The Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations Annual Review 2014 - 2015 50 years after the opening of the Parkes Library

In 1965, the Parkes Library opened to the public, having been transferred to the University of Southampton the year before from James Parkes’ own 1 house. Alongside the Library, the Parkes Centre also started a new life in the University, maintaining its unique focus of the study of Jewish/non- Jewish relations across the ages. The hope of James Parkes was that within a University setting, his Centre would become an international hub, helping to stimulate intellectual and practical work to focus on the key issues of religious and racial prejudice, working to combat intolerance and to promote respect between people of different faiths and backgrounds. Fifty years on we believe that what is now the Parkes Institute has realised the ambitions of its founder. In 2014 and 2015 we have been celebrating the achievements made so far, but also promoting fresh agendas in scholarship and wider outreach work. The Celebration has consisted of fifty individual events, varying from a musical vigil for peace to a study of Dr Who and the changing face 5 of Jewish identity. There have been ten workshops and conferences held not only at the University of Southampton but also with our partners in Cape Town, Jerusalem, London, Paris and elsewhere. These have covered many different themes, including the relationship between Jewish studies and postcolonial studies, and Jews in ‘small nations’ in Eastern Europe. The Parkes Library itself has more than quadrupled in size since 1965, running to well over 20,000 items and it is now supplemented by one of the largest Jewish archive collections in Europe. The wealth of these collections has been displayed in a major exhibition from the University’s Hartley Library Special Collections team in September 2015. It reflects the life, library and legacy of James Parkes and will feature photographs, documents and books from the Parkes Library and Jewish archives. A public debate will be held in West London Synagogue in October 2015. Following the inspirational work of James Parkes, it will examine the challenges facing interfaith dialogue in the twenty first century. It brings together leading representatives of Judaism (Baroness Neuberger), Christianity (Lord Richard Harries) and Islam (Imam Monawar Hussain). In tribute to James Parkes, they will explore the progress made but also the remaining challenges in these troubling times. To conclude: the Vice Chancellor, Professor Don Nutbeam, has described the Parkes Institute as ‘one of the University of Southampton’s most treasured achievements’. He adds that its world class Jubilee programme of scholarly and community events ‘celebrates and embraces the vision of James Parkes to create a society free of ignorance and prejudice. We look forward to the Parkes Institute’s next fifty years with great anticipation and pride in what has already been achieved.’

2 1. Outreach Programme 2 Get a deeper understanding page 8 2. Lectures, Conferences and Seminars To find out about our activities through the year page 12 3. Internationalism Fostering partnerships with other world-leading institutions page 19 4. The MA report Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture page 19 5. Reports by Academic Members of the Parkes Institute page 26

In this review 3 Report of the Director of the Parkes Institute, Professor Joachim Schlör 4 Outreach 8 Conferences, Lectures and Seminars 12 Journals of the Parkes Institute 16 Development 17 Internationalisation 18 Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture 19 The Moss Memorial Prizes 2014-2015 22 4 Reports by Parkes Postgraduates 23 Reports by Parkes Friends and Honorary Fellows 25 Reports by Academic Members of the Parkes Institute 26 Special Collections Report 34 Parkes Library Report 35 Publications and Papers by Members of the Parkes Institute 36 Members of the Parkes Institute 40 The Parkes Institute and Library Friends Membership Programme 41

3 Report of the Director of the Parkes Institute Professor Joachim Schlör

Our aim for the next fifty years is to expand and develop further the humane and tolerant vision of James Parkes: a true mensch who was so ahead of his time in accepting difference and fighting prejudice.

Painting by Vera Karoly, ‘After Auschwitz’

4 Professor Don Nutbeam, Vice-Chancellor, presents the VC Team Award to the Parkes Institute (with James Jordan, François Soyer, and Joachim Schlör)

The academic year 2014/15 ended on July 24 with a very welcome surprise. Nominated by our colleague Professor Tim Bergfelder (Film Studies), the group that forms the Parkes Institute has been awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Team Award. Alongside ten individual colleagues from across the University and six other – mostly non-academic – teams, we have been praised for our work. Here is the citation that was read by Professor Adam Wheeler:

‘This team award recognises the Parkes we want to make very clear that the Parkes study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations and to Institute for its unique work on Jewish/ Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish the spirit of dialogue. We form part of the non-Jewish relations throughout the ages, Relations has no involvement with the wide and varied world of Jewish Studies, and and for its longstanding contributions to the conference. As the Parkes Institute which at the same we contribute to many different University. The intellectual vibrancy of the honours and treasures its academic contacts fields of academic research, in History, both Institute has benefited generations of with Israeli as well as Palestinian scholars, ancient and modern, in Film, in English and scholars, students and the general public, as universities, archives, and other institutions, Modern Languages, in Migration and well as governmental and non-governmental we are deeply concerned by the conference Maritime Studies, in Media and Heritage bodies. The scale of funding from research plan as it has been presented. This event Studies. We look for, indeed we need councils, trusts and private individuals from could potentially damage the spirit of international cooperation, in Europe as well Britain and beyond provides evidence of how dialogue and cooperation that James Parkes as in the United States, in Australia and in highly it is regarded in the academic world brought to Southampton and to which we are South Africa, and we collaborate with and more generally. The Institute’s excellence all committed. A conference that singles out researchers from all over the world – in scholarship, teaching, publications, and Israel and invites the questioning of its very including Israel. My own work, if I may say outreach has brought it a global reputation existence cannot be supported by a group of this here, would not be imaginable without that brings great prestige to the University.’ academics dedicated to the study of Jewish the regular contact with academic history and culture.’ institutions, archives and, most importantly, This recognition of our work, for which we individual colleagues and friends in Tel Aviv are very grateful, came indeed timely, given It has not been a very easy task to navigate the and Jerusalem. the turbulences in spring, when a planned Institute through these rough waters. For the conference on ‘International Law and the University, the obligation to guarantee The Golden Jubilee Celebrations programme, State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and freedom of speech was, understandably, of dedicated to the memory of Reverend Dr Exceptionalism’ – a conference that had, not the highest importance. Within the Institute James Parkes and the arrival of the Parkes just in our view, a strong anti-Israel bias and itself, individual attitudes about Israel and Library at the University of Southampton in was of polemical rather than of academic the Middle East conflict are as varied as they 1954, has been initiated and coordinated by character – has made headlines in are in our society in general. In any case, the Tony Kushner. The programme provided the Southampton and well beyond. In a public turbulences challenged us all to think deeply rhythm of events throughout the year, statement we distanced ourselves clearly about the identity of the Institute, about who starting with Rex Bloomstein’s Parkes Lecture from this initiative, stating that: ‘We fully we are and where our place is. We are, all ‘A Jew in the Cathedral’. This is how is how support freedom of speech within the law, but individual differences aside, dedicated to the Bloomstein describes being a secular Jewish

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filmmaker confronting the often troubled The seminar series has brought long-standing long-standing supporter of the Institute. For relationship between Judaism and friends (Bryan Cheyette, Edgar his research and standing in the academic Christianity. At the centre of Bloomstein’s Feuchtwanger, Anne Summers among others) world, Martin has received the degree of body of work is the Holocaust, with films such to Southampton, but it also offered the Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from the as Auschwitz And The Allies, The Gathering, opportunity to make new contacts and to plan University of Southampton, and you can find Liberation, and KZ, an award winning film for future collaboration projects with Tim Champion’s beautiful citation for him described as ‘the first post-modern Holocaust colleagues in Salzburg (Albert Lichtblau) and later in these pages. documentary’ based on Austria’s Mauthausen Petersburg (Aleksandr Ivanov). This is also Outreach activities form a central part of our concentration camp and its impact on visitors true for the conferences and workshops we work, as they have been to James Parkes. For and residents today. Rex Bloomstein’s have been involved in, from ‘Transnational more than five years, Helen Spurling has engagement is admirable, and his lecture Holocaust Memory’ (January) and ‘Old much more than just coordinated and was a moving experience. World, New World’ – our biennal conference organised Evening Classes, Study Days, in partnership with the Kaplan Centre for For all of us, the Holocaust will always be a Summer Schools, presentations in schools Jewish Studies in Cape Town (April) – to central point of reference, in our research as and colleges, and events such as Interfaith Claire Le Foll’s very successful workshop on well as in our outreach activities. 70 years Week or the Holocaust and Genocide ‘Jews and small nations’ in Eastern Europe after the liberation, there are fewer and fewer Memorial Day. Helen has been the soul and (July 2015). The Jubilee celebration survivors who can pass on information to the spirit of all these activities. But she is also programme culminated in the conference on future generations, therefore new forms of a widely acknowledged and well-published ‘Jewish/non-Jewish Relations from Antiquity memory work will need to be developed, and academic researcher and will, from next year to the Present’, September 7-9. This large we will need to be inventive and creative in on, concentrate on her work as a Senior event brought around eighty speakers to our research – from the study of genocide in a Lecturer in Jewish Studies with a focus on the Southampton and was mainly organised by comparative perspective to the study of interpretation of midrashic literature, with Helen Spurling, James Jordan and Tony representations of the events in film and particular reference to Jewish-Christian Kushner ably supported by Lorraine Rood television. Moreover, all our research relations, Jewish history from biblical times and Tracy Storey. The conference has been projects, from an analysis of the intersection to Late Antiquity, and eschatology and accompanied and enriched by an exhibition of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian cultures in messianism. I want to use this opportunity to ‘Creating a Legacy: The Parkes Library’ (7 Antiquity to German-Jewish history and the express my gratitude to Helen for the work September – 6 November). Thanks are due to history of Jewish refugees on a worldwide she has done, not least as the secretary of the Karen Robson in Special Collections, as well scale, from the fate of Sephardic Jews in British Association for Jewish Studies (and as to Jenny Ruthven in the Parkes Library, medieval Spain and Portugal to historical and for the special issue of Jewish History and who not only made this exhibition possible contemporary aspects of Jewish culture in Culture on ‘Jews and Political Discourse’ but have always been so supportive when we Britain, offer insights into Jewish life and into that she has edited). brought researchers and distinguished the many aspects of relations between Jews visitors to the library building on Highfield Further successes can be reported: Jennifer and non-Jews throughout the ages – Campus – including, in May, Dr Gill Rider, the Craig-Norton has been awarded a prestigious not in opposition to, but as a counterweight new Head of Council of the University of three year British Academy postdoctoral to studies in anti-Semitism and the history Southampton, and in July, Professor Martin award to work on refugee domestics and of persecution. Goodman from Oxford University, a nurses in Britain during the Nazi era in

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Southampton, a rare and amazing to undertake a research project with with the Department of History, the Faculty achievement. Diana Popescu, a former MA- Professor Deborah Posel at the University of of Humanities, the University of and PhD student, has been awarded (together Cape Town on the subject of ‘South African Southampton, and with our partners. All this with Tanja Schult from Stockholm) research Jews and the Holocaust-Israel-Apartheid would not be possible without the support of funding from The Swedish Research Council triangle’. Claire Le Foll has received a our donors for which we are immensely (Vetenskapsrådet), for a 4-year long project. University’s ‘Annual Adventures in Research’ grateful. Joanna Watts from the Office of In this case, the chances of success were only award and used it continue her work on the Development and Alumni Relations reports 8.5 per cent, and we all share Diana’s delight relation of Jewish communities to the in detail on the fundraising successes that and look forward to our future cooperation. ‘emerging nations’ in Central and Eastern have been made during the year. Honorary Mark Levene’s two-volume work, ‘The Crisis Europe. Many congratulations to all! We also Fellows and Friends of the Parkes Institute of Genocide (OUP 2013)’ has been the happily welcome back François Soyer who form an important network of support, both recipient of the 2015 Lemkin Book Award has joined the team again after his three-year on a local and indeed a worldwide scale – our from The Institute for the Study of Genocide fellowship at the University of Adelaide; and former PhD student Tobias Metzler sent us a (Global Liberal Studies, New York we extend our best wishes to Kathrin Pieren report about his life and work in Thailand University). The Chair of the award who in March 2015 completed her two year where he has found a position as Lecturer in committee was ‘impressed by the originality part-time fellowship at the Parkes Institute, Global and Transnational Studies at and scope of your argument and found that it working on a study on the social and cultural Thamassat University Bangkok. marks an important advance in our role of Jewish museums in Britain and I am very glad that the team spirit to which all understanding of genocide’. Dan Levene has beyond. colleagues within the Parkes Institute as well raised several grants for what he calls “new A workshop (5 June) on ‚Making the Private as our friends and partners have contributed directions and explorations” in his research Public: Refugee Correspondence and so strongly this past year, has been that now extends to the study of cultural Academic Writing‘ brought together, in my acknowledged by the Vice Chancellor’s Team traditions of Christians and Jews in Ethiopia. view, many important aspects of our work. A Award. The individual reports follow later on Dan gave us a first insight into this new field number of studies, Shirli Gilbert’s and mine in these pages, and I would like to extend my in his Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial among them, use family letters as a source for thanks to all members of the Institute. Lecture on ‘Hocus Pocus? - Ethnology of the the understanding of Jewish experiences of magical text, Babylonia to Ethiopia’ in May, migration and refuge throughout the 20th shortly after his return from Addis Ababa century. The individual stories reflected in where he also signed a Memorandum of those letters remind us of the really Understanding with the local University. important tasks: to study personal Shirli Gilbert has not only successfully testimonies related to all aspects of Jewish managed our MA programme in Jewish history and of relations between Jews and History and Culture in cooperation with the non-Jews throughout the ages; to actively London Jewish Cultural Centre – a most contribute to the preservation of Jewish important initiative to show the presence of heritage in Britain and beyond; to cultivate the Institute in London and to cooperate with the dialogue with researchers worldwide; to the Jewish communities in the capital –, she reach out to the wider public, specifically with has also been awarded a British Academy schools and colleges, in order to make our International Partnership and Mobility grant work accessible; and to integrate our projects

7 A deeper understanding Outreach Report 2014-15 Dr Helen Spurling | Karten Research and Outreach Fellow

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8 At our annual summer school this year, one of the sixth form students, Stella Swain from Chichester High School, said: “I have realized how relevant History can be in the modern world – not just in the past but for the politics of the present and the ideologies that shape the world today”. Such feedback really highlights the significance and impact of our outreach work at the Parkes Institute, and provides a brief snapshot into just how rewarding such activity is for all of us involved in the outreach programme. The ongoing generosity of the Karten Trust and Cohen Foundation, the hard work of the postdoctoral and doctoral outreach fellows and the commitment of all members of the Parkes Institute to outreach has led to another fantastic year.

Adult Education Study Day Talks in 2014-15 Study Days Evening Classes Helen Spurling – James Parkes and The We held two study days for the general Our adult education programme ran two Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue public this year, which led to some fantastic discussion, and we really valued the classes this year: ‘Yiddish’ and ‘The Book of Tony Kushner – Remembering and opportunity to share and debate our research Genesis’, which were extremely valued by the Forgetting the Channel Islands: with the attendees. The first day in March was participants, and also incredibly rewarding A Case Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations for the Parkes staff involved. The Yiddish on the subject of ‘Jewish/non-Jewish language class led by Claire Le Foll Andrea Reiter – The ‘vision of home’: Relations’, which explored relations between introduced students from various Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch’s Jews and non-Jews in diverse contexts. One backgrounds and ages to the alphabet and House of Childhood participant said: “It was really enjoyable, quite different to what we had done before. basic grammar. All efforts were rewarded Helen Spurling – Christian You have given me a lot to think about and when during the last session the class had the Apologists and the Jews huge satisfaction of maintaining a basic look at”. A second study day was held in April discussion in Yiddish! The Genesis class led Kathrin Pieren – Jewish museums for those who had expressed an interest in by Helen Spurling, in partnership with the in a non-Jewish society our evening classes and Friends of Parkes on ‘Jewish-Christian Relations in the Ancient Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation and the James Jordan – Fifty Shades of J: World’. This was a very special day, as it was a Council of Christians and Jews, is a great From Alf Garnett to Theresa May success story as it is our first off-campus way of saying thank you to our Friends and evening class. The group has been meeting Helen Spurling – supporters for their involvement in our adult since February 2014 and has a lively cohort The Adversus Judaeos Literature education programme. We had a range of very generous comments, such as: “I must tell from diverse backgrounds coming together to Helen Spurling – The Exegetical you how much I enjoyed the day with you study midrash on Genesis. The discussions Encounter between Jews and Christians are frequently profound, and one participant, studying the ‘Patriarchs of Christianity’ Lisa Darling, said “These sessions are of Helen Spurling – In the Beginning: and the Jews. It was thought provoking enormous value and provide unique Ancient Interpretations of Creation and interesting” and “Your love of and opportunities for dialogue and deeper enthusiasm for this subject really shone understanding”. Meet the Team: Tom Plant through”. One of the most rewarding aspects of the Parkes outreach scheme is that it connects people of all age ranges and from all walks of life to the work of the Parkes Institute, and highlights the wider impact of the issues that we explore. This ensures that true lifelong learning is a reality for all. From our study days to our recent summer event, it’s fantastic to see so many members of the public relating to our work and to hear the ways in which they will use what they have learned at our events in their everyday lives.

9 Evening Classes Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day

“As we move further away Public Events Interfaith Week Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day Members of the Parkes Institute were key from the Holocaust, it is The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 partners, along with Catherine Cruz and the becoming increasingly was ‘Keep the Memory Alive’. The Chaplaincy, in the organisation of the commemoration was organised by Tom Plant University’s very successful Interfaith Week important for people to and others from the Parkes Institute in programme from 17-23 November 2014. The connect to and understand partnership with Southampton Solent programme was wide-ranging and included University and took place on Tuesday 27 all the major faith societies at the University. the Holocaust so that its January 2015. The commemorative event was The programme also included an interactive particularly special this year, with nearly 200 exhibition of Interfaith Week’s aims and lessons are not forgotten. people in attendance. The programme objectives, which was designed by Jen Arnold, Events such as v are an included testimony from Arieh Simonsohn, building on the materials of previous years, an original song for the event written by including an interactive faith-based board important means of Helen Bonney and performed by Jack Cooke, game originally designed by Sarah Shawyer commemorating the an original stage piece performed by Igor and Tom Plant. The big event of the week was Hiszczynski and written by Matt Fletcher, ‘Space for Peace’, a musical vigil held in the horrors of the Shoah and and readings from local students. Our Vedic Temple in Southampton led by June understanding its lessons commemorative event was also one of 70 Boyce-Tillman of Foundation Music, places in the UK chosen for the honour of Winchester. The evening aimed to bring for the present day.” lighting a memorial candle designed by Sir together the wider community in peace and Anish Kapoor. dialogue. This is the second year we have held Tom Plant, a Space for Peace event, and the numbers As part of the commemoration, Jennifer Outreach Fellow attending and contributing were even higher Craig-Norton produced an exhibition of this year and from all sections of the local responses to Holocaust testimony written by community, including school children, local sixth form students from colleges such diverse local faith groups and community “I will keep the memory as Itchen, South Downs, Richard Taunton, groups. This represents an important part of alive. I promise.” Barton Peveril, Totton, Havant and Burgate. the work of the Parkes Institute to promote These contributions by college students were positive inter-cultural relations and inter- the outcome of a series of workshops held by faith dialogue. Nine-year-old Nina who attended Jennifer Craig-Norton, and we were delighted the evening to have new colleges taking part in the Summer public event – ‘Nazism, Fascism workshops this year and so many young and the Second World War’ people involved. As Jennifer noted: “The Our second summer public event was held in contrasting of contemporaneous June, which marked the 70th anniversary of documentation and later testimony provided the end of the Second World War by exploring students with the opportunity to think the impact of Fascism and Nazism in Britain. critically about memory and the part it plays, The programme offered a range of and will increasingly play, in Holocaust perspectives on Fascist activities from a local education and in keeping the memory alive”. to international level. The speakers were Tony Kushner on ‘Persecution, Prejudice and Meet the Team: Jen Arnold Asylum: Southampton confronts Nazism at home and abroad’, Jen Arnold on ‘Blackshirts Working with the Parkes outreach team has on the Common: The British Union of been an absolute privilege this year. I have had opportunities that have enabled me to engage Fascists in Southampton’ and Neil Gregor on with local children and adults alike, and share the ‘Reading Mein Kampf, 70 years on’. The event rich heritage of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. To was attended by over 80 members of the be able to participate in enlightening all ages in public, who were clearly very engaged as the the wealth of Jewish history and culture has feedback was immensely positive and been an amazing experience and I am truly grateful for the opportunity to be part of something so inspiring. 10 Interfaith Week Summer public event Summer School

highlights how much the attendees valued the engage the students on an important topic of studying history”; “Very educational and opportunity to debate with us and discuss beyond their normal curriculum. Thank you informative, sparked good discussions and ideas. Some very enthusiastic comments for providing the opportunity to offer this to allowed the individual to produce a decision included: “Thank you for a really stimulating our students and to engage with such current for themselves”; “It has broadened my evening – [I would like] more like this where research”, while a student said: “It allowed mindset in terms of skills developed studying varied topics are covered” and “A very me to really engage with the things that History”; “The talks provided experience of worthwhile & stimulating gathering. happened and I developed a real lectures and seminars as well as being very Admirable presentations – very thought understanding of the things associated with intellectually interesting, and the information provoking. Thank you!” The diversity of talks HMD and the Holocaust. I really enjoyed it session at the end really helped in terms of were complimented with accolades for “The and want to go home and reflect further on understanding the application process and more unusual social history of Southampton the things discussed. It was so interesting and uni life”; and “Thank you for inviting us and Jewry and the experiences of refugees coming revealed much to me”. for a very inspiring and insightful day”. to the city” and “Neil Gregor’s talk was Our pre-16 programme, led by Jen Arnold, is It is really important to thank all those who fascinating. The comments afterwards were incredibly popular and is of particular interest make this programme possible. Many thanks nearly as fascinating for different reasons”. to schools for how it links into questions of to this year’s outreach fellows, Tom Plant, Jen citizenship. We have reached a wide number Arnold, Jennifer Craig-Norton and Danielle Meet the Team: Jennifer Craig-Norton of schools including Sandown Academy, Lockwood, who have worked so hard to My second year as part of the Parkes Outreach Fareham Academy, Woodlands Community deliver the programme. Everyone in the Team was an active and fulfilling one. I was able College, Horndean Technical College and Parkes Institute deserves thanks for being so to concentrate on conducting workshops in Sholing Technical College, Fernhill, generous with their time and for their local colleges structured around Holocaust Mountbatten and Test Valley with talks on commitment to outreach. Special thanks go Memorial Day. It was enormously gratifying to be identity, multiculturalism and Jewish/ to all those who participate in the programme able to connect with such a wide number of schools and students over the course of these non-Jewish relations. We receive very and make it so rewarding through fascinating workshops and to guide the students as they rewarding feedback for our work in this area, discussions and thought-provoking interacted with the materials. The teachers and look forward to developing further questions. Finally, very many thanks are due found the activity very valuable for their partnerships with local schools and teachers. to the Karten Trust and Cohen Foundation students. They were uniformly supportive and without whom all our work in outreach would Summer School appreciative and I was able to consolidate some be impossible. very strong partnerships with a number of This year’s summer school in June was a colleges through this work. highlight of the year, with a very successful Meet the Team: Danielle Lockwood day on the theme of ‘A Clash of Civilisations?’ The summer school looked at questions of As a new member of the Parkes’ Outreach Team Schools and colleges it’s a real privilege to be working with Dr Helen cultural contact and conflict in different All members of the outreach team regularly Spurling and her colleagues. I am a mature go out to schools and colleges across the contexts from the ancient to the modern student working on a Doctoral Research Project South of England to give talks in their world through a series of academic at Parkes, with two sons currently studying at different areas of expertise. Our post-16 workshops. The aim for this event was to raise university as well, so I am constantly reminded of programme is longstanding and offers aspirations, with students from South Downs, the benefits and rewards of education, whatever lectures and workshops on subjects such as Barton Peveril, Queen Mary’s, Brockenhurst stage you may be at in your life. I am looking forward to the opportunity to represent the ‘Britishness’ and Jewish youth culture from and Chichester High attending. The level of engagement that the students had with the Parkes Institute, and the remarkable research Tom Plant, the Holocaust from Jennifer and teaching that takes place there, within the Craig-Norton and Jews and the Roman material and lecturers was fantastic and for many of the students they now have a really wider community, and I hope to help encourage Empire or apocalyptic literature from Helen both sixth form students, through the Summer good insight into university life. This was Spurling. Danielle Lockwood has also Schools and outreach talks, and older students, highlighted by the feedback, which is recently joined the team and has already through the variety of adult education projects, made a huge impact with talks on the wonderful to read. Stella’s comments have to continue with their education and keep representation of the Holocaust on film and already been mentioned, but we had pages of learning new things. questions related to her research on South enthusiastic responses, which included: “It African Jews in British culture. One teacher has shown me how critical analysis of theories said of a workshop by Jennifer on the and debating with academics and fellow Holocaust: “An excellent opportunity to students is an essential and invigorating part 11 a Thoughts from the ‘Old World’ to the ‘New Worlds’

Lectures, Conferences and Seminars

Conferences Old World, New World: Jews in Transition International Conference, All Africa House, University of Cape Town, 14-16 April 2015 Our biennial conference, in association with the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town, and the Department of Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies, University of Sydney, was organised by Shirli Gilbert, James Jordan and Tony Kushher with Avril Alba, Suzanne Rutland, Janine Blumberg and Milton Shain who has retired after a distinguished career in Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies in South Africa. The conference built on the foundation of earlier work on Port Jews and the history of Jewish migration and discussed movements of people and of thoughts from the ‘Old World’ to the ‘New Worlds’: What has been the Jewish experience and response - positive, negative and ambivalent - to these movements? How has the old world Jewish presence impacted upon the new world? Have Jewish and non-Jewish communities embraced or resisted this transition? How has that transition been represented in text - secular and religious - and by the image? The programme was divided into the following sections: ‘Families and Institutions’, ‘Cultural Transitions’, ‘Diasporic Places and Transitions’, ‘Jewish/non-Jewish Relations’, ‘Jews as Agents of Change’, ‘Refugees’, ‘Old World, New World in Literature’, and ‘Memory Narratives’.

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The contributions built useful bridges to Contesting Chronologies: 1945 Seventy research areas such as Maritime Studies Years On, Wiener Library, 5 July 2015 (‘The sea voyage as a tranbsitory experience This one-day symposium, held at and in migration processes’), Philanthropy organised in partnership with The Wiener (‘Raising good Jews and good South Africans Library, took as its starting point Michael at the Cape Jewish Orphanage’), Diaspora Rothberg’s work on ‘multi-directional Studies (‘Placing Time: The diasporic journey memory’ and the notion that remembering to Beulah’), Heritage Studies (‘Visualizing the past from different perspectives can Identity in Jewish Museums’), and discussed reveal tensions in the present. This is not both individual experiences of migrants and necessarily problematic, with the contested refugees and their representations in chronologies being constructive and positive literature, in memory work, and in the current in revealing much about both past and political discourse. In his public lecture, present. By having the event in July 2015, the Milton Shain discussed the reception of workshop allowed the participants the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ in South opportunity to reflect on the contested Africa. We hope that a publication will follow memories evident in the recent 70th soon and stand alongside the books and anniversary commemorations and the journals dedicated to ‘Jewish Journeys’ and findings of the UK’s Holocaust Commission. ‘Jewish Migration and The Archive’. The workshop featured contributions from Making the Private Public: Refugee academics, practitioners and students, and Correspondence and Academic Writing was centred on five papers that made specific reference to memories of the Second World This workshop, organised jointly with the War and memories of the Holocaust, asking Wiener Library, took place in June 2015. It how the chronologies of the Holocaust and brought together scholars from Britain, the Second World War are juxtaposed. Our Germany, Israel and America who are all thanks to the participants and Ben Barkow working on personal letters written by and Toby Simpson of the Wiener Library. refugees, mainly to family and friends but also to Jewish institutions. Five of the Speakers: presentations focused on the Nazi era, with a Neil Gregor (University of Southampton): sixth, by Gur Alroey, covering the earlier ‘Mein Kampf, 70 Years After’ migration of Jews from Eastern Europe before the First World War. All explored the Richard King (University of Nottingham), ’70 Years On: Should We Want the Holocaust to have a crucial importance of correspondence for meaning?’ those forced to migrate in maintaining contact and more deeply, close family James Jordan and Tony Kushner (University of Southampton), ‘Holocaust Memorial Season: relationships and friendships. Marking 70 Years of Commemoration through The contents of these intimate letters were the BBC and the Prime Minister’s Holocaust made even more poignant as for two of the Commission’ speakers – Esther Saraga and Elizabeth Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen), Heinemann – they were from their close ‘Rethinking World War Two: Robert Vas at the BBC’ relatives. Many of the audience too had such Andy Pearce (Institute of Education), ‘The case correspondence and much discussion for context: Change and continuity in Britain’s focused on the ethical issues involved with Holocaust Culture’ researching the material, especially when Open Discussion: The Future of War/Holocaust some of the contents revealed attitudes Memory in Britain and beyond which were problematic. Christine Hartig Workshop Jews and ‘Small Nations’ in dealt with heart-breaking correspondence Eastern Europe (July 2015) between refugee children and their parents This international workshop took place in and Joachim Schlör and Shirli Gilbert, Southampton on 1-2 July 2015. It was reflecting the Parkes Institute’s strong organised by Claire Le Foll and funded by the interest in this important field, reflected on Parkes Institute (many thanks to Clinton how they were organising such Silver) and the University of Southampton correspondence for publication. (Annual Adventures in Research Grant). It It was clear by the end of the workshop that was part of the Jubilee Celebrations many issues could be developed further, programme and also constituted the including the identification and preservation launching event of a wider project dedicated of such correspondence as well as the need to to the relations between Jews and non-Jews in incorporate such material in work on the western borderlands of the Russian/ refugeedom and migration as a whole. Soviet empire between 1905 and 1939. 13 Dr Dan Levene, Ethnology of the magical text, Babylonian to Ethiopia

This workshop brought together for the first The two day workshop provided a platform between Judaism and Christianity, particularly in time Jewish history specialists from the Baltic for fruitful exchange and productive The Longest Hatred, a trilogy charting the historical States, Ukraine and Belorussia. Participants conversations between all participants. The development of antisemitism and its manifestation from Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Israel, the stimulating and constructive discussions that in modern society. That description was the starting USA and France analysed and compared the we had demonstrate the necessity and point for his lecture, a critical examination of other films of Jewish content that he has made over the political cooperation, cultural exchanges and potential of a wider research programme and past thirty years. At the centre of the lecture was a entangled national identities of Jews and network on Jews and ‘emerging nations’ in selection of clips from his work on the Holocaust, so-called “small nations” in the context of Eastern Europe. By focusing on ‘emerging including Auschwitz And The Allies, The Gathering, their nation-building. The papers of Anton nations’, reflecting on the intricacies of Liberation and KZ, a striking film that considers the Kotenko, Marharyta Fabrykant and Marcos citizenship and ethnicity and analysing the place and impact of Mauthausen on its visitors and Silber in the first panel led to a captivating way national-cultural autonomy was residents today. But Rex also found time for lighter discussion on the attitudes of Jews towards implemented in different contexts, this moments, with extracts from Next Time Dear God the nationalist movements of their programme will contribute to a wider Please Choose Someone Else, his 1990 film on neighbours in the pre-1918 period. Although re-evaluation of the way modern states Jewish humour. Jews and small nations shared the same deal with minority issues. Tuesday 3 February 2015 interest in the concept of national-cultural The 2015 Montefiore Lecture autonomy and cooperated politically in the 7-9 September 2015 Russian Duma, they diverged on the extent Parkes Institute International Conference In a year of major commemorations, including of and the aim of their cooperation, as most ‘Jewish/non-Jewish Relations from Antiquity to course the Parkes Institute Golden Jubilee, it was appropriate that as part of our celebrations, we Jewish political parties envisaged their future the Present’ should focus on Magna Carta and its 800th in a democratic federal Russia rather than in The climax of 18 months of celebrations to mark the anniversary. The speaker, Professor Maleiha Malik, is separate nation-states. The second panel on 50th Anniversary of the Parkes Institute Professor at King’s College, London and an expert cultural interactions in the interwar period September –October 2015 on minorities and law. Her lecture, and the lively with Jurgita Verbickiene, Mayhill Fowler, Egle discussion it encouraged, discussed religious Bendikaite and Mikhail Krutikov posed new Parkes Institute Public Exhibition minorities through British history: does law protect perspectives for future research in popular To accompany the International Conference, them or pressurise them to conform? In particular, culture. Participants analysed the neglected Special Collections in the Hartley Library will be Professor Malik focused on the discussion and ‘cultural transfers’ that took place in mounting an exhibition to reflect the life, library imagery around the 1753 ‘Jew Bill’ to illustrate how literature, education, art and theatre in and legacy of James Parkes. Magna Carta could be used as a symbol of Englishness that excluded Jews. With a general Lithuania and Soviet Ukraine. In spite of Lectures election looming in which migration and questions attempts to teach Lithuanian to Jewish pupils Tuesday 28 October 2014 of the nation were to the fore, this was a timely and and build common spaces for Jewish- important lecture. Ukrainian theatrical endeavours, the papers The Parkes Lecture showed the limits of these encounters. The ‘A Jew in the Cathedral’ Tuesday 19 May 2015 final panel with Akvile Grigoravicuite, Sofia Rex Bloomstein, film writer and director. The Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial Lecture Chair: Dr James Jordan Grachova, Darius Staliunas and Mordekhai Dr Dan Levene. Chair Professor Don Nutbeam, Zalkin touched upon various aspects of the For this year’s Parkes Lecture we were delighted to Vice-Chancellor be able to welcome Rex Bloomstein, one of the most institutional and intellectual interactions The Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial Lecture I gave important and consistently challenging between Jewish nationalists and their this year was titled: ‘Hocus Pocus? – Ethnology of documentary filmmakers of the past forty years. neighbours. the magical text, Babylonian to Ethiopia.’ This was a The subjects of his films have included prison life chance to connect research interests in popular (for example, Lifers and the BAFTA-winning healing traditions of the Babylonian Jews of the Strangeways), social justice and human rights fourth and seventh centuries CE and of the (Prisoners of Conscience and Human Rights, Ethiopians (Christian and Jewish) of the eighteenth Human Wrongs). He has also turned regularly to the to twenty-first centuries. Exploring the long dead subject of Jewishness and ‘A Jew in the Cathedral’ is Jewish Aramaic traditions with the living ones in Old how Rex describes being a secular Jewish filmmaker Ethiopic offer new and exciting perspectives on two confronting the often troubled relationship Semitic peoples’ belief systems.

14 Seminars

The Parkes Seminar Programme List: 2014 – 2015

Tuesday 7 October 2014 Tuesday 10 February 2015 Research Seminar Research Seminar ‘The Bloke who lived opposite Hitler’ ‘Hannah Arendt’s Absurdity: The Grace of a Jewish Thinker.’ Dr Edgar Feuchtwanger - alumnus and former member of staff in History. Dr Jonathan Leader – Visiting Fellow in Centre for Language Study at the Chair: Dr Shirli Gilbert University of Southampton. Chair: Professor Andrea Reiter Tuesday 21 October 2014 Tuesday 17 February 2015 Research Seminar Research Seminar ‘Representing the Past, Reflecting the Present: British Jewish ‘The Grammar of Islamophobia’ Museology since 1887’ Dr Salman Sayyid – Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at Dr Kathrin Pieren - Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University the University of Leeds. Chair: Dr Shirli Gilbert of Southampton. Chair: Professor Joachim Schloer Tuesday 10 March 2015 Tuesday 4 November 2014 Research Seminar Research Seminar ‘Judaism behind closed doors: ‘Christian ethnographies’ as ‘Hidden ‘The Anxieties of Appropriation: Jewish/postcolonial literatures Transcripts’ of Jewish life in Early Modern German Lands’ and histories’ Dr Maria Diemling – Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Canterbury Professor Bryan Cheyette – Professor of English Literature at the Christ Church University Chair: Dr Helen Spurling University of Reading. Chair: Professor Tony Kushner Thursday 19 March 2015 Thursday 13 November 2014 Research Seminar Research Seminar ‘The Meaning of the Dome of the Rock: the intersection of Jewish, ‘Between Ethnography and Art: Photo-archive of Semen An-sky’s Muslim, and Christian cultural artefacts in the seventh century CE’. expeditions, 1912–1914’ Location: LTB Aleksandr Ivanov - Center ‘Petersburg Judaica’ of European University. Professor Jacob Lassner. Chair: Dr Helen Spurling Chair: Dr Claire Le Foll Tuesday 5 May 2015 Tuesday 18 November 2014 Research Seminar Research Seminar ‘Documenting Life in Exile: Austrian Heritage Collection (AHC)’ ‘More than ‘filling in the gaps’: the Gendering of Anglo-Jewish Professor Albert Lichtblau – University of Salzburg. Chair: history c. 1880-1940.’ Dr James Jordan. Dr Anne Summers – Honorary Research Fellow in History at Birkbeck, University of London). Chair: Dr Shirli Gilbert Tuesday 12 May 2015 Tuesday 2 December 2014 Research Seminar Research Seminar ‘Janus-faced Imperialists: Jews and the West Coast of Africa, 1787-1884’ Professor Suzanne Schwarz – Professor of History at the University of ‘Playing with history: Negotiating Jewish Subjectivity in Contemporary Worcester and Dr Nicholas Evans – Lecturer in Diaspora History at the Lens Based Art’ University of Hull. Chair: Dr James Jordan. A joint seminar with History. Dr Rachel Garfield - Lecturer in Art History and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the University of Reading. Chair: Dr James Jordan Tuesday 26 May 2015 Tuesday 20 January 2015 Research Seminar Research Seminar ‘Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and the quest for a Scottish Beth Din’ Dr Hannah Holtschneider (Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, ‘Understanding the Contemporary Jewish Population of the UK: University of Edinburgh). Chair: Dr Shirli Gilbert Key Dynamics in British Jewish Demography’ Dr Jonathan Boyd, Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research Chair: Dr Shirli Gilbert 15 ofJournals the Parkes Institute

Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History – approaches as possible and especially to promote work that is truly Dr James Jordan interdisciplinary. This year has been no exception and we produced an extended double issue on ‘Gender and Popular Radical Right Politics’, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History is one of the guest edited by Niels Spierings and Andrej Zaslove of Radboud Institute’s three journals and is jointly edited by Hannah University, Nijmegen. Another special issue was devoted to ‘Past and Holtschneider (University of Edinburgh), James Jordan (University Present Expressions of Islamophobia’. Stand alone articles varied of Southampton) and Tom Lawson (Northumbria University). from a discussion of the collective identity of the English Defence Formerly The Journal of Holocaust Education, 2015 marked the tenth League through to an analysis of Lutheran antisemitism, and from a anniversary of Holocaust Studies in its current form and was marked study of ethnicity in Rwandan Presidential Rhetoric to a study of by a new publisher, leaving Vallentine Mitchell after a long and women’s resistance against the radical right in Hungary. successful partnership, moving to join the other Parkes journals at Taylor and Francis. This is a great move – if one tinged by sadness after We would like to thank our excellent publisher, Taylor Francis, and such a long time working with Vallentine Mitchell - and will make a to the Humanitarian Trust for its generous support of the journal. substantial impact on the journal’s circulation and global presence. I would also like to pay tribute to my former colleague here, David Our first volume of 2015 is a themed issue on ‘Survivor Historians and Cesarani, now an Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute, who was the Holocaust’, co-edited by Boaz Cohen and Tom Lawson. We would co-editor of Patterns of Prejudice for twenty years. David has like to thank Vallentine Mitchell, particularly Stewart Cass, Toby now left the editorial team. He brought to the journal enormous Harris, Heather Marchant, Sylvia Simmonds and Jenni Tinson, energy and enthusiasm, contributing greatly to its international for all their help over the years. profile and impact. If you would like to submit work to the journal or have any questions Jewish Culture and History: Prof Joachim Schlör then please either email me or see the instructions for authors at Jewish Culture and History can look back to a very successful year. www.tandfonline.com/rhos. Our special issue on ‘The Archive and Jewish Migration’ will be Patterns of Prejudice: Prof Tony Kushner published as a book by Routledge. The issue on ‘Contemporary Sephardic Studies’ has been published online in June. With Helen Patterns of Prejudice was formed in 1967 and we are already making Spurling I have been working on an issue based on papers given at the plans for two years hence when the journal will be celebrating its 2014 conference of the British Association of Jewish Studies, ‘Jews and Golden Jubilee. The subject matter – all forms of racial prejudice (past Political Discourse’ (with contributions by Maria Diemling, Cathy and present), the far right, and the battle against racism, has remained Gelbin, Hannah Holtschneider, Marc Saperstein and Helen Spurling), a constant in the history of the journal. Inevitably, approaches to and we are very much looking forward to another special issue edited these subjects have changed dramatically and now many different by Paul Lerner (USC) on ‘Los Angeles as a crossing site of German, disciplines are interested. We aim to publish as many of these Jewish and American cultures’.

16 Development report Joanna Watts

The Parkes Institute continues to advance We were pleased to see the continued to the advancement of the Parkes and grow because of the support provided support of our seminar programme by close programme. by our many donors. In the last year we friend and supporter of the Parkes Institute, The Parkes Institute relies considerably on have been grateful to receive gifts from our Clinton Silver. the support and generosity of our donors and generous existing friends as well as some We remain grateful to Stanley Cohen and his gifts of all levels have a real impact, new contacts. We much appreciate the charitable trust for their ongoing support of contributing to our success. Please do continued involvement of all of our donors our Outreach programme. As you will see encourage friends, family and contacts to join whose support makes it possible for us to from elsewhere in this report, the Parkes one of our donor programmes or to talk with run the successful, quality programmes Institute runs a leading and inspiring us about supporting a part of our activity. detailed throughout this report. programme of activity which supports Gifts can be made online at www. We have been pleased to see the rising profile student recruitment, profile-raising and southampton.ac.uk/supportus/donatenow/. of the Parkes Institute through the work of increased access to our leading teaching and To discuss a gift in more detail, please contact the Jubilee programme and we are keen to research. The funding of this activity is Tony Kushner or Joanna Watts via Joanna. continue the expansion of our supporter base immensely important and a three year gift, [email protected] or on 023 8059 7727. to ensure a lasting legacy of funding once the from the Stanley Cohen Charitable Trust, The Parkes Institute, and the wider celebrations are over and as we look to enables us to secure this fast-paced and University of Southampton, is very grateful to funding our future activity. achieving activity. our many friends and supporters and much We are delighted to report once again on the We have been pleased to continue our appreciates your involvement. We hope we significant support of Ian and Mildred Karten partnership with the Hon Robbie Rayne and have acknowledged all of our donors in the and the Trustees of their charitable trust. We the Rayne Trust who are generously following list for 2014-15 but please accept are so fortunate to do so and so much of our supporting a significant proportion of the our sincere apologies should there be any work is possible because of the Kartens’ Parkes Jubilee programme which you will see errors or omissions. enduring and generous support. reported elsewhere in this booklet. The funding provided by the Trust is enabling us The Karten Trust has continued to fund MA List of donors in 2014-2015 scholarships, a lectureship , fellowship and to pursue the long-term objectives of the the majority of our outreach programme and Jubilee activity, with raising the profile of our Laurence Agron Andrew Ashdown we remain very grateful to them for this core, important work at the centre of the Diana Bailey significant funding. In addition, the Trust is programme’s intended outcomes. Helen Bonney continuing its funding of widening access for Rothschild Foundation Europe have awarded Tomasa Bullen students across the University of the Parkes Institute £20,000 for a summer William Carver Southampton enabling the best students to school on Jewish heritage to take place in Stanley Cohen progress their study regardless of financial summer 2015, following an application from Hugh Courts background. Tony Kushner with the support of Kathrin Bernice Dubois Other friends and supporters of the Parkes Pieren. Aside from the speakers’ costs, the Irene Elia Institute have been generous to continue award will also allow for Kathrin Pieren to Professor Todd Endelman Susanne Fletcher their support this year. We are grateful to work as the coordinator for the summer Gordon Franks Larry Agron who renewed his generous school next year. Unfortunately, our Danny Habel application to become a ‘regional hub’ for the support for the Eastern European MA The Humanitarian Trust Scholarship. Larry, despite being based in the Foundation has not been successful – but very The Ian Karten Charitable Trust United States, remains very engaged with many congratulations to Daniel Langton and Walter Kammerling what we are achieving and very supportive our colleagues in Manchester! Elizabeth Kessler of our work. We greatly appreciate, as ever, the support Charles Landau We were, once again, very pleased to have the and involvement of our Friends of the Parkes Dr Jonathan Leader opportunity to award the Moss Prizes at the Library scheme. This important annual Andrew Long annual Parkes Lecture in October. Prizes support enables us to fund activity Robert MacKenzie John Mountford were awarded to Katie Power for her essay throughout the Parkes Institute and Library. Alan Orme The Hartley Circle, a group of donors to the ‘How true to the original text was the 1925 D Pheby GOSET interpretation of Isaac L. Peretz’s Bay University of Southampton who are Jeffrey Pinnick Nakht Afn Altn Mark (At Night in the Old recognised for their annual support of £1,000 The Rayne Trust Marketplace)?’ and to Sadie Banyard for her or more, includes several donors to the Howard Rein essay on ‘Were the organisations set up and Parkes Institute and we are very grateful for Rothschild Foundation Europe actions taken by the established Anglo-Jewish the crucial funds provided to our activity by Jonathan Salmon community to deal with immigrants Hartley Circle members. This is an area of Dr Corey Schultz concerned with social control or were they growth for the Parkes Institute and we hope The Stanley Cohen Charitable Trust motivated by altruism?’ We were very pleased to encourage more members to give at this Verity Steele Benjamin Steinberg to welcome Liz Moss, representing the family, level which really does provide us with the John Wagstaff who awarded the prizes. annual funding and financial security crucial

17 Internationalisation

Over the past twelve months we have continued to foster partnerships with other world-leading institutions in Jewish studies and related fields. These partnerships have seen members of the Institute visit Cape Town for our biennial conference organised in partnership with Professor Milton Shain and the Kaplan Centre, seminars and workshops both here and abroad with our valued colleagues in St Petersburg, Salzburg and Sydney, with visits to and from Southampton as part of the international agreements. It has also been our pleasure to co-host with the department of English Professor Phyllis Lassner of Northwestern University who has been awarded a Jubilee Fellowship to visit Southampton from 2014-2016. As can be read elsewhere in this report, Parkes members have also spoken at international conferences, public events and fostered other partnerships. For example, Claire Le Foll was resident speaker and then invited speaker at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Dr Dan Levene (with Prof Tim Bergfelder) signing of the Memorandum of Sociales, Paris, in January and June 2015, and Mark Levene gave the Understanding with Addis Ababa and the University of Southampton keynote lecture at a major conference in Berlin to mark the centenary of the Armenian genocide and later participated in a German ZDF Dr Dan Levene television documentary on the same subject. Our work this year has The descendants of the ancient civilizations who inhabit the lofty also impacted beyond the UK with a number of roles advising mountain peaks and plateaus of Ethiopia have been the focus of my museums, with Shirli Gilbert co-curating the Johannesburg recent research and their country the destination of my third trip Holocaust and Genocide Centre which is due to open late 2015. Shirli there in so many years. Beyond the breath-taking landscape and the has also been awarded a British Academy grant to work on the related charm of its friendly people is the preservation of customs and forms topic of ‘South African Jews and the Holocaust-Israel-Apartheid of faith as living traditions whose roots can be traced to the first triangle’ with Professor Deborah Posel at the University of Cape centuries of the common-era; while its traditions themselves would Town. As reported in last year’s Review, James Jordan begins a six claim their roots to go back to the fabled biblical union between King week fellowship at the University of Sydney in September 2015. This Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. This visit, in April, to Addis Ababa will involve delivering a series of lectures across the city, to students, University with Professor Tim Bergfelder, the head of the Parkes academics and a non-academic audience, and will allow him to begin Institute Advisory Committee, was the occasion of signing an the first phase of his work on the similarities and differences in agreement of co-operation between our two universities known as representing the Holocaust that are to be found between Australian an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding), and the start of what and British television. we hope will be a long and fruitful relationship. These are only a few of the many international links and partnerships of the institute and its staff. If you would like to know more about our partnerships, be interested in visiting Southampton or establishing an agreement, please contact Dr James Jordan on [email protected] 18 MA report Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture

19 This has been another excellent year for Reiter of the recently ‘doctored’ Mike exploring ‘The Jewish East End and our MA/MRes programme. We welcomed Witcombe who, with great panache, passed Twentieth Century Political Theatre in an enthusiastic group of five students to the viva for his doctoral thesis on the England’ and has recently completed her Southampton in October, and over the complexities underpinning the MA with us through our partnership with year have seen them engage with a wide representation of sex and sexuality in the the LJCC. range of subjects in our taught courses, writings of Philip Roth in December 2014. In September Helen Spurling, Tony Kushner and have witnessed their intellectual Dr Shirli Gilbert: and I recorded a taster video, designed to growth in the pursuit of independent promote the Institute and the holdings of the research. Our collaboration with the Laura Musker continues to make good University’s archives to a wider audience. London Jewish Cultural Centre continues progress on her project on Jews and Tony spoke about the work of James Parkes, to flourish as well, and this year we are Christians in Piedmont in the years 1938-45. Helen on the various versions of the Bible in proud to celebrate the graduation of our She has amassed considerable material from the Library, while I introduced a section on first ever cohort of students, fully half of archives in Turin and Rome, including the the work of actor David Kossoff, whose whom intend to continue on to PhDs in the Vatican archive, and has begun the process of papers are held here. This will, we hope, coming year. The LJCC has now merged conceptualizing and writing the dissertation become a mini-MOOC, a way of offering free with JW3, the flagship Jewish cultural itself. Her work promises to make an access to the work of the Institute. centre in London, and from 2016-17 we will important contribution to our understanding be offering the MA programme there. The of Christian-Jewish relations in Italy during Professor Tony Kushner: the Holocaust period. MA continues to be taught by the team of This has been a busy and stimulating year international scholars who make up the Dr James Jordan: with my PhD students, old and new. Jennifer Parkes Institute, whose fields of expertise I am supervising and advising three PhD Craig-Norton successfully defended her cover the period from antiquity to the students whose work has a clear Parkesian remarkable thesis on the Polish present day. We are proud of our rich and theme: Eva van Loenen (English) will soon Kindertransport which brings in perspectives unique programme, and look forward to submit her thesis on Hasidic Identity and from the children themselves, their parents, another successful year in Southampton Thought in Jewish-American Literature. the refugee organisations, and their carers. and London. Danielle Kretzmer-Lockwood (History) has Shortly after, Jennifer heard the wonderful just completed her second year part-time on news that she had been granted a prestigious Doctoral Programme ‘South African Jews in British Entertainment’. three year British Academy postdoctoral We are proud of our vibrant postgraduate Christopher Byrne started his thesis on award to work on refugee domestics and community for which Dr Claire Le Foll has ‘Screening Jews and Jewishness in British nurses in Britain during the Nazi era in the again provided support in a PhD study group. Situation Comedy, 1965-1990’ in September Parkes Institute and History Department at Here are the reports on our individual PhD 2014. This is a pioneering work that uses the University of Southampton. Also students, written by their supervisors. Jewish specificity to address issues of successfully completing was Anne Holdorph Dr Devorah Baum: humour, race and identity in post-war British who has produced an important thesis exploring the role of gender and religion in While my leave has meant that I have not television. I am looking forward to adding a the Jewish youth movement in Britain from been teaching this year, I am very proud to fourth student by welcoming Isabelle Seddon the 1880s to the 1930s. Anne is embarking have been the co-supervisor with Andrea to Southampton in 2015. Isabelle will be on a career as a school teacher. 20 It is very appropriate that in the year of the Dr Claire Le Foll: The Moss Memorial Prizes 2014-2015 Parkes Jubilee, Wendy Fidler, a part time PhD I am delighted that our former MA JHC Sadie Banyard student, has been awarded an MBE for her student Katie Powers is beginning a doctorate Essay Title: Were the organisations set up and work in interfaith dialogue. Wendy’s thesis on ‘From Shund to Kunst? The Evolution of actions taken by the established Anglo-Jewish focuses on Jewish attitudes to other faiths London’s Yiddish Theatre, 1906-1950’, community to deal with immigrants and to interfaith work and she is making funded by a Vice-Chancellor Award. This concerned with social control or were they excellent progress towards completion. builds on her MA dissertation (a study of motivated by altruism? Wendy’s thesis focuses on contemporary the rise and fall of the play The King of attitudes whereas Carolyn Sanzenbacher is Lampedusa during the Second World War) Throughout my university career I have exploring the nature of the ecumenical and will fill a big gap in the historiography found myself deeply interested in the movement and the Jews during the Nazi era. of Yiddish culture in Britain. complex history of the Jewish community. James Parkes features prominently in this This began in my first year with a module that thesis which is in its final stages. Three part Professor Andrea Reiter: explored Jewish life in Russia before the time students are also making excellent I am supervising, with Joachim Schlör, Maja Holocaust, this module first brought my progress. Howard Rein is writing a Hultman’s PhD project on ‘Mapping Jewish attention to the vast breadth of the so-called comparative history of the London German Spatial Identity in Stockholm 1870-1939’ ‘Jewish Question’ in Europe. From then on I have been fascinated with the historical story and London Jewish hospitals, Mickie Stevens Professor Joachim Schlör: of the way in which European society has is in the very last stages of her thesis exploring In Potsdam, the last remaining student debated the appropriate status and treatment the Jewish Education Aid Society from the I supervised, Frank Schlöffel, has defended of Jews. This theme of the ‘Jewish Question’ ‘bottom up’ and Malgosia Wloszycka is his amazing dissertation (503 pages!) on thread its way through the above essay producing a multi-layered account of a small Heinrich Loewe, a Berlin-based Zionist and question which was submitted as a requisite Polish town and the memory of the his networking activities. In 1933, Loewe for the module ‘The Making of Englishness’ in Holocaust. Also in memory studies is Sarah emigrated to Palestine and became the my second year of study. It allowed me to Shawyer who is working on representations director of Tel Aviv’s municipal library. In explore the ‘Jewish Question’ from a distinct of late Mandate Palestine. Southampton, our student Maja Hultman angle – namely that of intra-Jewish relations very successfully passed her Year One Jennifer Arnold’s thesis on her grandfather, - the way in which the ‘native’ Anglo-Jewry presentation on the spaces of Jewish identity the world heavyweight champion boxer, Joe responded to the large-scale immigration of in modernising Stockholm, and I am very Beckett, is providing an intriguing account of their co-religionists to Britain in the 1980s. much looking forward to work with Hilda the interplay of race, masculinity, national Particularly of note was the theme of altruism Worth – from the first cohort of our London identity and politics. Sam Hawkins is underpinning this essay, a theme which MA Jewish History and Culture – on British- completing the first year of his PhD which shaped the conclusion that although the Israeli relations from the post-War period is focusing on the representation of Jewish reaction of the Anglo-Jewry may have until today. immigrant life in Britain from the 1890s benefitted the migrants – this did not make onwards. these selfless actions. In my final year I intend to continue my study of Jewish history.

21 The Moss Memorial Prizes 2014-2015

Katie Power: I was encouraged to take an individually Essay Title: How true to the original text was negotiated module during my course, the 1925 GOSET interpretation of Isaac L. essentially allowing me to tailor a module to Peretz’s Bay Nakht Afn Altn Mark (At Night in my specific interests. I opted to focus on the Old Marketplace)? Yiddish literary figure Isaac L. Peretz, examining a range of his work before Whilst studying for my undergraduate degree selecting one text to closely analyse. It was a in History, I developed an interest in Jewish great opportunity to work one-to-one with a history. I was lucky enough to be awarded the specialist in this area; I felt the experience Ian Karten studentship which allowed me improved my research skills as well as my to enrol on a Masters in Jewish History confidence in articulating my ideas. The and Culture. Over the course of a year, result was my essay which juxtaposed I developed a strong overarching Peretz’s original text with a Soviet understanding of Jewish history and culture interpretation staged two decades later, a throughout the ages whilst also developing comparison which had not previously been my own specialised interests. Two highlight examined. of my Masters include participating in the Yiddish circle and a group trip to Poland.

22 Reports by Parkes Postgraduates

Maja Hultman, PhD Student, researching the streets of Stockholm

23 Maja Hultman: PhD aspects. I hope that my study will shed some How, where and with whom someone moves light on the mechanisms of Jewish spatial says something about who they are. identities in smaller communities in Europe before the Second World War. Since being introduced to this central idea to the study of space and place during my BA Kasia Dziekan: PhD years at the University of Southampton, the As a recipient of the Parkes East European link between physical productions and Scholarship I had an unparalleled mental activities has continued to fascinate opportunity to undertake MA studies in me. The undergraduate education focused on Jewish History and Culture at the University the modern big city and the people inhabiting of Southampton. The MA programme offered this chaotic, bulging environment. The by the Parkes Institute allowed me and other Jewish population was continuously present postgraduate students to participate in up until the Holocaust; they contributed to inspiring and thought provoking seminars artistic and cultural movements, Eastern with world-class scholars in a wide range of European Jews’ physical appearance on the areas within Jewish Studies, Jewish/non- streets were perceived as ‘other’, and Jews Jewish relations in particular. often lived in clusters within the urban centre. My scholarly interests are concentrating around modern Jewish History, Zionism and It is the Jewish minority’s place within a the relation between religion and politics. larger environment, and its production of During the master degree there were many spatial movements, that interests me. Did modules, discussions and seminars that I was they move in specific routes? Did they move particularly inspired by and passionate about, as a single community, or are individual thus I have thoroughly enjoyed my master preferences visible? In short, how did the degree programme at the Institute. Jewish minority craft its place on the streets of the European cities before the Second In my MA dissertation entitled ‘Divided World War? against Eretz Israel: the mutual perceptions of the Zionists and the Haredi Jews during the When applying for a doctoral place at the British Mandate period’ I will determine the University of Southampton, I chose to apply these questions onto the small Jewish concerns and objectives of the Zionists and community of my hometown Stockholm, the the ultra-Orthodox Jews, the perception of capital of Sweden. My project consists of two reciprocal bias as well as the political and parts; I aim firstly to map Jewish settlements social ramifications for both sides. in Stockholm from their emancipation in During the holiday I will participate in two 1870 to 1939 to find possible clusters and to months intensive Ulpan at the Hebrew analyse how they changed over the years, and University of Jerusalem. Owing to the secondly to complement this research with a Rothschild Foundation language grant I qualitative study of individuals’ physical will continue to work on improving my movements. Digging into various archives in Hebrew language skills. Stockholm, I’ve come across, for example, hand-written family letters, passport stamps, Undoubtedly, the Parkes Institute is a riveting and rental agreements that can be used to and engaging place to study. In turn, the chart where and why Jewish individuals tight-knit and focused academic community moved. By combining information on nurtured by dedicated academics is extremely ethnicity, family patterns, age, profession and supportive and contributes to a vibrant addresses provided by census records, parish atmosphere. The MA programme not only has records and Mosaic membership lists, I will enhanced my knowledge in the field of Jewish also be able to examine Jewish physical Studies but it has also allowed me to pursue a clusters from economic, ethnic and relational passion and my graduate work to PhD level.

24 Reports by Parkes Friends and Honorary Fellows

Professor Martin Goodman Dr Tobias Metzler responsibilities to fight historic Patron of Parkes Institute: Honorary Fellow, Lecturer of Gobal and misrepresentations and deep-seated Martin Goodman has been awarded an Transnational Studies, Thammasat stereotypes. I was shocked to find that honorary doctorate by the University of University (Bangkok) Thai social media had become a hotbed for Southampton. Here is an extract of the As a historian of modern Europe, I have often such elements ranging from ignorance citation read by Professor Tim Champion: dwelled on questions about the emergence about historic developments to explicit Holocaust denial. Professor Goodman’s standing in the and the inner workings of authoritarian and academic world has been widely recognised. dictatorial regimes and their impact on Since taking up the post as lecturer at He has served as the Editor for two major peoples’ lives. The past year was a reminder of Thammasat University in 2012, my teaching international journals, the Journal of Jewish the potential divide between academic and research have taken me in new and varied Studies and the Journal of Roman Studies. He reflections and lived experiences. On the directions. Besides offering classes in the field was elected to a Fellowship of the British surface, the 2014 military coup in Thailand of cultural studies and history, global and Academy in 1996. In 2003, he received the had little impact on most peoples’ life routine transnational studies with a special focus on National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship. (including my own). ‘Business as usual’ seems Asia and East-Western encounters have In recent years, he has been invited to give to be the prevailing attitude. Yet, living and become a major new focus of my teaching. major lectures both here in the United working under a military regime renders Besides these new areas of interest, I have Kingdom and abroad, in the United States, normality impossible. Dissenting voices are continued to explore aspects of modern Brazil, Poland, the Netherlands and Australia. muted, students are imprisoned for peaceful Jewish history. In summer 2014, the revised In 2010 he was invited to give the plenary protests, artists are given long-term prison version of my PhD thesis appeared in book keynote lecture at the Congress of the sentences for theatrical performances and form under the title Tales of Three Cities: European Association for Jewish Studies, in fellow academics are forced into exile. Urban Jewish Cultures in London, Berlin, and Ravenna, Italy. The previous year he had been Moreover, there are the constant warnings: Paris (c.1880-1940). A co-edited volume on one of only two Europeans elected to the ‘Be careful what you say in class!’ – ‘Didn’t you borders and border crossings in Jewish Council of the World Union of Jewish Studies. know that the book you assign is on the index?’ All of this is an indication that history and thought I initiated while working For the last fifteen years, Professor Goodman academic work cannot and should not simply at Potsdam University will go to the press has been a supporter of the work of the retreat to the ivory tower. It is a reminder in the fall. University of Southampton, most notably the that, all too often, we take unhindered My new monograph project aims for a Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/ intellectual exchange and freedom of synthesis of these two areas. Under the Non-Jewish Relations. To be strictly correct, expression for granted and forget that it is on working title ‘Perils’ the book seeks to explore his relationship with the Parkes Institute us to defend them constantly. Anti-Semitic and Sinophobe discourses in could be said to go back to the early 1970s, and comparative perspective. Taking a global an unsuccessful application for the Parkes Beyond the recent political developments, historical approach, it explores and Fellowship. Despite this, in 2000 he nobly living and working in South East Asia has juxtaposes the place of anti-Jewish narratives undertook a significant role in a major repeatedly challenged me to rethink in the emergence of Asia nationalisms and research project here. The University of previously held views. The question of that of anti-Asian sentiments in the context Southampton had been successful in an universality and cultural relativism is one of European xenophobia. application to the then Arts and Humanities area in which this is most prevalent. The place Research Board for a large post-doctoral of the Holocaust in collective memory is but The continued intellectual exchange with research centre in Jewish/non-Jewish one example thereof. References to topics colleagues at the Parkes Institute remains relations. The management of such large- such as Anti-Semitism or the genocide of a great source of inspiration and scale collaborative research projects, European Jewry in class, are often met with encouragement for me. I would like to something of a novelty in the Humanities at bewilderment on behalf of many of my express my gratitude for the ongoing that time, required great care. As Chair of the students. Their knowledge about these topics opportunity to be part of this academic Management Committee for the five-year is rudimentary at best. Yet, they show a keen community. project, Professor Goodman played a major interest in these matters and a thirst for part in bringing the Research Centre to a understanding. Repeatedly, they confront me successful conclusion, not only in terms of with the seemingly banal question: “Why scholarly output, but as the launching pad for does everybody hate the Jews?” or “Did all the academic careers of several young this really happen?” These calls for answers, researchers. Since then he has been a Patron emphasises our responsibility to provide of the Parkes Institute. He has also given explanations and to disseminate our findings major lectures here, most recently the outside of an exclusive academic community. Montefiore Lecture in 2013. They also underscore our social and political 25 Reports by Academic Members of the Parkes Institute

Letters to Liesel Rosenthal who emigrated from Heilbronn, Germany to England in 1937. Her daughter, Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE, is a patron of the Parkes Institute.

26 27 Dr Devorah Baum cohort of first-year students, and my I also continue to be involved in a large-scale Lecturer for English third-year Special Subject class on the public history project in the form of an This year I have been on maternity leave Holocaust was similarly engaged and educational website on the subject of Music followed by my institutional research leave enthusiastic. Two of the students in the latter and the Holocaust, http://holocaustmusic.ort. and so I have dedicated as much time as class are going on to do our MA programme in org/. This year we raised funds for a 3-year possible to working on my monograph, Feeling 2015-16. I have also enjoyed teaching our fully-funded PhD studentship on the subject, Jewish, contracted to Yale University Press for excellent MA students this year in and the student will begin work with me in a deadline at the end of next summer. I have Southampton as well as in London. The October 2015. partnership that I established with the also given a couple of talks based on my This year I also took up the position of London Jewish Cultural Centre in 2012 research for the book: a talk on ‘Envy’ (one Deputy Director of the Parkes Institute. I am continues to flourish, and following the chapter in my book) for the Philadelphia excited about the opportunities this offers to Centre’s merger with JW3, the new flagship Association in London, and a talk related to develop our important work and bring it to Jewish community centre in London, we will ‘Mother Love’ (another chapter) as part of a wider audiences. panel at the Royal Society of Arts in London be offering our MA there. on the relationship between love and On the research front, I have recently Dr James Jordan spirituality. As a new mother I was also completed a manuscript based on the letters Ian Karten Postdoctoral Research Fellow interviewed along with my husband on the of Rudolf Schwab, a Jewish refugee from Nazi My year started with the inaugural conference subject of loving one’s child for Melvyn Germany who fled to South Africa in 1936. His of the British Association for Holocaust Bragg’s Radio 4 ‘History of Ideas’ series - the extraordinary collection, which was Studies (BAHS) held in Edinburgh in programme on ‘Love’ was aired in July 2015. discovered in Johannesburg in 2009, contains September 2014 and organised brilliantly This was a happier subject than the over 2,000 letters spanning four decades and by Parkes Honorary Fellow Dr Hannah discussion I took part in in March 2015 on five continents, including prolific Holtschneider. BAHS is an initiative that Radio 4’s Front Row which examined the correspondence with a close childhood friend seeks to connect and unite academics, issue of anti-Semitism on the British stage, who became a Nazi. I am also working on an educators, curators, practitioners and relating to recent productions of The edited collection on Holocaust Memory, Race students. The theme of Britain and the Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta as well and Racism in the Postwar World, together with Holocaust focused the papers and the as contemporary plays and attitudes. I was Dr Avril Alba at the University of Sydney. The discussions, which were led by some also invited on to BBC television’s Global volume originated in our joint conference in provocative keynotes delivered by Donald News programme to discuss the significance Sydney in 2012 and has grown to incorporate Bloxham (Edinburgh) and Sue Vice of religious rituals in December 2014, and I original scholarship from some of the most (Sheffield), and featured speakers not only did a few regional radio interviews this year in important thinkers in the field. We hope it from the UK but from across Europe, the connection with the 2014 Jewish Quarterly/ will make an important intervention into the USA and Australia. Wingate Prize whose jury I was honoured to sit scholarship on Holocaust memory. My on along with distinguished fellow judges, broader research project on Holocaust This was the first of several BAHS connected Eva Hoffman, Gabriel Josipovici and George memory in apartheid and post-apartheid events this year and the association continues Szirtes. The prize ceremony took place at JW3 South Africa is also proceeding apace, and I to grow. In part this is thanks to the in London in April 2015 and, unusually, we intend to spend part of my research leave in generosity of the Toni Schiff Memorial Fund, awarded both a prize for fiction (to Michel 2015-16 in archives in South Africa. whose backing has enabled the running of the Laub’s Diary of the Fall) and nonfiction (to annual conference in 2015 and a series of Thomas Harding’s Hanns and Rudolf). The My internationalisation activities have smaller events, including an e-conference, other big as well as exacting project I’ve continued to be focused particularly in South postgraduate workshops and an international continued to be very much involved in this Africa. I have enjoyed my work as part of the conference entitled ‘Encountering year is, with Josh Appignanesi, the co- curatorial team of the Johannesburg Perpetrators’ which will be sponsored by direction of a creative documentary feature Holocaust and Genocide Centre, which is BAHS and held at the University of film, The Creative Life, supported by a grant due to open later this year. Together with Winchester in September 2015. colleagues I also co-organised a conference from the Wellcome Trust and featuring The 2015 BAHS conference has already taken (ahem) ourselves. The film is currently in on ‘Old World, New World: Jews in Transition’ at the University of Cape Town place. Organised by Isabel Wollaston and held post-production but has already at this early at the University of Birmingham in July, the stage had a few industry screenings and has in April, another successful collaboration between Southampton, Cape Town, and the conference continued to build on the ground garnered some wonderful feedback and work of previous events and was again a great enthusiasm. University of Sydney. I also co-organised a workshop on the subject of ‘Making the success. The conference theme of ‘Another time, another place? Challenges in Dr Shirli Gilbert Private Public: Refugee Correspondence and Academic Writing’ at the Wiener Library, commemorating, teaching and researching Ian Karten Associate Professor in Jewish/ the Holocaust 70 years on’ meant that the non-Jewish Relations London in June, and the annual British Association for Holocaust Studies conference discussions were wide-ranging and Parkes I returned from maternity leave in October at the University of Birmingham in July. was well represented with papers from 2014 to another enjoyable and productive I continue to serve on the board of both the myself, Shirli Gilbert and Tony Kushner. I also year of teaching and research. My Cases and BAHS and the European Association for chaired the plenary discussion on the use of Contexts module ‘Responses to the Holocaust Studies. Holocaust’ attracted a lively and diverse 28 Holocaust film as a teaching tool, with a panel Professor Tony Kushner and two more are nearing completion. I also consisting of Toby Haggith (Imperial War Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish examined PhDs in Dublin, Manchester, UEA, Museum), Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary) and non-Jewish Relations and the University of London. Rainer Schulze (Sussex). The conference This year I was fortunate to have research Editing Parkes Institute journals is a busy again demonstrated the value of work that leave in the first semester and was able to but very stimulating part of my duties and goes beyond the traditional academic focus my energies on a new book, Journeys I continue to work on Patterns of Prejudice boundaries, meeting the Parkes commitment from the Abyss, bringing together Holocaust and Jewish Culture and History as well as to outreach and students from non- studies, refugee studies and migration working with a variety of publishers as an traditional backgrounds, areas which are studies. It explores the refugee journeys of expert reader. under increasing threat. In this respect it was Jews escaping Nazism and those who good to be able to welcome to the conference survived the war, and places them in longer I have been lucky to travel to a variety of Nathalie Tamam of the United Kingdom traditions of movement, including those of places to take part in conferences and also Holocaust Memorial Foundation (UKHMF). women migrants, child migrants and those work with the media. A particular highlight was taking part in the successful BBC series The UKHMF has been formed as a result of journeying by sea. I hope to complete the ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, filming in the findings of the Prime Minister’s writing by the end of 2015 and submit it to the Warsaw for a very sad story concerning those Holocaust Commission and earlier this year I publisher, Liverpool University Press, early in in hiding in the ‘Aryan’ side who were also was invited to Downing Street with 2016. Alongside this research, I have involved in the 1944 rebellion. It was colleagues David Feldman (Birkbeck), Tony continued to work with Dr Aimee Bunting, a wonderful as ever to visit and co-organise Kushner, Tom Lawson (Northumbria) and Parkes Institute Honorary Fellow, on our bi-annual conference in Cape Town. This Andy Pearce (IOE) in order to advise the co-presents to the Holocaust, examining year the theme was ‘Old World, New World: Commission. British prisoners of war in Auschwitz and liberators of Bergen Belsen. This work will Jews in Transition’ and I gave a paper on In terms of my teaching, I have convened focus on how they represented their Jewish refugees from Nazism who went first modules on the history and representation of experiences after the war in changing to Britain and then on to the Dominican the Holocaust for English and History, as well contexts. Republic, Bolivia and rural Canada. This as teaching occasional weeks for Parkes developed some of the work featuring in colleagues on other modules. I have also The Parkes Institute Golden Jubilee has Journeys from the Abyss. I also carried out taught on the Jewish History and Culture MA, occupied much of my energy and it has been research in Germany, France and Italy. including the partnership MA at the London very pleasing to see all the programme Jewish Cultural Centre, as well as several MA ranging from local outreach work to Dr Claire Le Foll students on individual topics. international conferences come to fruition. Lecturer in Eastern European Jewish At the time of going to press, the last two History and Culture The students once again were fortunate to be events with which the Celebration will come This year has been very fruitful and successful visited by survivors Zigi Shipper and Walter to a climax are in preparation. The first is an Kammerling, two longstanding supporters of on many fronts. In the first semester, in international symposium on Jewish/ addition to my second year module on ‘Jews Parkes who continue to inspire. It was also my non-Jewish relations which is bringing pleasure to re-connect with Henry Schachter, in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union’, I together close to one hundred speakers from taught for the first time a third-year Special a child survivor who spent the war years in all round the world. It is most satisfying to hiding. Henry and I spoke at Peter Symonds’ Subject on ‘Late Imperial Russia’. This report that many papers will focus on James module will become part of my renewed College in Winchester, thanks to an invitation Parkes himself, showing his continued (and from Sue Franks in the Art department. teaching portfolio, alongside new modules on in fact, never greater) relevance to the ‘Stalin’s nationalities policy’ and ‘nationalism My other work this year has included contemporary world. In this respect, we are and anti-Semitism on the eve of the conference organisation and talks, plus acting delighted that the final activity will be a major revolution’. A lot has happened on the as an adviser to the Jewish Museum. I have interfaith debate at West London Synagogue post-graduate side as well: I convened the been awarded a Mandelbaum fellowship for featuring three leading speakers from the doctoral seminar in the first semester, late 2015. This will enable me to spend a Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities. supervised and taught MA students in the month in Sydney to givd a series of public and In terms of teaching, I have very much second semester and continued to animate university lectures, research seminars and enjoyed working with our MA students both the Yiddish circle for present, future and past reserachign the Holocaust in Australian film here in Southampton and at the London PhD students. The most exciting news is that and television Jewish Cultural Centre. This year saw the Katie Power will start a doctorate under my In other work I continue to edit Holocaust completion of our first students from London supervision on ‘Yiddish theatre in London’ Studies and work on my long-term project on and their work was of exceptional quality, funded by a Vice-Chancellor doctoral award. the depiction of Jews and Jewishness in especially with their extended dissertations. This year has also been very busy in terms of British television. This involves working It reflects their talent that many are outreach and dissemination. I was resident closely with the BBC’s Written Archives in continuing their studies with us and speaker at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Caversham and I’d like to acknowledge the embarking on doctorates, I am privileged that Sciences Sociales (Paris) in January and gave debt I owe to all of the staff, especially the several will be working with me in the near two papers on Jewish ethnography in brilliant Katie Ankers and Els Boonen. future. Two of my existing PhD students have Imperial Russia. In June I contributed to an successfully defended their PhDs this year EHESS seminar on ‘Jewish emancipations in

29 Europe’ with an analysis of the emancipation Dr Dan Levene over with this. I have been awarded a grant by of Russian Jews. I had also the pleasure to Reader in Jewish History and Culture The Gerda Henkel Foundation for a two year present my work on the Vitebsk Art School to There comes a time in many scholars’ lives project titled “The Scribe’s Discretion the enthusiastic and very active Beaconsfield when new directions and explorations Textual Variability of Two Popular Ethiopic U3A Group ‘Linking with Belarus’. Finally, mature from smaller forays into major Texts: The Scroll of Righteousness and The the Yiddish language course for beginners interests. It was during the first semester Magic Book of the Disciples”; a grant by the attracted four Yiddish learners of a variety of the academic year of 2014-15 when I was Welcome Trust for a one year project titled of horizons. on research leave that the last three years “Traditional beliefs and chronic non- communicable diseases in Ethiopia”; a This year was particularly fertile research- of work on things Ethiopian came to be John Rylands Research Institute Visiting wise. It has seen the launching of my new something bigger. Fellowship to work on the 10 Ethiopic magic research programme on ‘Jews and small Ethiopia’s Church is the most Old Testament scrolls that are in their possession; a British nations in Eastern Europe, 1905-1939’. The orientated of Christianities, which has long Academy - International Partnership and aim of this project is to explore a particularly made it a focus for scholars who have Mobility Scheme titled “The Scroll of understudied area of Jewish/non-Jewish endeavoured to explore this and its other Righteousness - Towards an Edition of a Fluid relations in Eastern Europe: the relations unique affinities with Judaism. The Transmission” that will involve workshops at between Jews and so-called ‘small nations’ – fascination is increased by the so called both the University of Southampton and Belarusians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Beta-Israel, the Ethiopian Jews, whose Addis Ababa University; and finally a small Latvians. Thanks to the financial support of culture and origins have stimulated some grant from the Faculty of Humanities small the Parkes Institute (Clinton Silver’s fascinating research. internationalisation fund to travel to Ethiopia donation) and of the University (Annual to sign a Memorandum of Understanding Adventures in Research), I have been able to As readers of the last decade of reports with Addis Ababa University. invite a dozen of colleagues from Europe will know, my approach to Judaism and Christianity has been through an (including Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus), Dr Mark Levene Israel and the US to participate in a very investigation of texts, prayers and narratives Reader in Comparative History productive workshop (1-2 July). During a for healing and safety of which there is a very networking trip in Belarus and Lithuania in long tradition. This approach has been my August 2014 marked the 100th anniversary August, I have also established new scientific way also into the Ethiopic culture of both its of the beginning of the Great War. April 2015 collaborations with colleagues and Christian and Jewish peoples. As well as marked the 100th anniversary of the institutions. The interest of colleagues in having spent much of my leave on working on Armenian genocide, an event still mired in this project is encouraging and has such texts I was also busy in the application geo-political controversy despite its demonstrated the potential of a long-term for funds to extend this work. I am glad to unambiguous reality. As a consequence I have networking and research programme on report that I have been successful five times been very busy with a range of public ‘Jews and small nations’. outreach activities on both accounts, 30 especially considering the broader genocidal undergraduate and postgraduate level in In the last nine months of my project I carried consequences of the Great. War. I have ancient history and Jewish Studies. My out 17 one-to-one semi-structured interviews contributed to the ‘Great War: Unknown War’ research remains focused on the reception with staff and volunteers of the four British series at the University of Southampton in and interpretation of traditions of the Bible in Jewish museums for my research project November, the same lecture repeated at the the Second Temple period and the culture about ‘The cultural and social role of Jewish Historical Association, Reading, this last and society of Jews in the Graeco-Roman museums in Britain, 1950s to 2010’. This gave March,. And I have also written for broader world, particularly Egypt. Current research me a good insight into the individual audiences about aspects of genocide in the engages primarily with the Jewish scholar perceptions of the role of these museums for great war including in a Current History, a Philo of Alexandria and the ways in which his the people who work there, providing a rich major US journal for an educated lay work as an interpreter of the Greek Torah context for my documentary studies. audience. A specific comparative focus on opens up new perspectives on first-century I presented first research outcomes at an Ottoman Armenians and Russian Jews is Egypt and its Jewish populations. I am international conference in Paris and as part currently being developed in a chapter for a currently preparing a monograph on Philo’s of the Parkes Research Seminar series and forthcoming book on Minorities in the First commentary On the Decalogue. At the Society I published two articles about my work. World War edited by Hannah Ewence and of Biblical Literature in San Diego (November Unfortunately, I had to give up the idea of a Tim Grady, both former Parkesian students. 2014), a panel of experts including Manuel visitor study because it was not possible in Alexandre (Lisbon), Hindy Najman (Yale), On the Armenian front I gave a keynote the time provided and I realised that my Jim Royse (San Francisco), and Abraham lecture at a major conference in Berlin, relevant plan had been rather too ambitious. Terian (National Academy of Sciences, participated in a German ZDF television For other reasons I also had to delay parts of Armenia) presented papers on On the documentary on the genocide broadcast on my research; I was on compassionate leave Decalogue and responded to my work thus far 24 April, contributed to the new ‘Armenian for several months due to the illness and on this project. I also presented a paper on genocide’ pages in the US Holocaust subsequent death of my partner. It is ‘Atheism in Jewish Antiquity’ at the BAJS Memorial Museum online encyclopaedia, as therefore only at the time of writing this conference (Manchester, July, 2015). I have well as to the Politique Internationale review’s report that I am finalising the article about been elected to a Polonsky Fellowship at the special spring 2015 edition on the Armenian my research project; I have also started Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies genocide. There will be a forthcoming piece looking for a publisher who would be (January-June 2016), and will act as co- in Scribner’s American encyclopaedia on the interested in a book about the history of director with Prof. Alison Salvesen of an same subject, and there was referenced British Jewish museology. international team working on the evidence comment and advice given for a recent about the Jews in Egypt from antiquity to After an insufficient take up of my course in Al Jazeera article on the same. medieval times. I continue to serve on the 2013, student interest was higher the year My larger genocide work - most recently The steering committee of the SBL Philo of after and in 2014 I taught a first year BA Crisis of Genocide - has been acknowledged Alexandria Group, as co-editor of the Journal module on ‘Migration, Identity, and Politics: with a review forum in the edition of Journal of Jewish Studies, as associate editor of The The Jewish East End 1880s-1950s’, the first of Genocide Research to which I am also a Studia Philonica Annual (http://divinity.yale. module I have entirely designed myself. This contributor www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ edu/philo-alexandria), and on the editorial allowed me to expand my teaching AtgE452GQRkPsx572W3j/full. And more board of the Brill Series on Philo. I served as experience, and I was pleased about the generally (in this instance with reference to external examiner for the MSt in Judaism excellent feedback I received from my the Vendée) was also referred to in a recent in the Graeco-Roman Period (University students as I had very much enjoyed the Giles Fraser op-ed piece in the Guardian in of Oxford) and for a PhD on Philo’s course myself. I also lectured about the the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. representation of Joseph (Trinity history of Jewish museums on the MA degree College, Dublin). course on Jewish History and Culture and on Additionally, I have been involved in a the Parkes Study Day 2015. scoping study for a possible Balfour Dr Kathrin Pieren Declaration exhibition at the Jewish Museum After helping the Ben Uri Gallery in London Post-doctoral Research Fellow London and am also pursuing my interest in to apply for a grant to preserve their archive things Salonikan not least with a keynote In March 2015 I completed my two year in the first year, this year I curated an archival lecture to a major conference on the part-time fellowship at the Parkes Institute. display as part of their centenary exhibition at Holocaust in Greece last September. This will Working again full-time as Curator and Somerset House entitled ‘Out of Chaos; Ben be developed as a chapter in the Cambridge Manager of Petersfield Museum in East Uri: 100 Years in London’, for which I also University Press book. I am also currently, Hampshire, I look back at the last two years wrote an article in the exhibition catalogue. slowly learning modern Greek which is with feelings of gratitude for being able to Finally, in consultation with colleagues in the exciting and daunting at the same time. continue the research I had started during my UK and abroad I wrote a concept for a PhD thesis and for being part of the Parkes summer school about Jewish heritage to take Professor Sarah Pearce Institute, a place which assembles an amazing place in summer 2016 if our funding Ian Karten Professor of Ancient amount of knowledge about so many aspects applications are successful. Jewish Studies of Jewish history and the history of Jewish/ non-Jewish relations. Many thanks to my mentor Professor Tony Having completed my third year as Head Kushner and to all my former colleagues for of History, I have continued to teach at their support.

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Dr Andrea Reiter I am supervising an MA thesis on attending meetings, and to represent the Professor of German ‘A Gendered Study of Perpetrators in interests of Parkes on Faculty and University In March I contributed to the Parkes Study Holocaust Literature’. level. I have taught two courses relating to Day. My session was entitled ‘“Vision of German-Jewish history, and I am very happy Professor Joachim Schlör home”: Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch’s novel that the topic of German-Jewish emigration House of Childhood’. Professor of Modern Jewish/non-Jewish and immigration has become more central to Relations our work, as the workshop on ‘Family I also presented an extended version of this After my research leave – during which correspondence and academic writing’ (June paper in the seminar series of the Research I could finish the manuscript on the 5, jointly organised with the Wiener Library) Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Rosenthal family’s emigration from has shown. Outside of Southampton, I have in the Institute of Modern Language Research Heilbronn, Germany, to England – and after been asked to be a member of the advisory (London). In May I delivered an invited the very successful Visiting Professorship at board for a large, government-funded conference paper at the Justus Liebig the University of Graz (March-July 2015) exhibition on 50 Years of Diplomatic University in Giessen. My contribution was I have come back to Southampton in October Relations between the Federal Republic of entitled ‘Holocaust Literatur nach 1950’. last year and took over the directorship of Germany and the State of Israel. The board Because of my administrative role as Director the Parkes Institute from Tony Kushner (for met for the first time in December 2014 of the Faculty of Humanities Graduate School the second time). As usual, this means that in Berlin, the exhibition is curated by Dr I could not offer my option for the Jewish a certain amount of time needs to be spent Alexandra Nocke, a former member of our History and Culture MA this year. However, tending to administration matters and ‘Makom’ group at the University of Potsdam. 32 In February 2015, I was appointed head of a New York, Tel Aviv, Sydney – a fascinating and I developed a lot of new teaching this year. committee that the Hamburg Senate deeply moving document of the transnational ‘The Rise of Islam’ is my new third year (Hamburg is not just a city, but a German experiences they were forced to make. special subject and looks at Jewish-Christian- State) set up for the evaluation of the Institut Muslim relations in the seventh century. It is für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden. Together Dr François Soyer closely connected to my current research with our former colleague Mark Roseman Associate Professor in Late Medieval and project, and it has been very intellectually (Indiana) and Martha Keil (St. Pölten, Early Modern History stimulating to discuss my material with my Austria) I spent two days in Hamburg, For the past year, Francois Soyer has been students. I also developed, with Marianne discussing the current and future work of a pursuing his research on anti-Semitic O’Doherty, a new MA module on ‘Jerusalem: very interesting group of scholars whose conspiracy theories in the early modern City and Symbol’, which looks at how work ranges from the local (projects on Iberian world (Spain, Portugal and their Jerusalem has been represented and ‘Stolpersteine’ in Hamburg’s districts) to overseas colonies) with a view to completing understood from the Bible to the present day. the global (Sephardi communities in the his monograph on this subject in the near James Jordan, Dan Levene and Joachim Caribbean). During the last week of February, future. This project seeks to explain the Schlör also contributed to this module, which Kristina Schultz (Dept. of History, University survival of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories led to some very rich discussions with the of Berne, Switzerland) and I jointly hosted over the centuries between 1450 and 1750 and students and one even said it was her the international conference “Exil, Asyl, account for their widespread appeal amongst favourite module on the MA. I was also very Diaspora. Zur Rolle der Schweiz im 20. the Christian populations of the Iberian moved by the honour of being nominated and Jahrhundert.” World. It also contends that such conspiracy the Faculty finalist for a SUSU Excellence in Teaching Award for the category of I have continued my editorship of Jewish theories were deliberately used by sections of ‘Contribution to Academic Support’. I am Culture and History (with Nadia Valman), in the Church to create a sense of collective particularly delighted about this as the June we could publish a special issue on Christian identity amongst the population nomination came from the students ‘Contemporary Sephardic Studies’, co-edited based upon the rejection of a quintessential themselves. with Dr Anna Menny (Hamburg), followed by ‘Jewish’ other. a special issue on ‘Jews and Political I have already reported on our outreach work Dr Helen Spurling Doscourse’, edited by Helen Spurling . I have in this Annual Review, but there have been also continued my editorship of a book series Ian Karten Research and Outreach Fellow some great personal highlights for me this Jüdische Kulturgeschichte in der Moderne It has been a very busy year with lots of year. The summer school on a ‘Clash of (Jewish Cultural History in the Modern Era) exciting new opportunities within the Parkes Civilisations?’ was a fantastic opportunity to with the Berlin-based publishing house Institute. I have continued to work on my discuss some important ideas about cultural Neofelis, among this year’s publications are project on Jewish apocalypticism in the contact and conflict with local college Martin Kindermann’s Zuhause im Text. seventh century, which is a momentous students. Their responses to the material Raumkonstitution und Erinnerungskonstruktion period of world history for the Abrahamic were very impressive and their feedback im zeitgenössischen anglo-jüdischen Roman and religions. The focus of study is how Jewish showed that it was an incredibly worthwhile an edited volume on Jewish and non-Jewish apocalyptic literature sheds light on occasion in terms of introducing ideas but spaces in the urban context. Leykam publishing responses to events of the seventh century, also helping to prepare for university. The house, Graz, also published my public lecture and Jewish attitudes to Christians and summer schools have always been a special on Victor Laszlo, the imagined resistance Muslims at this time. Understanding the part of our programme and I look forward to hero in the movie ‘Casablanca’, Victor Laszlo diverse perspectives the sources present is them going from strength to strength. The – ein Wunsch-Bild aus der Emigration. At the of primary importance for knowledge of this class on midrash on Genesis at the Cape Town conference co-organised by crucial era of religious development. Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation has also Parkes and the Kaplan Centre, I presented my In addition, I was also particularly pleased been very special, as we have created a space research on ‘Sea voyages as a transitory that the volume I edited with Hannah Ewence that allows for genuinely open dialogue and experience in migration processes’ – this is is now in print: Visualizing Jews through the exploration of theological ideas. There have also the title of the first issue of a new, Ages: Literary and Material Representations of been so many rewarding moments this year, Graz-based online journal Mobile Culture Jewishness and Judaism (New York: Routledge, and a big thank you goes to everyone who is Studies that I was invited to edit and that was 2015). This volume is an outcome of the involved in our outreach programme! published in July. And finally, Aubrey annual conference of the British Association I would like to thank all my colleagues in the Pomerance from the Jewish Museum Berlin for Jewish Studies held at the University of Parkes Institute, History and elsewhere in the and I have started a collaborative project on Southampton in 2010. It is a major Faculty for all their tremendous and ongoing the letters collected by Heinemann Stern, the multidisciplinary study exploring literary and support over this busy year. Special thanks former Head of Berlin’s Jüdische Mittelschule material representations of Jews, Jewishness also go to Tom Plant, Jennifer Craig-Norton, in Große Hamburger Straße. The pupils of and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty- Jen Arnold, Danielle Lockwood and Lorraine his last year in Berlin, 1938, sent him (who had first century. Rood for all their dedicated efforts on our managed to escape to Rio de Janeiro) outreach programme. information about their lives – some still I have had the great fortune to have a from Berlin, some from a camp in Poland wonderful set of incredibly engaged students where their stateless parents had been in my classes this year. I taught ‘The deported in October 1938, and others write Historical Origins of Christianity’ and ‘The from places all over the world, Buenos Aires, Bible and History’ again, but, in addition, 33 Special Collections Report Archives and Manuscripts

2015 is the year of a number of anniversaries, and for the Goldsmid, who title themselves deputies of the King’s Jewish Archives and Manuscripts this has entailed a great many subjects, and encloses a petition to Parliament arguing the that activities focused on the archive of the first Duke of Wellington, Jewish community deserve the removal of civil disabilities. This which is held at Southampton, and the bicentenary of the battle item is just one example of the way that manuscript collections of Waterloo. The first Duke of Wellington was not only a leading held at Southampton overlap and interrelate. military commander of the period, but also a politician and 2015 is also, of course, the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of diplomat and his archive contains material on wide range of the Parkes Library at Southampton, and it is particularly subjects. One such item is a letter and petition, sent to pleasing that the Archives and Manuscripts have received Wellington as Prime Minister in February 1830 seeking the papers from Diana Bailey relating to James and Dorothy Parkes. removal of civil disabilities from Jews. This was in the wake of Diana Bailey, together with Sidney Sugarman, worked on the the bills removing civil disabilities from non-conformists and bibliography of James Parkes, from Catholics which Wellington had introduced in the first and the collection contains much material relating to this work two years of his premiership. The letter is from Moses Mocatta, and will make a welcome addition to the Parkes archive and Moses Haim Montefiore, Joshua Van Onen and Issac Lyon Library at Southampton.

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Publications, both new and old continue to be acquired in all subject titles from the Joseph Sherman Collection of Yiddish Books have also areas of the Parkes Library. Amongst the older publications added this been added to stock and some duplicate titles offered to the British year are two from the period of the British Mandate, The Jewish Library. The ever increasing number of books has necessitated a small Population of Jerusalem: a Demographic and Sociological Study of the amount of book moving and reclassifying during the year, with the aim Jewish Population and its Component Communities, based on the of making the ‘Judaism’ section of the Library easier to use. Jerusalem Jewish Census, September, 1939 by Dr David Gurevich (1940) Selecting items to include in the forthcoming exhibition, ‘The Parkes and Handbook of the Jewish Communal Villages in Palestine 1938 by Library: creating a Legacy’, 7th September- 6th November, which Viscount Samuel (1938). These publications complement the marks the 50th anniversary of the Library’s opening at Southampton, holdings of contemporary material for the period which formed part brings home the wealth of material in the collection. Parkes collected of the original Parkes Library. widely, valuing contemporary pamphlets as much as the early printed Cataloguing has concentrated on the new acquisitions but work has books, which he used to ‘get a picture of past centuries from their also been undertaken on the remaining books from the collection actual works’. Examples of both kinds of material will be on display in deposited by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. Sections on the exhibition, including the Epistle of Rabbi Samuel of Morocco which Zionism, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and refugees have already was printed in Brussels between 1475 and 1476 and is the oldest book been added to the Library and this year has seen the addition of more in not only the Parkes Library, but also the University Library. of the books on the history of Jews in individual countries. Additional

35 Publications and Papers by Members of the Parkes Institute

36 Devorah Baum Dr James Jordan: ‘Jewish Migration in Fin-de-Siecle Britain’, in Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall (eds), Ben Uri 100 Publications Publications Years in London: Art Identity Migration (Ben Uri, ‘Life Writing and the East End’, in Brauner, David and From Nuremberg to Hollywood: the Holocaust in 2015), pp.24-35 Stahler, Axel (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to the courtroom of American fictive film (Vallentine Papers Modern Jewish Fiction, Edinburgh University Press, Mitchell, 2015) ‘Britain, Migration Museums and the Problematic June 2015 Jewish Migration and the Archive (Routledge, 2015), “Other”: Questions of Silence’, ‘Museums and ‘Nothing and the Jews’, in Ewence, Hannah and co-edited with Lisa Leff and Joachim Schloer. Migration’ conference, French Immigration Spurling, Hannah (eds), Visualising Jews Through ‘A Wandering View: Writing Jews and Jewishness on Museum, Paris, September 2014 the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of British Television’, European Judaism, Volume 47, ‘Can the Jewish Prostitute Speak?, The Annual Jewishness and Judaism, Routledge Studies in 2014, edited by Axel Stahler and Sue Vice Cultural History, April 2015 Cecil Roth Lecture, London Jewish Museum, ‘Another Man’s Faith? The Image of Judaism in BBC November 2014 Papers Television’s Men Seeking God (1954)’ in Hannah ‘Peter Fryer and the myth of the Windrush’, Ewence and Helen Spurling, eds, Visualizing Jews ‘Envy’, Philadelphia Association, London, Jan 2015 Peter Fryer symposium, University of Sussex, through the Ages (forthcoming, Routledge, 2014) ‘Evidence by Diana Matar’, Purdy Hicks Gallery, December 2014 London, November 2014 Papers, Talks and Conferences ‘Legacies of Race and the Holocaust in Britain’, ‘What Kind of Love Do We Need?’, Royal Society ‘Reviewing the Extermination: Dr Who, Daleks and University of Leeds, international conference on of Arts, London, July 2014 the Changing Face of Jewish Identity’, London ‘Transnational Holocaust Memory’, January 2015 Jewish Cultural Centre, September 2014 ‘The Memory of the Channel Islands during the Dr Shirli Gilbert ‘Race, Identity and British Television in the 1960s’, Second World War’, Parkes Institute Study Day, Publications University of Hull, October 2014 March 2015 ‘New World? Just the same as the Old World?’, A Nazi and a Jew: Forgotten Letters, Family ‘The Materialists and the Topography of Auschwitz International Conference on ‘Old World, New Legacies, and Ordinary Friendship in the Shadow in British TV Drama’, London Jewish Museum, World: Jews in Transition, University of Cape Town, of the Holocaust January 2015 April 2015 (book manuscript; under review) ‘Fifty Shades of J: Jewish Identity on the TV ‘Co-Presents to the Holocaust’, Bath Spa University Remembering the Holocaust in Apartheid and 1964-2014, from Alf Garnet to Theresa May’, seminar, May 2015 Post-Apartheid South Africa Southampton, March 2015 (edited book manuscript; under review) ‘I am a Jew to Je suis Juif’, Old World, New World: ‘Jewish refugees in Southampton’, Parkes Institute cultural evening, June 2015 ‘Holocaust Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa’ Jews in Transition, Cape Town April 2015 in Philipp Gassert, Alan Steinweis, and Jacob S. Eder ‘Skipper Next to God: The Holocaust Drama in the ‘Refugees, then and now’, History and Policy (eds), Holocaust Memory in a Globalizing World early 1950s’, Forgotten, Lost and Neglected TV seminar, Home Office, June 2015 (Wallstein Verlag, forthcoming). Drama, Royal Holloway, April 2015 ‘The Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission’, ‘Contesting Chronologies conference, Parkes/ Talks and Papers ‘Holocaust Memorial Season: Marking 70 Years of Commemoration through the BBC and the Prime Wiener, July 2015 ‘Between ‘Victims’ and ‘Perpetrators’: A Nazi and a Minister’s Holocaust Commission’, with Tony ‘British POWs in Auschwitz’, British Association for Jew after the Holocaust’, Parkes Jubilee Kushner, Contesting Chronolgies, Wiener Library, Holocaust Studies, International conference, Conference, University of Southampton, July 2015 University of Birmingham, July 2015 September 2015. ‘I am a Jew’ and Plenary panel, BAHS, ‘Why we should remember James Parkes’, Keynote ‘Historicizing Holocaust Memory and Racism’, Birmingham, July 2015 lecture, Parkes Jubilee conference, Southampton, British Association for Holocaust Studies annual September 2015 conference, University of Birmingham, July 2015. Awards 2014-15 ‘Displacement, loss and unlikely friendship in the 2015 Vice-Chancellor’s Team Award Dr Claire Le Foll shadow of the Holocaust: The Schwab family ‘The Parkes Institute’ Publications correspondence 1936-1971’, Wiener Library, 2014 Leverhulme Trust, ‘Story Places: Exploring ‘The Image of the Jews in Belorussian Soviet London, June 2015. the Poetics of Location-Based Narratives’ Cinema, 1924-1936’, in Hannah Ewence and Helen ‘The Holocaust and Shifting Memory Narratives in 2014 Toni Schiff Memorial Fund, ‘British Spurling (eds.), Vizualing Jews Through the Ages. the South African Jewish Community’, Old World, Association for Holocaust Studies’ Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness New World: Jews in Transition conference, 2014 Rothschild Foundation Europe, and Judaism (Routledge, 2015), pp. 229-246. University of Cape Town, April 2015. Parkes Jubilee Conference Book Review on Elissa Bemporad, Becoming Soviet ‘Holocaust historiography: An Overview of Recent 2014 Mandelbaum Fellowship, six-week visiting Jews. The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana Literature’, March of the Living Educators’ Seminar, fellowship, University of Sydney (Oct-Nov 2015) University Press, 2013), published in Ab Imperio, vol. London, January 2015. 3, 2014. ‘Jews and Apartheid’, JW3, Jewish Community Professor Tony Kushner: Centre for London, January 2015. Papers Publications ‘The Holocaust, Culture and Politics in the ‘ Le “monde d’hier” et son étude : pratiques de Anglophone World, 1945 to the present’, panel ‘Les prostituees juive peuvent-elles parler? collecte et ethnographie juive-russe dans l’empire presentation at Transnational Holocaust Memory Mémoire, migration et archive’ in Marianne Amar russe (fin XIXe - début XXe siècle)’, Ecole des Hautes Conference, University of Leeds, January 2015. (ed.), Memory of Migrations (Presses Universitaires Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, January 2015. Francois Rabelais, 2015)

37 ‘Les transformations de la philanthropie (juive) au The Kamenets-Podolsk Massacre, 1941, Was Europe ‘Intermarriage and the Ancestors of the Jews: début 20e siècle dans l’empire russe : les enquêtes too slow to offer refuge to the Jews?’ Modern Philonic Perspectives’, The Studia Philonica Annual des médecins et réformateurs sociaux dans les History Review, 17: 2, (Nov 2014), 2-6. 27 (2015). shtetls’, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science ‘Getting in My (Non-Violent) Retaliation Last’, Book Dr Kathrin Pieren, Post-doctoral Sociales, Paris, January 2015. Forum of Mark Levene, The Crisis of Genocide, vols Research Fellow ‘The Vitebsk Art School. Center of Jewish art and of 1 and 2 (1912-1953) with Cathie Carmichael, Robert avant-garde’, Beaconsfield U3A group ‘Linking with Gerwarth, Eric Weitz and Vladimir Solonari, Journal Publications Belarus’, May 2015. of Genocide Research, 17: 2 (2015) 221-54. ‘Identität und Repräsentation im ‘Côté russe : une émancipation sans assimilation?’, ‘Les genocides de la grande guerre, ‘ Politique “Minderheitenmuseum”: Erkenntnisse aus der Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, Internationale: La Revue (spring 147) frühen englisch-jüdischen Museologie, 1887-1932’, June 2015. Papers Museumskunde, Volume 79, 2/14, pp. 82-88. ‘Jewish-Belorussian relations through the prism of ‘Art-Identity-Migration: Continuity and Change at “ The Bulgarians were the Worst! “:Situating the literature: from folk stereotypes to nationalist Ben Uri’, in Ben Uri: 100 Years in London: Art- Holocaust in Salonika in a blindness?’, Parkes Jubilee Conference, Identity-Migration, ed. by Rachel Dickson und Sarah Southampton, September 2015. Broader Context’, Keynote lecture, The Holocaust in MacDougall (London: Ben Uri, 2015), pp. 138-149. Greece: Genocide and its Aftermath’, international Dr Dan Levene Conference, International Hellenic University, Papers Papers Thessaloniki, 21-22 November 2014. ‘From Roots to Routes, Nation to Immigration – ‘Genocide in the Great War: the Unknown or Influences on the Interpretation of Collections in ‘The Bandlet of Righteousness’, Institute of Uncomfortable Record,’ ‘Great War, Unknown War,’ British Jewish Museums in the 20th and 21st Advanced Studies, Hebrew University Jerusalem, University of Southampton, 26 November 2014. Centuries’, Annual Conference of the European June 2014, ‘Scripted Forms of Magic Knowledge’. ‘Deadly Geopolitics, Ethnic Mobilisations and the Association for Jewish Studies, July 2015 Talks Vulnerability of Peoples 1914-18,’ ‘Representing the Past, Reflecting the Present: Two public lectures were delivered in January at the Keynote lecture, Deutsches Historisches Museum British Jewish Museology since 1887, Parkes University of Addis Ababa; One to the department Berlin and Lepsiushaus Potsdam, international Research Seminar, 21 October 2014 of Philology and one to the faculty of Humanities. conference, ‘ Witness to a Crime of the Century’: Professor Andrea Reiter In May I delivered the Ian Karten Memorial Lecture The German Empire and the Armenian Genocide, ‘ at titled ‘Hocus Pocus? - Ethnology of the magical 1-3 March 2015. Publications text, Babylonia to Ethiopia’. Professor Sarah Pearce Performing the Jew. Robert Menasse’s Die Dr Mark Levene Vertreibung aus der Hölle, Nexus. Essays in German Publications Jewish Studies, 2, 2014, pp. 173-190. Publications ‘Pity and emotion in Josephus’s reading of Joseph’, The Appropriation of Myth as a ‘Language’ in Julya ‘Genocidal Legacies of the Great War,’ Current Journal of Biblical Literature 133.4 (2014), 858-262. Rabinowich’s ‘Jewish’ Novels, Leo Baeck Institute History, 113: 766,(Nov. 2014), 318-325.’ ‘Philo and the Septuagint’, in Alison Salvesen, ed., Yearbook. The Journal for German-Jewish History The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (OUP, and Culture 2014, pp. 267-286. 2016, forthcoming). 38 Found in Translation: Vladimir Vertlib’s Early Prose Papers: Dr Helen Spurling and the Creative Process, in: In Memoriam Hamish ‘Onkel Jakob in Zürich. Zur Rolle von Ritchie, ed. Ian Wallace, Amsterdam: Rodopi Publications Schweizerbürgern in der Emigration deutscher (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik) Juden.‘ Historisches Institut der Universität Bern, Hannah Ewence and Helen Spurling (eds), 2015, pp. 221-244. 25-27 February 2015: Exil, Asyl, Diaspora. Zur Rolle Visualizing Jews through the Ages: Literary and Schenker’s Jewishness: a Literary Perspective, der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert. Material Representations of Jewishness and Music Analysis (forthcoming summer 2015) Judaism, Studies in Cultural History (New York: ‘Bauhaus in Tel-Aviv’. JW3 Jewish community Routledge, 2015), 335pp. Professor Joachim Schlör centre, London, 11 March 2014. Helen Spurling, ‘The image of God in late antique ‘The sea voyage as a transitory experience in apocalyptic literature: the Holy One as teacher in Publications migration processes.’ International Conference, All Pirqe Mashiah’, in Helen Spurling and Hannah Africa House, University of Cape Town, 14-16 April ‘Liesel, it’s time for you to leave.’ Die Auswanderung Ewence (eds), Visualizing Jews through the Ages: 2015: ‘Old World, New World: Jews in Transition’. der Familie Rosenthal aus Heilbronn. Heilbronn: Literary and Material Representations of Stadtarchiv 2015 ‘German-Jewish emigration to Palestine in the 1920s Jewishness and Judaism, Studies in Cultural History Victor Laszlo – ein Wunsch-Bild aus der Emigration. and 1930s. The sea voyage as a transitory experience (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp.32-47. Vorlesungen des Centrums für Jüdische Studien. in the migration process.’ Centre for Jewish Studies Graz: Universitätsverlag und Leykam 2015 Seminar, University of Manchester, 7 May 2015. Papers and Talks Mobile Culture Studies Journal, Graz University ‘The challenge of incompleteness. How can we fill ‘Pirqe Mashiaḥ: From Apocalypse to Apology’, online/open access journal: The Sea Voyage as a existing gaps in family papers?’ A One-Day Hebrew, Jewish and Early Christian Studies Seminar, transitory experience. July 2015 Workshop at the Wiener Library London, 5 June University of Cambridge, January 2015. Jewish Culture and History, vol. 16, issue 1, April 2015, 2015: Making the Private Public. Refugee ‘James Parkes and The Conflict of the Church and Special Issue: Contemporary Sephardic Studies, Correspondence and Academic Writing. the Synagogue’, University of Southampton Study edited by Anna Menny and Joachim Schlör Francois Soyer Day, March 2015. Jeszcze piekniejsze od Paryza. Die “Ostjuden” im ‘Christian Apologists and the Jews’, University of Palästina der 1920er Jahre, in Philipp Mettauer, Publications Southampton Study Day, April 2015. Barbara Staudinger (Hg.), “Ostjuden”. Geschichte In 2014 he published his monograph on anti-Semitic ‘The Adversus Judaeos Literature’, University of und Mythos. Schriftenreihe des Instituts für propaganda in seventeenth-century Spain Southampton Study Day, April 2015. jüdische Geschichte Österreichs, Band 1. Innsbruck, (“Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain ‘The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Wien, Bozen: Studien Verlag, 193-205. and its Empire. Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Christians’, University of Southampton Study Day, ‘Da wär’s halt gut, wenn man Englisch könnt!’ Robert Centinela contra Judíos (1674)”) with the Dutch April 2015. Gilbert, Hermann Leopoldi and the Role of academic publishers E. J. Brill as well as an article ‘In the Beginning: Ancient Interpretations of Languages between Exile and Return, in entitled “The Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory in Creation’, University of Southampton Study Day, Przekladaniec Journal of Literary Translation, vol. 29 Sixteenth- Century Spain and Portugal and the May 2015. (2014), 157-178 (in Polish) Origins of the Carta de los Judíos de Constantinopla: New Evidence”, with the ‘Jerusalem and Apocalyptic Visions of History in the prestigious Spanish National journal of Sephardic Ancient World’, Historical Association, Chichester, Studies: “Sefarad: Revista de estudios hebraicos y May 2015. sefardies” which is available in open access. 39 Members of the Parkes Institute

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