light on our understanding of by the British Association for Jewish Studies: survival and refuge, racism and antisemitism, Adam Grove’s dissertation (that I had the victims and perpetrators’. The book will come pleasure of supervising) ‘From Gaza to the out with Wayne State University Press next Streets of Britain: British Social Media spring. Tony Kushner has combined his Coverage of the 2014 Israel-Gaza Conflict’. research on refugee movements and on the The committee called it ‘an original and representation of the Holocaust for a new stimulating piece of scholarship that makes a book project on ‘Journeys from the ‘Abyss’’. contribution to how we perceive the conflict. His research on migrants’ journeys will give It demonstrates a sound understanding of this book a transnational character: how ‘social media wars’ are carefully ‘movement’ is not just a topic, but an orchestrated by Israeli and Palestinian instrument of thought and presentation. sources on the one hand and British Together with my own study of (Baroness supporters on the other.’ Many Julia Neuberger’s mother) Liesel Rosenthal’s congratulations to Adam, who will join our correspondence that documents her MA programme this autumn. emigration from Heilbronn, Germany, to London in 1937 (published last January with Congratulations are also due to Sarah Pearce the City Archives of Heilbronn) we have built who – after having served for more than three up a new and very specific research area that years as Head of the History Department – focusses on individual and family experiences has been awarded a Visiting Polonsky of migration, survival, and memory, Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew throughout the 20th century. and Jewish Studies for Hilary and Trinity terms (January-June 2016).
6 The Parkes Jubilee Celebrations Professor Tony Kushner, Dr Helen Spurling
Present’. The conference aimed to bring Neuberger, the senior Rabbi in the synagogue together scholars from different today and who was both the host and one of disciplinary fields to examine the history of the contributors to the debate. research in Jewish/non-Jewish relations The event began by introducing James Parkes over the last 50 years, discussing the latest to our large and very receptive audience. Part work and determining future directions in of an American television documentary the field. The conference had over 80 featuring an interview with James Parkes speakers in three parallel sessions running from July 1974 was shown. It highlighted the over three days and stimulating papers were forward looking nature of Parkes who wanted delivered on topics from the ancient to the a toleration of difference and the avoidance of modern world and from Europe to the BRODERZION M. (text), LISSITZKY (cover), what he called ‘sloppy sentimentalism’ when Sikhes Kholin, Moscow, 1917 Middle East. We were delighted to have six it came to coming to terms of what was held keynote speakers, whose interests and in common and what separated the great This academic year marked the last events expertise also reflected both chronological religions of the world. This formed the of the Parkes Institute’s Jubilee celebrations. and disciplinary breadth: Todd Endelman platform from which the three speakers from The Reverend Dr James Parkes (1896-1981) (Michigan), Sander Gilman (Emory), Martin the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths was one of the most remarkable figures Goodman (Oxford), Tony Kushner outlined what they saw as the issues facing within twentieth century Christianity. A (Southampton), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary’s dialogue in the future. tireless fighter against antisemitism in all College, London) and Greg Walker forms, including from within Christianity, (Edinburgh). We would like to thank all of the The three speakers are all deeply experienced he helped rescue Jewish refugees during the contributors for ensuring the discussion was in interfaith dialogue – alongside Julia 1930s and campaigned for the Jews of Europe analytical and vibrant, and we look forward to Neuberger were Lord Richard Harries, former during the Holocaust. During the Second publishing the proceeds of Bishop of Oxford and Monawar Hussain, World War he helped found the Council of the conference. Imam of Eton College. Because all three had Christians and Jews and worked throughout worked together closely on different projects The Parkes Library has more than quadrupled his career in promoting religious tolerance there was a freedom to explore difficult issues in size since 1965, running to well over 30,000 and mutual respect. As part of his international – a space which James Parkes would have felt items and it is now supplemented by one of campaigning, he built up the Parkes Library very much at home. and associated archive which transferred to the largest Jewish archive collections in the University of Southampton in 1964 and Europe. The wealth of these collections was Difficult issues were confronted, such as opened in 1965. Alongside the Library, the displayed in a major exhibition from the religious intolerance in each of the faiths Parkes Centre also started a new life in the University’s Hartley Library Special covered, whether faith schools were a good University, maintaining its focus on the study Collections team, including Karen Robson thing or divisive, and how it is possible to of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across the and Jenny Ruthven, in September 2015 create genuine dialogue beyond the ages. The hope of James Parkes was that entitled ‘Creating a legacy: the Parkes superficial. The value of close contact and within a University setting, his Centre would Library’. It reflected the life, library and mutual support for moments of crisis were become an international hub, helping to legacy of James Parkes and featured emphasised, and the need to deal with a stimulate scholarly and practical work to photographs, documents and books from the media that was largely interested only in focus on key issues of religious and racial Parkes Library and Jewish archives. The conflict and extremism rather than everyday prejudice, working to explore intolerance and exhibition was open during the Jubilee interaction. It was indeed a fitting climax to to promote understanding between people of conference, and many of our speakers took the Parkes Institute Jubilee, and we would different faiths and backgrounds. the opportunity to see the material on display. like to thank West London Synagogue, our partners the Council of Christians and Jews The culmination of the Parkes Institute The celebration has consisted of fifty and the Three Faiths Foundation, as well as Jubilee celebrations was a public interfaith individual events, some of which were the Parkes Institute outreach team, and our debate held in London in May 2016. The reported in the last Annual Review, but the sponsors for this event, the Rayne Trust. latest include a major international venue and subject matter were deeply conference on the subject of Jewish/non- appropriate. It took place in the West London To conclude: we would like to thank our Jewish Relations, an exhibition on the life Synagogue which James Parkes had close friends, old and new, for making the Parkes and work of James Parkes, and a high profile relations ato in his activist career. It has also Golden Jubilee such a success. We hope it was interfaith debate in London. been the home to figures who have, like James a fitting tribute to James Parkes but also an Parkes, played a key role in interfaith dialogue indication of the exciting work that the The Parkes Jubilee Conference was held from including Rabbi Hugo Gryn, whose daughter, Parkes Institute is doing and intends doing 7-9 September 2015 on the subject of ‘Jewish/ Naomi, chaired the event, and Dame Julia for the next fifty years. Non-Jewish Relations from Antiquity to the 7 In memoriam David Cesarani (1956 to 2015)
From 1996 to 2004 David Cesarani played a key role in the Parkes Institute, first as Parkes-Wiener Professor in Modern Jewish History (a position in the History Department at the University of Southampton he held in conjunction with being director of the Wiener Library) and then as the Director of the AHRC Parkes Research Centre (2000 to 2004).
In both roles David was a dynamic and inspiring In relation to Holocaust studies, which is now figure, helping what became the Parkes Institute to firmly part of the wide teaching, research and gain its global reputation. The work of the AHRC outreach programme of the Parkes Institute, Parkes Research Centre was wide ranging, covering David’s wider contribution was equally important. Antiquity through to the twenty first century. From the perspective of 2016, the state of public David’s own particular contribution to the Centre consciousness of and engagement with the covered two areas – Holocaust studies, as detailed Holocaust in Britain is remarkably different from below, but also the Port Jew project which led to a the later 1980s. Today, the Holocaust is part of the series of remarkable conferences held first in National Curriculum, Holocaust Memorial Day is Southampton and then in Cape Town, commemorated across the country and there are enthusiastically supported by the then Director permanent exhibitions on the subject in both of the Kaplan Centre there, Milton Shain. They Jewish and non-Jewish museums. This was brought scholars from young postgraduates to simply unimaginable less than forty years ago. established academics from all parts of the world In explaining this transformation, whilst global together in stimulating debate. In turn, these and local factors were at play, David Cesarani played conferences were the basis of important the key role in facilitating what appears now as publications and the further evolution of this uncontroversial butwas far from the case at project with our partners in Cape Town and the the time. Jewish studies department in the University of David Cesarani did not train as a Holocaust Sydney. Today, David’s legacy lives on with regard historian – his initial expertise was in the Jewish to Port Jews in the Parkes Institute’s work on (and specifically British Jewish) experience. His Jewish maritime studies led enthusiastically by its work on British Zionism inevitably drew him into current director, Joachim Schlör. We intend to the politics of Palestine and Jewish immigration have a workshop in 2017 revisiting the Port Jew, in during the Nazi era, but his interest in the memory and recognition of David’s commitment Holocaust was to come later. to this exciting field of study.
8 The debate on British war crimes legislation 1980s/early 1990s that we faced to get Holocaust studies map, as did the formation was the first major point of entry which went recognition of the Holocaust, arguing against of Holocaust Studies, first edited by Jo Reilly alongside his critique of Jim Allen’s polemical the grain of why it was relevant for Britain to and still published in conjunction with the and ignorant play on Hungarian Jewry during engage with the subject. I was one of the first Parkes Institute. It was a journal that David the Nazi era – Perdition. Both erupted in the to teach a special subject on the Holocaust played a key role in setting up. later 1980s and David played the role he was and for those of us so doing, there was unease In terms of his academic work, I will close to master thereafter – bringing scholarly about the academic worth of such teaching with the work that David started with and knowledge and deep research into from others. Today, universities do not seem which will also be reflected in another controversial debates that were in the public to be able to get enough of the topic. David, posthumous work – a study of Benjamin and political realm. Without his skills and I should add, taught it with his usual energy Disraeli – that of British Jewish studies. intelligence, the level of debate would have and engaged a new generation of scholars David was part of a dynamic and critical new been of a basic level, exposing as these two through his charisma. On hearing the news generation of scholars of this subject who controversies did deep seated ignorance of his tragically early death, several of his old emerged in the 1980s. Although still a little and prejudice. students from Southampton days have unfashionable within the wider world of both contacted me to say how much they were Thereafter, the climate changed and David Jewish studies and British studies, David inspired by David and encouraged to take played a key role in the Imperial War created the space for the study of British their work further. Once taught by David, Museum’s permanent Holocaust exhibition Jewry to grow, prosper and become a they never forgot his lectures, seminars and which opened in 2000. Up to that point, the professional area of study, albeit one in supervisions whether at undergraduate, MA Holocaust had hardly featured in this which many of its practitioners have a wider or doctoral level. museum which represents in many ways the commitment with regard to its relevance to way the nation views itself. That such an It could and perhaps should be argued that we our multicultural world and the challenges extensive extension was added without any need now to have more debate and discussion and opportunities it offers. public concern reflects not only a greater about the form of Holocaust education and Life around David was never dull. He could sensitivity to the Holocaust in British society memorialisation that is taking place: it is not argue passionately for a case one week and and culture, but also David’s talents as the per se a good thing in itself, or certainly not if equally against it the next. Each was equally exhibition’s leading historian, always done thoughtlessly. But that we are in this convincing. But rather than contrary, his demanding rigour and avoiding simplistic privileged position of being able to be more approach was almost Talmudic, forcing us all approaches. Likewise, David was central in selective and critical is only possible because to test our ideas and to avoid sloppy or lazy the creation of Holocaust Memorial Day from of those who fought hard to place it in British thinking. He will be deeply missed. 2001, an annual event that is an accepted part consciousness. And outside the survivor of the calendar locally and nationally. By community, no one did so more effectively Tony Kushner then, he had already emerged as a leading and maturely than David Cesarani. Holocaust scholar, a reputation that has David and myself came to the Holocaust grown and grown until his untimely death. indirectly but found it became a large part of It is reflected in a huge monograph on the our work as historians with a commitment to subject published early in 2016 by Macmillan. a wider world. It was a privilege to have David It is no surprise that he was also a major figure not only as a friend for over thirty years but in the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission also for a long period as a colleague. Working (2014 onwards) which has pledged £50 million together first through partnership between of public funds to develop Holocaust the Wiener Library and the University of education and commemoration in Britain. Southampton’s Parkes Institute, and then with David as the first director of the AHRC As someone working alongside David in this Parkes Centre, a series of conferences and field, if in a less overtly public capacity, I can workshops helped put Britain on the attest to the unpleasant arguments in the
9 Inspirational teaching Parkes Institute Outreach Report 2015-16
‘Thank you so much for the opportunity you gave our learners to share their work; it was a rewarding and valuable experience all round, and I felt that the evening as a whole worked brilliantly and cohesively - as you said, voices of the young and old coming together to great and unified effect. Rest assured that we at Itchen would love to take part in any commemorative events next year.’
Simon Jones, Itchen College
10 Thanks to the ongoing generosity Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation and the how she kept in touch with relatives and of the Karten Trust and Cohen Council of Christians and Jews. This is a friends scattered all over the world – and how Foundation, with the support of fantastic group of people from different she developed a new feeling of independence the Faculty of Humanities and in backgrounds and faith commitments meeting in a period of war and destruction. Our thanks particular the endeavours and to discuss how Genesis was interpreted by the to the speakers, the audience, and to Katie commitment of the Outreach fellows, early rabbis and what it means to them now. Power, the Outreach fellow responsible for the Parkes Institute has had another It is a special group and the conversations do organising the event and a wonderful host. highly successful year of Outreach, so much to promote further understanding ensuring that our research and work between Jews and Christians and frequently Holocaust and Genocide reaches those outside of the provide important and meaningful insights to Memorial Day University. The above quote from all who take part. Southampton’s 2016 Holocaust and Genocide Simon Jones, teacher of English at Memorial Day commemoration, superbly Itchen College, Southampton, is Study Days organised and hosted by Cohen Outreach testament to the continued impact We held a study day this year in Bournemouth, Fellow Danielle Lockwood in partnership and importance of this engagement. which looked at the biblical story of the with Southampton Solent University, took Itchen College has been an integral Exodus and how it has been interpreted in place on Wednesday 27 January 2016, the partner for our Holocaust workshops rabbinic midrash. Helen Spurling gave an anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz- since their inception and it is thanks introduction to the biblical text and explained Birkenau. The theme for this year’s event was to the work of Simon and all our the nature of midrash, but most of the day ‘Don’t Stand By’ and was introduced by Phil other partners that the Outreach was spent looking at the biblical text and Gibson, Head of Students Services at Solent programme continues to grow. The midrashic sources in groups, and discussing University, and Councillor Cathie McEwing, following is a summary of some of not only how the rabbis interpreted the Sheriff of Southampton. The evening our key events from the past Exodus but the views of the participants too. included Holocaust survivors and twelve months. This was a special day with over 50 people in Kindertransportees Harry Grenville and attendance and it was wonderful to see so Walter Kammerling ‘in conversation’ with Adult Education many people interested in talking about the Dr James Jordan; screening of the Holocaust Parkes also continues to deliver outreach subject together. Lisa Darling very kindly Memorial Day Trust’s film ‘I’ve Never Told activities aimed at adults, often as part of the wrote “Thank you for your inspirational this Story to Anyone’; a recollection of a trip University’s Lifelong Learning adult education teaching yesterday; you really know how to to Auschwitz from Alexander Yeo of Barton programme. These days provide the set us on the path of digging into the treasure Peveril Sixth Form College; readings by opportunity for the public to share and discuss that is hidden in the Scriptures!” Thank you Itchen College Creative Writing Students; the latest research from members of the to all our Friends and supporters for their and a performance of ‘Then They Came For Institute and are themed around subjects such involvement in our adult education Me,’ an original piece based upon the lives as the Holocaust. Please check the website for programme. and writings of Martin and Sibylle Niemöller, next year’s events, which will include a series written and directed by Matt Fletcher of talks in partnership with JW3, the Jewish Summer Public Event, June 2016 (Southampton Solent University) and Community Centre and arts venue in London. Our summer public event this year was performed by Southampton Solent University This year we have delivered Evening Classes entitled ‘Moving Stories and Migrant Voices: BA (Hons) Performance students Natasha and independent study days, as well as a Britain’s Borders and Barriers from the Aliens Burdett, Troy Chessman and Alex Decaluwe. number of successful public events. Act to the Present’ and offered an insight into As part of the commemoration, Karten migration from 1880 to the present, utilising Outreach Fellow Katie Power produced a Evening Classes various sources and encompassing a range of striking and professional exhibition of Our adult education programme ran two perspectives. Tony Kushner reprised his talk responses to Holocaust testimony written by classes this year: ‘Jewish History and Culture’ on ‘Refugees – then and now’, focusing on local sixth form students. These were in and ‘Midrash on the Book of Genesis’. The contemporary responses in Britain to response to a series of workshops organised first class was team-taught by members of refugees today and how the past, most in the months prior to the commemoration Parkes, including Tony Kushner, Dan Levene, noticeably the Kinderstransport, has been by Jennifer Craig-Norton and Danielle Danielle Lockwood, Joachim Schlör and consistently used to draw parallels that are Lockwood with assistance from Nicola Helen Spurling. The Parkes team were excited considered pertinent by some but false by Woodhead. Students were asked to reflect on to share our latest research and ideas from others. David Glover’s ‘Immigration Control the difference speaking up and taking action the ancient to the modern world, and our in the Age of Migration, 1880-1914’ spoke of can make when people witness prejudice and participants were brilliant – really engaged the 1905 Aliens Act and how those seeking the persecution of others, with many and asking questions that made us refuge at the start of the previous century students commenting on the contemporary all think. One participant said “I gained a came to be seen as invaders. The final talk resonance when considering the Syrian huge amount from all the sessions. My was Joachim Schlör, ‘Emigration as refugee crisis. Participating institutions were understanding regarding different Emancipation. Liesel Rosenthal’s journey to Itchen Sixth Form College, Southampton, interpretations of the Bible, Jewish identity, England in 1937’. In May 1937, at the age of 22, South Downs College, Waterlooville, Barton migration and relations with people of other Liesel Rosenthal left her family and her home Peveril College, Eastleigh, Ryde Academy and faiths was greatly enhanced”. The Genesis town of Heilbronn, Germany, and settled in Havant College. We were really pleased to see class was our off-campus interfaith group in London. A collection of letters, bundled up such thoughtful contributions from the sixth Bournemouth, which was led by Helen and stored away in 1948, documents how she form students, and in turn to read of the value Spurling in partnership with the tried to bring her family out of Nazi Germany, 11 they took from the workshops, including speakers from the Jewish, Christian and build and sustain our relationships with local promoting greater awareness of Holocaust Muslim communities: Baroness Julia (and regional) schools and colleges. In Memorial Day, giving ‘direct insight into … Neuberger, Lord Richard Harries and Imam particular the Summer School highlighted families that were directly affected’ and Monowar Hussain. The evening opened with the work of the Parkes Institute alongside helping them ‘understand what it was like an introduction to the life and work of James colleagues in colonial and postcolonial for individual families’ to be both persecuted Parkes from Tony Kushner, including a brief studies, while also promoting the new BA and to escape on the Kindertransport. The extract from an interview with Parkes Ancient History, which will also have a commemorative event was particularly recorded in Southampton in 1974, before our significant Jewish/non-Jewish relations special this year, with nearly 200 people in speakers were invited to share their thoughts component. The Summer School is always a attendance. Next year’s event will be on on the progress made and challenges faced in popular event as it brings students here and Thursday 26 January 2017. confronting some of the most troubling offers them an insight into University life. issues of our day. How does interfaith We are always delighted by the responses, Interfaith Week dialogue confront the dangers of religious with this year’s feedback highlighting the Members of the Parkes Institute were key extremism and violence? Is it a luxury in a ‘enthusiastic and inspiring’ lectures and the partners, along with Virginia Adnan, troubled world or a necessity to avoid range and detail of modules available to study. Catherine Cruz, Valentina Stilo and the increasing conflict and division? The debate Our thanks to Danielle, our speakers and Chaplaincy, in the organisation of the was chaired brilliantly by the writer and film attendees, and to student ambassadors University’s very successful Interfaith Week maker Naomi Gryn and was a great success. Chrissie Colbourne and Gavin Fielding who programme from 16-20 November 2015. The We would like to thank Naomi and our provided such excellent support throughout programme, titled ‘Diversity, Celebration, speakers for agreeing to participate, West the day. Understanding’ was wide-ranging and London Synagogue for providing such an In conclusion we would like to acknowledge designed to promote positive inter-cultural excellent venue and catering, and Dr Jane and thank once again all those who make relations. It included the major faith societies Clements, Director of the CCJ, and Phil possible the delivery of the programme, at the University and a key feature was an Champain, Director of 3FF, for providing but especially to the outgoing Director of important exhibition of Interfaith Week’s additional support. Particular thanks are due Outreach Dr Helen Spurling and the team aims and objectives at Avenue Campus, to the helpers from the CCJ and to Nicola of Outreach fellows Jennie Lewis, Danielle designed by Karten Outreach Fellow Jennie Woodhead, the newest member of the Parkes Lockwood, Katie Power and Nicola Lewis with support from Eva van Loenen. Outreach team, who was responsible for the Woodhead. Each of them has worked Another major aspect of the programme was organisation and smooth running of the event. incredibly hard with amazing commitment to the thought-provoking public lecture from the programme and the ethos of the Institute. Tony Kushner on ‘James Parkes and Refugees: Outreach at Schools and Colleges This would not be possible without the Then and Now’ which took the form of a An important aspect of our outreach work is support of everyone in the Parkes Institute parallel discussion of Parkes’ response to the the delivering of workshops to secondary for participating in the programme and refugee crisis in the 1930’s and the current schools, typically year groups between 7 sharing their work, prompting thought- refugee crisis. A high point of the week was through to 11, and sixth form colleges. In the provoking questions. Finally, our thanks ‘Space for Peace’, a musical vigil held in the past year, for example, Danielle Lockwood once more to the Karten Trust and Cohen Vedic Temple in Southampton led by Hannah and Nicola Woodhead have visited colleges Foundation without whom this work would Curtain of Foundation Music, Winchester. across the region. In addition Jennie Lewis be impossible. The evening aimed to bring people together in has had the opportunity to work with several peace and dialogue, and included beautiful schools on campus running workshops on musical contributions from diverse faith and ‘Southampton’s Fascist Past,’ which included Migration: From Antiquity to the community groups from around the city. We topics such as xenophobia, racism, fascism Modern World were really pleased to see so many people and British racial identities. The students James Jordan, Welcome and Introduction: from the wider community involved in this were very engaged and responsive. She has ‘Migration and the East End of London’ event either through participating or also worked alongside an event organised by Louise Revell, ‘Lecture From Multiculture to watching different performances. Interfaith the University of Southampton’s outreach Military Culture? The Roman Army in Britain’ Week represents an important part of the team on behalf of the Brightsparks initiative. Chris Prior, ‘Britain, the Colonies and the impact of Post-War Immigration work of the Parkes Institute to promote Furthermore, Jennie has organised positive inter-cultural relations and inter- workshops with SEEDS, a homeschooled Workshops: faith dialogue. Interfaith Week in 2016 is group of children ranging from 5-10 years old. Jennie Lewis , ‘Migrating Cultures and the 14-20 November, with ‘Space for Peace’ taking Concept of Britishness’ place on the evening of 16 November at the Summer School Danielle Lockwood, ‘The Holocaust and the Vedic Temple, Radcliffe Road, Southampton. One of our key events for young people is the Refugee Experience’ Annelies Cazemier, ‘Migration in the Ancient annual Summer School. Organised by Greek World’ Interfaith Debate, May 2016 Danielle Lockwood in partnership with the Roundtable: On 12 May 2016, in partnership with the Department of History, this year’s theme was ‘University Life and Studying Humanities’ Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) and the ‘Migration: From Antiquity to the Modern Three Faiths Forum (3FF), the Outreach team World’. Taking place on Wednesday 22 June held an evening debate on ‘The Future of 2016, the day before the European Interfaith Dialogue’ at the West London Referendum, this was a timely consideration Synagogue. This featured three distinguished of our shared migrant identities, and helped 12 Genuine dialogue beyond the superficial
Conferences, Workshops, Lecturers and Seminars
the dialogue across the sector, although perspectives necessarily differ Conferences at times between academics and practitioners and also between Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 July 2016 grassroots movements and professional institutions. However, the value of the hand-in-hand of museum work and academic Heritage and Its Communities research was illustrated by the excellent talk by Dr Alla Sokolova, Curator Highfield House Hotel, Southampton. (Dr Kathrin Pieren) at the State Museum of the History Religions in St Petersburg and Summer 2016 saw the happening of the first Parkes International Lecturer at the European University of St Petersburg. She presented the Workshop on Jewish Heritage at the Highfield House Hotel in results of a field study related to an exhibition of Jewish family heirlooms Southampton, generously supported by the Rothschild Foundation that she organised a few years ago. The exhibits, many of them everyday Europe (Hanadiv). items such as photographs or pieces of clothing, were charged with meaning by the lenders, Jewish individuals, as they explained in filmed Central purpose was to bring together academics, students and interviews why they would show them in an exhibition of Jewish family practitioners from across the heritage sector, including building heirlooms. In her talk Sokolova expertly analysed these rationales and preservation, museums, archives and libraries to network, discuss ideas what they suggest about the construction of Jewish identities in and possibly engender partnerships. A total of 40 people contributed to post-communist Russia. the event, some by facilitating workshops, delivering papers and leading guided tours, others by presenting their work in poster format, but all by Several short presentations testified to the amount and diversity of contributing to the extensive discussions around the theme of ‘Heritage initiatives to preserve and showcase especially the built heritage in both and its Communities’. Eastern and Western Europe and the questions that they raise regarding the responsibilities between communities, local councils, preservation Given the broad thematic heading and the diverse organisational bodies, and funding institutions, and they even elicited the provocative background of participants from across Europe, many topics including question whether preservation always made sense. An entertaining the different relationships between organised Jewish communities and presentation from Peter Aiers from the Churches Conservation Trust institutions in various national and local contexts, the significance of about the imaginative use of sacred spaces for multiple sacred and Jewish heritage for tourism or more theoretical concerns regarding the secular purposes showed that it can be inspirational to look beyond use of the terms ‘heritage’ and ‘community’ would warrant more Jewish organisations for ideas and partners. in-depth discussion. However, it was exactly the scope of this first workshop to gauge interest in those and identify which topics should be Very positive feedback from participants and a range of ideas for future explored further. It was positive to see that the participants appreciated workshops confirmed the interest in a sequel to this event. 13 5 and 6 September 2016 image of the Jews in Russian and Soviet cinema’ alarming observation that some of the recent and ‘Soviet cinema during the Second World assaults on the autonomy and functioning of Migrant Historiography: A Conference War’. Both projects, based on extensive archival non- governmental higher education Marking the Contribution of Colin Holmes research, throw a new light on the situation of institutions in Russia and the attacks against University of Southampton. Jews in the Soviet Union and the representation so-called ‘foreign agents’ remind us that the (Professor Tony Kushner) of the Holocaust in Soviet films and Soviet legacy remains tangible. (organised by the Parkes Institute, University of documentaries. During her presentation titled Southampton, University of Bergen, University ‘The campaign against anti-Semitism in Soviet Thursday 12 May 2016 of Derby and University of Ulster) films’ and her introduction to the rarely shown Interfaith Debate (Professor Tony Kushner) film The Return of Nathan Becker (USSR, 1932), Britain has largely been in denial of its migrant she explained the contradictory directives This important event was the culmination of past - it is often suggested that the arrivals after imposed by the Soviet authorities upon the the Parkes Institute Jubilee celebrations. The 1945 represent a new phenomenon and not the representation of Jews on the screen, which venue and subject matter were deeply continuation of a much longer and deeper needed to deal with anti-Semitism without appropriate. It took place in the West London trend. There is also an assumption that Britain is fostering Jewish nationalism. The papers by Synagogue which James Parkes had close a tolerant country towards minorities that Claire Le Foll on ‘Illustrations of Yiddish Soviet relations to in his activist career. It has also been distinguishes itself from the rest of Europe books’ and Sacha Ivanov on ‘Representations of the home to figures who have, like James and beyond. the Jewish agricultural colonization in Soviet Parkes, played a key role in interfaith dialogue The historian who was the first and most photojournalism’ provided other examples of including Rabbi Hugo Gryn, whose daughter, important to challenge this dominant view is how the visual culture and images of Soviet Naomi, chaired the event, and Dame Julia Colin Holmes who, from the early 1970s Jews in the 1920s and 1930s were framed by the Neuberger, the senior Rabbi in the synagogue onwards, provided a framework for a different ideological constraints of the Sovietisation of today and who was both the host and one of the interpretation based on detailed scholarship. Jewish life but at the same time were still contributors to This challenge came not only through his own original and distinctive in their style. The second the debate. work but also that of a ‘new school’ of students half of the workshop dealt with the post-war The event began by introducing James Parkes who studied under him and the creation of the period. The presentation of Jeremy Hicks to our large and very receptive audience. journal Immigrants and Minorities in 1982. (Queen Mary University) ‘Treatment of the Part of an American television documentary Holocaust in Soviet compilation documentaries This conference not only celebrates this featuring an interview with James Parkes from 1965-1980’ triggered a discussion on the Soviet remarkable achievement, but explores the state July 1974 was shown. It highlighted the forward narrative of the Holocaust and the uncertain of migrant historiography (including responses looking nature of Parkes who wanted a way in which Jews were reintroduced in it in the to migrants) in the twenty first century. The toleration of difference and the avoidance of 1960s. Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern focus will be Britain but because of its subject what he called ‘sloppy sentimentalism’ when it University) also addressed the way the matter a global, transnational approach will be came to coming to terms of what was held in Holocaust was remembered using the memoirs present with comparative perspectives common and what separated the great religions of a Polish-Jewish girl and showed how the throughout. of the world. This formed the platform from Soviet Union could become an ‘escape route which the three speakers from the Jewish, Presentations will focus on specific migrant from the Holocaust’ for Polish Jews. Alla Christian and Muslim faiths outlined what they groups such as Jews, South Asians, Chinese, Sokolova’s presentation on ‘Shtetl houses as saw as the issues facing dialogue in the future. Irish, German, Italian, African Caribbean and monuments of the Jewish past in post-Soviet The three speakers are all deeply experienced in others who have come into or passed through cinema and in reality’ showed how the visual interfaith dialogue – alongside Julia Neuberger were Britain. There will also be thematic and architectural Jewish heritage still standing Lord Richard Harries, former Bishop of Oxford and presentations covering responses, specific in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia has become a Monawar Hussain, Imam of Eton College. Because areas and general trends in historiography as discreet, intangible part of a shared memory. all three had worked together closely on different well as the specific contribution of Colin projects there was a freedom to explore difficult Holocaust’ for Polish Jews. Alla Sokolova’s Holmes himself. issues – a space which James Parkes would have felt presentation on ‘Shtetl houses as monuments very much at home. of the Jewish past in post-Soviet cinema and in Difficult issues were confronted, such as religious reality’ showed how the visual and architectural intolerance in each of the faiths covered, whether Workshops Jewish heritage still standing in Ukraine, Belarus faith schools were a good thing or divisive, and how Monday 4 May 2016 and Russia has become a discreet, intangible it is possible to create genuine dialogue beyond the part of a shared memory. superficial. The value of close contact and mutual Workshop ‘Shades of Jewish Soviet Life’ support for moments of crisis were emphasised, This workshop successfully met its main aim: to (Dr Claire Le Foll) and the need to deal with a media that was largely dissipate some of the clichés associated to This one-day workshop, co-organised by Claire interested only in conflict and extremism rather Soviet-Jewish history using visual culture as a Le Foll and James Jordan, took as a starting than everyday interaction. It was indeed a fitting somewhat original point of observation, and point the common interest of the organisers climax to the Parkes Institute Jubilee, and we would show the contradictions of this experience that and of our Petersburg colleagues Sacha Ivanov like to thank West London Synagogue, our partners cannot be summarised by Stalin’s anti-Jewish the Council of Christians and Jews and the Three and Alla Sokolova in visual culture and policy. The final session of the workshop, a Faiths Foundation, as well as the Parkes Institute representations. It was also an occasion to timetable on ‘Put in, put up or shut up? The outreach team, and our sponsors for this event, invite Valerie Pozner (CNRS, Paris) to present challenges facing academic research in Russia the Rayne Foundation. the ground-breaking findings of her two latest today’ had, however, to conclude on the research programmes on ‘Kinojudaica: the 14 Wednesday 18 November 2015 Wednesday 24 February 2016 Lectures Space for Peace Research Seminar Monday 16 November 2015 Vedic Temple, 79-195 Radcliffe Road, ‘Lisbon in WWII: Refugees, Spies and Intrigue’ Public Lecture Southampton SO14 0PS Professor Neill Lochery – ‘James Parkes and Refugees: Then and Now’ (An interfaith event where musicians from University College London Professor Tony Kushner the community come together and share Chair: Professor Joachim Schlör their music.) Tuesday 8 December 2015 Tuesday 24 November 2015 Tuesday 19 April 2016 Montefiore Lecture Research Seminar Research Seminar ‘What did the Palestinian Rabbis know about ‘From Jewish ‘Illegal’ Immigration to Palestine ‘The Right Kind of Refugee: Jewish domestics Early Byzantine Christianity? Ancient Polemics to Lampedusa: migrants, the sea and memory, and nurses in the UK 1933-1945’ and Contemporary Politics of Identity’ 1933 to 2015’ Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton Dr Holger Zellentin – University of Nottingham Professor Tony Kushner Chair: Professor Tony Kushner Chair: Dr Helen Spurling Chair: Professor Joachim Schlör Tuesday 26 April 2016 Tuesday 15 March 2016 Tuesday 5 January 2016 Research Seminar Parkes Lecture Research Seminar ‘Statuettes of Limitations: The ‘Holocaust’ in ‘Curating Between Hope and Despair: POLIN ‘Ahad Ha’am and the Jewish Future’ Oscar-Winning Films, 1945-1949’ Museum of the History of Polish Jews’ Professor Brian Klug – University of Oxford Professor Lawrence Baron – Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett - Chief Curator Chair: Professor Joachim Schlör San Diego University of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the Chair: Dr James Jordan History of Polish Jews Tuesday 12 January 2016 Chair: Professor Joachim Schlör Research Seminar Tuesday 3 May 2016 ‘A copybook full of Hebrew texts: Johann Research Seminar Tuesday 10 May 2016 Buxtorf the elder’s approach to Jews and ‘Auschwitz through the lens of the Soviets’ Karten Memorial Lecture Judaism’ Professor Valerie Pozner – (CNRS) Paris ‘Writing ‘The Wolf in the Water’ - a riposte to Professor Joanna Weinberg – Chair: Dr Claire Le Foll the Merchant of Venice’ University of Oxford Naomi Alderman – award-winning novelist and Chair: Professor Joachim Schlör Wednesday 4 May 2016 videogame creator International Workshop Tuesday 19 January 2016 Chair: Professor Tony Kushner ‘Shades of Jewish Soviet Life’ Research Seminar Organisation: Dr Claire Le Foll and ‘Women of Valour’ Dr James Jordan Seminars Dr Karen Skinazi – University of Birmingham Thursday 12 May 2016 Chair: Dr James Jordan Tuesday 6 October 2015 Interfaith Debate Research Seminar Wednesday 27 January 2016 West London Synagogue ‘Visualisation, Memory and The Archive’ Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day Barbara Loftus – A figurative painter who also Tuesday 17 May 2015 Sir James Matthews Building, Southampton makes artist’s bookworks. Solent University Research Seminar Chair: Professor Joachim Schlör ‘Time and Space: The Jewish dimensions Tuesday 2 February 2016 Tuesday 20 October 2015 of time’ Research Seminar Professor Sylvie-Ann Goldberg - EHESS. Paris Research Seminar ‘Agony in the Pulpit: British Rabbis Responding Chair: Dr Claire Le Foll ‘Libyan Jews: From Co-existence to Exodus’ to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder’ Professor Maurice Roumani – Ben Gurion Rabbi Professor Marc Saperstein – Thursday 16 June 2016 University of the Negrev, Anglo-Isreal Leo Baeck College Public Event Association. Chair: Professor Joachim Schlör ‘Moving Stories and Migrant Voices: Britain’s Chair: Professor Joachim Schlör Borders and Barriers from the Aliens Act to Tuesday 9 February 2016 Tuesday 10 November 2015 the Present’ Research Seminar Speakers: Professor Tony Kushner, Professor Research Seminar ‘Is there a ‘performative’ turn in Holocaust David Glover and Professor Joachim Schlör ‘Exodus from Europe - US population policies commemoration? - Revisiting the Polish Thursday 7 July 2016 and the globalisation of the Cold War’ Memory Landscape’ Professor Dr Gerhard Wolf – Dr Diana Popescu, Pears Institute of the study Event at the Nuffield Theatre Lecturer in History, University of Sussex of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London Pre-Show Talk: The Worlds of Marc Chagall Chair: Professor Joachim Schlör Chair: Professor Andrea Reiter Dr Claire Le Foll
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ofJournals the Parkes Institute
Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History – As ever, the range of articles in Patterns of Prejudice varies greatly Dr James Jordan in chronology, geography and approach. Far right and xenophobic movements in contemporary Europe inevitably were prominent but Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History is jointly edited there was also space for the historical study of racism – a study of by Hannah Holtschneider (University of Edinburgh), James Jordan antisemitism and Sinophobia at turn of the twentieth century Britain. (University of Southampton), Andy Pearce (University of London, Institute of Education) and Tom Lawson (Northumbria University). Next year is the Golden Jubilee of the journal and the editors (myself, We are delighted that Anna Hajkova (University of Warwick) will be Barbara Rosenbaum and Dan Stone) are making preparations to mark joining the editorial board in summer 2016. This year has seen the this and to analyse change and continuity in the study of prejudice journal continue to grow having moved to Taylor and Francis in 2014, since it was founded in 1967. As ever, we would like to thank our but it has also been a sad year with the sudden death of David publishers, Routledge (the Taylor Francis Group) and, for continuing Cesarani. David was a long term member of the journal’s advisory support that has enabled us to expand our reach and scope, the board and his absence will be keenly felt. generosity of the Humanitarian Trust. We are currently working on a number of themed special issues for Jewish Culture and History: Professor Joachim Schlör 2016-17. If you would like to submit work to the journal or have any Due to growing commitments at her University, Queen Mary questions then please either email [email protected] (University of London), Nadia Valman has now taken on the position or see the instructions for authors at www.tandfonline.com/rhos. of Deputy Editor (together with Tony Kushner). We would like to take Patterns of Prejudice: Professor Tony Kushner the opportunity to thank Nadia for all the work she has done for the journal. Her editing skills and her clear judgement have contributed This past year has seen the usual mix of special issues of the journal very strongly to the good reputation JCH enjoys among scholars of and ones that consist of articles on a wide variety of topics. With Jewish Studies. It is also worthy of note that more and more scholars regards to the former, the first was devoted to ‘The Civil Rights from Israel and from Eastern Europe have ‘discovered’ the journal and Movement, a Retrospective’, guest-edited by Richard King of the strengthened its international reputation. The open issue 16.3 University of Nottingham (and book review editor of Patterns of contains articles on the ‘Odessa myth’ (Efraim Sicher), the ‘camping Prejudice). It commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther movement’ among Polish-Jewish youth organisations (Magdalena King’s march in Selma in April 1965 and it explored through Kozłowska), Sammy Gronemann’s theatrical work in Palestine (Jan historiography, politics and cultural interventions, change and Kühne), the Israeli (new) tradition of Bat Mitzvah (Hizky Shoham), continuity in the following fifty years. The second was guest-edited by and antisemitism in football in the 21st century (Jon Stratton) – Anouk de Koning and Wayne Modest of the Netherlands on ‘Anxious a fantastic collection that reflects the wide range of topics discussed Politics in the European City’ which included articles on Antwerp, in JCH. In 2016 we published a double issue on Exiles and Emigrés in Amsterdam, France and Turin. Both special issues have tremendous 2oth Century Los Angeles, edited by Geoffrey Fear and Paul Lerner, relevance to issues that are to the fore on both sides of the Atlantic. and a single issue, edited by Gerald Lamprecht, with contributions by members of the Centre for Jewish Studies at Graz University.
16 Development report Joanna Watts
The Parkes Institute continues to advance We were pleased to see the continued support List of Donors in 2015-2016 at pace because of the support provided by of our seminar programme by close friend our generous donors. In the last year we and supporter of the Parkes Institute, Clinton The Parkes Institute, and the wider have been grateful to receive gifts from our Silver. The seminars included Professor University of Southampton, is very grateful existing Parkes Friends as well as some Valerie Pozner on ‘Auschwitz through the lens to our many friends and supporters and new supporters. We much appreciate the of the Soviets’ and Professor Sylvie-Ann much appreciates your involvement. We continued involvement of all of our donors Goldberg on ‘Time and Space: The Jewish hope we have acknowledged all of our whose involvement makes it possible dimensions of time’. Support has also been donors in the following list for 2015-16 but for us to run the successful, quality given to Claire Le Foll’s workshop on’Shades please accept our sincere apologies should programmes detailed throughout of Soviet Jewish Life’. there are any errors or omissions. We also this report. remain very grateful to those donors who We remain grateful to Stanley Cohen and his support us but wish to remain anonymous. We have been pleased to see the continued charitable trust for their ongoing support of activity of the two-year Jubilee programme our Outreach programme. As you will see Mr Laurence G Agron raise our profile in London with our flagship from elsewhere in this report, the Parkes Mr John E Bennett interfaith debate event at West London Institute runs a leading and inspiring Miss Tomasa D Bullen Synagogue, together with other outreach programme of activity which supports student Mr William J L Carver activities in the programme, (detailed recruitment, profile-raising and increased Mr Stanley S Cohen OBE elsewhere within this report) supported by access to our leading teaching and research. Dr Pamela M Evans the Rayne Trust. Rothschild Foundation Europe has supported Mr Gordon S Franks our workshop on ‘Jewish Heritage and its We have been delighted to once again benefit communities’ (see Kathrin Pieren’s report). Dr John S Garfield from the significant support and involvement Mr Danny Habel of the Ian Karten Charitable Trust. We are so We greatly appreciate, as ever, the support The Humanitarian Trust fortunate to have such a positive partnership and involvement of our Friends of the Parkes The Ian Karten Charitable Trust with the Trust and much of our work is Library scheme. This important annual possible because of Ian and Mildred Karten’s support enables us to fund activity Mr Walter Kammerling enduring and generous support. throughout the Parkes Institute and Library. Dr Jonathan W Leader The Hartley Circle, a group of donors to the Mr Sidney N Moss The Karten Trust has funded a MA University of Southampton who are Mr John Mountford scholarships programme, a lectureship, recognised for their annual support of £1,000 fellowship and the majority of our outreach Miss Nicola E Nathan or more, includes several donors to the programme and we remain very grateful to Mr Christopher Niebuhr Parkes Institute and we are very grateful for them for this core, significant funding. In Mr Alan Orme the crucial funds provided to our activity by addition, the Trust continued its funding of Professor Derek F H Pheby Hartley Circle members. This is an area of widening access for students across the growth for the Parkes Institute and we hope Mr Tim J Roberts University of Southampton, enabling the best to encourage more members to give at this Ms Verity L Steele students to progress their study regardless of level which really does provide us with the Dr Benjamin Steinberg financial background. annual funding and financial security crucial Other friends and supporters of the Parkes to the advancement of the Parkes programme. Institute have been generous to continue The Parkes Institute relies significantly on the their support this year. We are grateful to support and generosity of our donors and Larry Agron whose generous support will gifts of all levels have a real impact, enable the growth and more permanent contributing to our success. Please do presence of our MA programme in London. encourage friends, family and contacts to join Larry, and his support, illustrates the one of our donor programmes or to talk with international reach of our work and the us about supporting a part of our activity. engaged nature of our generous donors. Gifts can be made online at: We were, once again, very pleased to have the www.southampton.ac.uk/supportus/ opportunity to award the Moss Prizes at the donatenow/. To discuss a gift in more detail, annual Parkes Lecture in March. Prizes were please contact Tony Kushner awarded to Katarzyna Dziekan, Jacqueline or Joanna Watts via Hughes and David Ainsworth. We were very [email protected] pleased to welcome Liz Moss, representing or on 023 8059 7727. the family, to award the prizes.
17 Internationalisation Dr Claire Le Foll
The Parkes Institute and its members have been very active research trip to South Africa as part of a 3-year project funded by the internationally this year. The Institute has hosted and organised British Academy, in collaboration with Professor Deborah Posel at the three international events. The Jubilee conference on ‘Jewish/ University of Cape Town, on ‘South African Jews and the Holocaust- non-Jewish relations from antiquity to the present’ in September Israel-Apartheid Triangle’. She is also co-editing a book with Dr Avril 2015 demonstrated the support and interest in the Parkes Alba at the University of Sydney as part of a larger project on Institute shown by junior and senior scholars in Jewish studies ‘Holocaust Memory and Racism After 1945’. Claire Le Foll continued from all over the world. Secondly, thanks to the Clinton Silver to develop an international network for her new project on ‘Jews and endowment, we organised a workshop in May 2016 on ‘Shades emerging nations in Eastern Europe, 1905-1939’ during trips to of Soviet Jewish culture’ during which colleagues from the UK, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia. Dan Levene has been busy France, Russia and USA discussed the way Jews and Holocaust with his research on Ethiopia. He organised at the Addis Ababa were represented in Soviet photography, art and films. Finally, University a conference in September 2015 and a collaborative the workshop on ‘Heritage and its communities’ organised by workshop in April 2016, and also visited Israel to work on Kathrin Pieren and Tony Kushner in July 2016 offered three days manuscripts. Tony Kushner visited the University of Salzburg to of vibrant discussion between academics and heritage further out partnership with the Centre of Jewish Cultural Studies practitioners from Western, Central and Eastern Europe. there and to plan a joint conference in 2018. These two latter workshops strengthened existing links with our Parkes members have also continued to speak at international institutional partner in Russia, Petersburg Judaica, as its director conferences. For example, Shirli Gilbert was in Israel for the Sacha Ivanov and Dr Alla Sokolova participated in these events. Given conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars in the current difficult situation of non-governmental institutions in June 2016; Claire Le Foll was invited to participate in the workshop Russia and that of the European University in St Petersburg (that ‘Soviet images: a new source for Holocaust studies’ in Paris on hosts Petersburg Judaica) in particular, we were particularly delighted October 2015 and in the conference ‘Soviet Jewish History: New to be able to sustain and develop our collaboration and show our Sources, New Approaches’ in Moscow in June 2016; Sarah Pearce support. It was also a pleasure to welcome Professor Phyllis Lassner was invited speaker at the Josephus Seminar in San Antonio, Texas of Northwestern University for her second visit to Southampton as a in November 2016 and at the conference on ‘Nationhood and Religion Jubilee Fellow in May 2016. in Hellenistic-Roman Judea’ at the University of Groningen in June 2016; François Soyer gave a presentation in Addis Ababa in April 2016 ; Apart from these collective activities, the research of several members and Andrea Reiter was invited to speak on Anna Mitgutsch’s novel of the Parkes Institute has involved stays abroad and international “House of Childhood” at the University of Salzburg. collaborations, as seen in the individual reports. James Jordan took advantage of his six week fellowship at the University of Sydney to If you want to know more about our links, or would like to visit give five public lectures and one research seminar, and to start a Southampton or establish an agreement, please contact Dr Claire collaboration with colleagues from the universities of Sydney, Le Foll on [email protected] Western Australia and MacQuarie. Shirli Gilbert made a one-month 18 MA report Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture Dr Anna Koch
As a new member of the Parkes Institute I will be responsible for the re-launched part-time MA programme in Jewish History and Culture, taught at the JW3 in London. After our successful re-launch event in July Southampton (Professor Joachim Schlör) at the JW3, I am now corresponding and Last year’s Southampton-based MA cohort meeting with prospective students as well as was small but very actively involved with all finalizing handbooks and reading lists for this activities of the Institute, in particular with coming autumn. I have previously taught Claire Le Foll’s work on Jews in Eastern modules in European and Jewish History at Europe and with our Outreach programme. the University of York and at New York Apolonia Kuc from Krakow has been the University, and I am excited about teaching recipient of our Eastern and Central Europe postgraduate students and discussing with studentship, using postcards written by them the rich history of Jewish-non-Jewish Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe, encounters. I am preparing sessions on mostly in Yiddish, as a primary source for her subjects such as Zionism, Emancipation, research. Magdalena Dembiczak explored and Antisemitism as well as on topics that new developments in her Polish hometown are more closely related to my own research of Rymanów where a group of dedicated such as the Jewish ghetto in Italy and the activists attempts to re-integrate the history experience of Jewish survivors in postwar of Jewish presence – and absence – into the Europe. We will discuss works of scholars local memory culture. Nicola Woodhead with various disciplinary outlooks, read whose dissertation is supervised by Tony fascinating primary sources from all over the Kushner has also joined the Outreach team. world and work on research and writing skills. I am delighted to join the Parkes Institute and We are proud of our vibrant postgraduate I am looking forward to working with the MA community for which Dr Claire Le Foll has students as well as with the brilliant scholars again provided support in a PhD study group. at the Institute and the wonderful staff at Here are the reports on our individual PhD the JW3. students, written by their supervisors.
Claire Le Foll’s PhD Study Group (with Danielle Lockwood, Jenny Lewis, Katie Power, Nicola Woodhead and Chris Byrne.) 19 Dr Devorah Baum: analysis of personal boundaries with regard Dr Claire Le Foll: Since I’ve been off on leave I have not been to the religious ‘other’ and has utilised oral Katie Power has made good progress on her teaching this year, but it was a true pleasure to history intensively. Malgosia Wloszycka’s project on Yiddish theatre in London hear that two of my former PhD students, Eva thesis explored the history and memory of between 1939-1960 and successfully passed Van Loenen and Stewart Smith, successfully both Jews and non-Jews from a small Polish her Year One presentation. She has refined passed their vivas under the guidance of town. It examined memories of life before, the chronology of her thesis and decided to James Jordan and Will May who took over during and after the Holocaust and is part of focus on the war and post-war period. It will from me as their primary supervisors. important new work that moves beyond the allow to make the most of the original source Congratulations to Dr Van Loenen and accusatory and defensive. Mickie Stevens has she has identified, a journal in Yiddish and Dr Smith! produced an equally innovative thesis, but in English dedicated to Yiddish theatre in her case one that explores Jewish London at this period. She has made tangible Dr Shirli Gilbert: philanthropy in Britain from the ‘bottom up’. progress in Yiddish thanks to UCL Yiddish Kasia Dziekan is off to an excellent start in the It provides a remarkable account of the courses and the Warsaw Yiddish summer first year of her PhD on the subject of ‘Politics everyday lives of Jewish immigrants and their school and has started to read her main in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Relations children. Very much in the tradition of James primary source (Illustrirter Teater Shpigl). between the Polish Government and the Parkes, and indeed studying him in depth, Katie has been very successful with grants. Zionist movement (1934-1948)’. She has Carolyn Sanzenbacher has produced a Apart from being awarded a BAJS studentship already amassed significant material from detailed and troubling history of the and becoming one of Parkes Outreach Polish archives, honed her Hebrew language ecumenical movement during and after the fellows, she has been granted a YIVO skills, and attended the prestigious 2016 Nazi era and how conversionism remained Institute for Jewish Research for the Graduate Summer School in Jewish Studies the key response to the Jews - even after 2016/2017 academic year. This will facilitate at the University of Pennsylvania. persecution and mass murder. Finally, in an extended research trip to New York to Abi McKee is the recipient of a PhD terms of completed PhDs, I would like to consult essential source in the YIVO library. pay particular tribute to Howard Rein who studentship awarded in conjunction with the Dr Dan Levene World ORT website ‘Music and the successfully defended his thesis which Mr Bradley Barnes, who has been jointly- Holocaust’, and she is already making a compares the Jewish and German Hospitals supervised by Dr Helen Spurling and myself, valuable contribution to widening the scope in London during the nineteenth and will be finishing this summer. of the website. The subject of her research twentieth centuries. Howard continued his project is ‘Ballet Music in Nazi-Occupied thesis in spite of ill health and has produced Professor Andrea Reiter Paris’. She has made excellent progress on her a thesis rich in social, religious and medical I am currently co-supervising (with Joachim research during her first year, collecting history, making fine use of his previous Schlör) one Parkes-related PhD student: Maja original material in archives in France and knowledge as a GP. Hultman on ‘Mapping Jewish Life in Switzerland, and enhancing her French I am very pleased that Sarah Shawyer has Stockholm: The Urban Space of the Jewish language skills. returned to complete her thesis on the Community During the Rise of Modernity in Scott Saunders has recently begun work on memory and representation of late Mandate the Swedish Metropolis 1870-1939’. his PhD on ‘British Holocaust Tourism to Palestine in British culture and society. Professor Joachim Schlör Jen Lewis continues to make excellent Poland’. As the leader of the British I am supervising, with Andrea Reiter, Maja progress on her biographical study of the delegation to the March of the Living, Scott is Hultman’s study on the Jews of Stockholm, boxer, traveller and fascist, Joe Beckett. Sam professionally very well placed to carry out and I have started to work with Hilda Worth Hawkins is also producing extremely this research, and the project promises to be who has studied on our London MA interesting work on Jewish representations of a valuable contribution to our understanding programme and moved on to write a the East End, analysising inter-generational of the motivations for and implications of dissertation on the interpersonal relations memory through a range of sources. Finally, ‘dark tourism’. between British and Israeli politicians. Hilda I have three students who are completing gave her Year One Presentation in May. Dr James Jordan: their first year of study. Two were students Chris Byrne, Screening Jews and Jewishness on our London MA programme. These are I have been invited to examine four more PhD in British Situation Comedy, 1965-1990 Jeremy Smilg who is carrying out the first dissertations, one in Israel, three in Germany. Danielle Lockwood, ‘Connecting to the Past history of British Jewry and its responses to Jan Kühne’s dissertation on the dramatical through Fact and Fiction: South African Jews the French Revolution, and Isabelle Seddon work of Sammy Gronemann (Hebrew in British Entertainment’ who is studying Jewish contributions to University of Jerusalem), Caroline Jessen’s radical theatre in twentieth century Britain. thesis on the literary canon of German Jews Professor Tony Kushner: The range and quality of this work reflects in Israel (Universität Bonn), Marie de By accident rather than design, five of my PhD that of our London MA cohort as a whole – Vazelhes wrote on the contemporary staging students have submitted their theses this there is tremendous talent that is present of the ‘Odessa Myth’ (Humboldt-Universität academic year, four of whom were doing their there and the graduation of the first two years zu Berlin), and Rebekka Denz wrote on the studies part time. Wendly Fidler completed of these students in December 2015 was a role of women in the largest German-Jewish her thesis on Jewish responses to other faiths joyous moment. Chad Macdonald is the organization, the ‘Centralverein deutscher and especially to interfaith dialogue. Based other of my new students. Funded by the Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens’, 1893-1938 on a case study of Oxford, where liberal, AHRC, he is jointly supervised by Tim Cole at (Freie Universität Berlin). Masorti and Orthodox share the same the University of Bristol. Chad is exploring building, her thesis provides a fascinating the impact of the Holocaust on postwar
20 Britain through the prism of space identity. The Moss Memorial Prizes 2015-2016
Katarzyna Dziekan
With a lifelong passion for history and the reciprocal relations during the WW II? politics, I have developed an interest in Digging into archives in Warsaw I came modern Jewish history, international across, for instance, records of the Ministry politics and Zionism. My interest in Jewish of Foreign Affairs as well as unofficial meeting history, especially the emergence of protocols and memos that confirm the extent modern Jewish politics in the first place of mutual interactions. My further research based on choice of my studies, both aims to determine the concerns and undergraduate and postgraduate. objectives of the Zionists and the Polish Indubitably, these studies have confirmed émigré government, perceptions of reciprocal my commitment to history and politics, as bias as well as the political ramifications for well as encouraged me to challenge and both sides. expand upon my perceptions David Ainsworth of the subjects. Studying history at the University of Throughout my MA studies I have found Southampton has certainly been enhanced British charity The Together Plan myself deeply interested in the complex by the presence of the Parkes Institute with is working to retrieve stones and theory of Jewish leadership and politics. In create a memorial at site of the its excellent resources and teaching. I never former Jewish cemetery in the my essay entitled ‘How and to what extent did consciously decided to study ‘Jewish history’, Belarussian city of Brest. Photo: Jacob Frank challenge the prevailing political but as my course has shown, much of studying Debra Brunner. framework of Jewish and Sabbatian history is inextricably linked with studying communities in the Polish-Lithuanian Jewish history as well. Be it migratory/refugee Commonwealth?’ I explored socio-political movements, heritage and culture in Europe, agenda of the ‘Polish Messiah’. or genocide; all of which I have managed to Applying for a doctoral place at the University cover in my time at Southampton. The chance of Southampton I proposed to explore the to be taught by experts in their field such as mutual relations between the Polish Joachim Schlör, Tony Kushner and Mark government and the Zionist movement in the Levene has given me the confidence to pursue pre-genocide stage as well as during the my academic interests into postgraduate Second World War. My first-year research was studies, for which I am very grateful. The guided by the following questions: Was the Parkes Institute should act as a magnet for Polish government’s pro-Zionism propelled potential students interested in studying by pure anti-Semitism or was there real humanities at Southampton. sympathy? and How and to what extent did the prewar alliances between the Polish government and the Zionist movement shape
21 Reports by Parkes Postgraduates
Jeremy Smilg PhD
My association with the Parkes Institute started with the Masters course initiated by Shirli Gilbert at the London Jewish Cultural Centre, which rekindled my interest in Jewish history. My dissertation was on the ‘Jew Bill of 1753’ –one of those rare instances where the treatment of Jews dominated British politics and ‘anti-Semitic’ views were expressed by large sections of the British press.
Research for my Masters also provided the The dissertation aims to examine a number of genesis of the idea of my PhD dissertation, issues including how a minority community which examines the political implications of confronts accusations of dual loyalty, which the French Revolution for Anglo-Jewry. may simmer under the surface but become Political emancipation in France, Napoleon’s manifest during periods of conflict. Moreover, destruction of European ghettoes and his it will consider the role of refugees. The Alien calling of the Sanhedrin may have been Act of 1793 created problems for the Jewish welcomed by large sections of European community but it was aimed at French Jewry, but in Britain the French Revolution Catholic refugees who had been generously saw Edmund Burke’s denunciation of the Jews welcomed in substantial numbers in the early and widespread doubts over their loyalty to years of the Revolution but from 1793 the the state. My aim is to compare the largely government introduced stringent restrictions obsequious response of the ‘mainstream’ expressing the fear that terrorists and Jewish community with the more forthright revolutionaries might be hidden amongst the reaction of a limited number of Jewish refugees. For those who like their history to individuals. The research is made easier by the have contemporary resonance, it should be substantial number of publications produced obvious that such issues have far wider in the period by a number of these fascinating application than the Jewish community of individuals who range from the orthodox late eighteenth century Britain. Daniel Levi, described by a leading historian as a ‘one man anti-defamation league’, to John King who combined criminality with a fierce radicalism and commitment to reform.
22 Professor Christhard Schrenk, director of the Heilbronn city archives, presents Joachim Schlör’s Julia Neuberger with her daughter Harriet book on Liesel Rosenthal to Baroness Julia Professor Mark Roseman in the Heilbronn archives Neuberger. Reports by Parkes Friends and Honorary Fellows Julia Neuberger: Heilbronn January 2016
After Joachim Schlör wrote his extraordinary formal signing of the Golden Book of as Parkes does in the UK. As Director at the and fascinating biography of my mother from Heilbronn and celebrating and drinking sekt Borns I have been influenced by my 1933-1948, ‘Liesel, it’s time to leave’, the city of with the Oberbürgermeister and his team; the experiences at Southampton in many ways, Heilbronn decided to publish it with representatives of Heilbronn’s modern and hope cooperation can grow even closer in significant ceremony. I went to the launch Jewish community, and the fact they knew coming years. with my daughter Harriet, and was deeply little of Heilbronn’s long Jewish history. Recent publications include the short moved. First, it was amazing to me that they I am so grateful to Stadt Heilbronn for having monograph The barbarians from our should want to make such a fuss about it. It produced the biography so beautifully, and “Kulturkreis.” Nazi perpetrators in the eyes of was, after all, a coincidence that Joachim launched it with such aplomb. But I am even German Jews, published in the series Search Schlör also came from Heilbronn, like my more grateful to Joachim Schlör, who took a and Research, No.24 ed. International mother, and lovely they wanted to mark that. collection of letters and documents illegible Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad But to be asked to sign the Golden Book of and incomprehensible to me, and told my Vashem, Jerusalem, 2016. ISBN 978-965-308- Heilbronn, to be treated like a VIP, to have the mother’s story. She would have loved it. 509-1. 68pp., the edited volume Beyond the Oberbürgermeister speak in English, to see Book, photographs, party to launch it, the racial state (Cambridge University Press; 150 people gathered to hear about my mother, whole celebration of her life. She would have forthcoming (2016) and edited with Devin when, with one exception, my mother’s been 100 when it was published. What a Pendas and Richard Wetzell), and a number oldest friend Hanna Koppe’s daughter Heidi, fitting way to celebrate her centenary. of journal articles on the Wansse conference, no-one had known her- this was all on “Jewish revenge after the Holocaust extraordinary. I had been to Heilbronn once Professor Mark Roseman is Director of between fantasy and reality”, “The Holocaust before, in the 1960s, but remembered very the Borns Jewish Studies Program and as a European Catastrophe”, on “National little about it. This time I was shown the Professor in History at Indiana University. Socialism and the limits of ‘modernity’”, things they thought I would really enjoy and My years at Southampton were formative and on biographical approchaes to understand - an exhibition of how Heilbronn ones for me and form one of the most Nazi perpetrators. looked in the 1930s, when my mother was a stimulating periods of my professional life. teenager there, the Jewish cemetery, which Southampton’s policy of hiring clusters of A book on rescue and resistance in Nazi was not badly desecrated, and where I saw scholars created in the Parkes Center and Germany is currently under contract for OUP many ancestors’ graves, the street my mother History Departments a network of scholars and Metropolitan presses. lived on, and so on. And we stayed at the with cognate interests that was and is highly Insel, at a lovely hotel, and were treated unusual in British and North American royally- it was a wholly good experience. academic life. Many of the professional Several things stood out - Joachim Schlör friendships and contacts which I formed then himself talking about writing the book, and continue to be fruitful and important for me, his own surprise at what a lavish production both personally and professionally. Like Stadt Heilbronn had made of the work; the many colleagues I was shattered by the news fact that an old lady had read about it all in the of David Cesarani’s untimely death – an local paper and telephoned the Stadtarchiv important member of that community is and said she thought she had been to school now missing. with Liesel Rosenthal (my mother). She was The Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana 101, in a care home, too frail to come to the University has many similarities with the launch, but nevertheless someone who had Parkes Center, and occupies a similarly known my mother before the Nazi period; the prominent place in Jewish Studies in the USA 23 Reports by Academic Members of the Parkes Institute Dr Devorah Baum Lecturer for English
Roof of the church Debra Brehan Selassie in Gondar 24 Repair work in the interior of Holy Union Temple, Bucharest. Image: Lucia Apostol
This year I have been on research leave and then maternity leave following the birth of my second son in March. During my research leave I worked on completing my monograph, Feeling Jewish (a book for just about anyone), which will be published by Yale University Press and has been slated to come out first in the US and then in the UK next summer.
Although maternity has interrupted my writing schedule, I’m still aiming for the projected publication date. Given the duties of childcare, however, I’ve yet to get on with writing my second book, The Jewish Joke. Contracted to Profile Books, this will be a far leaner and lighter work than the monograph – it’s really intended as a Jewish joke book with apercus threaded throughout.
25 On the subject of Jewish humour, it was my Professor Kushner, entitled “‘The right type As a representative colleague James Jordan who got me on board of refugee’: Jewish domestics and nurses in alongside him to be interviewed as Parkes Britain 1933-1948’, examines and lives and of the Parkes Institute, specialists to talk about the contentious experiences of over 20,000 Jewish women subject of joking and the Holocaust for a BBC whose escape from Nazism was predicated I have also shared my documentary about the Jerry Lewis upon their taking positions as live-in servants Holocaust fiction film, The Day the Clown in British homes or serving as student nurses research on Jewish Cried. The film, which Lewis directed and in British hospitals. starred in but never released, and which In April 2016, I was able to present the initial refugees from Nazism currently remains under a strict embargo, has findings of this research at a Parkes Seminar taken on something of a cult status precisely held at the University of Southampton. As a at several conferences because it hasn’t yet been screened. The BBC representative of the Parkes Institute, I have documentary proved popular and was shown also shared my research on Jewish refugees in the past year. a number of times on the 24 hour news from Nazism at several conferences in the channel, and I was also interviewed about the past year. These include the Saul Kagan Lewis film for the national evening news. Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton Claims Conference Workshop for Advanced British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow On the subject of cinema, the creative Shoah Studies in Jerusalem and documentary feature film I co-directed with ‘Remembering Eleanor Rathbone: Refugees my husband, the filmmaker Josh Appignanesi, Then and Now’ in London, both in June 2016, is finally coming out in November this year. ‘Children and War: Then and Now’ in Partly funded by the Wellcome Trust, it has Salzburg, Austria in July 2016 and ‘Migrant now been retitled The New Man and will be Historiography: A Conference Marking the screened at the UK Jewish Film Festival, and, Contribution of Colin Holmes’ in September we hope, a number of other festivals such as 2016 in Southampton. Both the Eleanor the Being A Man festival in the Southbank Rathbone and Colin Holmes conferences Centre and possibly the London Film plan to publish volumes emerging from Festival. It will also have a national run in conference papers, to which I will be a cinemas up and down the country for one or contributor. In addition to presenting a paper two weeks – with bookings already confirmed at the Migrant Historiography conference, I in cinemas in, e.g., London, Glasgow, assisted Tony Kushner in organising and Manchester and Bristol. There will also, due coordinating the event. to the film’s very personal as well as difficult I also worked throughout the fall of 2015 with content, be special screenings for specific the Parkes Institute outreach team to deliver audiences. Screenings will be held, for workshops in several local sixth form colleges example, for Guardian Events, Mumsnet and that tied in with the annual Holocaust The Freud Museum amongst others. The Memorial Day commemorations held on 27 release to cinemas for a short run in January 2016 at Southampton Solent November is likely to be followed by a video University and is co-sponsored by the Parkes on demand (VOD) release. Institute. These interactive workshops, in I have continued to sit on the editorial board which students critically examined archival of The Jewish Quarterly magazine under its documentation and recorded testimony, brilliant new editor Nicola Christie, and now connected with over 200 local students and that Nicola has just embarked on her own emphasised the work of the Parkes Institute maternity leave I’m looking forward to as it relates to Jewish and Holocaust history working closely with the journal’s current and and memory. foreseeable guest editor, Michael Leventhal. Finally, I undertook a very popular Parkes In a post-Brexit Britain and in view of the Institute teaching module, ‘Who is Anne kinds of divisions and tensions we’re Frank?’ in the second semester. This module, witnessing all over the world at this time, the which enrolled 44 students in 2016, role of the JQ has never, to me, seemed more introduces students to the broad themes of urgent or more topical. the Holocaust through a case study of Anne Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton Frank’s life, writings and legacy. Throughout the year, I have also been revising my doctoral British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow research for publication. It has been accepted In September 2015, after completing a PhD on by Indiana University Press and will be the Kindertransport under the supervision of published in the near future. Professor Tony Kushner at the University of Southampton, I commenced a three-year Dr Shirli Gilbert position as a British Academy Postdoctoral Ian Karten Associate Professor in Jewish/ Fellow within the Parkes Institute. My British non-Jewish Relations Academy research project, mentored by 26 I’ve spent the past year completing two I am looking forward to another enriching On my return from Sydney I was involved in exciting and long-standing book projects. and productive year in 2016/17, and in the research for and appearance in a BBC TV The first book, titled From Things Lost: particular to taking on the co-directorship programme called The Day the Clown Cried Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the of the Parkes Institute alongside my valued (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dj9kr), Holocaust, is based on the letters of Rudolf colleague Joachim Schlör in October. about the infamous unseen Jerry Lewis film Schwab, a German-Jewish refugee who fled to of the same name, BBC producer Richard South Africa in 1936. Through the lens of Dr James Jordan Latto. Richard had uncovered some Rudolf’s extraordinary correspondence with Ian Karten Postdoctoral Research Fellow marvellous photographs relating to the film family and friends across the world, the book After conferences in July –September, I and the programme, hosted by David casts new light on our understanding of started a six-week fellowship in Sydney as the Schneider and featuring myself and Devorah survival and refuge, racism and antisemitism, Mandelbaum Scholar-in-Residence at Baum, used the previously unseen victims and perpetrators. Mandelbaum House (www.learning. photographs to tell the story of the film’s making and subsequent embargo by Lewis. The second book is a volume co-edited with mandelbaum.usyd.edu.au). Mandelbaum Dr Avril Alba of the University of Sydney. House is the Jewish residential college on Throughout the year I have continued to work Titled Holocaust Memory and Racism in the campus at the University of Sydney and in on the Leverhulme Story Places project, an Postwar World, the volume challenges the addition to accommodating, feeding and exploration into the poetics of location based assumption of a natural connection between providing pastoral care to Australian/ storytelling. My contribution was to provide the Holocaust and the discourse of International, Jewish and non-Jewish a source historical narrative to act as a multiculturalism and anti-racism. Through students (as well as academic guests), companion piece to the fiction stories that diverse case studies, ranging from South Mandelbaum House prides itself on being would emerge. This was centred on the story Africa and Australia to the American South a centre for Jewish community education. of Southampton’s ‘Emigrants’ Home’, opened and the Israeli-Arab conflict, it historicizes This was a prestigious award with the aim of in Albert Road in 1894. The idea of John how the Holocaust has informed engagement bringing the finest scholars from around the Doling, proprietor of the nearby Temperance with concepts of ‘race’ and racism from the world to Sydney, with previous recipients Hotel, and builder William Cremer, the Home 1940s until the present, revealing a range of including Professors Jonathan Webber, was conceived in response to the increased complex and often unanticipated findings. Emanuel Tov, Dan Michman, Martin business brought to Southampton by the We hope that the volume will be a Goodman and Yehuda Bauer. As part of the development of the docks. Many of those groundbreaking contribution both to fellowship I held preparatory discussions for leaving Southampton were transmigrants, scholarship and wider debates, deepening our future funding bids, as well as undertaking so-called Destitute Aliens, often Jews who understanding of when and why the initial work on a new research project. The were only passing thought the country as they Holocaust is evoked as a moral touchstone for main part of the fellowship was however to fled from persecution in eastern Europe. The diverse instances of racism. deliver six public lectures (at Mandelbaum history of the building is the history of a House, the University and the Sydney Jewish forgotten Southampton, one which is full of This year I also launched a collaborative Museum), two research seminars and stories drawn from far-away places, of lives project with Professor Deborah Posel at the undergraduate lecturing. This continued the less celebrated than those of the rich and University of Cape Town, funded by the development of Parkes’ established links with famous who would pass through the British Academy. The project, titled ‘South the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and passenger terminal in the decades that African Jews and the Holocaust-Israel- Jewish Studies, University of Sydney, and the followed. They are stories which have never Apartheid triangle’, seeks to explore the Sydney Jewish Museum, as well as developing been told and can never be known, but they complex and highly-charged intersections new connections with Dr Hsu-Ming Teo at are stories of Southampton, a place of arrival between these events through the lens of MacQuarie University and Dr Hilton and departure, the familiar and the South African Jewry, examining the Immerman and his colleagues at the Shalom unfamiliar. My research drew on the community’s intense contestation since Institute, University of New South Wales, a Southampton City archives, British apartheid’s demise in 1994 about meanings group of scholars and educators dedicated to newspaper archives, the Cunard archives in of Jewishness and relationships toward the promoting of Jewish identification, Liverpool and passenger/census records, as Israel-Palestine. A crucial background is the learning and development’. It was an added well as generate narratives of the city space, century-long schism between Jews opposed bonus that I was able to attend at the Jewish the project allows us to consider the to white supremacy and those loyal to Museum the launch of Dr Avril Alba’s comparative memory of migration in Zionism, as well as the community’s uneven marvellous new book The Holocaust Liverpool and Southampton, contrasting the relationship with whiteness and encounters Memorial Museum: Sacred Secular Space’ absence of the emigre story in Southampton’s with antisemitism. Given South African introduced by Barbara Kirshenblatt- Sea City museum with the celebration of the Jewry’s distinctive position, we hope that the Gimblett. It was also my pleasure to work story to be found in the Museum of Liverpool. study will not only illuminate the history of closely with Don Perlgut and Lynne Schwarz. This is currently being written up as an article one community, but also urge public debate My thanks go to the Mandelbaum Trust for that is provisionally titled ‘Remembering and around more fundamental questions of the invitation, to Naomi Winton, the COO of Forgetting: Transmigration and the story of Zionism and Jewishness today. During this Mandelbaum House, for her tireless and the Emigrants’ Home, Southampton’. initial phase of the project, we will conduct faultless help, to Ari Lander and particularly interviews, collect archival material, and hold Marie Bonardelli at the Jewish Museum for Aside from teaching and working with the joint workshops and conferences in order to their hospitality, and to the ever wonderful Outreach team (as detailed elsewhere in this explore and develop the research field. Konrad Kwiet and Avril Alba whose effortless report), other highlights for this year include working with my PhD students Chris Byrne, brilliance seems to know no limits. 27 Danielle Lockwood, Katie Power, Isabelle 2016. A paper on Italian Jews’ struggle for the of undergraduate, postgraduate and adult Seddon and Sarah Shawyer. I am delighted to return of property (“Non era più una casa, era education teaching. This has included a third report that earlier this year Eva van Loenen, un altro contenitore” – Italian Jews and the year course ‘Cultures of Migration’ which I supervised by myself and Devorah Baum, was meanings of lost property in the aftermath of co-ordinated and co-taught with colleagues awarded her PhD for her thesis on ‘Hasidism the Holocaust) was well received last May at Joachim Schlör and Kendrick Oliver. I also in American Literature’. My thanks to her the 17th Annual Cambridge Heritage was privileged to have an exceptionally examiners (Professor Andrea Reiter and Dr Research Group Seminar at the McDonald talented third year special subject on modern Karen Skinazi (Birmingham)) and Institute for Archaeological Research at the refugees and an equally brilliant second year congratulations to Dr van Loenen. University of Cambridge. I am looking group project team who worked on Serbian forward to presenting a paper on gendered child refugees in Britain during the First My own research continues to be based on the aspects of the return of German Jews at a World War. In a world where xenophobic BBC’s Written Archives at Caversham where, conference entitled After Genocide: forces our on the march, it was uplifting to thanks to the help of the brilliant Katie Ankers Gendered Trauma, Transmission and witness the empathy, passion and and Els Boonen, I am working my way Reinvention, in Armenia this summer. commitment of students to those who have through a detailed analysis of the role and been forcibly displaced. representation of Jews on and in the BBC. Dr Tony Kushner This has long focused simply on television This has also been a year of intensive PhD Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish non- from 1936–1978 but in the past year my supervision and examination. As you will Jewish Relations interests have extended to radio. This has in read elsewhere, five of my students have turn seen my work go in two related This has been, as they say in ‘management submitted their theses and I have been directions, with the Jews in television book speak’, quite a challenging year. In October I external examiner at Monyash, Belfast, now sitting alongside a discrete project on the was visiting Israel to give papers in Haifa and Birmingham, Royal Holloway and Kings BBC and the Holocaust. This has revealed to develop a partnership with their Jewish College and internal at Southampton. many long forgotten dramas and other studies programme there when I heard the I continue to teach on our MA in Jewish programmes which present a far more devastating news that my friend and former Culture and History and to contribute to the complex picture than is often assumed. This colleague at Southampton, David Cesarani, outreach work of the Parkes Institute. Aside research and my work with the British had died suddenly following major surgery. from journal editing, I am on the committee Association for Holocaust Studies has seen David was a dynamic and inspiring figure and of the Prime Minister’s Holocaust me continue to work as a member of the contributed generously to the work of the Commission, the Holocaust Memorial Day Education Advisory Group of the UK Parkes Institute as the tribute in this year’s Trust, the London Jewish Museum, the Holocaust Memorial Foundation. review illustrates. There have been a series of Imperial War Museum and the Manchester events to mark his passing and we will be Jewish Museum. Dr Anna Koch doing so with a conference in spring 2017. Back to Lampedusa, and I have used this Teaching Fellow for the MA in Jewish The conference will be devoted to the topic of research visit for various writing projects History and Culture at JW3 London Port Jews, one which David spearheaded in his time at Southampton, especially with our including an article and also my monograph, After receiving my PhD in May 2015 from the partners in Cape Town. Then in late Journeys from the Abyss, which is now with Departments of Hebrew and Judaic Studies November I had emergency brain surgery the publishers. Smaller projects on the and History at New York University, I have which meant an extended hospital stay and memory of the Holocaust, refugee history, relocated to the UK where our second child then recuperation. One positive thing that minorities and the First World War, walking Ella was born. This past year I have worked my time in Southampton General Hospital the East End, and the Holocaust and on revising my dissertation, titled “Home confirmed was the importance of migration postcolonial studies have all been completed after Fascism? Italian and German Jews after in contemporary Britain. I counted 15 and await publication. the Holocaust, 1944-1952” for publication. nationalities amongst the nurses and doctors This study compares the experiences of Jews It was also pleasing that the final event in the who treated me – about half the number of who resettled in West Germany, East Parkes Institute Jubilee celebrations – a those who work at this hospital. Without Germany and Italy after 1945, focusing on debate about the future of interfaith dialogue them, the National Health Service would their struggles with the question of belonging. – was a resounding success. I have also collapse. On my last morning in hospital, I Asking why some of them felt at home while co-organised with Dr Kathrin Pieren an was treated by a senior nurse who was in his others remained estranged, my manuscript international workshop on Jewish heritage thirties. He had come to Southampton as a explores how different factors such as and been responsible for a conference on teenager and then later trained to be a nurse. national context, war experience, age, and migrant historiography in honour of Colin Without knowing my occupation he started gender impacted survivors’ ability to regain a Holmes, an honorary fellow of the Parkes talking about history. Where else at 6am on a sense of belonging. It uncovers how different Institute and my former PhD supervisor in Monday morning can you have a first class postwar memory cultures and narratives in the 1980s! discussion about the state of Polish West Germany, East Germany and Italy historiography? shaped Jews’ ability to feel at home after 1945. Dr Claire Le Foll Indeed, migration has been the theme of this Lecturer in East European Jewish History A paper based on this research entitled year for me. I was lucky enough to visit the and Culture “Returning Home? Italian and German Jews’ tiny island of Lampedusa (where tens of This has been a very fruitful and rich year Remigration to their Countries of Origin after thousands of migrants have passed through marked by a major achievement – the the Holocaust,” is forthcoming in an edited and sadly many died) in summer 2015 and was completion of my second book – and many volume, Migrations in the German Lands, then able to use that experience for a variety other exciting research, outreach and 1500-2000 with Berghahn Press in September 28 Dan Levene outside the church of Debra Brehan Selassie in Gondar
teaching activities. I dedicated my study leave Flying Lovers of Vitebsk based on Marc and The year was also full of international in the autumn to the completion and Bella’s lives. I was also asked to contribute to collaboration and activities. Apart from the submission of the manuscript of my second a special radio programme dedicated to Marc public talks and research papers given in book La Biélorussie dans l’histoire et Chagall and broadcast on France Culture France during and after my study leave, I also l’imaginaire des Juifs de l’Empire russe 1772-1905 (equivalent of BBC Radio 4) in December co-organised an international workshop (Belorussia in the history and imagination of 2015. Finally the presentation I gave at the entitled ‘Shades of Jewish Soviet Life’ Jews in the Russian Empire, 1772-1905), Paris Yiddish Centre in October 2015 on (Southampton, 4 May 2016) with colleagues Honoré Champion, Paris, forthcoming in illustrations of the Yiddish writer Y.L. Peretz from the UK, France, the USA and from our 2017. I also worked on my new project on brought me back to the question of Jewish art institutional partner Petersburg Judaica. I ‘Jews and emerging nations’ that will compare and visual culture in Eastern Europe. As a was also invited to participate in an the cultural interactions and interethnic result, I started to work on a new mini- international conference on Soviet Jewish relations between national groups in the project, illustrations of Yiddish books and History: New Sources, New Approaches held Baltic States, Soviet Belarus and Soviet periodicals in the Soviet Union in the 1920s at the Moscow Jewish Museum and Tolerance Ukraine between 1905 and 1939. In September and 1930s. I mainly used the Kazovsky Centre in June 2016. This year of transition 2015 I visited Lviv and Kiev to make contact collection kept at the Musée d’art et d’histoire between the finalisation of my book and the with colleagues and potential partner du judaïsme (Paris) and gave three papers on beginning of new projects has been full of institutions. I am also applying for grants. If this topic (in Paris, Southampton and promising collaboration and new exciting funding permits, this research programme Moscow). intellectual ventures. would involve collaboration with colleagues Teaching has been very busy with almost sixty from Eastern European and Western Dr Dan Levene students attending my second year module countries and the organisation of Reader in Jewish History and Culture on Stalin and Stalinism, and a smaller but very a variety of events (conferences, summer engaged group of first year students on Jewish This was another exciting and productive school and touring exhibition). I have also Life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. year for me at the Parkes Institute. While I worked on the first output of this new I have also taught and/or supervised post- was busy in the year before last in the process project - the edition of a special issue of Jewish graduate students. The Parkes doctoral of applying for grants, this year has been Culture and History on ‘Jews and seminar, reconvened in semester 2, offered a taken-up in carrying out the research and small nations’. friendly platform for our PhD students to related activities that these grants have made This year also gave me several occasions to go present and discuss their work in progress. possible. I have travelled twice to Ethiopia, back to my ‘first loves’ – Marc Chagall and The novelty this year is that students based have been to Israel once and have visited the Jewish art. I was invited to give a talk on out of Southampton were also able to Rylands Archives in Manchester twice. The Chagall in Reims at a conference organised by participate via skype. On the administrative highlight of the first, September, Ethiopia trip the local Israelite association on ‘Four front I am delighted to take over the was a three-day conference that I arranged European Jews in the 20th century’ and also to Internationalisation role for both Parkes and titled “The force of faith - belief, tradition and give two pre-show talks at Bristol Old Vic and the department of History. health in Ethiopia” (sponsored by the Wellcome Trust). The conference took place Nuffield Theatre to introduce the play The 29 at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at the Louise Revell, a specialist in Roman History). examiner for a PhD on ‘Depictions of Hasidic Addis Ababa University (AAU). One of the My teaching in Semester 1 was concentrated Judaism in Jewish-American Literature’. outcomes of the conference was the in three areas: 1) a lecture and seminar course I was also able to give papers at a number of commitment to investigate attitudes of the on ‘Cleopatra’s Egypt’ (the main context for conferences. In April I was invited to the Ethiopian Jews who offer the most interesting my research area of Graeco-Roman Jewish University of Salzburg to speak on the theme parallels. Indeed, my visit to Israel in the history) to 45 Year 2 students; 2) of exile in Anna Mitgutsch’s novel House of Following January was specifically to work on contributions to the team-taught Year 3 Childhood (2000). In June I spoke at the the Faitlovitch collection of manuscripts course (30 students) on ‘The Bible and conference ‘Grenzüberschreitungen: from the Jewish Ethiopian communities History’ (the module is a recent creation by Migration und Literatur aus der Perspektive (Sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Helen Spurling and myself); and 3) a new MA der Literatursoziologie‘, held at the Foundation). The materials that I worked on course (4 students) on ‘The Conversion of the Österreichische Akademie der there are very interesting as they include Roman Empire: pagans, Jews, and Christians’, Wissenschaften. My paper was on language materials as The Book of the Disciples: a text co-taught and designed with Helen Spurling. and aesthetic resistance in the work of the that is for protection and healing of which I was very honoured to be awarded a Visiting Austrian-Jewish writer and intellectual Doron there are both Christian and Jewish versions Polonsky Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Rabinovici. In July I contributed a paper on in Ethiopia. The fruits of this kind of Hebrew and Jewish Studies for Hilary and the centre-margin dichotomy in Christoph comparative research feeds both literary and Trinity terms (January-June 2016). During Ransmayer’s Ovid novel Die letzte Welt to the ethnographic, anthropological and folkloric this period, I worked alongside Professor annual conference of the Gesellschaft für investigations I am now involved in. The Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford) as Exilforschung, which I also co-organised with focus of the April visit to Ethiopia was a joint Project Leader of an international Dr Andrea Hammel (University of collaborative workshop event in Addis Ababa research project on the Jews of Egypt from Aberystwyth). University (sponsored by the British antiquity to the medieval world: ‘Israel in Academy). For this meeting I was joined with Since stepping down as the Director of the Egypt: the Land of Egypt as Concept and Professor Catherine Clarke from the English Graduate School I have been engaged in Reality for Jews in antiquity and the medieval Department and Dr François Soyer from the preparing a major grant application on the world’, http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/academic- Parkes Institute. There will be a World War I diaries of the Austrian Jewish activities/lectures/osajs-israel-in-egypt/ The complimentary workshop in Southampton in music theorist Heinrich Schenker. I am also Israel in Egypt Project funded a total of 13 October, for which two colleagues from AAU working on a new project on ‘Literature on/ Visiting Fellows (from universities in Britain, will be travelling. The aim will be to finalise from the margins’ that will look at the Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the discussions about a collaborative project that relationship between literature and Netherlands, the USA) who worked with us started in April. Two weeks spent at The John geography in Austria with a particular focus for periods of eight or sixteen weeks. Rylands Library in December 2015 and on contemporary ‘Provinzliteratur’. Together with Professor Miriam Frenkel February/March 2016 were dedicated to (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), we working on their collection of Ethiopian Professor Joachim Schlör convened a wide-ranging programme of amuletic texts, known as magic scrolls Professor of Modern Jewish/non-Jewish weekly workshops and project seminars, (Sponsored by The John Rylands Library). Relations culminating in a two-day conference with a Plans for a workshop in Israel are now afoot total of 21 speakers! We are now working on My personal highlight in the last year was the – watch this space. the next stage of the Project, which will bring presentation of the book on Liesel Rosenthal, Rabbi Julia Neuberger’s mother, who Dr Mark Levene together the main findings of our research in a volume of twenty essays (2017/18). My own emigrated to England in 1937. Liesel was born Reader in Comparative History research for this project focuses on the in Heilbronn, Germany, where her father and Mark Levene has been on leave during the last memory of Ptolemaic rule in Jewish writings. his brothers worked as wine merchants. I was academic year. During the remainder of this period of born in Heilbronn and grew up in a village research leave, I will complete a monograph nearby, in a family of wine farmers. On 28 Dr Sarah Pearce on Philo of Alexandria, De Decalogo (Brill/SBL; January, the Mayor of Heilbronn, Harry Ian Karten Professor of Ancient Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series) and Mergel, and the director of the city archives, Jewish Studies other studies on the Jews of Graeco-Roman Professor Christhard Schrenk, presented the It has been a year of two halves. In the first Egypt, including the preparation of invited book in the city’s beautiful Town Hall, and half of this period, I completed a term of three papers for the Royal Historical Society Lady Neuberger was invited to sign the city’s and a half years as Head of the Department of (September 2016), the Society of Biblical Golden Book: “My mother would have loved History. This was an exceptionally busy time Literature, San Antonio, Texas (November every minute of it”. We were also invited to with the hiring of a substantial number of new 2016), and the Mandel Scholion see the city archive’s permanent exhibition academic posts, thanks to a very successful Interdisciplinary Center, Hebrew University, and the Jewish cemetery where the Rosenthal year for recruiting undergraduate students, Jerusalem (January 2017). family grave is well-preserved. In October, I and the launch of a new BA programme in was invited to participate in a doctoral Ancient History which will greatly enrich the Dr Andrea Reiter students’ conference in Jewish Studies in wider context for teaching and research in Professor of German Frankfurt, organised by Grazyna Jurewicz and Rebekka Denz, where I found yet another Ancient Jewish Studies (until now, most Because of my administrative role as the group of continental PhD students to support teaching and research in ancient history has Director of the Humanities Graduate School and co-supervise. I was also very happy to been carried out by members of the Parkes I have not been able to offer my Parkes MA meet Rabbi Joel Berger again. He taught me group, i.e. Helen Spurling, Dan Levene and option this year. However, I acted as internal myself, working alongside our colleague Dr at Tübingen University and took us students 30 to an unforgettable excursion to his talented. The second years on ‘The Historical motivated and hard-working and really hometown of Budapest in 1990, shortly after Origins of Christianity’ were dedicated and dedicated to the goals of the outreach the fall of the Berlin wall. Now we met and hard-working and entered into some programme. They are a constant inspiration. discussed the life and works of author, lawyer, high-level discussions. The third years on I would also like to thank all those who have and Zionist activist Sammy Gronemann ‘The Bible and History’ were all really fun to taken the time and energy to participate in whose books I re-edited in German some work with and discuss ideas. I also taught a our events, classes and workshops. Our years ago. Gronemann’s novel ‘Tohuwabohu’ new MA module with Sarah Pearce on ‘The audiences have been wonderfully engaged has now been published in a first English Conversion of the Roman Empire’, which and I have learnt so much through our translation by Indiana University Press. For examined relations between Jews, Christians conversations. Finally, my deepest gratitude the larger part of the year, the directorship of and Pagans up to the time of Constantine. It goes to the Karten Trust and the Cohen the Parkes Institute kept me busy with the was a small but engaged group with some Foundation. It has been an honour and restructuring of our Outreach work, the really interesting approaches to the study of privilege to develop the outreach programme relaunch of our MA programme in Jewish this period. I really value my time in class with and this has only been possible due to their History and Culture at the London Jewish students, and I frequently learn as much from immense generosity. Thank you all. Cultural Centre JW3, and the organisation of them as hopefully the other way around. I am the Parkes Institute’s seminar programme – very much looking forward to working with it was a great pleasure to have Barbara next year’s cohort. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett as the speaker for our Since February I have been privileged to be “The Parkes doctoral yearly Parkes Lecture. Barbara presented the on research leave, and this has given me the POLIN Museum for the History of Polish opportunity to work on finalising my next seminar, reconvened Jews which won this year’s European book, which is a critical edition, introduction Museum Award. and commentary on Pirqe Mashiah, a Hebrew in semester 2, offered Dr François Soyer midrashic apocalypse. I was particularly excited to find a new manuscript of the text a friendly platform for Associate Professor in Late Medieval and in the Moscow Ginzburg collection, which Early Modern History has been really significant for the new edition. our PhD students to During the 2015-2016 academic year, I have I also enjoyed the opportunity to work with focused on the completion of the manuscript Joachim Schlör on a special volume of present and discuss of a book project provisionally entitled Jewish Culture and History on ‘Jews and “Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories in the Political Discourse’, which represented their work in progress. Early Modern Iberian World: Religion, revised contributions from a British Identity and the Politics of Fear”. Association for Jewish Studies conference The novelty this year is on this theme. A big highlight this year was Dr Helen Spurling an invitation to speak at a conference in that students based out Karten Associate Professor of History Cambridge on Jewish-Christian relations It has been a very busy and diverse year for me after Constantine, organised by Holger of Southampton were at the Parkes Institute. The academic year Zellentin, Daniel Weiss and Michal Bar-Asher began with the Parkes Jubilee Conference, Siegal to whom many thanks are due for such also able to participate which was held from 7-9 September 2015 on a stimulating gathering. the subject of ‘Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations via skype.” from Antiquity to the Present’. I co-organised I continued in my role as Director of the conference with Tony Kushner and James Outreach before going on research leave, and Jordan and we aimed to bring together we built on our programme of adult education Dr Claire Le Foll scholars from different disciplinary fields to classes, the Bournemouth midrash group, Lecturer in East European Jewish examine the history of research in Jewish/ study days, interfaith week activities, the History and Culture non-Jewish relations over the last 50 years. city’s Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day The conference had over 80 speakers in three and workshops in schools as reported parallel sessions running over three days and elsewhere in this Annual Review. However, as stimulating papers were delivered on topics I have stepped down from this role, I would from the ancient to the modern world and like to take this opportunity to offer thanks to from Europe to the Middle East. Many thanks all those who have made our outreach work to all our contributors for making the possible and such a joy to deliver. I would like occasion so interesting and memorable, and to thank all my Parkes colleagues who have to Tracy Storey and Lorraine Rood for all been so supportive and committed to the their support. programme - our outreach is truly a reflection of the whole range of research undertaken at I was lucky to be involved in teaching six the Parkes Institute and that is only possible different modules this year, and work with due to everyone’s willingness to be involved. some incredibly engaged students who took The outreach doctoral fellows - this year Jen the time to come and speak to me outside of Lewis, Danielle Lockwood, Katie Power, Eva the classroom. The first years on ‘The End of van Loenen and Nicola Woodhead - deserve a the World’ were particularly enthusiastic and special mention. They are always incredibly 31 Special Collections and Library Report by Karen Robson and Jenny Ruthven
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financial records, with material reflecting the “Explore the Special Collections” social function aspect of the societies, such as open afternoons event notices, programmes and tickets, The Special Collections has been hosting a together with monthly bulletins and programme of open afternoons to provide newsletters. Records of members include visitors with the opportunity to view material application forms and index books for the from across the printed and archive Burial Society of the Association of Jewish collections and meet the curators. Material Friendly Societies and member nomination from both the Anglo-Jewish Archives and the MS 422 A4216/10/3 Group photograph of and death claim books for the Grand Order Grand Lodge of Israel Parkes Library has featured in a number of Sons of Jacob. The collection also contains a sessions, including those relating to small quantity of material relating to New archive collections: philanthropy and to food. Amongst the items Kalman’s research. on show about philanthropic sources were The Archives and Manuscripts have Asher I. Myers The Jewish Directory for 1874 continued to add to its holdings of Anglo- Special Collections events: (London, 1874) from the Parkes Library which Jewish collections. One of these new Creating a legacy: the Parkes Library contains an extensive list of charitable collections is that compiled by Raymond 2015 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the societies and items from the Jewish Board of Kalman while conducting research on the official opening of the Parkes Library at Guardians that reflected its work to support history of friendly societies. Kalman, who Southampton. Revd Dr James Parkes the Jewish community in the East End of was born in Paris and raised in Spitalfields, (1896-1981) dedicated the greater part of his London in the nineteenth century. For the was a member of Council of the Jewish life to combatting anti-Semitism. The arrival event on food, material ranged from Historical Society of England and of the of the library that he created at Southampton nineteenth-century committee minutes of Friendly Societies Research Group. He wrote was a significant moment in the development the Board of Shechita, on the regulation of the extensively on Anglo-Jewish and East End of the library collections at the University. It production of kosher meat and poultry; to a social history. His collection (MS 422) marked the start of a half century of copy of Florence Greenberg’s classic work contains the papers for a range of friendly significant growth, both in the Parkes Library Jewish Cookery, first published in 1947; to a societies, including the United Jewish and in Jewish archive collections, report on Jewish dinners commemorating the Friendly Society, Manasseh Ben Israel transforming Southampton into a major coronation of King Edward VII by Michael A. Friendly Society, Hebrew Order of David, Jewish documentation centre. An exhibition Green, July 1902, organised by the Jewish Grand Order of Israel and Shield of David Creating a legacy: the Parkes Library, which Board of Guardians on behalf of the borough Friendly Society, Grand Order Sons of Jacob, ran between September and November 2015, of Stepney in accordance with “His Majesty’s and the Association of Jewish Friendly considered the legacy created by Revd Dr wishes to provide a dinner to his poor Societies. Key material relating to the James Parkes, through his library and his subjects in commemoration of the year administration of the societies includes rule research on Jewish/non-Jewish relations. of his coronation” books, annual reports, minute books and
32 Publications, Papers,
Dr Devorah Baum Talks and Awards Publications Chapter - ‘The Return of Religion: Secularisation and its Discontents,’ 80-88, in The Routledge by Members of the Companion to Literature and Religion, Knight, Mark (ed.), (Oxford: Routledge, 2016). Article - ‘Good Luck’ in RH Magazine, the JC (September 2016) Parkes Institute Exhibition Text - ‘Abigail Schama’s Bone Ash’, Curious Body, London, Charterhouse Square, June-July 2016 Talks ‘On Tatiana Levy’s House of Smyrna (in conversation with the author),’ London Literary Weekend, King’s Place, Oct 2015 Dr Shirli Gilbert Publications From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, forthcoming) Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World, co-edited with Avril Alba (Wayne State University Press, forthcoming) ‘Foreword’, in Esther Jilovsky, Jordy Silverstein, and David Slucki, eds. In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation, Valentine Mitchell 2015, pp. xxiii-xxiv. ‘Holocaust Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa’ in Alan Steinweis, Philipp Gassert and Jacob S. Eder, eds. Holocaust Memory in a Globalizing World (forthcoming) Dr James Jordan: Publications ‘From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust in the Courtroom of American Fictive Film’ (Vallentine Mitchell, 2015) ‘Another Man’s Faith? The Image of Judaism in BBC Television’s Men Seeking God (1954)’ in Hannah Ewence and Helen Spurling, eds, Visualizing Jews through the Ages (Routledge, 2015) Talks
‘Fifty years of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations on the Small Screen’, Parkes Jubilee Conference, September 2015 ‘That’s Not My Name: Identity and Identification of the Holocaust perpetrator on British television of the 1960s’, University of Winchester, September 2015 ‘None Shall Escape: An Introduction to the Holocaust on Film’, The University of Sydney, October 2015 ‘Dr Who and the Changing Face of Jewishness’, Public lecture, Mandelbaum House, Sydney, October 2015 ‘From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Film’, Public lecture, Mandelbaum House, Sydney, October 2015 33 ‘“You’re not going to believe this”: The Use of Film at Gallery/Courtauld, London, October 2015 ‘L’illustration de livres et revues yiddish en Russie, the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg and ‘Britain and the Holocaust’, Sixth Form Holocaust 1917-1939’, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Yves Simoneau’s Nuremberg (2001)’, Public lecture, Conference, Watford Grammar School, Sociales, Paris, April 2016. Mandelbaum House, Sydney, October 2015 November 2015 ‘Illustration of Yiddish books in Soviet Russia, ‘Fifty Shades of J: The Jewish Image in British ‘History and the Current Refugee Crisis’, 1918-1939’, Parkes Workshop ‘Shades of Jewish Television, 1965-2015’, Public lecture, Mandelbaum Southampton University Erasmus Society, Soviet Life’, Southampton, May 2016. House, Sydney, October 2015 November 2015 ‘The worlds of Marc Chagall’, pre-show talk ‘The ‘“A Strange, Special Day”: Genghis Cohn (BBC, 1993) ‘The Refugee Crisis’, Southampton Interfaith Flying Lovers of Vitebsk’, Bristol Old Vic, June 2016. and the Haunted Imagination’, Postgraduate Week, November 2015 ‘Illustrations of Soviet Yiddish books and journals in Research Seminar, University of Sydney, ‘”Illegal” Immigration, Past and Present’, Parkes the 1920s and 1930s’, Conference on Soviet Jewish October 2015 Institute Seminar Programme, November 2015 History, Moscow, June 2016. ‘I am a Jew (1940): BBC Radio’s First Dramatisation ‘James Parkes’, Interfaith Debate, West London ‘The worlds of Marc Chagall’, pre-show talk ‘The of the Persecution of the Jews of Europe’, Sydney Synagogue, May 2016 Flying Lovers of Vitebsk’, Southampton Nuffield Jewish Museum, November 2015 Theatre, July 2016. ‘Can the Jewish prostitute speak?’ Salzburg ‘Jewish/non-Jewish Relations on British TV in the University, June 2016 1970s’, Research seminar, Shalom College, Sydney, Dr Dan Levene November 2015 ‘Child Migration – then and now’, Parkes Institute Cultural Evening, June 2016 Publications ‘Memories of the Kindertransport.’ In conversation Levene, D., Phillips, IW D., Alemu, S., ‘Medical with Harry Grenville and Walter Kammerling, ‘Lessons from History?’, Pears Institute/East Anglia traditions and chronic disease in Ethiopia: a story of Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day, University conference ‘Placeless People’, June 2016 wax and gold?’, Tropical Doctor vol. 46 (3): (2016), Southampton, January 2016 ‘Migrant Documents’, Runnymede Trust Workshop pp. 122-5. With Nick Evans (University of Hull), ‘Forgotten towards a GCSE on Migration to Britain, June 2016 Levene, Dan and Ponting, M., ‘Recycling economies, gateways to freedom? The North/South ‘Walking Tour of Jewish Southampton’, Jewish when efficient, are by their nature invisible.” A first Transmigrant Corridor Between Hull and Heritage International Workshop, Southampton, century recycling economy’, in, Geller, Markham Southampton’, University of Hull, North and South July 2016 J. (ed.) The Archaeology and Material Culture of Culture Café Talks, April 2016 ‘Colin Holmes and the Study of Migrant and The Babylonian Talmud, Studies in Judaica, 16 ‘Diagnosis Evil: The Absence of Empathy and the Anti-Migrant History’, Migrant Historiography (Brill, 2015), pp. 39-65. celluloid Nazi’ , Vile Visions; Representing Evil, conference, Southampton, September 2016 Southampton, June 2016 Papers Dr Claire Le Foll ‘The Emigrants’ Home, Southampton’, Public ‘Not just a matter of translation? Medhanit lecture, Tudor House, Southampton, June 2016 Publications was presented at a conference in Addis Ababa that I organised, titled “The force of faith - Book Review on Y. Petrovsky-Shtern, The Golden Professor Tony Kushner: belief, tradition and health in Ethiopia” (7-9 Age Shtetl, Princeton University Press, 2015 and September 2015) Publications ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Jay M. Harris (ed.), Everyday ‘Iterdigitation of heterodox and orthodox in living ‘David Cesarani: An Appreciation’, Holocaust Jewish life in imperial Russia, Brandeis University medical tradition in Ethiopia - stimulating thoughts Studies vol.21 no.4 (2015), pp.207-8 Press, 2013, in Journal of Jewish Studies, 67, (1), Spring Issue, 210-213. about earlier Near-Eastern magico-medical ‘Situating Racism between the Post-Colonial and the traditions’ was presented at a conference titled Holocaust in Britain: Anne Frank and Stephen Papers “Practical medical knowledge in ancient Lawrence’, in Jacob Eder, Philipp Gassert and Alan ‘Les illustrateurs de Y.L. Perez et la renaissance Mediterranean cultures” (2-3 November 2015). Steinweis (eds), Holocaust Memory in a Globalizing culturelle juive‘, House of Yiddish Culture - Medem ‘“Prayers that loosen charms”, Ethiopian magic World (Wallstein Verlag, 2016) Library, Paris, October 2015. scrolls’ was presented at the Rylands Library (29 Papers ‘Chagall, entre shtetl et modernité’, Colloque de February 2016). ‘Jewish Migration in Fin-de-Siecle Britain’, Ben Uri l’ACSIR, Reims, November 2015. ‘Incantation and miracles of Our Blessed Lady’ was 34 presented at a collaborative workshop between Nights in the big city. Paris, Berlin, London Dr François Soyer Addis Ababa University and the University of 1840-1930. New edition, with a foreword by Southampton at Addis Ababa University Matthew Beaumont. London: Reaktion Books 2016 Publications (12 April 2016). ‘“Schalömchen!“ Das Jüdische im Weißen Rössl‘, in “All one in Christ Jesus”? Spiritual closeness, Professor Sarah Pearce Im Weißen Rössl. Neue kulturgeschichtliche genealogical determinism and the conversion Perspektiven, ed. Nils Grosch and Carolin of Jews in Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium Fidei”, Publications Stahrenberg. Münster: Waxman Verlag 2016, 197-211. Journal of Spanish and Cultural Studies (vol. 17, issue 3, pp. 239-254) ‘Intermarriage and the Ancestors of the Jews: ‘Abschied, Transit, Ankunft. Die Stadt am Mittelmeer Philonic Perspectives’, The Studia Philonica Annual und die Einwanderer aus dem Hotel Europa‘, in Talks 27 (2015) 1-26 Deutsche und zentraleuropäische Juden in Palästina und Israel. Kulturtransfers, Lebenswelten, ‘Anger, Envy and Hatred: “Jewish Emotions” in Early ‘Josephus and the Jewish Chronicle’, in Andrea Identitäten – Beispiele aus Haifa, ed. Anja Modern European anti-Semitic Polemics’, University Schatz, ed., Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture Siegemund. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag 2016, 59-74 of Western Australia, 10 August 2016 (Brill, forthcoming 2017) (a product of the AHRC Project on the Reception of Josephus in Jewish ‘Faith in Residence: Jewish Spatial Practice in the Lecture and Seminar Urban Context’, in Space and Spacelessness in Culture, www.josephus.orinst.ox.ac.uk ) ‘The Affective Politics of Fear in Early Modern Spain: German-Jewish History, ed. Simone Lässig and ‘Philo and the Septuagint’, in Alison Salvesen, ed., The Recycling of an Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory Miriam Rürup. New York: Berghahn Books (in print) The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (OUP, into an anti-Muslim one’, Universities of Adelaide forthcoming) An Introduction (Foreword). Sammy Gronemann, (19 August) and Sydney (24 August 2016) Utter Chaos, trans. Penny Milbouer. Bloomington: Papers and Talks Indiana University Press 2016, xi/xvii. Dr Helen Spurling ‘Philo and the Memory of Ptolemaic Rule’, Oxford ‘“Irgendwo auf der Welt”: The Emigration of Jews Publications Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies from Nazi Germany as a Transnational Experience’, (27 January 2016) in Three-Way Street. Jews, Germans, and the Helen Spurling (ed.), The Jews and Political Discourse (Jewish Culture and History, 2015). ‘Cleopatra and the Jews’, JW3 (17 March 2016) Transnational, ed. Jay Howard Geller and Leslie Morris. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press Helen Spurling, ‘Discourse of doubt: the testing of ‘The Memory of Ptolemaic Rule: Jewish 2016, 220-239. apocalyptic figures in Jewish and Christian Perspectives’, Hebrew, Jewish and Early Christian traditions of late Antiquity’ Jewish Culture and Seminar, University of Cambridge (23 May 2016) ‘Werner Richard Heymann in Hollywood: A case study of German-Jewish emigration after 1933 as History 16.3 (2015): 109-126. ‘Jewish Life and Jewish Faith in Graeco-Roman a transnational experience’, Jewish Culture and Alexandria’, Conference on ‘Nationhood and Papers and Talks History 17.1-2, Special Issue ‘Los Angeles as a Religion in Hellenistic Roman Judea’, University of crossing point of German, Jewish, and American ‘Pirqe Mashiah and Jewish/non-Jewish relations: the Groningen (22 June 2016) cultures’, ed. Paul Lerner and Jeffrey Fear. representation of the ‘other’ in a Jewish apocalyptic Professor Andrea Reiter midrash’, Parkes Jubilee Conference, Southampton, Papers September 2015. Publications Sammy Gronemann. “Der Unbewusste bin nämlich ‘The End of the World: Interpretations of Daniel 12:1 The ‘Vision of Home’. Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch’s ich.“ Rabbi Dr. Joel Berger in conversation with and Perceptions of the Christian Other’, Talmud and House of Childhood, Austrian Studies 24 (2016) Professor Joachim Schlör. Stuttgart, Jüdische Christianity: Rabbinic Judaism after Constantine, [in press] Kulturtage, 3.11.2015 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, June 2016. Faith in Residence: Jewish Spatial Practice in the Professor Joachim Schlör Urban Context. Jewish Museum Munich and Publications Institute for European Ethnology, 17.11.2015 “Liesel, it’s time for you to leave”. Von Heilbronn Jewish Migration and the Archive. International nach England. Die Flucht der Familie Rosenthal vor Workshop on Jewish Heritage: Heritage and its nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung. Heilbronn: Communities, Southampton, 12 July 2016 Stadtarchiv 2016 35 Members of the Parkes Institute
The Advisory Committee of the Dr James Jordan – Dr Ruth Gilbert Dr Gavin Schaffer Parkes Institute English and History (University College, Winchester) (Birmingham University)
Professor Tim Bergfelder Professor Tony Kushner – Dr Tim Grady Dr Mathias Seiter (Chair) – Film Studies Parkes Institute (University of Chester) (Portsmouth University)
Emma Barlow – Trusts and Dr Claire Le Foll – History Professor Bernard Harris Dr Patricia Skinner Foundations Officer (Social Sciences) (Swansea University) Dr Dan Levene – History Dr Devorah Baum – History Professor Colin Holmes Professor Clare Ungerson Dr Mark Levene – History (Professor Emeritus, (Emeritus Professor, Professor Anne Curry – Dean of Sheffield University) University of Southampton) the Faculty of Humanities Professor Sarah Pearce – History Professor Andrea Reiter – Dr Hannah Holtschneider Dr Nadia Valman (Queen Mary Professor Tim Elliott – (Edinburgh University) University of London) Pro Vice-Chancellor Modern Languages (Research & Enterprise) Dr Karen Robson – Deputy Head Professor Brian Klug Professor Malcolm Wagstaff of Special Collections (St Benet’s, University of Oxford) (Emeritus Professor, Dr Shirli Gilbert – History University of Southampton) Jenny Ruthven – Parkes Librarian Dr Jan Lanicek (University of Professor Martin Goodman – New South Wales) Mr Bill Williams Oxford University Dr Francois Soyer – History (University of Manchester) Prof Daniel Langton Professor Neil Gregor – History Dr Helen Spurling – History (University of Manchester) Dr Abigail Wood (University of Haifa) Dr James Jordan – Honorary Fellows of the Professor Tom Lawson English and History Parkes Institute (University of Winchester) Patrons of the Parkes Institute Professor Tony Kushner – Dr Peter Batty Professor Rodney Livingstone The Ian Karten Charitable Trust Parkes Institute (Emeritus Professor, Dr Ellen Birnbaum University of Southampton) Professor Martin Goodman Dr Claire Le Foll – History (University of Boston) Dr Graham Macklin Sir Ronald Harwood CBE, FRSL Dr Dan Levene – History Professor Donald Bloxham (University of Huddersfield) Lord Harries of Pentregarth Dr Mark Levene – History (Edinburgh University) Dr Sophia Marshman Dr Mishtooni Bose Right Rev Crispian Hollis Professor Sarah Pearce – History (Portsmouth University) (Christ Church, Oxford) Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger Professor Andrea Reiter – Dr Tobias Metzler Dr Tobias Brinkmann Modern Languages (University of Bangkok, Thailand) Sir Howard Newby CBE (Penn State University) Dr Karen Robson – Deputy Head Dr Joanna Newman Lady Helen Oppenheimer Dr Aimée Bunting of Special Collections (Universities UK) (Godolphin and Latymer School) Lord Plant of Highfield Dr Silke Roth – Sociology Mr Gerald Normie Professor Bryan Cheyette Professor Peter Pulzer (Bournemouth) Jenny Ruthven – Parkes Library (University of Reading) Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks Dr Stuart Olesker Jane Savidge – Julie Clague BSc, MTh (Portsmouth University) University Librarian (University of Glasgow) Most Rev Rowan Williams Professor Tessa Rajak Professor Joachim Schlör – Mr David Cohen (London) (University of Reading) Director of Parkes Institute Dr Lawrence Cohen (Essex) Dr Jo Reilly Dr François Soyer - History Dr Susan Cohen (London) (Heritage Lottery Fund) Dr Helen Spurling – History Rev Richard Coggins Professor Nils Roemer Joanna Watts – Senior (Emeritus Professor, King’s (Texas, USA) Development Manager College, University of London) Dr Gemma Romain The Board of Studies of the Mr Graham Cole (Southampton) (University College London) Parkes Institute Dr Maria Diemling (Canterbury) Professor Mark Roseman Professor Joachim Schlör – (Indiana University, Bloomington) (Chair) Director of Parkes Institute Professor Henry Ettinghausen (Emeritus Professor, University Barbara Rosenbaum (London) Dr Devorah Baum – History of Southampton) Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary Dr Shirli Gilbert – History University of London) 36 The Parkes Institute and Library Friends Membership Programme
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I have completed the Direct Debit instructions below. The Direct Debit Guarantee Instruction to your Bank or Building Society to pay for Direct Debit - This Guarantee is offered by all banks and building Please complete the whole form using a ball point pen and return to: societies that accept instructions to pay Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Direct Debits University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ - If there are any changes to the amount, date or frequency of your Direct Debit the University Name and full postal address for your Bank or Building Society: of Southampton will notify you 10 working days in advance of your account being debited or as To the Manager (Bank or Building Society) otherwise agreed. If you request the University of Southampton to collect a payment, confirmation of Address 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 Postcode 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 Name of account holder bank or building society. - If you receive a refund you are not entitled to, Sort Code Account Number you must pay it back when the University of Southampton asks you to. Service User Number 2 5 3 4 8 9 - You can cancel a Direct Debit at any time by simply contacting your bank or building society. Written Reference (for office use only) confirmation may be required. Please also notify us.
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 Direct Debit Guarantee. I understand that this instruction may remain with the University of Southampton, and if so, details will be passed electronically to my Bank/Building Society.
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