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Annual Report 2004-2005

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The Rev. Dr James Parkes (1894- was established within the University Contents 1981) formally created The Parkes in 1964 to house the massive private Library in 1961 with the aim of collection of James Parkes. providing a centre for research by z Report of the Head of the Parkes 1 non-Jewish and Jewish scholars and Since then, the study of Jewish History Institute, Dr Sarah Pearce studentsÖ into the whole field of and Culture has developed enormously relations between Judaism and other at Southampton.This success was z Outreach 1 religions. James Parkes was an marked in the year 2000 when the extraordinary person; a volatile non- Parkes Institute received the largest z Conferences, Lectures and Seminars 1 conformist a creative force and a research grant ever awarded to a in the Parkes Institute person who confronted antisemitism Jewish Studies related Centre in a head-on. He demanded a world in British University. Over £800 000 was z Income 1 which it was safe to be a Jew. In the given to the Centre by The Arts and years leading up to the war he tried Humanities Research Board to fund z Postgraduate Studies in Jewish 1 to warn an unheeding Church of the five research projects. fate facing the Jews of Europe and as History and Culture a ‘righteous gentile’ he actively rescued Today the Parkes Library forms the many Jewish refugees, including the basis of one of the Hartley Library’s z Reports by Parkes Institute 1 “I do not believe that what grandfather of the actress Rachel special collections. It consists of both postgraduate students lies beyond our present Weisz. He was co-founder of The an archive and a printed section and confusion is a New Age of Council of Christians and Jews and is housed in magnificent state of the z Reports by members of the 1 faith. Many generations will devoted his life to combating art quarters in the Hartley Library’s Parkes Institute antisemitism, reaching out in new extension. pass before we achieve reconciliation to the Jews whom he z Parkes Library Report 1 world-wide unity of outlook. believed Christianity had failed. The Parkes Institute is a community of What lies before this scholars, curators, librarians, students, generation is something However Southampton’s links with Friends of Parkes and activists, whose z Special Collections Report by 1 unprecedented. It is a loyal Jewish Studies go back further than this work is based around the rich resource Dr Chris Woolgar co-operation between many even; to the beginning of the last of the library and archive.Through our z Publications and papers by members 1 types of mind and outlook, century when Claude Montefiore, an research, publications teaching and outstanding Jewish scholar of the Bible conservation work we seek to provide many different philosophies of of the Parkes Institute and early Jewish-Christian relations, a world-class centre for the study of life, united in common became president of The University Jewish/non-Jewish relations throughout z Members of the Management 1 recognition of the seriousness College of Southampton which was the ages; to study the experience of Committee of the Parkes Institute of our situation.” later to become the University of minorities and outsiders and to Southampton. Much of Montefiore’s examine the power of prejudice from z Members of the Board of Studies 1 (James Parkes, personal library is housed in antiquity to the contemporary world. Southampton, 1972) Southampton’s Parkes Library for Study of the Parkes Institute of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations which z Fellows of the Parkes Institute 1

z Honorary Fellows of the Parkes 1 Institute

z Patrons of the Parkes Institute 1 Report of the Head of the Parkes Institute our scholars a number with very strong international links both publications. In the academic year 2004-5 notable new Outreach Dr Mark Levene with like-minded institutes on the European continent, Israel additions included Tony Kushner’s We Europeans? Mass and North America. But in internationally troubled times, our Observation,‘Race’ and British Identity in the Twentieth This has been a year of new beginnings and significant ends. work would seem to beckon us along other travel routes, too. Century representing a new phase and focus in his ongoing After five years of funding from the Arts and Humanities James Parkes’ aim was always to interrogate the fundamental scrutiny of British polity and society and its ambivalent attitudes Research Council the AHRC Parkes Institute completed its interaction between Jews and non-Jews across historical time to incomers, immigrants and refugees in contemporary times. In critical role as a dedicated AHRC-funded research centre. It and place. Our commitment to creating a new post in fact, it was only one of several new Kushner works (the others would be literally too time-consuming a recitation to repeat Muslim-Jewish relations, one incidentally, strongly supported by co-written or co-edited) this year. After many years in (and indeed extol) its enormous range and quality of projects our dedicated research centre’s AHRC advisory panel, fully preparation, Mark Levene’s first two volumes of his projected and publications. In its final year, however, two events were dovetails with this agenda. Signalling that purpose we were multi-volume magnum opus Genocide in the Age of the particularly notable moments of culmination.The first, in January delighted to have Dr Mona Siddiqui, director of the Centre for Nation-State were also published. So, too, were Nils Roemer’s 2005, was the Cape Town conference on ‘Place and the Study of Islam at the University of Glasgow, to deliver the latest study, Jewish Scholarship and Culture in 19th century Displacement’ co-organised with the Kaplan Centre for Jewish 2005 Ian Karten lecture in March. Dr Siddiqui, a well-known Germany and Andrea Reiter’s Narrating the Holocaust.This Studies, at the University of Cape Town. So successful, indeed, scholar and broadcaster, not least in the latter case in BBC handful of monographs represents simply a small window into − was this, not least thanks to warm collaboration from Prof. radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’, slot, spoke on ‘Judaism and the many other publications articles, chapters and online − Milton Shain, at Kaplan, that a formal relationship now exists Islam’.We have been very fortunate and grateful to receive contributions published by each of our scholars in 2004-5, as Caption needed between the Parkes Institute and the Kaplan Centre. And long School funding for an ensuing seminar programme dedicated detailed in this report. may it prosper.Then, in July, with just a few months of the AHRC specifically to Muslim-Jewish-Christian interactions which will be In June the Parkes Institute, with the Council of Christians and remit to run, the Research Institute organised another major more fully developed in the academic year 2005-6. Frances As our Outreach section shows, Parkesian contact with a broader Jews, jointly held a book launch in Notting Hill to mark the international conference.With Nadia Valman this time firmly at Clarke, our Parkes administrator, remains a stalwart and public also remains vital and indeed is essential to the work of the occasion of the publication of the first biography of the Rev. the helm, ably co-supported on this occasion by Dr Eitan creative lynchpin in supporting and helping to develop this and Institute. Parkes scholars are involved, in many public advisory Dr James Parkes. Sister Margaret Shepherd, Director of The Bar-Yosef, from Ben-Gurion University in Israel,‘Jews, Empire and other aspects of our seminar series. capacities, in museums and other public bodies, and often as Council of Christians and Jews, introduced the event which also Race,’ considered just that, in all its diverse historical, literary, broadcasters, expert media commentators, and columnists. Our included a short talk by Professor Tony Kushner and a reading conceptual and representational complexities, and with over Another key area of potential development is our work on engagement with other civic and educational organisations such by author Colin Richmond, emeritus professor of History, 100 delegates to discuss and debate some fifty papers. modern Jewish migration, its relationship particularly to port as The Three Faiths Forum is something we particularly wish to Keele.The book: Campaigner Against Antisemitism,The cities and metropoli, and the cultural, literary, religious and build on, in addition, for instance, to the ongoing lecture series we Reverend James Parkes 1896-1981 (Vallentine Mitchell June With the AHRC Parkes work in mind, very special thanks are representational issues which are part of its legacy.These sometimes provide, such as that organised this last year with the 2005) was eagerly bought by members of the large crowd due to Dr Steve Taverner who as the Research Centre’s Project interests run in parallel not only to the development of Bournemouth Jewish Congregation. who attended the launch, held at the Sion Centre for Dialogue Manager ably, unceasingly, and always cheerfully steered the Transnational Studies within the School of Humanities but also and Encounter in Notting Hill. It was good to see so many Institute through its not always easy final two years, not to say with an AHRC major funding programme entitled ‘Diasporas, That said, it is doubtful that any of this could be achieved Friends of Parkes at the event as well as academics and provided many other skills − academic and of a fundamental IT Migrations and Identities.’ An early bid to the programme was without the support over the years of key patrons. We members of the public. nature − to Parkes, History, and beyond in the School of in process at the end of the academic year, with a further larger remain enormously indebted to the support we receive from Humanities. Steve is leaving us for a career in the Civil Service. application intended for the new major bidding round in 2006. the Ian Karten Charitable Foundation, which has been crucial In January, the Rt Hon. John Denham MP visited The Parkes We wish him good luck and Godspeed.The same too, goes to New funding possibilities through the Hanadiv Foundation, for in supporting the creation of many of the lectureships that Institute to learn more about our work. On a tour of the Dr Bridget Thomson who has been our Karten Fellow for the study of antisemitism, also present themselves.We are also form the core of our team, and also to the Raynes and Parkes Library he was able to see the new archive facilities in several years and who contributed much enthusiasm and hard extremely grateful to this Foundation, for granting three further Chevening Foundations (with the support of the British The Hartley Library and the exhibition of rare Jewish work to our undergraduate and postgraduate programme, as years funding to our East European specialist, Dr Natan Meir, Council) who will enable us each year to bring two funded archived documents. well as in her own specialism of Holocaust poetry. And thanks, which will mean thereafter, that his post will be made students from Eastern Europe to take places on our Jewish too, are owed to Dr Jo Labanyi, permanent by the University. History and Culture MA programme. The Parkes Institute was pleased to collaborate with Gerald Normie and the Bournemouth Jewish Representative Council Research Dean of the School of Humanities, who is leaving for Building up our stock and reputation, through scholarship and One final very positive and uplifting note for the academic year. and host a series of evening seminars covering Jewish Studies a post in the United States and who, as chair of the Parkes funding, has also been greatly assisted by the tangible Parkes would like to extend its warm congratulations and topics on the theme of, ‘East European Jewry:The Age of Institute Coordinating Committee, has provided sterling development of Parkes in concrete terms.The refurbished mazeltov to our Anglo-Jewish literary expert, Dr Nadia Valman, Migrations’. Drs Nils Roemer, Natan Meir,Tobias Brinkmann commitment and purposeful, always supportively constructive sections of the Hartley library which now more fully house the and her husband, Dr Adam Sutcliffe, on the birth of their son and Professor Tony Kushner all contributed papers in this advice in the development of Parkes. On the other hand, we Parkes collection, has amply fulfilled its promise. It remains Orlando, in January 2005. lively series. are delighted to welcome again, Dr Bill Brookes, an old friend crucial not only to our flourishing community of MA and Ph.D of Parkes as our new chair, from autumn 2005, and look students but also in the increasing volume of visiting On 28 June representatives of the Jewish Genealogical forward to his convivial engagement with the Institute. researchers both to its archives and library. Nor should we Image of book launch Society of England visited the Parkes Library and were forget the many undergraduates who complete their degrees shown round the collections by Karen Robson and Jenny As the AHRC Parkes Institute has come to an end, new at Southampton, in History, English, Modern Languages, Music Ruthven, special collections staff of the Hartley Library. directions and challenges are presenting themselves to us.The and other disciplines, who do so often with major Jewish Professor Tony Kushner joined the visit and gave a talk about Parkes Institute’s key research role was formally recognised by components which would otherwise be impossible without the the work of the Parkes Institute. both University and School of Humanities in its summer 2004 specialist courses put on by Parkes scholars and the library strategic plans. As such Parkes is acknowledged as one of the collections which nourish these areas of study. Dr Mark Levene lectured in the Imperial War Museum’s universities key distinctors of international significance Holocaust Fellowship programme for teachers and hopes to contributing particularly to History, English, Modern Languages, The Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/ non-Jewish assist with their future programme. He is now also on the and other disciplines.We are very fortunate to have amongst Relations continues to see a steady stream of noteworthy London Jewish Cultural Centre's Education Committee. Caption needed Image of Mona Conferences, Lectures and Seminars in z £1,800 from the British Academy to support attendance at MRes Jewish History and Culture The Parkes Institute Siddiqui the Port Jews Conference, University of Cape Town.

Conferences Gary Gerson (Karten student) z Significant material support from the Isaac and Jessie Continuing PhD/MPhils Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, Cape Town for the third 3-5 January 2005,‘Place and Displacement', jointly with meeting of the Port Jews project in Cape Town, January the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, Cape Town, Margaret Batstone,‘The Political and Religious Thought of Mary in Cape Town. 2005 and much appreciated interest and generosity from Ward’, (Nadia Valman). Mr Mendel Kaplan. 12 April 2005,‘Cecil Roth in Context', Southampton. Peter Batty (MRes Jewish History and Culture; University of z Several bequests from former donors for which the Southampton Archive Studentship),‘Modern constructions of 12 May 2005, 'Ethnicity and Religion', Reading. Institute is particularly grateful, and which have enabled the poverty in ancient Judaism’, (Sarah Pearce). acquisition of significant collections to further strengthen 27-29 July 2005, 'Jews, Empire and Race', Southampton. the Parkes archive. Caption needed Jane Gerson (MA Jewish History and Culture; AHRB funded), Seminars ‘Jews, Food and Ethnicity in Nineteenth/Twentieth Century z Continuing support and generosity from Mr Frank Cass Britain’, (Tony Kushner). 19 October: Professor Rodney Livingstone,‘Some Professor Tony Kushner acted as historical advisor to the (Vallentine Mitchell) and other Jewish related publishing German-Jewish Surnames: an Introductory Survey’. Jewish Museum’s exhibition marking the centenary of the houses. Tim Grady (MA Jewish History and Culture; AHRB funded), 1905 Aliens Act, ‘Closing the Door’, which was displayed in ‘Dying for the Fatherland the Place of World War One 2 November: Dr Klaus Weber (Research Fellow,The the museum’s Camden home from March to September z Ongoing support from the University of Reading for the Rothschild Archive),‘Jewish Welfare and Philanthropy in 2005. Professor Kushner was also co-organiser of Holocaust Greek Bible project, particularly the hosting of the one day Memorials in German-Jewish History’, (Neil Gregor and Europe, 1800-1940: a New Project Focusing on the Memorial Day in Southampton and has joined the advisory ‘Ethnicity and Religion’ symposium. Nils Roemer). Rothschild Family as a Case Study’. committee of Jewish Heritage UK. z The Vallentine Mitchell sponsored book launch for Colin Phillip Jewell (MA Jewish History and Culture),‘Josephus and 16 November: Dr Natan Meir (University of Southampton) “Shattering Myths of Orthodoxy:The Modernisation of Income Richmond’s biography of James Parkes which also received Magic in the Jewish Antiquities’, (Sarah Pearce). Jewish Religious Culture in Imperial Russia”. welcome material support from the Sion Centre for z The Parkes Institute is grateful to all those who have Dialogue and Encounter. Katie Klein,‘Anglo-Jewish Woman Writers and the Literary 23 November:Things Places Years (film showing the impact provided vital financial support for its work and the work of Marketplace in Nineteenth-Century England’, (Nadia Valman). of forced emigration and the Holocaust in the lives of the Parkes Library and Special Collections.The work of the z Donations from The Joseph and Nancy Burton Charitable three generations of women in London). Institute is funded by the University of Southampton, the Foundation for which we remain, as ever, grateful. Jonathan Leader,‘Hannah Arendt, Politics, Philosophy and the Ian Karten Charitable Foundation, the Hanadiv Charitable 30 November: Dr Steve Taverner (University of Historical Imagination’, (Nils Roemer). Foundation, the Ashdown Trust, the Arts and Humanities z Subscriptions from the growing Friends of the Parkes Southampton) ‘Noah and the Pirates:The Problem of the Seafaring Tradition in Early Jewish Identity’. Research Council and private donors. Grants include: Library scheme. Anne Lloyd,‘Jews Under Fire: Issues of Military Service in Britain in World War One’, (Mark Levene). 14 December: Professor Judith Lieu (Kings College z £70,000 from the National Heritage Lottery Fund to Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History London) ’Where did Jews and Christians meet (and part enable completion and touring of the physical version of and Culture Margaret Marlow,‘Comparing Holocaust Memoirs and Slave ways)?’ the Parkes Institute/ Asian- Black-Jewish Forum exhibition. PhDs completed in the Parkes Institute Narratives’, (Tony Kushner and John Oldfield). 22 February: Dr Tobias Brinkmann (University of z Continued funding for Dr Natan Meir’s post from the Southampton) ‘Community in Transit: Jewish Migrants from Tobias Metzler, (AHRC and Research Studentship – University Hanadiv Charitable Foundation. Elisa Lawson (MA Jewish History and Culture; AHRB funded), East Central Europe in Berlin after the First World War’. ‘Cecil Roth and the Imagination of the Jews Past, Present and Funded) 'Jews in the Metropolis: Urban Jewish Cultures in Future in Britain, 1925-1964’, (Tony Kushner and Nils Roemer). London, Berlin, and Paris, 1880-1940', (Nils Roemer). 8 March: Dr Mona Siddiqui (University of Glasgow) z Annual funds from the Rayne Foundation and the Foreign The Karten Lecture:‘Judaism and Islam’. Office/Chevening Foundation to support two MA studentships in Jewish History and Culture for students Hannah Dalby (MA Jewish History and Culture; AHRB funded), Michael Morris, (MA Jewish History and Culture),‘Mediation to 12 April: Dr Daniel Langton (University of Manchester) from Eastern Europe. ‘Central Voices from the Margins: Hannah Arendt, Eva G. Martyrdom the Emergence of Inter-Religious Dialogue in Late The Montefiore lecture 2005:‘The Apostle Paul in the Reichmann, Eleonore Sterling, Selma Stern-Taeubler and Antiquity’, (Dan Levene). Jewish Imagination’. z A number of funded places from the Ian Karten Charitable German-Jewish Traditions in the Twentieth Century’, (Nils foundation to fund studentships on the Masters Roemer). Lena Munday (MA Jewish History and Culture),‘Diaries of the 3 May: Professor Tessa Rajak (University of Reading) Programmes in Jewish History and Culture. Warsaw Ghetto’, (Tony Kushner and Nadia Valman). ‘The Septuagint,The Jews and Biblical Truth: Some MA Jewish History and Culture Landmark Battles’. z £5,000 from the Cecil and Irene Roth Trust to enable the Mathias Seiter, (University of Southampton Archive 24 May: Dr Michael Barnes (Heythrop College University completion of Elisa Lawson’s PhD thesis ‘Cecil Roth and Agnese Pavule (Rayne Foundation / Chevening Scholarship) Studentship),‘Jews in Posen and Alsace-Lorraine:The of London),‘Nostra Aetate after 40 years.’ Jewish Heritage and Historiography’. Shamie Begum (Karten student) Formation of German Jewish Identities in Modern German Ildiko Kovacs (Rayne Foundation / Chevening Scholarship) History’, (Nils Roemer). z Funding from the Cecil and Irene Roth Trust for the one Luc Reinesch (Karten student) day symposium,‘Cecil Roth in Context’. Natalie Wilkinson (Karten student) Greg Smart (MA Jewish History and Culture; University of Ronnie Fraser Southampton Archive Studentship),‘The British Press and the Laurence Cohen Aliens Question at the Turn of the Century’, (Tony Kushner). Hazel Starmes (MA Jewish History and Culture),‘The California system, I spent much of the year, when I wasn't Peter Batty I am glad that I have the opportunity to study at Parkes.The Representation of Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust’, teaching, in UC Los Angeles' research library but midway (Supervisor: Sarah Pearce) environment of Avenue Campus, the support of my supervisor (Tony Kushner). through I spent a week at the Center for Advanced Judaic My research focuses on the reception of the social and Nils Roemer, the exchange with fellow PhD students and, last Studies investigating Isaac Leeser's archives and anything having religious history of the Second Temple Period in nineteenth- but not least, the collegial atmosphere of the Parkes Institute Reports by Parkes Postgraduate Students to do with Grace Aguilar and her family. I also presented a century French and German Jewish scholarship. I have been has helped me a lot to get started here. paper on Grace Aguilar's The Vale of Cedars at a postgraduate studying the background to the process of Jewish emancipation Anne Lloyd colloquium at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. I am in Germany during the first half of the nineteenth century with In the course of the research for my project I visited a (Supervisor: Mark Levene) currently waiting to hear about a paper I submitted to the particular focus on the intellectual developments in Jewish number of archives in the UK and also had a chance to do This, my third year of part-time study, has sped by and the far postgraduate online periodical ESharp, out of Glasgow thinking about history and the development of a scientific research in Berlin and Jerusalem. In addition I have had the horizon in terms of permitted time becomes increasingly University. Over the summer I came to Southampton, working approach to it (Wissenschaft des Judentums.) More specifically, opportunity to present my ideas at the Postgraduate Forum visible! My research topic is:‘Jews under Fire: Issues of Military for six weeks in the Parkes Library, plus the occasional visit to I have identified three strands of thinking which demonstrate Conference at Southampton. In the first semester I taught Service in Britain in World War One’, and much of my first two London's British Library. Chapter 1 of my thesis:‘Early-Victorian the spectrum of perspectives taken by Jewish historians of this some sections of the third-year special subject course on years were spent searching archives: Imperial War Museum, Anglo-Jewish Women's Fiction: Grace Aguilar, Celia and Marion period on antiquity.The first of these is associated with the German-Jewish history. Now I am looking forward to the Public Record Office, Metropolitan Archives, British Library, Moss, and Maria Polack’, is completed.This upcoming year I will Verein für Culture und Wissenschaft der Juden (as represented coming semester, to continuing my research and to obtaining Rothschild Archives, Association of Jewish Ex-Service Men and again be a distance learner in California, but plan to spend next most thoroughly by Leopold Zunz); the second is the view more teaching experience. Women, Jewish Museum (Sternberg Centre), National Army summer at Southampton once more. associated with perhaps the most liberal trends in Jewish Museum and House of Lords Record Office, amongst others. thought, as represented by Abraham Geiger; and the third is Reports by Members of the Parkes Institute This year took me on a couple of residential visits: to Mathias Seiter the reaction against the more liberal views which occurred Cambridge (to look at the personal papers of Redcliffe (Supervisor: Nils Roemer) towards the middle of the century, of whom perhaps the best Dr Tobias Brinkmann Salaman, Medical Officer to the 39th battalion, Royal Fusiliers, I have recently started a PhD researching the formation of known exponent is Heinrich Graetz. In addition, I have been Lecturer in Modern Jewish/non-Jewish Relations the Jewish Legion) and to Manchester to consult local records. German-Jewish identities, with particular emphasis on the investigating the Enlightenment background to the development In 2005 I continued to work on my research project on I reviewed:The Jewish Legion and the First World War,Watts German border regions of Alsace-Lorraine and Posen. Although of Jewish Wissenschaft, with specific reference to revolutionary migration and ‘the metropolis’, which deals with Jewish and M, (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004) for Immigrants and I only began my PhD at the University of Southampton in and Napoleonic France, with a view to establishing its influence other migrants in Berlin after the First World War. I presented a Minorities. In July the conference on:‘Jews, Race and Empire’, October 2005, I am familiar with the campus and the city as I in German Jewish scholarship. number of talks on more general aspects of the project in was an opportunity not only to gain new perspectives but to was an ERASMUS student in the History Department from Britain and at international conferences in Central Europe, the make new contacts, and I’ve benefited from ongoing exchanges 2001 until 2002. My interest in this research topic evolved Tim Grady United States, Israel and Australia. During the summer I with delegates from Germany and South Africa. through a course in German-Jewish history, which I took during (Supervisor: Nils Roemer and Neil Gregor) continued to do research in Berlin and Leipzig. I am planning to this exchange.Writing my MA dissertation on the Jewish Over the last year, I have succeeded in drawing my initial, coordinate my research on the Jewish mass migration from Greg Smart commemoration of Mendelssohn, Lessing and Schiller during rather tentative ideas together to form a more focused Eastern Europe with that of other international researchers, not (Supervisor:Tony Kushner) the 19th century, which I submitted to the University of research project.The process of consolidation was helped, least by focusing on the context of out-migration in Eastern My dissertation is entitled, ‘Strangers within our Gates:The Augsburg (Germany) in 2004, intensified my interest still above all, by a six-month period of research in Germany. Last Europe and on the paths of migration (which often led through Alien in Popular Print and Society, 1881-1906’. My thesis is an further. Having already started my PhD in Augsburg, I finally October, I moved to Hamburg, where I worked through the port cities such as Southampton). Apart from a number of attempt to broaden the current understanding of attitudes gained the Archival Research Studentship from the University extensive German-Jewish collections in the city’s main archive shorter publications, I am currently working on an English- towards Jewish immigration by investigating the role of of Southampton in the summer.This now enables me to and in the Institute for the History of German Jews. After two language book edition of an earlier project on Jewish migration popular print culture in the cultivation of pro-alien and anti- continue my research on the topic of Jewish borderland successful months in Hamburg, I continued my research in to Chicago during the 19th Century. I am also editing a alien sentiment. Having recently come to the end of the first identities, by using the comprehensive Parkes archival collection, Berlin. Here, the Centrum Judaicum and German National collection of essays on migration during the Weimar Republic year, I have finished researching a full print run of the Daily in addition to archives in Germany and France. archives proved particularly fruitful.The range of sources in with Professor Jochen Oltmer (Institute for Migration and Mail, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Jewish Chronicle for the both archives provided me with several useful case studies Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück). period 1881-1906. So far, much of my research has been Mike Morris and several leads to follow up, which I was able to do with conducted at the British Library Newspaper Library, although (Supervisor: Dan Levene) shorter trips to Leipzig and Dresden. In the spring, after In the academic year 2004/05 I taught two undergraduate units; I have made several trips to the British Library, the National I am working on a part time PhD involving a translation of a completing my German research trip in Freiburg’s military a new course:‘American Immigration History since 1600’, for Archive, and the London Metropolitan Archive.The Parkes Syriac child martyrdom text contextualised within the world of archive, I returned to Southampton to begin thinking through second year students and the course:‘The Holocaust’, for third Library and Jewish archives here at the University of late antiquity within the Sassanian empire. I have just had the results of my archival research. So far, this process has year students. I developed a unit for MA students on the Southampton have also been central to my research, and another year of grasping new language skills (Syriac). Having gone relatively smoothly.The title of my thesis is: 'Dying for Ghetto concept, which I will teach during the academic year work in the archive has always proved rewarding. I have completed the translation of the story of Mar Saba, a the Fatherland:The Remembrance of Fallen German-Jewish 2005/06. I will also be the new convener for the Diaspora attended two conferences at Southampton this year,‘Cecil Zoroastrian convert to Christianity, I am now working on the World War I Soldiers, 1914-1970' and in August, I successfully course for third-year students. Roth in Context’ and ‘Jews, Empire and Race’ which were text for my thesis. I have been exploring some interesting upgraded from MPhil to PhD status and am currently writing highly informative and have proven beneficial to my work. I reflections on the role of women within these martyrdom the third of my five chapters. I continue to serve as the representative of the have two forthcoming book reviews in the journals Patterns texts. I am also consuming my third Syriac grammar and Migration/Immigration network of the Social Science History of Prejudice and Immigrants and Minorities. starting to gain a useful working knowledge of how the Tobias Metzler Association and as member of the Academic Council of the language is constructed. I am greatly enjoying the work (two (Supervisor: Nils Roemer) American Jewish Historical Society. Katie Klein years in) although balancing earning a living is a challenge – After finishing my Masters Degree at the Free University I left (Supervisor: Nadia Valman) especially when I prefer the studying! Dan has been fantastic Berlin and came to Southampton in October 2004 to begin a This year I worked as a distance learner, researching in the and the main reason I am keeping focused and on track.Thank new project.The topic I chose for my PhD is:‘Urban Jewish States. My supervisor, Nadia Valman, was also in The States, you everyone at Parkes! Cultures in London, Berlin and Paris from the late nineteenth researching at The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the to the mid- twentieth century’. University of Pennsylvania. As I live near the University of Professor Tony Kushner It has also been an interesting year advising a range of bodies co-edit the journal Patterns of Prejudice and am deputy editor am now planning a new third year course that will provide the Marcus Sieff Professor of History and Director of the and the media on a range of issues, including acting as historical of the Institute’s Jewish Culture and History, as well as student with intense instruction in the main Middle Aramaic AHRC Parkes Centre advisor to the Jewish Museum’s exhibition marking the dialects and will include readings of a variety of Aramaic texts This has been another busy and productive year. Most of my centenary of the 1905 Aliens Act,‘Closing the Door’, which co-editing the Jewish studies monograph series for publisher from Late Antiquity.This course will start in the year 2006-7, energy has been spent as director of the AHRC Parkes took place in Camden, March to September 2005.The success Vallentine Mitchell.Whilst I will be on study leave for the upon my return from Israel. Research Centre in what was its final year of full funding.The of the ‘Connections’ exhibition, which compares the Jewish, academic year 2005/6 I will continue to advise over our major Asian and Afro-Caribbean experiences, has been very research funding applications and the several exciting academic I have now served my third year as a British Association of rewarding. Already launched in electronic form, the travelling appointments we expect to make this coming year. Jewish Studies committee member, I am also on the Scientific version of the exhibition opened at City Hall, London, and is committee of the Institute of Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies at Image of ‘We now fully booked across the UK until 2007. the Institute of Archaeology at UCL, and am an honorary Europeans’ book research fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish I was very pleased to give the first annual British Association for Studies at UCL. jacket teaching during the second semester I continued to do research work during that time. Over the whole year my research Dr Mark Levene involved a variety of activities that included travel to archives, Reader in Comparative History and collaboration with scholars from different countries and Thanks to a Leverhulme award, I have been on sabbatical universities. In the first week of January I was in Berlin at the throughout this last year, and, as a result, have been able to Pergamon Museum finalising my readings of some of the late press on preparing the groundwork for volume three of a antique curse texts that are the focus of a monograph that that projected four volume work: Genocide in the Age of the I have been working on for some years now. Nation-State. I am also pleased to report that after many years of trials and tribulations, the first two volumes are now In collaboration with Professor Kwasman (Martin Buber published with I.B.Tauris, and awaiting their first reviews.The Institute of Jewish Studies in Cologne, Germany) I am longevity of gestation adds to the sense, at least in publishing publishing the very rare unpublished incantation texts that terms, that this last year has been a good one for ‘retro.’ No were written on Skulls, and with Dr Bhayro (Near Eastern less than three articles, originally published in the 1990s, have Caption needed Languages Yale but currently at the Hebrew and Jewish reappeared elsewhere. In addition to the one translated for Department at UCL) I am editing a very rare magical text for Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte I was also honoured by its editor Magic bowl written in Jewish Aramaic (c. 5th - 7th century CE) financial success.This will be the first of a collection of texts to have another co-edited volume - The Massacre in History - Centre has had a particularly busy year with two three day to be published, the rest of which will eventually form a Dr Dan Levene the subject of a seminar discussion, itself published in the same international conferences – in Cape Town in January 2005 and volume of joint authorship. I have continued my work with Ian Karten Lecturer in Jewish History and Culture ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ edition (Hans-Heinrich Nolte,‘ Southampton in July 2005 – as well as two smaller one day Professor Rothenberg (Institute of Archaeo-metallurgical For me, the past year has been a combination of research The Massacre in History’ Binlingualses Seminar im conferences (in Southampton in April 2005 and Reading in June Studies at UCL) on metallurgy in the Jewish sources, the leave and teaching. In the first semester I was occupied in Grundstudium Geschichte’, Zeitschrift fûr Weltgeschichte 5: 2 2005). Many of the Centre’s publications came out this year volume of which is nearing completion. full-time research for which I received funding from the Arts (2004), pp. 57-66). and the range of our activities have been regarded as and Humanities Research Council to conclude my work on extremely impressive. Much energy has been spent this year in Other academically related activities this year have been a visit Jewish magical curse texts written on earthen-ware bowls. If all this looks to the past, other developments point to the ensuring that the research expertise and momentum gained to Israel at the beginning of February sponsored by Yad Although I was University in Jerusalem as part of a small group future. A project for a multi-edited series on ‘Zones of Violence’ within the life of the AHRC Centre will be maintained once the HaNadiv, at the invitation of Dr Bohak of the Tel-Aviv of specialists on the theme of Occult Powers and Officiants in with myself and Dr Donald Bloxham − formerly of this place, specific funding has finished. University, to give a series of lectures and seminars at the Tel- Near Eastern Cultures, which I have accepted. Late in the year and now at Edinburgh University − as its conceivers and series Aviv, Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion Universities, on my work with I was also invited by the Henry Moore Foundation to present editors, is now under contract with Oxford University Press. With regard to my own work, it is very pleasing to report that Jewish magical texts in general, and more specifically on the a paper on metallurgy in antiquity in an interdisciplinary The first two volumes, by Dr Mark Biondich (on the Balkans) three major publications came out this academic year.The first very rare and previously unpublished magical skulls. seminar at Leeds for the occasion of the opening of the and Dr Alexander Prusin (East European Frontiers ‘The Lands is We Europeans? Mass-Observation, ‘Race’ and British Identity At the end of June I was invited to give a talk on my work at exhibition: Bronze:The Power of Life and Death. I have also Between’) are contracted and underway. I am now also on the in the Twentieth Century published by Ashgate in December the Leo Baeck Institute in memory of the late Professor Segal been asked to contribute an article on magic bowls to The editorial board of Journal of Genocide Research. Various other 2004.The book has been well-received in its first reviews and whose final work was an edition of magical texts. Dictionary of Early Judaism. completed articles will appear in edited collections or journals is a unique study of how ordinary people in Britain have dealt I was invited by the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at in the near future. In addition to ones on colonial genocide and with difference.The second was a co-authored monograph UCL to sit on a panel of specialists on the Aramaic language Since I have returned from sabbatical leave I have added two Herzlian Zionism, a further study will relate to the politics of with Dr Donald Bloxham of the University of Edinburgh,The and participate in a series of seminars held in September and new courses to the curriculum.The first:‘Old Testament Texts: Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), a subject which continues to Holocaust: Critical Historical Perspectives, published by October on the Aramaic of the Zohar - the late Medieval Origins,Traditions and Transmission’, has already run in excite some controversy. My own journalistic foray on this Manchester University Press in April 2005. Dr Bloxham is a Jewish mystical text. In December I was honoured by an semester two of the past academic year and provides the score,‘The political misuse of Holocaust Memorial Day,’ (The former postgraduate and postdoctoral fellow of the Parkes invitation to spend a half a year in The Institute of Advanced students with a thorough introduction and approach to the Independent, 25 January 2005) drew comment from one Institute.The third is a co-edited volume with Dr Nadia Studies in The Hebrew Jewish Studies lecture in Birmingham study of the Old Testament which includes a series of lectures distinguished former Parkes colleague, a further interview with Valman, Philosemitism, Antisemitism and ‘the Jews’, published University, January 2005, and have given other lectures to as well as an introductory course in Biblical Hebrew.The James Naughtie and others on the BBC4 ‘Today’ programme, by Ashgate in December 2004. Most of the essays in this academic and general audiences, including to the successful second new course will be starting in semester one of the and in September 2005, a discussion with Prof.Yehuda Bauer et volume featured in the Parkes Centenary Conference held in series held in conjunction between the Parkes Institute and the academic year 2005-6, and is entitled:‘Early Jewish Magic’.This al. on the BBC World Service’s ‘Religion’ slot, following the 1996. I have now completed a monograph, Remembering Bournemouth Jewish community. I was co-organiser of course will introduce the student to the phenomenon of early publicising of the Muslim Council of Britain’s proposals for Refugees:Then and Now, which will be published by Holocaust Memorial Day in Southampton and have joined the Jewish magic in its Near Eastern context as well as the changing HMD to a Genocide Memorial Day. Manchester University Press, in 2006. advisory committee of Jewish Heritage UK. I continue to discussions of its relationships to religion and ancient medicine. I Nearer to the coal face of teaching, this last summer I have enjoyed lecturing in the Holocaust ‘Fellowship’ programme for presented at the annual SEFER Jewish Studies conference in Jewish History and Culture, co-director of the AHRB Parkes Dr Steve Taverner teachers, organised through the Imperial War Museum, and Moscow in February 2005. Centre’s Greek Bible project, based at the University of AHRC Parkes Centre Project’s Manager hope to assist with their future programme. In addition I am Reading; and, from August 2004 - September 2005, Head of This has been another busy and productive year within the now on the London Jewish Cultural Centre's Education I was invited to take part in a forum of scholars in East the Parkes Institute. AHRC Parkes Research Centre. September 2005 marked the Committee. I have just completed an enjoyable 4-year stint as European Jewish history commenting on Yuri Slezkine’s completion of the five year research award by the Arts and external examiner for the MA in Holocaust Studies, under the The Jewish Century, a book that has generated much The ‘Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World’ project is now Humanities Research Council, and, in addition to ensuring the auspices of Jewish Studies at University College, London. controversy in the field of Jewish Studies. The forum was in its final phase. A large volume of papers from the 2003 academic commitments were met, a great deal of effort was Meanwhile my doctoral student Anne Lloyd continues to make published in Ab Imperio 1, 2005. I also presented papers Oxford colloquium on Hellenistic monarchy is now with the spent drawing up official reports and applying for new research sterling progress with her thesis:‘Jews under Fire, British Jewry at the Seminar in Modern European History (St Antony’s University of California Press, entitled Jewish Perspectives on grants.Working on these major reports has provided ample and Military Service, 1914-1918’. College) and the Seminar in East-Central Europe (Oriel Hellenistic Monarchy. A monograph on Philo of Alexandria,The opportunity to reflect on the impressive work of the Parkes College) at Oxford University. Land of the Body: the Representation of Egypt and Egyptians in team over the last five years, and to see in a very clear way In 2005-6 I shall be returning to full-time participation in the Philo of Alexandria, will be published by Mohr Siebeck in 2006. how far we have come in this time. life of Parkes, and, in Prof. Kushner and Dr Pearce’s absence, In April 2005, I was awarded an Academic Exchange Grant from as its head. In addition, I continue to be active in Crisis Forum the World Universities Network and Southampton University Dr.Andrea Reiter During the last year I presented a paper in the Parkes seminar ('The Forum for the Study of Crisis in the 21st Century for a four-month placement at Utrecht University. This grant will Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages series that surveyed the extant source material for Jewish www.crisis-forum.org.uk) of which I am a co-founder. enable me to begin a new project on gender in East European With the aid of a sabbatical semester I have mainly concentrated seafaring in the Second Temple Period with a particular focus Jewish history that will take in countries in Eastern Europe as on writing a book that explores issues of Diaspora and on the Testament of Zebulon. I helped to organise the Dr Natan Meir well as East European Jewish immigrants to western Europe and mediation and is based on the German-Jewish exile writer Hans international conference ‘Place and Displacement’, which was Lecturer in East European Jewish History the Americas. More specifically, the project will investigate the Sahl as an example. I hope to complete the monograph by hosted by the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Over the past academic year, I have been working on Jewish role in the ‘white slave’ trade of the late nineteenth and autumn 2006. Research at the University of Cape Town, and presented a completing a manuscript entitled:‘Jewish Metropolis:The Jews of early twentieth centuries, and in so doing will paint a portrait of paper on Josephus’ presentation of the biblical account of Noah Kiev, 1859-1914’, which investigates the emergence and meaning the underside of Jewish society, an aspect of European Jewish During the first half of the year I finished preparing the typescript and the flood (looking at how this ancient Jewish author of modern Jewish existence in late imperial Russia. The book is history that has often been neglected in studies on the of a conference volume: Children of the Holocaust, which is due amalgamated non-Jewish traditions and scripture). I am the first history of one of the largest Jewish communities in the conventional topics of Jewish history. to be published by Valentine Mitchell in autumn 2005. In addition, currently working with Professors Tony Kushner, David Cesarani Russian Empire (and the world) as well as an examination of I was able to offer my MA option on Holocaust Literature and (Royal Holloway) and Milton Shain (University of Cape Town), communal and individual self-understanding among Russian Jews. As coordinator of our Chevening/Rayne Scholarships for East to contribute to our Jewish History and Culture MA course, to edit the papers from this conference.The year has also seen Exploring such central issues in Russian Jewish history as European students, I have been overseeing the recruitment and ‘Approaches to Jewish History and Culture’. significant input into the ‘Greek Bible Project’ - one of the five acculturation, philanthropy, religiosity, and relations with non- selection processes for the next recipients of the scholarships, AHRC Parkes research projects, directed by Dr Sarah Pearce Jews,‘Jewish Metropolis’ questions and often redefines our two promising scholars from Belarus and Romania, who join us Dr Nils Roemer and Professor Tessa Rajak (Reading). Over the course of the understanding of the roles these issues played in the modern in September 2005 for a year’s study on the M.A. in Jewish Ian Karten Lecturer in Jewish History and Culture year I have constructed a Unicode and XML-compliant version period, and is thus an important contribution to the field of History and Culture. Our first scholars, two students from During the last year several publications of mine appeared of the entire ancient Greek Bible (the Septuagint), which now Russian Jewish history as well as European Jewish history more Hungary and Latvia, are now completing their M.A. and I saw off a manuscript of a volume that I jointly edited forms the backbone of the Demetrios database of political and generally. The study is based on archival documents as well as dissertations. I have also been working on expanding our links with Neil Gregor and Mark Roseman entitled, German legal terminology (www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/lxx/) - this was made the Jewish, Russian, and Ukrainian press, contemporary works, with Jewish Studies institutions in Eastern Europe. In the next History from the Margins.This collection of articles will come possible by the generous assistance of the Deutsche memoirs, and belles-lettres, and portrays in vivid detail the year we will put on a symposium entitled,‘Prelude to the out with Indiana University Press in 2006. At the same time, I Bibelgesellschaft. I have also worked with Professor Rajak and everyday reality of Jewish life in a Russian city. Holocaust? The Mass Dynamics of Anti-Jewish Violence in embarked on a new area of research on Jewish urban Dr Pearce on the volume from the 2003 conference on Eastern and East-Central Europe: New Archival Evidence’.This tourism, a topic about which I have begun to present some Hellenistic monarchy, which is being considered by University of In June 2004, I received a grant from the British Academy for symposium, co-convened with the Institute for Slavic Studies of tentative results at conferences.The invitation to co-organise California Press. the completion of ‘Jewish Metropolis’ and related research. A the Russian Academy of Sciences, will bring together scholars in an international conference on Jewish consumer cultures that number of articles and conference papers have been the histories of Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Jewish will take place in June 2006 at University College, London The focal point of the year was the organisation of the generated by this research, including: ‘Jews, Ukrainians, and communities of those lands in order to share knowledge on provided me with another opportunity to pursue my interest successful international conference which brought together Russians in Late Imperial Kiev: Intergroup Relations in the the complex subject of anti-Jewish violence in the half-century in Jewish cultural studies. Professor Tony Kushner’s ‘Race and Ethnicity in Britain’ project Charity and the Social Club’, first presented at a conference prior to the Holocaust. In February and March 2005, I and Dr Nadia Valman’s work on ‘Literary Representations’ of entitled, ‘Jews in a Multi-Ethnic Network’, at Haifa University’s coordinated a series of lectures together with the In Southampton, I assumed the role as convener of our MA in Jews and ‘the Jew’.The conference, entitled ‘Jews, Empire and Bucerius Institute (December 2004) and now under Bournemouth Jewish Representative Council (BJRC) on the Jewish history and culture. In addition to overseeing the Race’ and held in Southampton in July 2005, attracted nearly consideration by Slavic Review. theme of ‘East European Jewry:The Age of Migrations’. programme, I convened and taught most of the session on our one hundred delegates from around the world, and featured Professor Tony Kushner, Dr Nils Roemer, Dr Tobias Brinkmann, MA core course,‘Approaches to Jewish History and Culture’, over fifty papers on all aspects of the presentation of the ‘Jew’ ‘“The Sword Hanging Over Their Heads”:The Significance of and I spoke about different aspects of the experience of East while I also redesigned and taught a new unit entitled,‘East and processes of racialisation in the age of the modern Pogrom for Russian-Jewish Everyday Life and Self- European Jewish migrants in the Russian Empire, Germany, End/East Side: Jewish Immigration and Settlement in London European Empires. I continued to teach on various courses Understanding’, presented at a conference entitled,‘Anti-Jewish Britain, and the United States.The lectures were well received and New York, 1880-1920’. On the undergraduate level, I throughout the year, and it is particularly pleasing to note the Violence: Reconceptualizing “the Pogrom” in European History’, and we look forward to continuing this fruitful partnership with continued to teach courses on modern Jewish history and exceedingly complimentary feedback of the students on the (Stockholm, May 2005) and to be included in a forthcoming BRJC in the future. created a new undergraduate option on metropolitan cities. I first year History unit,‘Masada: History and Myth’, as well as the conference volume. also supervised several doctoral candidates, attracted new retention of these students on an updated second year unit Dr Sarah Pearce postgraduate students, and saw two students successfully ‘Jews in the Graeco-Roman World’. I continue to sit on the ‘The Modernisation of Jewish Religious Culture in the Russian Ian Karten Senior Lecturer in Jewish History complete their dissertations under my supervision. Finally, I School of Humanities ICT committee (representing Parkes and Empire’, presented as part of the seminar series of the Parkes My main areas of responsibility within the Parkes Institute this again acted as external examiner for the MA programmes at History), and I maintain the websites for the Parkes Institute Institute in November 2004. Another version of this paper was year were divided between the following roles: lecturer in Sussex University and Oxford University. and the History discipline. Dr Bridget Thomson by Wayne State University Press next year, and continued work Special Collections Report by London Synagogue and to associated periodical and printed Ian Karten Fellow on,The “Jew” in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between Dr Chris Woolgar, Head of Special Collections, the Hartley material that forms part of the inter-faith collections. I spent the first four months of the year in London on study the East End and East Africa, co-edited with Dr Eitan Bar-Yosef Library, University of Southampton Work on the survey of Jewish archives in the UK and Ireland has leave, where days spent in the British Library enabled me to work (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) which will be published next progressed during the year with support from the Hanadiv on the completion of my manuscript on Paul Celan. In February I year by Palgrave, and, Amy Levy: Critical Essays, co-edited with The year has seen notable achievements in academic work Charitable Trust and the appointment of an archivist on a short- gave a paper on teaching the Holocaust within the context of Naomi Hetherington (London Metropolitan University).The associated with the collections. In September 2005, the Parkes term contract to gather and collate information on records Jewish Cultural Studies at conference organized by the English latter two volumes are based on papers presented at AHRC Centre on Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations completed its created by the Jewish business community and organisations.The Subject Centre on Holocaust Literature and Film. In May I spoke conferences held at Southampton in 2002 and 2003. five-year programme of research. Another highlight of the year use of the resulting database has increased by 50% over the at the Wiener Library on Holocaust Poetry, and questions of time has been the publication of Professor Colin Richmond’s previous year. Use of the Special Collections website and referentiality.A version of this is forthcoming in a collected Whilst in America I gave papers at the University of Michigan, biography of Revd Dr James Parkes, whose library is one of the (www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk/) has also increased, with volume on Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film. In the second Ann Arbor and the Association for Jewish Studies conference, foremost elements in the Library’s printed special collections approximately 25,000 accesses per week: accesses averaged semester I taught two new options courses: an undergraduate Chicago.Together with colleagues who I met at the Center for and whose work was the precursor of the Parkes Institute. 23,000 a week last year. Around half the usage of this site comes unit on German and Jewish histories of youth and resistance Advanced Judaic Studies, I organized a panel for next year’s Further doctoral theses based on the collections have been from overseas. Preparations are in hand for the transfer of movemements; and an MA unit on Modern European Jewishness, annual Modern Languages Association conference in completed and the interest in post-graduate work focused on Special Collections website and databases to new equipment Memory and Identity. I decided during the year that it is in Washington DC, entitled ‘Belles Juives:The Jewess in European them remains buoyant. and software. teaching that I'm most interested and motivated, and so I sought Literature, 1765-1845’, which extends the interests of my first a new post, as a history teacher, and resigned from the Karten book on the Jewess in English literature into the wider Accommodation Conservation Fellowship at the end of the summer. I'm aware that I'm leaving a European context. I was a co-organizer of the conference,‘Jews, The Division has now taken possession of its new Routine processing of collections − surface-cleaning, relaxing, great group of scholars and colleagues, and that the opportunity “Race” and Empire’, held in Southampton on 27-29 July 2005 - accommodation. Particularly welcome are the new reading flattening and rehousing in acid-free materials − has continued to have worked in the Parkes centre and the comparative the major conference associated with the AHRB ‘Literary room facilities, strongroom space, work areas and exhibition throughout the year. frameworks of Jewish / non-Jewish relations have been extremely gallery. Significant upgrades have been undertaken to fire valuable in personal and intellectual terms. Representations’ project. I also continued my work as sole editor suppression and detection systems, as well as to security The establishment of an exhibition programme has made heavy of the journal Jewish Culture and History, currently volume 7. generally.The conclusion of building works has left some demands on the conservation section. Facilities in the new Dr Nadia Valman From January 2005 I was on maternity leave, having given birth residual tasks, which have required both monitoring and gallery have required us to learn much about the operation of Lecturer in English to Orlando Ashton Valman on 17 January in Chicago. attention to ensure that new accommodation reaches the high the room, its cases, lighting and environmental controls.That this I spent the Autumn Semester 2004 at the Center for Advanced standard that has been set for it. Work to complete the fitting has been achieved with impressive effect has been the Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, out of the conservation studio continues. evidenced by the comments on the exhibitions. As well as the where I had been awarded a research fellowship.The Center operation of the gallery, the preparation of items for exhibition gathers together scholars from around the world to convene Accessions has formed a notable new strand in the Division’s work: some around a single theme, this year’s being ‘Modern Jewish Prominent among new collections received were materials 199 objects, from manuscripts on paper and parchment, Literatures’. At the weekly seminar I found myself amongst connected with the Jewish community. These included further watercolours, prints, drawings, photographs, books, oil paintings researchers working on Yiddish, French, Egyptian, Ladino, and papers of J.M.Shaftesley, editor of the Jewish Chronicle and sculpture, were mounted in preparation for four exhibitions. American Jewish literatures in a highly stimulating intellectual newspaper; a letter book and records of births, marriages and atmosphere. I myself gave a seminar paper entitled,‘Amy Levy, burials for the internment camps for Jewish refugees on Copies of items from the archives of the British Section of the Lily Montagu and the late-Victorian Anglo-Jewish bildungsroman’, Cyprus, 1946-7; the papers of Rabbi L.Littlestone, executive World Jewish Congress were provided for the permanent which bridged my old and new research projects. director of the Council for Soviet Jewry, 1986-92, including his exhibition at the Mémorial du Martyr Juif Inconnu, Paris. academic and campaigning material; papers of Dr Schneier While at the Center, I engaged in research on the impact of Levenberg, head of the Jewish Agency’s research department, Grants and funding European ghetto fiction on nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish 1939-48, and editor of the Zionist Review 1941-8, relating to An application was made under the Arts and Humanities literary representations of immigration to the East End of London. Caption needed Poale Zion; papers relating to the campaigning group ‘Jordan is Research Council’s Resource Enhancement scheme for a I also completed an essay on the fictional representation of the Palestine’; additional papers for the Jewish Blind Society; the project to identify and describe all Anglo-Jewish literary works Jewish mother for a collection of essays published by Five Leaves Dr Abigail Wood papers of Dr Asenath Petrie, a psychologist and daughter of of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although this Press (2005) and an essay on Victorian Anglo-Jewish women Lecturer in Music Chief Rabbi Hertz; and additional papers of Rabbi Schonfeld, project, led by Professor B.Cheyette of English jointly with writers for the CD Rom publication Jewish Women: A This year, in line with my own research interests, I developed for the Dr Avigdor Schonfeld schools. Dr Woolgar, was graded A+, it was not funded. Comprehensive Historical Encyclopaedia (forthcoming, 2005). My and taught a new specialist undergraduate unit in Jewish Music. entry on Grace Aguilar in the New Dictionary of National The unit covered material ranging from Biblical and synagogue Cataloguing and the production of guides Researchers, seminars and conferences Biography, was published in Autumn 2004. Philosemitism, music to recent Israeli political hip-hop, and was well-received In total, summary listing of twenty-two collections was The Parkes AHRC Centre on Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations Antisemitism and “the Jews”, co-edited by myself and Tony by students. I also continued to lead an extra-curricular klezmer completed during the year. Among these were the archives of completed its five-year research programme during the year. Kushner (Ashgate) was published in November 2004.The book is band, and took East European Jewish music onto the stage at the Centre for Jewish Education; papers relating to internment Besides bringing to Southampton work of the first importance, an important multi-disciplinary treatment of the subject, and is the Talking Heads venue in Southampton. camps for Jewish refugees on Cyprus; and the papers of the activities of the Centre have produced new collaborative based on the conference held at Southampton to honour the Professor A.V.J. Underwood. Special attention has been given this work, many publications, and work by research students.The James Parkes centenary. I served as external examiner for a PhD Aside from completing three articles on Yiddish song based on year to processing a sizeable addition to the archives of the West Centre held a conference on ‘Cecil Roth in context’ in the thesis from La Trobe University, Melbourne, on the figure of the my PhD thesis, during the summer of 2005 I began a new Jewish woman in Polish literature. research project, which aims to explore music in immigrant communities in Israel. During this year I also completed editing my collection of During the academic year 2005-6, I will be on leave in essays, British Jewish Women Writers, which will be published Jerusalem, studying Jewish texts at Machon Pardes. Hartley Library, 12 April 2005, looking at both Anglo-Jewish M.Levene Genocide in the age of the nation state (2 vols., Zeitenräume jüdischer Geschichte, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Seminar, University of London, February 26, 2005. historiography and Roth’s projects relating more widely to the London and New York, 2005). Göttingen, 2005, pp. 175–198). history of the Jewish people. ‘Community in Transit: Jewish Migrants from East Central C.Richmond Campaigner against antisemitism: the Reverend ‘Jewish Mass Migrations between Empire and Nation State’, Europe in Berlin after the First World War’, German Studies Besides work at masters level, two doctoral theses closely James Parkes 1896-1981 (London, 2005). Przegl¹d Polonijny 13.1 (2005), pp. 99-116. Research Seminar,The Queens University, Belfast, March 10, associated with the collections were completed: by Elisa Lawson, 2005, AHRB Parkes Centre Seminar, University of on,‘A popular past ? Anglo-Jewish historiography and heritage, N.Roemer Jewish scholarship and culture in nineteenth-century Book Reviews for: Central European History, Southampton, February 22, 2005 and Seminar in Modern 1880-1950’; and by Mark Romans, on,‘Professionalism and the Germany: between history and faith (Madison, 2005). geschichte.transnational, H-Soz-Kult, Journal of American Ethnic European Jewish History, European Studies Centre, St. Antony's development of military intelligence in Wellington’s army, 1809- History, Neue Politische Literatur, and Zeitschrift für College, University of Oxford, January 18, 2005. 14’. An award was also made by the Southern Jewish Historical Parkes Library Report Geschichtswissenschaft. Society to Adam Mendelsohn, a doctoral candidate at Brandeis Tony Kushner By Jenny Ruthven, Parkes Librarian, Printed Publications University, for an essay based on the collections. Collections, the Hartley Library, University of Papers Southampton We Europeans? Mass-Observation,‘Race’ and British Identity in Staff ’Immigrants vs. Gastarbeiter? Migration to the United States and the Twentieth Century (Ashgate, 2004). Work continues on processing the Yiddish Collection for Germany’ (jointly with Annemarie Sammartino, Oberlin The staff of the Special Collections Division currently numbers With Donald Bloxham,The Holocaust: Critical Historical addition to stock.The material has been sorted and College), workshop: ’Competing Modernities:The United States 13, including 4 archivists and 2 conservation posts. Dr Woolgar, Approaches (Manchester University Press, 2005). approximately a quarter of the books have been catalogued on of America and Germany since 1890’, German Historical the Head of the Division, was away on research leave from 1 WebCat. Most of the books are Yiddish novels, short stories Institute,Washington DC September 23-24, 2005. January to 30 September 2005. In his absence, Ms Heather With Nadia Valman (eds), Philosemitism, Antisemitism and ‘the and poetry, and include the collected works of writers such as Boyns held a one-year post as archivist, particularly to carry Jews’: Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Sholom Aleichem, Sholem Asch, I.L. Peretz and Mendele ‘Jews, Germans, or Americans? German Jewish immigrants and out work on the survey of Jewish archives. An appointment Century (Ashgate, 2004) [includes,‘Introduction:The Wide Field Mokher Sefarim.There is also a small amount of material on the building of American Judaism’, University of North was also made to a temporary library assistant post, partly to of Relations?’, and,‘Offending the Memory? The Holocaust and Eastern European Jewry.The periodicals include early issues of Carolina/Duke University, September 18, 2005. cover this leave and partly to cover maternity leave. Ms A.-M. Pressure Group Politics’, idem]. Di Goldene Keyt and issues of Zukunft from the 1920s to the Steel completed her MA in Conservation at Camberwell 1960s, which will extend the existing holdings of these titles. ‘Jewish Students from the United States at the University of College with a distinction. Ms K.Robson became a Society of ‘I’m so Dizzy: Being Disraeli in the Twentieth Century’, Jewish Leipzig before the First World War’, Simon-Dubnow-Institute, Archivists mentor to newly qualified archivists. Culture and History vol.6 no.2 (Winter 2003), pp.55-68 Acquisitions during the year include a collection of American Leipzig, August 31, 2005. [published summer 2005]. Recent publications based on the archive collections anti-Semitic publications from the 1930s to the 1950s and a number of books on Zionism from the collection of Dr ‘From Space to Time: Reinterpreting the Jewish Mass Migration T.Brinkmann,‘Jews, Germans, or Americans? German-Jewish ‘Too Little,Too Late? Reflections on Britain’s Holocaust Schneier Levenberg. A small donation of material originating from Eastern Europe to America’, Parkes Institute Conference: immigrants in nineteenth-century America’. Memorial Day’, Journal of Israeli History vol.23 no.1 (2004), from the Salisbury branch of the British-Israel Foundation has ‘Jews,“Race” and Empire‘, Southampton, July 27–29, 2005. pp.116-29. been received from Hampshire County Library. T.Brinkmann,‘Topographien der Migration − Jüdische ‘Jewish Mass Migrations between Empire and Nation State’, Durchwanderung in Berlin nach 1918’ in D.Diner (ed.), ‘Racialisation and “White European” Immigration to Britain’, in − Access to electronic versions of Parkes journals has improved International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney, July Synchrone Welsten Zeitenräume jüdischer Geschichte Karim Murji and John Solomos (eds), Racialization: Studies in over the year, as the library subscribes to more ‘bundles’ of 3–9, 2005. (Göttingen, 2005) pp. 175-98. Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2005), titles. Fifty four of the Parkes titles now have some form of full pp.207-225. text access and amongst the books now accessible through the T.Brinkmann,‘Jewish mass migrations between empire and ‘“Our Jewish Farmers”: Jewish Agricultural Colony Projects in American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project, 19th Century America’, conference,‘To the Land: 200 Years of nation state’ Przeglad Polonijny 13 (2005) pp. 99-116. ‘Afterword’, in James Parkes, End of an Exile: Israel, the Jews and is,The Conflict of the Church and Synagogue, by James Parkes. Jewish Agricultural Settlement’, Hebrew University, Jerusalem/ the Gentile World (Micah Publications, 2005), pp.322-4. Publications and papers by members of the Parkes Institute Beth Hatefutsot,Tel Aviv, June 19–21, 2005. M.Goodman,‘Vice versa: Samuel Montagu, the first Lord Swaythling’ Jewish Historical Studies 40 (2005) pp. 75-103. Tobias Brinkmann ‘Foreword’ in Colin Richmond, Campaigner Against ‘Migration and “Metropolis”: Jewish Migrants and Berlin in the Publications Antisemitism:The Reverend James Parkes 1896-1981 1920s’, conference:‘Jews and the Legacies of Empire’, Central A.R.J.Kushner We Europeans ? Mass-Observation,‘race’ and (Vallentine Mitchell, 2005), pp.vii-xx. European University, Budapest, May 29–31, 2005. British identity in the twentieth century (Aldershot, 2004). ‘Jews, Germans, or Americans? German-Jewish Immigrants in the Nineteenth-Century United States’, in, Krista O'Donnell, ‘Disraeli and the racial myths of Victorian Britain’,The Renate Bridenthal, Nancy Reagin (eds.),The Heimat Abroad: ‘From East to West – The Ghetto Concept and the Transition A.R.J.Kushner and D.Bloxham The Holocaust: critical historical Independent, 11 February 2005, p.37. The Boundaries of Germanness, (University of Michigan Press, from “Gemeinschaft” to Community’, conference of the approaches (Manchester, 2004). 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With Beno Rothenberg, 'Word-Smithing: Some Metallurgical Press, 2005: Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Terms in Hebrew and Aramaic', in Aramaic Studies, 2:2 (2004), ‘“The Sword Hanging Over Their Heads”:The Significance of Literature). ‘Nightwaves’, Radio 3, 22 March 2005 on the 1905 Aliens Act. 193-206. Pogrom for Russian-Jewish Everyday Life and Self-Understanding’, at ‘Anti-Jewish Violence: Reconceptualizing ‘The City of Worms in Modern Jewish Traveling Cultures of Papers and other talks 'Review: Magische Texte aus der Kairoer Geniza ', in Journal of “the Pogrom” in European History’, Stockholm, May 2005. 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