The Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations Annual Review 2013 - 2014 Social and Human Studies tackling global challenges

“Whilst the work of the institution has grown out of the work of the Director and out of his 5 contacts with others throughout the world who are concerned with the same field, the intention is far wider than that of continuing or perpetuating the work of one man. The ultimate objective is the development of the Library into a full scale Research Institute attached to a university or universities, which would concern James Parkes at an International itself with the whole range of relationships Student Service Conference, between the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds – late 1920s religious, historical, political, social and economic. This is a proper, and indeed necessary, field of academic study, because the Jewish people by its individuality, its antiquity, and its dispersion is an integral and irreplaceable part of human society, and has its own 4 contribution to make to human betterment.” James Parkes From The Parkes Library: A Centre for Research into the nature and causes of Antisemitism and the relationship between the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds (1961).

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

Cover image: James Parkes during and after the First World War 2 1. Outreach Programme 1 Get a deeper understanding page 8 2. Lectures, Conferences and Seminars To find out about our activities through the year page 12 3. Development Benefitting from your support page 17 4. The MA Poland Trip Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture page 19 5. Global Perspectives Reports from academic members page 26

In this review 2 Report of the Director of the Parkes Institute, Professor Tony Kushner 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 2012-2013 23 3 Reports by Parkes Postgraduates 24 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 Tony Kushner

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 Tony Kushner, in Italy visiting British war graves

Towards the end of his remarkable career At a basic numerical level, it is easy to chart James Parkes wanted his Centre to become an of activism, James Parkes decided that he the expansion that has taken place. The international centre for research and needed a home not only for his unique printed collection has grown over four fold exchange of ideas in difficult and challenging library, which then totalled over 6000 and the small but important archive has now areas. In what has been a fruitful and mutually books alongside archive material, but also expanded to roughly one thousand individual beneficial partnership, the University of an institution in which his Centre for the collections incorporating millions of Southampton has worked closely with Study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations documents. It represents one of if not the outside supporters – trusts, individuals, and could develop and prosper. Parkes believed largest Jewish studies resource in Europe and research bodies - to enable this work to be that British universities would provide the still the only one globally focussed specifically successfully carried out. More recently right space for his Centre, promoting as on Jewish/non-Jewish relations. A talented through a set of international partnerships they did freedom of expression and a team of librarians, archivists and including with centres in South Africa, desire to create knowledge and conservators work to preserve and make it Australia, continental Europe, America and understanding. But James Parkes also accessible to future generations. On the Israel, we have spread the global reach of the wanted a place in which scholarship and academic staffing side, the University of Parkes Institute and welcome scholars from learning would reach a wider audience – he Southampton created a set of fixed term many different countries and backgrounds to did not want his remarkable collection to Parkes Fellowships from the 1960s and many work closely with us. simply gather dust. He wanted the Parkes of those appointed have subsequently gone The nature of the Jubilee Programme reflects Centre to make a difference and he chose on to distinguished careers in Britain and the wide range of activities that we are Southampton because he believed that it across the world. Today, the Parkes Institute carrying out and want to expand further. You combined the dynamism and idealism of a has eleven academic members working in a will read in this Annual Review accounts of ‘new’ university (whilst its origins were in variety of disciplines including History, events that have already taken place, amongst the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved Religious Studies, English, Film, Ancient and them four conferences. These include an full independence in 1952) alongside a Modern Languages, and Cultural Studies. It is event organised by one of our talented long-standing commitment to Jewish a remarkable grouping made up of diverse postgraduates, Jennifer Craig-Norton, whose studies. Indeed, it also had a strong approaches as well as scholars of different work on the Polish Kindertransport featured interest in the wider relations between the nationalities and backgrounds. in last year’s Review. Her conference on Jewish and non-Jewish worlds through the Parkes’ ambition that his Centre should not ‘Child Migrants in British History’ was based work of its former President, Claude be inward looking has also been achieved. on her work and that of other postgraduates Montefiore. The University of Through the ongoing generosity of the Karten and early career scholars. Alongside this Southampton was more than enthusiastic Trust, we are in the very lucky position of event, Parkes Jubilee conferences this year to take the Parkes Library - and its wider having a specific post devoted to outreach and were held in Southampton, and work - to the next stage of development. several junior positions alongside that enable Jerusalem. James Parkes was an ambitious man. He us to carry out a full programme of work with There have been some impressive outreach wanted scholars from across the world to use schools and colleges, as well as a range of events including with local colleges as well as his collection and he wanted those involved activities. All members of the a series of cultural days and evenings aimed at with interfaith relations and combatting Parkes Institute’s academic team contribute an adult audience and our annual organising prejudice outside the world of higher to outreach and we are also active in advising of Southampton’s Holocaust and Genocide education to benefit from his Centre. The government bodies at a local, national and Memorial Day. Our public seminar series Parkes Library arrived at the University of international level. We are active in the media which includes the Parkes, Montefiore and Southampton in 1964 and it, and the Parkes and have been responsible for exhibition Karten Lectures have been extremely well Centre, formally reopened the following year. displays, including being at the forefront of attended and some of these are available on In 2014 and 2015 we are therefore celebrating new museums in Britain and beyond. Whilst our website as podcasts. Last year we the Golden Jubilee of what has become the we produce three scholarly journals and a reported on a major international conference, Parkes Institute. We are also reflecting on book series, our publications are not simply ‘The Future of Holocaust Studies’, which was what it has achieved over the past fifty years limited to the academic sphere – we write successful in its aim of connecting scholars as well as planning ahead for its next period of widely in the press and help create and educators working in different spheres. It development. educational resources at different levels. has also led to the formation of the British Association for Holocaust Studies which is hosted by the Parkes Institute and is already proving to be a very important network.

5 The climax of the Jubilee celebrations will be In relation to our MA programme, you will Storey, our administrator, Joanna Watts and in the coming academic year (2014/2015) with also read about the teaching that is happening Katherine De Retuerto in the Development major events planned for London including not just in Southampton but also in London Office and Jenny Ruthven and Karen Robson lectures and public debates, and an with our partners in the Jewish Cultural in the University Library Special Collections. international conference in Cape Town with Centre in Golders Green. The London MA in Finally, I am delighted to report the career our long-standing international partner, the Jewish Culture and History, which is part progress of Parkes Institute colleagues inside Kaplan Centre, and the Jewish Studies Centre time and runs over two years, now has its and outside the University of Southampton. at the University of Sydney. These events and second intake and it has proved an extremely Our dynamic leader of outreach work, Dr activities will culminate in a major three day successful way to satisfy what is a clear Helen Spurling, has been promoted to Senior international symposium to be held at the demand for our teaching beyond Lecturer, and Professor Andrea Reiter, who University of Southampton in September Southampton itself. Having taught on the MA has been part of the team for many years now, 2015 devoted to Jewish/non-Jewish relations programme in both venues I can verify what a has been awarded a personal chair in Modern throughout the ages. By bringing together rewarding experience it is. This summer, for Languages. Last year’s Annual Review had an scholars who have long established an example, I am supervising the extended article by Parkes Institute Honorary Fellow, international reputation in the field alongside dissertations of three of the first intake of Dr Joanna Newman, who was previously a younger researchers, we aim to reflect on the London students who are carrying out PhD student here. Joanna has recently been legacy of the Dr Reverend James Parkes and fascinating research on various aspects of appointed as Vice-Principal (International) to take his work forward in the twenty first British Jewish history from the eighteenth at King’s College London. Tom Lawson, century. The symposium will be accompanied to the twentieth centuries. another Honorary Fellow and former PhD by public lectures and also an exhibition in The Parkes Institute is very much a student is now Professor of History and Special Collections which will showcase the community and we deeply value those who Deputy Dean at Northumbria University. And rich resources gathered by James Parkes and have contributed to it in many different ways. former East European MA and doctoral extended by the University’s specialist These include the Friends of the Parkes and student, Jan Lanicek, has been awarded a archivists and librarians. we feature one of these, John Garfield, in this permanent lectureship in Jewish history at All these exciting events both reflect back and Annual Review. John, who retired from his the University of New South Wales, Sydney. take the work of the Parkes Institute into the position as a distinguished neurosurgeon at At a more personal level we would like to future. And as you will see from this Annual the University of Southampton Hospital congratulate colleague Shirli Gilbert on the Review, there is a wealth of activity already Trust, regularly attends Parkes Institute birth of Sam and Devorah Baum on the birth taking place. You will read, for example, about events. He is also, as you will read, an active of Manny. our MA students visiting Poland with our and talented photographer. In the year when We hope you agree after reading of our work lecturer in East European Jewish studies, we mark the centenary of the First World War - on the Jubilee Programme specifically and Claire Le Foll. This trip, which included sites – one in which James Parkes fought and was the Parkes Institute more generally - that we of Jewish history as well as those connected badly injured – it is appropriate that John’s have now created the international hub to the Holocaust, reflects the commitment of article and photograph focuses on the losses envisaged by James Parkes when he entrusted both our staff and students. Through our East of this conflict, and how, with bitter irony, his Library to the University of Southampton European Jewish student scheme and the both Jewish and non-Jewish Germans fought in 1964. This work is very much based on generosity of those who have supported it, we and died alongside each other, as they did in partnerships: between academics and have brought to Southampton a new other armies. The First World War was also students; librarians, archivists and scholars; generation of young scholars who, although the subject of a major exhibition at the Jewish the Parkes Institute and its generous largely not Jewish, have a deep passion and Museum in London: ‘For King and Country? supporters; and the University and the commitment to studying the Jewish past and The Jewish Experience of the First World general public. I would sincerely like to thank making efforts to make sure it is not neglected War’, which ran from March through to you all for helping us to realise our ambitions. or forgotten. And in similar vein, Claire Le August 2014, and on which we were historical Our aim for the next fifty years is to expand Foll is leading our Yiddish circle here through advisors. and develop further the humane and tolerant which undergraduates, MA and PhD students Aside from my academic colleague, I would vision of James Parkes: a true mensch who can learn this vibrant language and its like to thank those that help make us a team was so ahead of his time in accepting associated culture. by their loyal and enthusiast support – Tracy difference and fighting prejudice.

6 Student responses to the Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day at Itchen College 7 The audience at the Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day 2014 8 A deeper understanding Outreach Dr Helen Spurling | Karten Outreach Fellow

“I have a deeper understanding of the issues of the identity of Jewish people in a wide variety of social contexts”, said a participant in our adult education programme. Such feedback is incredibly rewarding to hear for all of us involved in the outreach programme of the Parkes Institute. This has been an exciting year as the outreach programme has been fortunate to see considerable expansion through the work of postdoctoral and doctoral outreach fellows due to the ongoing generosity of the Karten Charitable Trust and Stanley Cohen Trust. In addition to our established activities, we have been able to develop new initiatives in the areas of adult education, working with schools and colleges and public events.

9 Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day 2014, Henry Schachter, Speaker presentation

It really pleased me to see Adult Eductaion Study Day Talks Evening Classes Jennifer Craig-Norton – a group of young people We held three evening classes as part of our The Kindertransport and Jewish Identity respond to our teachings adult education programme. Our well Tony Kushner – Stephen Lawrence and Anne established course on ‘Classical Hebrew’ Frank: Whose Jewishness is it anyway? about the Holocaust and continued with an extremely lively, engaged think about the events and good humoured group focusing on Helen Spurling and Dr Tom Plant – grammar and reading the Book of Genesis. In Rebel Jews: Resistance and Jewishness and discuss them amongst addition, our popular ‘Approaches to Jewish Dan Levene – The Jews of Ethiopia History and Culture’ was team-taught by each other; I was pleased members of Parkes and covered important Kathrin Pierin - What is Jewish art? to be part of an effort to case studies from antiquity to the twentieth Helen Spurling – Interpreting the Bible after century on the subject of multiculturalism the Holocaust keep these events in the and the Jews. The discussions were in depth minds and consciousnesses and one member of the class said that it was Tony Kushner – Jewish “Illegal Immigration” ‘A fantastic course – thank you. It has to Palestine and the Impact of the Holocaust, of young people, as I increased my knowledge but above all given 1945-48 believe remembrance and me a better understanding of Jewish History Tom Plant – Anglo-Jewish Youth and Culture’. This year we have also and the Holocaust respectful discussion and developed an off-campus class on ‘Midrash on Genesis’ held in partnership with the James Jordan – Survivors on Film analysis of the Holocaust Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation and the and Television must not be overlooked. Council of Christians and Jews. This has been Jennifer Craig-Norton – Endings and incredibly rewarding as a real opportunity for Beginnings: The Kindertransport and Nicky Kirk, two-way dialogue and discussion on the Holocaust Parkes Institute History student and important theological questions. Helen Spurling – The Book of workshop leader Study Days Genesis and Midrash We also held three study days for the general public this year. The first day was held in Public Events November on the topic of ‘What is Judaism?’ Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day with subjects ranging from Jewish antiquity The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2014 to modern Jewish art to Anne Frank and the was ‘Journeys’. The commemoration was Kindertransport. Our second on-campus organised by Tom Plant, James Jordan and study day was on the theme of the Holocaust, others from the Parkes Institute in which included some very moving talks and partnership with Southampton Solent one participant kindly said that ‘it has University and took place on Monday 27th deepened my understanding of the Holocaust January 2014. The commemoration was in different contexts and disciplines’. This opened by the Mayor of Southampton, year we also held our first off-campus study Councillor Ivan White, followed by touching day in Bournemouth on ‘The Book of testimony from Henry Schachter, who Genesis’, which resulted in some fantastic survived the Holocaust in hiding in Belgium discussion amongst the attendees, and it is before undertaking a journey to Britain in hoped that we will continue to build search of his surviving family members. partnerships with the wider community in Students from Itchen College read their this way and genuinely reach out to the public responses to Holocaust testimony, and the and share the research of the Parkes Institute. evening closed with a memorable performance from Southampton drama students. As part of the

10 Postcard from Henry Schachter’s grandfather encouraging him to come to Frankfurt (1913) Anne Frank Evening Summer School

evening, an exhibition curated by Sarah Schools and Colleges Summer School Shawyer showcased local sixth form students’ All members of the outreach team regularly Our annual summer school goes from responses to Holocaust testimony. These go out to schools and colleges across the strength to strength. In June, the Parkes responses were the outcome of a series of South of England to give talks in their Institute, together with Chris Prior and the workshops held in November and December different areas of expertise. Tom Plant has Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial 2013 at Itchen College and South Downs given a number of talks on ‘Britishness’ and Studies, held a summer school on the topic of College and were an important way for young Jewish youth culture, Jennifer Craig-Norton ‘War and Resistance’ as part of the ‘Great people to learn about the Holocaust so that has spoken about the Holocaust and Helen War: Unknown War’ project. The sessions its lessons are not forgotten. Spurling on subjects such as the Jewish War included talks such as ‘Poland, Polish Jews Interfaith Week against Rome and apocalyptic literature. The and the Great War’ by Jennifer Craig-Norton, latest enthusiastic addition to our team, Jen ‘Ethnic Minorities in Wartime Britain’ from Members of the Parkes Institute were key Arnold, has allowed us to expand our Tom Plant and ‘Xenophobia, Racism and partners, along with Chris Day and the engagement to pre-16 schools, including Anti-Semitism during the Great War’ led by Chaplaincy, in the organisation of the Fernhill School, and Jen Arnold. A key aim for this event was to University’s Interfaith Week programme , through talks on identity, raise aspirations, with students from Totton from 17th-23rd November 2013. The multiculturalism and Jewish/non-Jewish College, Ryde School, Havant College, South programme included an interactive relations. We receive very rewarding feedback Downs College and Barton Peveril College exhibition of Interfaith Week’s aims and for our work in this area, and, look forward to attending, and the level of engagement that objectives and representations of the faith developing further partnerships with local the students had with the material and societies present at the University, which was schools and teachers. lecturers was fantastic! This was highlighted designed and curated by Sarah Shawyer. A by the feedback, which included comments major development in the Interfaith Week such as: ‘The teachers really engaged with the programme this year was ‘Space for Peace’ – a The History and Religious students and I felt that my interpretations of musical vigil for peace with a variety of sources were respected by the teachers’; ‘It religious and secular musical and choral Studies Department was informative and allowed me to look at groups, including community choirs, schools, at Itchen College has certain aspects of WW1 that I might never the University and different faith groups, all otherwise look at’; and ‘I want to do a led by June Boyce-Tillman of Foundation benefitted enormously from combined honours in English and History to Music, Winchester. The vigil was held in the its links with the Parkes become a teacher and the Vedic Temple in Southampton and the sessions and tour have made me confident’. evening was extremely moving and an Institute. The Holocaust opportunity for reflection for those of faith Many thanks to this year’s outreach fellows, and none. testimony sessions have Tom Plant, Sarah Shawyer, Jennifer Craig- Norton and Jen Arnold, who work so hard to Anne Frank Evening been well received by the deliver the programme, to all in Parkes who We expanded our public events programme students and prompted have so generously contributed talks and this year with a new summer event held in some interesting and their time, to our attendees who have June examining the representation of Anne participated so enthusiastically, and Frank. The programme explored Anne heartfelt responses. I hope especially to the Karten Charitable Trust and Frank’s life and legacy, and considered what a very much that we can Stanley Cohen Trust for making all our work study of her experiences can (and cannot) tell in outreach possible. us about the lives of children in the continue to collaborate Holocaust. Tom Plant gave an introductory talk on ‘Who is Anne Frank?’, followed by in future and would like James Jordan on ‘Anne Frank in film’ and finally Jennifer Craig-Norton on ‘Hidden to stress the value of the children in the Holocaust’. This event outreach programme to an brought in a large audience of over 80 people and it is hoped that this will launch the institution such as Itchen. beginning of a new series of annual summer History Teacher from events. Christian Scott, Itchen College 11 Dr Who, Daleks and the Changing Face of Jewish Identity

Lectures, Conferences and Seminars

Public Lectures The Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial Lecture: 20 May 2014 ‘Reviewing the Extermination: Dr Who, Daleks and the Changing Face of Jewish Identity’ This year’s Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr James Jordan and took as its subject the longstanding BBC television series Doctor Who. This illustrated talk explored the (real and imagined) displays of Jewish identity seen across 50 years of time-travelling through a discussion of the show’s origins (including the pivotal role of Sydney Newman and Verity Lambert) and casting, the Doctor’s changing appearance (from Jewish refugee to messianic saviour via cosmic hobo and ubermensch), displays of philo and anti-Semitism, his rivalry and relationship with the Master, and his longstanding enmity towards the Daleks. James states that it was his great pleasure to deliver this lecture as a mark of respect and gratitude to Ian and Mildred whose generosity has played a pivotal role in the development of both his own career and the Institute as a whole. We would also like to thank Malcolm Ace, formerly the University’s Chief Operating Officer, for chairing the event with such grace and good humour.

12 a The Montefiore Lecture: 4 March 2014 Lisa Appignanesi OBE. Lisa is a Visiting – Reverend Dr Giles Fraser Professor at King’s College London, former The Montefiore Lecture is the longest President of the campaigning writers established in the University’s calendar. Since association, English PEN, and Chair of the 1950s, it has marked the crucial input of London’s Freud Museum. She is also formerly Claude Montefiore as President of the Director of Talks and later Deputy Director of University of Southampton in the early the Institute of Contemporary Arts. decades of the twentieth century, and his One of Lisa’s many achievements at the ICA remarkable contribution to both Jewish and was the introduction of their video ‘In Christian scholarship. The founder of Liberal Conversation’ series. It was fitting therefore Judaism, Montefiore was one of the first to that this year’s lecture broke with tradition explore Jewish influences on Christianity as and took the form of an interview, hosted by well as those of Christianity on Judaism. Dr James Jordan and chaired by the Montefiore believed that each faith had much University’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Don to offer the other. Nutbeam. The Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, currently The conversation focused on Lisa’s 1999 parish priest at St Mary’s in London and memoir Losing the Dead and the discussion formerly of St Paul’s Cathedral, was an ideal covered many issues which are common to choice for the Montefiore Lecture. His lecture much of Lisa’s work, including the frailty of was a deeply personal one which dealt memory, the importance of family, identity, honestly and engagingly with his mixed loss and, perhaps unavoidably, the work of heritage. As Fraser himself summarised it, he Freud. The evening concluded with a had a Jewish father who wanted to assimilate screening of Ex-Memoria, the powerful short fully as ‘British’, and a Christian mother who film made by Lisa’s son, the filmmaker Josh wanted to be Jewish. His father’s family had Appignanesi, which is drawn from the same come to Britain from Germany in the family source material. eighteenth century. They were very much part of the Jewish establishment including Lisa’s public response that she put on twitter: holding posts such as Rabbi in the elite “Very impressed by Southampton Princes Road synagogue in Liverpool. University’s Parkes Institute where I talked about Losing the Dead lastnight. Splendid Fraser’s Parkesian account of the history of public and students”. Jewish-Christian relations from antiquity onwards will be published by Penguin in the A podcast of the lecture can be found on the near future. We were privileged to have a website at www.southampton.ac.uk/ preview of his book in this thought-provoking parkes/news/events/2013/10/29_parkes_ lecture, which bought together personal lecture_2013.page? biography, theology and history. Conferences The Parkes Lecture: 29 October 2013 ‘Jewish studies, Postcolonial studies: Lisa Appignanesi in conversation with Enhancing dialogue’ (16 January 2014) James Jordan, chaired by Professor Don This international workshop was funded by Nutbeam. the World Universities Network, which has Now in its 24th year, the Parkes Lecture is one provided seed-funding to help create a global of the three named lectures which form part network in this field. The workshop built on of the Institute’s annual seminar series. The earlier work with our partners at the subject and theme of the lecture is on the Universities of Cape Town and Sydney, which broad theme of Jewish/non-Jewish relations has taken the form primarily of major and previous speakers have included Sir international conferences in Sydney (April Ronald Harwood, Lord Winston, Yasmin 2012) and Cape Town (2013). Both Alibai-Brown, Alan Sillitoe, Michael Ignatieff, conferences drew delegates from around the Linda Grant, Sir Arnold Wesker, Jonathan world, and provided an excellent forum to Freedland and Lord Harries of Pentregarth. discuss both specific case studies and our wider ambitions. The workshop, hosted by For this year’s lecture it was our pleasure to the Wiener Library in London, took this work welcome prize-winning writer, novelist, further. broadcaster and cultural commentator Dr

13 a Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial, Ian and Mildred Karten with Sarah Pearce Holocaust Memorial in Paris Green Park, Darlinghurst

Amongst the speakers at the workshop were East. German Jews made their mark in This workshop brought together those who Dr Amos Goldberg from the Hebrew multifarious ways from building the have combined scholarly research on the University, Jerusalem, Professor Sarah backbone of the medical faculties in Turkey topic with campaigning to ensure that the Casteel from Carleton University, Canada to the collection of native music in Egypt. transmigrant experience is not forgotten. (who had also attended our previous While most of the contributions referred to There were presentations on Hull by Nick conference). Professor Bryan Cheyette of the individual biographies, from Muhammad Evans (a longstanding contributor to Parkes opened the workshop, Asad (born in Vienna as Leopold Weiss) who Institute events), on Southampton by Parkes reflecting on his recent important monograph ended up as one of the founding fathers of Institute members James Jordan and Tony on the theme of Jews, the Holocaust and the Pakistan, the historian Shlomo Dov Goitein Kushner, on the Richborough Jewish refugee postcolonial world. There was a strong or the photographer Hermann Lerski to the camp in Sandwich, Kent by former Parkes showing from the University of writer Moshe Yaakov Ben-Gavriel and Bertha Institute chair, Clare Ungerson, and on the Southampton, including four key Parkes Pappenheim and her struggle against white camp de Gurs by Scott Soo from Modern Institute individuals (Shirli Gilbert, James slavery, it became quite clear that more Languages. Jordan, Tony Kushner and Tom Plant) as well research needs to be done in order to place The conference was a great success and it is as colleagues from History and English such life stories in the different larger hoped that the proceedings will be published, (including Dr Stephen Morton who gave a contexts, including those of with additional papers on Germany, France presentation). Dr Avril Alba from the “Europeanization” – to some, European and America. It was also linked to the University of Sydney also contributed to the colonialism – and orientalism. The emphasis impressive series of events ‘Great War: proceedings. The afternoon session of the on Jewish/non-Jewish relations within the Unknown War’ organised by the University of workshop allowed respondents to focus on work of the Parkes Institute provides an Southampton. future networks and potential research important theoretical and methodological applications. The April 2013 conference and approach that will help to shape and sharpen Refugees and Migrants: Unaccompanied January 2014 workshop will also form the future work in this important research area. Children in Britain 1914-2014 (July 2014) intellectual foundation of a Southampton/ Transmigrancy Conference (April 2014) The Parkes Institute and the University of Sydney/Cape Town international symposium Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies Through its innovative work on ‘Port Jews’ to be held at the University of Cape Town in jointly hosted an interdisciplinary and over the past 14 years, the Parkes Institute has April 2015 on ‘Old World, New World: Jews in international conference on 17-18 July 2014 at developed an expertise in the neglected field Transition’. The University of Southampton on the of Jewish transmigrancy in the nineteenth subject of unaccompanied child migration German Jews in the Middle East and twentieth centuries. Transmigrancy was (10-12 February 2014) a crucial part of the Jewish experience in the Participants from Australia, Canada, Poland The conference “German Jews in the Middle age of mass migration, as it was for many and the UK presented papers on a wide range East” took place at the Hebrew University of seeking out new lives from poverty and of topics covering both the in- and out- Jerusalem, from February 10 – 12, 2014. The oppression. Cheaper and faster transport by migration of unaccompanied children in Parkes Institute joined an impressive number train and sea enabled new routes to be Britain. Among other topics, papers included of institutions – the Leo Baeck Institute explored, and many places in Europe unaccompanied children in foster care in Jerusalem for the Study of German and prospered through migrants stopping England and Ireland, the Kindertransport, Central European Jewry; the Ben-Zvi temporarily as they attempted to reach their Basque child refugees, British child evacuees Institute for the Study of Jewish final destination. During the First World War, in Canada during the Second World War, Communities in the East, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and especially during the 1920s with unaccompanied diplomatic service children at the Hebrew University; the Institute for the immigration controls imposed in many in Britain (1945–1964), British occupation History of the German Jews, Hamburg; the different countries, people became stuck in policy toward unaccompanied children in Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German camps for transmigrants. During the 1930s postwar Germany (1945-1949), Britain’s History at the Hebrew University, and the these camps became ways of detaining unaccompanied child migrants to Australia, Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for unwanted refugees and during the Second and unaccompanied child migrants and German Literature in Exile, Hamburg – in an World War with Nazi occupation they public policy in the UK. effort to map the history of German-Jewish developed even more sinister purposes as The conference was organised by the Parkes presence and activities in a broad region: part of the deportation process. Institute’s Jennifer Craig-Norton, who is from Tunisia in the West to Pakistan in the

14 Seminars As ever, the Parkes seminar series provided a range of speaker from different disciplines and

backgrounds. We were fortunate to include a those visiting Southampton from abroad who Atlantic Transit Park camp 1922 enhanced our programme including former Karten lecturer Tobias Brinkmann, now nearing completion of her PhD on the professor of Jewish history at Penn State Kindertransport, and early career academic University. Rose Holmes from the whose research deals with Quaker responses to refugees and migrants in the twentieth The Parkes Seminar Programme List: 2013 – 2014 century. Tuesday 1 October 2013 The two day conference resulted in a fruitful Professor Christhard Hoffman, University of Bergen exchange of scholarship among academics ‘History as Legitimation: The Invention of Ancient Antisemitism working with all aspects of child migration, in the German Empire 1871-1914’ and it is hoped that an edited volume of Tuesday 5 November 2013 papers will be published. The organisers Professor Tobias Brinkmann, Penn State University thank the Parkes Institute and the Centre for ‘Immigrants – Aliens – Displaced Persons: Reassessing the Jewish German-Jewish Studies for their support and Mass Migration from Eastern Europe 1860–1950’ encouragement for this successful and stimulating conference. Tuesday 12 November 2013 Dr François Guesnet, University College London The Xth Congress of the European ‘Envisioning Jewish Unity in the 19th Century: The Tributes to Association for Jewish Studies Sir Moses Montefiore, 1840-1885’ (20-24 July 2014) Wednesday 13 November 2013 The Congress was held in Paris in July 2014 Professor David Glover, University of Southampton with the overall theme of ‘Jewish and ‘Researching the 1905 Aliens Act: One Step Forward and Non-Jewish Cultures in Contact: New Two Steps Back’ A seminar co-hosted by Parkes and Research Perspectives’. Given our focus and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research the celebration of our Jubilee we were delighted that this prestigious event accepted Tuesday 26 November 2013 a panel from the Parkes Institute. This Professor Tony Kushner, University of Southampton provided a show case for our work on Jewish/ ‘Co-Presents and the Holocaust: Allied POWs in Auschwitz’ non-Jewish relations, and a way of Tuesday 10 December 2013 articulating our goal of providing models of Professor Todd Endelman, University of Michigan research for the future. James Jordan, Tony ‘Was Conversion to Christianity an Effective Strategy for Inclusion in Kushner, Claire Le Foll and Helen Spurling European Society?’ gave papers in this panel. They ranged from Helen Spurling’s paper on ‘Jewish and Tuesday 4 February 2014 Christian Apocalyptic Traditions in Late Professor Sarah Pearce, University of Southampton Antiquity’ to ‘Jews and Small Nations in ‘Josephus and the Jewish Chronicle: Instrumentalising antiquity to fight the politics Eastern Europe’ presented by Claire Le Foll. of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewry’ In the latter, Claire focused on relations Tuesday 18 February 2014 between minorities - a neglected but Dr Ben Outhwaite, University of Cambridge important area of scholarship. Alongside this ‘The Cairo Genizah: The greatest medieval archive?’ important panel, the Parkes Institute presence was supplemented by papers in Tuesday 29 April 2014 separate panels given by Joachim Schlöer, Dr Emiliano Perra, Kathrin Pieren. Overall these contributions ‘The Holocaust template: memory and representation of the Armenian, Bosnian showed the breadth of the Parkes Institute’s and Rwandan genocides’ research interests and our prominence in the Tuesday 13 May 2014 world of Jewish studies in Europe and Professor William Horbury FBA, University of Cambridge beyond. ‘Bar Kokhba: Historiography and Archaeology’

15 ofJournals the Parkes Institute

Jewish Culture and History late nineteenth century and British antisemitism in the Joachim Schlör twentieth century. A special issue in summer 2014 is devoted to The journal is now in very good shape with the support of the the difficult issue of Turkish-Armenian-Kurdish relations and publisher Taylor Francis. The contributions to our special issue brings together young scholars working beyond the restraints ‘Towards Jewish Maritime Studies’ have found a lot of attention that have long characterised this field of study. As in previous and are among the “most read” articles online. Andrea Reiter years we would like to take this opportunity to thank the and Lucille Cairns published the proceedings of their Humanitarian Trust for its generous support of the journal and conference ‘Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe’ in to our publisher, Taylor Francis, for continuing to develop and November 2013, and another special issue, with contributions expand Patterns of Prejudice on a global level. from a Parkes Institute – Kaplan Centre conference on ‘The Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History Archive and Jewish Migration’ (with papers by Katy Beinart, Esther Saraga, Henrietta Mondry, Hilda Nissimi, Joachim James Jordan Schlör, Judith Szapor, Veronica Belling, and Maura Hametz) Formerly published as Holocaust Education and The Journal of went online in early June 2014. While the next issue will be an Holocaust Education, 2015 will mark ten years of Holocaust ‘ordinary’ one, with contributions on recent Israeli films and on Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. It is jointly edited by the ’Odessa myth’, we are already planning another special issue Hannah Holtschneider (University of Edinburgh), James on ‘Contemporary Sephardic Studies’. Jordan (University of Southampton) and Tom Lawson (Northumbria University) and publishes work across a range of Patterns of Prejudice disciplines and approaches. This year, for example, we are Tony Kushner publishing on ‘Personal Engagement and the Study of the Patterns of Prejudice aims to be at the forefront of Holocaust’ as well as standalone pieces in the fields of literature, interdisciplinary research on racial and ethnic prejudice, and theatre, history, politics and archives. this year’s issues have met this ambition. A double issue devoted One of the major changes this year has been the departure of to ‘Music and the Other’ in autumn 2013 included articles as Tim Grady (University of Chester) as Reviews Editor. Tim has varied as ‘Demonizing and the redeeming the gaucho: social been excellent and the editors would like to thank him for his conflict, xenophobia and the invention of Argentine national contribution to the journal. His replacement is Andy Pearce music’ to ‘”Onward Blackshirts!” Music and the British Union of (Centre for Holocaust Education, Institute of Education, Fascists’. The first issue of 2014 contained a rich variety of University of London), whose own book on Holocaust material, including a remarkable and disturbing account of Consciousness in Contemporary Britain (Routledge, 2014) will ‘Nazi archaeology abroad: German prehistorians and the provide some much needed context for much of the work being international dynamics of collaboration’ as well as articles on undertaken in this area. the treatment of Roma asylum seekers in Canada, ‘race, class and “mixed schooling”’ in New Orleans and Atlanta, as well as If you would like to submit work to the journal please research on Jesuits in Rome and their responses to Jews in the email [email protected] or James Jordan [email protected]. 16 Development

Professor Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE received her Honorary degree at Summer Graduation in 2013

The Parkes Institute has been fortunate Other regular supporters of the Parkes programme, is deeply appreciated. The once again to benefit from the support of Institute have kindly continued their support. funding provided by the Trust will enable us many donors in the last year, including We are grateful to Larry Agron who renewed to pursue the long-term objectives of the generous existing friends as well as new his generous support for the East European Jubilee activity, with raising the profile of our contacts. We are very grateful to all of the MA and the London MA Scholarships. Larry, important work at the centre of the donors who support the Institute: their despite being based in the , programme’s outcomes. This is an important gifts truly enable us to run the wide- remains very engaged and so supportive of legacy to the work we will be pursing during ranging and quality programmes detailed our work. the Jubilee and we are truly grateful to the throughout this report. Trust for this key investment. The Jubilee celebrations have given us good We were, once again, The continuing support of the Rothschild opportunities to raise the profile of the Parkes very pleased to have the Foundation Europe has enabled the Institute’s work, and this has resulted in development of our academic and archive several gifts from new donors. This will opportunity to award programme and has been deeply appreciated. ensure a lasting legacy once the celebrations the Moss Prizes at the With regard to the former, Dr Kathrin Pieren, are over. a Rothschild postdoctoral fellow, is carrying annual Parkes Lecture out important work on the use of jewish The Development Office report each year on museums and art galleries in contemporary the significant support of Ian and Mildred in October. Britain. Karten and on the Trustees of their charitable trust. We are fortunate to do so and it is no Prizes were awarded to Hannah Corkerry and We were delighted to award Baroness Rabbi exaggeration to say that much of the Will Chivers. We were delighted to welcome Julia Neuberger DBE with an Honorary academic progression made in recent Liz Moss, representing the family, when the Degree at our July 2013 graduation decades, and the outreach activity taking Prizes were announced. ceremonies in recognition of her remarkable place at Parkes today, would not have been Clinton Silver has been a longstanding public career and support of the University of possible without the Kartens’ enduring and supporter and advisor of the Parkes Institute. Southampton. We were very pleased to show generous support. We are extremely grateful to him for his Julia around the Parkes Library and Archives when she visited. Julia has been a very We were thrilled to welcome Mildred’s sister further generosity. We much appreciate this supportive advocate of the Parkes Institute Annette and husband Stanley Davis as special new and generous gift made by Clinton to and remains closely involved with our work. guests for the Ian and Mildred Karten support our programme which will enrich its Memorial Lecture in May. As you will see focus on Eastern Europe and on Jewish We greatly appreciate, as ever, the support from other parts of this report, the lecture migration and enterprise. and involvement of our Friends of the Parkes was presented by Dr James Jordan who is the We remain grateful to Stanley Cohen and his Library scheme. This important annual Ian Karten Lecturer (and who was also one of charitable trust for their ongoing support of support enables us to fund activity the Ian Karten MA Scholars). James our Outreach programme. As you will see throughout the Parkes Institute and Library presenting the lecture was therefore very from elsewhere in this report, Dr Helen and we hope to increase the communications fitting and the opening of the lecture was Spurling runs an inspiring and varied and activities for the Friends to honour their devoted to recognising the impact made by programme of activity with access to our support further. the Ian Karten Charitable Trust in their teaching and research. The funding of this The Hartley Circle, a group of donors to the support of Parkes programmes. activity is immensely important and a three University of Southampton who are The Trust has continued to fund MA year gift, begun last year, from the Stanley recognised for their annual support of £1,000 scholarships, a lectureship and a fellowship, Cohen Charitable Trust enables us to develop or more, includes donors to the Parkes and we remain extremely grateful for this it even further. Institute and we are very grateful for the core funding. In addition, the Trust is The new partnership with the Honorable crucial funds provided by Hartley Circle expanding its work at the University of Robbie Rayne and the Rayne Trust, who have members. This is an area of growth for the Southampton to fund widening access for generously committed to funding a Parkes Institute and we hope to encourage students across Southampton. significant proportion of the Parkes Jubilee more members to give at this level which 17 really does provide us with the annual funding and financial security crucial to the advancement of the Parkes programme. List of donors in 2013-2014 The Parkes Institute relies considerably on Mr L Agron Mr S Moss the support and generosity of our donors and Mr J Bennett Mr J Mountford gifts of all levels have a real impact, Mr W Carver Mr A Munro contributing to our success. Please do Mr R Coggins Mr C Niebuhr encourage friends, family and contacts to join The Cohen Family Foundation Mr A Orme one of our donor programmes or to talk with Ms B Dubois Hazel Patel us about supporting a part of our activity. Dr Elia Professor Pheby Gifts can be made online at www.southampton.ac.uk/supportus/ Mr G Franks Mr J Pinnick donatenow. To discuss a gift in more detail, Dr J Garfield Dr J Puddicombe please contact Tony Kushner or Joanna Watts Mr D Habel Dr Rein via [email protected] or on The Humanitarian Trust Mr T Roberts 023 8059 7727. Mr W Kammerling Mr C Silver The Parkes Institute, and the wider The Ian Karten Charitable Trust Professor P Smith University of Southampton, is very grateful to Mrs S Laythorpe Ms V Steele our many friends and supporters and much Lord Leigh of Hurley Dr Steinberg appreciates your involvement. We hope we Dr Leighton Karen Worley have acknowledged all of our donors in the Mr A Long following list for 2013-14 but please accept our sincere apologies should there are any errors or omissions.

Internationalisation

Over the past twelve months we have continued to foster partnerships with other world-leading institutions in Jewish studies and related fields. In January 2014 we hosted a one-day workshop on the transnational memory of the Holocaust in partnership with the Wiener Library and our colleagues in Cape Town and Sydney. It was particularly pleasing to be able to welcome Dr Avril Alba (University of Sydney) who has been a vital component in the successful development of the relationship between Parkes and the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. We have also developed our links with the Zentrum für Jüdische Kulturgeschichte, University of Salzburg, and are looking forward to the visit of Albert Lichtblau and Susanne Plietzsch in 2015. If you would like to know more about our partnerships, be interested in visiting Southampton or establishing an agreement, please contact Tony with Aimée Bunting, Parkes Honorary Fellow, who gave a joint paper Dr James Jordan on [email protected]. at a conference to mark the 10th Anniversary of The University of Salzburg Centre for Jewish Cultural Studies

18 The MA Poland trip

Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Old Jewish Cemetery Kazimierz 19 Oskar Schindler’s Factory

Doctoral programme Dr James Jordan: I am supervising two PhD respectively on the Polish Kindertransport and We have a lively postgraduate community and students whose work has a clear Parkesian gender and religion in the British Jewish you will read elsewhere of the study group theme: Eva van Loenen (English) upgraded youth movement (1880-1939). Both have that is coordinated by Dr Claire Le Foll. Here last year and made great progress on her work submitted within three years of starting their are the reports on our individual PhD on Hasidic Identity and Thought in Jewish- work, and will have their vivas in the autumn. students written by their supervisors. American Literature. Her latest chapter It is highly appropriate in this year of the draws on the fiction of Chaim Potok and Parkes Institute Jubilee that Carolyn Dr Devorah Baum: Mike Witcombe: Tender explores the tensions between Hasidic and Sanzenbacher’s thesis on the Christian Pervert: Reappraising Philip Roth’s Writings Orthodox identities within an increasingly ecumenical movement and the Jews during on Sex. Mike is finishing his thesis with the secular society as represented in The Chosen the Nazi era, in which James Parkes himself view to complete in late summer. Eva van and The Promise. Former MA JHC student appears as a key player, is developing in a very Loenen (English) upgraded last year and Danielle Kretzmer-Lockwood (History) has exciting way. Carolyn was upgraded to PhD made great progress on her work on Hasidic returned to Southampton to begin her status in the summer. I am also delighted that Identity and Thought in Jewish-American doctorate on ‘South African Jews in British Jennifer, Anne and Carolyn have already Literature. Thanks to Andrea and James for Entertainment’. This builds on her MA published, or are about to publish, articles their help in my absence. dissertation (a study of screenwriter and and chapters relating to their research. Two Dr Shirli Gilbert: Laura Musker has author Sir Ronald Harwood) and examines part-time students working on very different continued to make good progress this year how Britihs culture and identity has been topics are close to completion: Malgosia with her work on the subject of ‘The Effects of shaped by characters such as Harwood, Wloszycka on the memory of the Jews in the the Racial Laws in Piedmont 1938-45’. She has Antony Sher and Herbert Kretzmer. I am small south Polish town, Mszana, before gathered a substantial amount of valuable currently advising Christina Wilkins during and after the Holocaust, and Mickie archival evidence relating to the Bishop of (English) who is three years into a part-time Stevens’ study of the Jewish Education Aid Turin and his secretary, and has further PhD on religion, Islam and the figure of the Society. Howard Rein is making excellent research trips planned. Her study of the vampire post-9/11. It is a fascinating topice progress on his comparative study of the specific region of Piedmont will make an which has revealed many parallels between German and Jewish hospitals in London, as important contribution to research on the present day concerns and those which was Wendy Fidler on Jewish responses to Catholic Church during the Holocaust, which confronted Jews at the end of the nineteenth interfaith work. Wendy had to suspend has tended to focus primarily on the Pope and century. I am looking forward to welcoming temporarily due to health problems, but I am the Vatican; it will also add to our knowledge Christopher Byrne in September who will be delighted that she is now recovered and about the experiences and responses of working on humour, race and identity in returning to her studies, as is Sarah Shawyer Italian Jews and partisans. Laura’s post-war British television. with her work on the memory of the Palestinian Mandate in British and British presentation on her research progress was Professor Tony Kushner: It is very pleasing Jewish culture. Just starting her PhD studies very well received and elicited some to report that two of my full-time PhD is Jennifer Arnold, a former History thoughtful questions. My sincere thanks to students – Jennifer Craig-Norton and Anne undergraduate at Southampton who Tony Kushner for supervising Laura while I Holdorph – have submitted their theses, was away on maternity leave. specialised in Jewish culture and history 20 courses who also successfully completed her next academic year. Georg Burgstaller, one of and Frank Schlöffel submitted his PhD MA here. Jennifer is working on the boxer and two students funded by the Schenker dissertation on the lives and works of member of the British Union of Fascists, Joe Documents Online project, is completing his Heinrich Loewe, a Berlin-based Zionist Beckett, and her work promises to be a thesis, in which he explores the attitude to activist who later became the director of fascinating study of and politics and of criticism of the early 20th-century Austrian- Tel-Aviv’s municipal library – an amazing the intersection of masculinity, ethnicity and Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker; and work of 503 pages. prejudice. Finally, I would like to report some Mike Witcombe, whom I am co-supervising excellent news on some former PhD students. with Dr Devorah Baum, is putting the MA/MRes Jewish History and Culture As you will read elsewhere in the review, Jan finishing touches on his psychoanalyst Claire Le Foll (MA/MRes Coordinator) Lanicek has obtained a permanent post in re-reading of Philip Roth. This year we had a large and diverse group of Jewish studies at the University of New South Oriane Boulay, who works on ‘translingual’ MA/MRes students enrolled in our Wales, Sydney, and Lawrence Cohen has writers in contemporary France, is programme. In London, the twelve MRes published his intricate study of the Jewish completing her second year of full-time part-time students that started last year orphanage, Norwood, based of his doctoral study; and Maja Hultman, whom I am focused this year on developing their research thesis. co-supervising with Professor. Joachim skills and on the preparation of their Professor Andrea Reiter: Three of my PhD Schlöer, has been exploring the relationship dissertation. Jane Gerson, who provided most students have completed and had their vivas between place and identity among the of the teaching in London this year, also over the course of this year. Bettina Codrai Stockholm Jewish community around the welcomed a new group of seven mature with a thesis on Maxim Biller, which redresses turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Maja, students. The students were all highly the public image of this German-Jewish who was the first student to complete the motivated and took up the challenges of writer; Meike Reintjes, whose thesis focuses Jewish History and Culture UG Pathway, has academic work with impressive dedication. on the ‘translingual imagination’ in the finished her first year of part-time PhD They welcomed the breadth of the course poetry of four women candidature. which introduced them to some unfamiliar writers of German-Jewish origin; and Silke topics - Dan Levene’s seminar on the Jews of Professor Joachim Schlör (PhD Programme Schwaiger, who explored the multi-faceted Ethiopia got a special appreciative mention in Coordinator): I am supervising, with Andrea ways in which a small Viennese publishing course evaluations. The students also Reiter, a former Southampton undergraduate house by the name of exil engages in cultural appreciated the opportunity to sharpen their who returned to the University in 2013: Maja politics by promoting authors with a academic skills and understanding of Hultman from Stockholm, Sweden, writes non-German background. All three passed historical texts. about Jewish Spaces and the modernisation with only small corrections and all of them of the city of Stockholm, 1870-1939. Last year The group of six Southampton students, have been encouraged by their examiners to Katharina Hoba successfully defended her among which a student from Poland, was seek publication of their work. PhD dissertation on the notion of ‘Heimat’ extremely engaged and enthusiastic as well. Two further, AHRC-funded, PhD students among German-Jewish immigrants in They appreciated this very intense and will be submitting their theses by the start of Palestine/Israel at the University of Potsdam, stimulating year and enjoyed particularly the

21 possibility to take individually negotiated Poland trip with MA students transported to extermination camps; a truly topic with one of the Parkes experts. Some of By Dr Claire Le Foll humbling experience. them made the most of their year at Parkes by As part of the Jewish Culture and Society in The trip to Poland was a captivating attending conferences, learning Yiddish or Eastern Europe module, MA students from opportunity for the students to see a variety participating in high-ranging discussions at the Parkes Institute visited Poland of Jewish sites of interest, furthering their the doctoral seminar. accompanied by their lecturer Claire Le Foll, understanding of module topics, as well as For the first time this year we convened the providing them with an opportunity to see experiencing Polish culture (including ‘partnership module’ that gave an many of the places discussed in their fabulous cakes!) It was a great experience, opportunity for London and Southampton seminars and get a better understanding of enjoyed and highly recommended by all students to meet twice and discuss the conditions faced by Polish Jewry. involved. contemporary issues of antisemitism and Combining stays in both Krakow and Warsaw, MA Students: Aamie Tucker, Katie Power, racism. They shared their informed views on the students were able to see a number of key Stash Kozlowski, Alice Caffull and Magda the creation of Israel during the first session Jewish sites in both cities including Pezinska. organised by Jane Gerson and Mark Levene in synagogues and cemeteries, as well as a day trip to Auschwitz. London and discussed in small groups a few Yiddish Circle examples of antisemitism in Britain and By Dr Claire Le Foll France in the session led by Claire and Jane in One highlight of Krakow Southampton. This year, students and staff of the Parkes was a visit to Oskar Institute and the University of Southampton MA Modern Jewish History and Schindler’s Factory, which as a whole have been offered the possibility to Culture in London learn or practice the Yiddish language once a By Karen Lush now houses a museum week. Created by Claire Le Foll in 2011, the Yiddish Circle was re-launched in October Returning to academic study has been a dedicated to the history 2013 and ran until July 2014. In a very informal delight and a challenge for us seven mature and pleasant atmosphere, a group of five very students on the Modern Jewish History and of the factory as well as engaged and enthusiastic students have met Culture MA course in London. The syllabus both pre-war and occupied in the Avenue Cafe to read and speak Yiddish. so far has given us an excellent overview of Three of them were complete beginners, European Jewish history from emancipation Poland. whereas two had an intermediate level. While to the Holocaust, while allowing us plenty of The innovative exhibition was highly the former were learning the ‘aleph-beys’ scope to explore personal interests. informative and moving; it really helped to - how to read and write Yiddish using the When I was at university back in the 1980s, bring to life the history of Krakow. In addition Hebrew alphabet – or familiarizing the Eastern bloc was communist, Mrs to this, with accommodation in the heart of themselves with the basic rules of Yiddish Thatcher was in No.10, essays were written the Jewish district of Kazimierz the group grammar, the latter were busy reading texts longhand, and reading was done out of actual were able to visit a variety of Jewish from Yiddish literature and poetry. There books. A lot has changed since then! Having landmarks such as the Old Jewish Cemetery was also time for conversation in Yiddish at ready access to so many books and journals and the Tempel synagogue. the end of each meeting, adapted to the level online is a remarkable novelty to most of us, of each participant. Although progressing at The drive to Warsaw provided the though having to submit typed essays via the different speeds and motivated by different opportunity to visit historical Jewish shtetls university website and obsess about our word reasons for learning or practising Yiddish including Pinczow and Szydlow. This was a counts are less welcome developments. (e.g. for academic research, because of rare opportunity to see what Jewish life was Fortunately, the pleasures of immersing personal history, for pleasure or ‘got nor veyst like outside of the city and a new experience oneself in academic argument and research, farvos!’), the Yiddish learners have studied in for much of the group. The students had the and engaging with leading educators and a peer-supporting and friendly although opportunity to see the inside of the Pinczow intelligent fellow students, remain studious atmosphere. Because the experience synagogue thanks to the efforts of one group unchanged. has been such a pleasurable one (not least for member who arranged a private viewing. As the Circle’s convenor) it will continue to run We are lucky that our group has gelled the oldest synagogue left in Poland it was next year and might even become a Lifelong extremely well. We are all Jewish and especially interesting, housing both a Learning lunch course. therefore share a certain basic understanding museum about Jewish life in the shtetl as well of and response to the material, but we come as boasting an intricate roof painting from the from very different religious, geographic and 17th Century. professional backgrounds and bring a wide Whilst in Warsaw, the students visited both range of experience and knowledge to the the Jewish Historical Institute and the Jewish classes. Our discussions are always lively and Museum, seeing a variety of exhibitions well-informed. focusing on Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Our thanks go to the London Jewish Cultural This was complimented by a walking tour of Centre for hosting our classes, and to Dr Jane the former ghetto, including a chance to see Gerson, Dr Shirli Gilbert and the rest of our the ghetto wall as well as the memorial of teachers from the Parkes Institute for guiding those who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto us through a very successful and enjoyable uprising and the Umschlagplatz where first year. thousands of Jews were held before being

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The Moss Memorial Prizes 2012-2013

Tony Kushner and 2013 Moss Prize winner Will Chivers at Winter Graduation

It is always good to be able to recognise the ghettos?’ and Will Chivers for his MA essay on The Parkes Institute was extremely useful to excellent work done by our students, and ‘Trauma, Resistance and Resettlement in me throughout the development of my this brings us to the Moss Prizes - the Jewish Humour: a lens through which to view dissertation, offering a wealth of material that annual Moss Memorial Prizes in memory the Jewish experience in the diaspora?’ helped to contextualise my topic, and of Stephen Moss, who studied Law at the Hannah writes: highlight the areas of historical debate that University of Southampton, and his already existed, as well as those that were “I have always had a keen interest in the study mother Daphne who was President of the lacking. of Jewish history, having undertaken several Society of Women Writers and Journalists. modules on the subject during my first two I am honoured to receive this recognition, We are grateful for the generosity of the Moss years at university. The insight that I gained and would also like to take this opportunity to Family, who with support from the Society of into the plight of this historically persecuted thank Dr Shirli Gilbert, who guided me with Women Writers and Journalists, established group inspired me to pursue the topic further enthusiasm and passion for the subject these prizes to be awarded annually for the during my final year, in which I chose to focus throughout. I thoroughly enjoyed my studies best essay on a Jewish/non-Jewish related on The Holocaust. However, I wished to delve and feel that the Parkes Library has given me topic in both an undergraduate and a deeper into this already well-explored topic, an invaluable insight into the rich and postgraduate category. This year’s winners into an area that had not yet been probed fascinating topic of Jewish history.” were Hannah Corkerry for the undergraduate enough: sexual violence against Jewish prize for her essay on ‘How would you explain women, a phenomenon that has long been the scarcity of Jewish armed resistance in the omitted from the traditional Holocaust narrative.

23 Reports by Parkes Postgraduates

At the core of the study is a comparative analysis of two concurrently developed antithetical views about antisemitism and the Jewish Question.

Carolyn Sanzenbacher

Carolyn Sanzenbacher: PhD Silke Schwaiger: PhD The International Committee on the “Crossing the threshold. Migrant authors and Christian Approach to Jews and Its Role in texts around the cultural centre exil in Protestant Ecumenical Understanding of Vienna”. The project focuses on selected Antisemitism and the Jewish Question texts and authors associated with the cultural During the Hitler Years’ is an archival-based centre exil in Vienna which promotes the project that has to do with relationships culture of migrants and minorities, mainly between Christian organizational Roma and Sinti, in Austria. Since 1997 exil has understanding of antisemitism and Christian awarded the annual prize ‘writing between organizational responses to antisemitism. cultures’. The literary prize addresses authors More specifically, it looks at relations with a ‘migrant background’ whose mother between the structural network of tongue is not German but who write in organizations that constituted the German. Texts entered for this prize should burgeoning Protestant ecumenical cover (in the broadest sense) one of the movement of the early to mid-20th century, following topics: ‘being foreign, being the streams of thought on antisemitism and different, identity, flight, expulsion, arriving, the Jewish Question that flowed through it, integration or living between cultures’. and the formal protests against escalating Attached to the centre is the publishing house suppression of Jews issued by its spokesmen edition exil. between 1933 and 1945. The thesis investigates the negotiation of At the core of the study is a comparative cultural identities of migrants at the analysis of two concurrently developed intersection of the cultural centre exil, antithetical views about antisemitism and the individual life histories and literary creations. Jewish Question: those of the International Tensions and contradictions between Committee on the Christian Approach to institutional and individual discourses are Jews (ICCAJ), a subsidiary body of the identified and are related to the literary works International Missionary Council, and those of the authors Seher Çakir, Dimitré Dinev, of James Parkes. Both sets of views arose from Anna Kim, Grace M. Latigo, Julya Rabinowich, and were disseminated to the ecumenical Simone Schönett and Sina Tahayori. The movement in the same period, but the analysis is informed by a theoretical thought of Parkes was generally shunned by framework which incorporates concepts of the ecumenical community while that of the cultural identity, canonisation and the ICCAJ was raised in formal status. By the construction of ‘community’, and combines a time of the Founding Assembly of the World cultural sociological approach with a textual Council of Churches in 1948, ICCAJ views one: the analysis focuses on qualitative were being proclaimed as representative of interviews with selected authors as well as ‘the official concern of the Protestant literary texts. The project demonstrates the Churches [on] the Jewish Question’ while tensions between cultural integration and Parkes was effectively removed from the rolls exclusion and investigates the ‘place’ authors of the Assembly. around exil negotiate for themselves. The aim is to highlight exils’ as well as the authors’ The question ‘why’ is of course crucial. The contribution to the Austrian literary field and major repositories of primary source archives to provide a better understanding of their yielding the fascinating answers are housed at early literary works and their self-conception the World Council of Churches Library in as authors. Geneva, Switzerland, and University of Southampton’s Special Collections of Parkes Library Archives, Rare Books, Cabinet Materials, and Stacks. 24 The German Jew and Gentile still lie together.

Reports from our Friends and Honorary Fellows

John Garfield, Friend of the Parkes been of my own fore-bears. To have the Starting a new comparative research project Institute patriotic Jew lying next to the Christian on the historiography of immigrants and Consultant Neurosurgeon, Southampton whose descendants might later slaughter ethnic minorities in Britain, Germany and 1968-1992 Jews is a hard twist of history. Even a Jew who Sweden after 1970, I spent, in the autumn of There is a terrible irony in the German wore an Iron Cross from the Great War was 2013, six weeks as a guest researcher at the cemeteries of the Great War; side by side are not spared the later horrors. Parkes Institute. In my book project, I am studying the establishment of an institutional the crosses of the German fallen and the This year a new edition of my book The Fallen, academic framework for migration and ethnic headstones of Jewish soldiers who died a photographic journey through the war history in the 1970s and 1980s; further, I am fighting for their Fatherland. That is a cemeteries and memorials of the Great War, analyzing key historiographical works with reflection of a country which since the 19th was published (History Press) to mark this respect to their main narratives as well as Century was gradually turning against its centenary. Jewish population which had brought it such their reception in academia and the public; wealth in industry, the arts, the liberal Professor Christhard Hoffman, finally, I will place the development of professions and academia. Professor of Modern European historiography into the more general history History at the University of Bergen of immigration politics and “the immigration For some 25 years from about 1959 I travelled (Norway) issue” in these three countries the Great War cemeteries in France, Belgium, Italy, Macedonia, Austria and Gallipoli, bent In many West European countries, the The Parkes Institute proved to be an ideal on expressing in black and white photography experience of mass immigration after 1945 base for my study. Its excellent library made it with extracts from the contemporary prose was perceived as something basically new and easy for me to gain an overview about the literature the emotions one suffers now a unprecedented. In the lengthy process of rapidly expanding field of ethnic history. hundred years after those terrible events. I coming to terms with the new situation and of Moreover, the many talks with its director, use the word suffer because amongst the developing a self-understanding as countries Professor Tony Kushner, who himself is one many emotions which the cemeteries evoke, of immigration and of ethnic pluralism, of the most prolific historians in this area, suffering is one which I share with those who however, historical arguments often played were very helpful. Tony not only shared with lie there. an important role. By placing present-day me his personal memories of the “Sheffield immigration into a historical perspective, by school” during the 1980s, he gave valuable The headstones of those German soldiers are constructing narratives of continuity (and advice regarding the scope and focus of my in many ways the most poignant. True as I discontinuity) and not least by presenting research, and he introduced me to his photographed (in those days it was possible persuasive historical analogies, historians extensive network of colleagues and scholars. to do so close up) the sinking headstones in (and others) introduced arguments that I was thus able to conduct interviews with the Prague ghetto; there was the desperation informed the debates of the day and allowed some of the pioneers of migration history in of the Holocaust. the experiences of immigration and multi- Britain, above all with Professor Colin But in the Western Front cemeteries the ethnicity to be integrated into (national) Holmes in Sheffield. When I have concluded Jewish headstones, because of my own narratives of identity. my project, I hope to come back to Parkes in origins, are so immediate; they could have order to discuss my findings. 25 Global Perspectives Reports by Academic Members of the Parkes Institute

The exciting work of the Parkes Institute’s academics in the fields of research, publications, teaching and outreach ranging from Ethiopia to Australia and from America to South Africa!

26 Dr Shirli Gilbert Karten Senior Lecturer in Jewish/non-Jewish Relations I was on maternity leave for most of 2013-14. I returned to work in late June, and during the summer worked to complete a draft of my book based on the letters of Rudolf Schwab, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who fled to South Africa in 1936. Schwab’s Global extraordinary collection, which was discovered in Johannesburg in 2009, contains over 2,000 letters spanning four decades and five continents, including prolific correspondence with a close childhood friend who became a Nazi. I will present aspects of the book at talks and conferences during 2014-15. My work on Rudolf Schwab’s letters has encouraged me to think more deeply about how my experience as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors has impacted Perspectives my scholarship. I was therefore delighted to be invited to write the foreword for the book In the Shadows of Memory: the Holocaust and the Third Generation, edited by Australian scholars Esther Jilovsky, Jordana Silverstein and David Slucki. In April I was honoured to give a talk at the United Nations Headquarters in New York at a programme marking Yom Hashoah. The presentation centred on the website I have helped to build on the subject of music and the Holocaust, in association with the educational organisation World ORT (http:// holocaustmusic.ort.org/). I have subsequently been invited to publish an article on the subject for the UN’s Discussion Paper series on the Holocaust. I am also enjoying my ongoing work as part of the curatorial team of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, which is due to open later this year. I am looking forward to returning to teaching in 2014-15, and in particular to my role as convenor of our MA programme in Jewish History in Culture in both Southampton and London.

Dr James Jordan Ian Karten Postdoctoral Research Fellow The year started with the successful conference on ‘The Future of Holocaust Studies’ as detailed in last year’s Review. Over three days and two locations the conference connected academics, practitioners and educators from 15 different countries, including keynotes from Daniel Blatman, Felicitas Heimann- Jelinek and Rex Bloomstein. The conference was linked to the foundation of the British Association for Holocaust Studies (www.soton.ac.uk/BAHS) the website of which is hosted at Southampton. BAHS will hold its inaugural conference in Edinburgh in September 2014 on the theme of Britian and the Holocaust. 27 The establishment of BAHS and the I have also been part of the Parkes team who Professor Tony Kushner conference led to an invitation to speak at the advised the Jewish Museum Camden on their Marcus Sieff Professor of History, inaugural ‘Empowering Young People to WW1 exhibition, and on the forthcoming Director of the Parkes Institute Change the World’ conference held at Royal exhibition on the graphic artist Abram You will read elsewhere about the exciting Wootton Basset Academy in May 2014. This Games. In an unusual but welcome departure Parkes Institute Jubilee programme, which I conference, organised by Nicola Wetherall I also acted as historical advisor to writer am coordinating with my colleagues James and Steve Kneller, continued the ambition to Philip Glassboro on his original stage Jordan and Helen Spurling. This has taken up unite ‘academics, educationalists, activists, production ‘Welcome to Terezin’ for Act One a lot of energy, including the important task experts, and organisations… to engage, and the Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre, of securing funding, and it is most rewarding inform, inspire and empower classroom Guildford. The piece has been well-received to see the fruits of our work realised in the teachers, with the ultimate intention to and since been performed in New York, with conferences, lectures, exhibitions and impact upon and empower young people’. It performances to follow at the Edinburgh outreach work that has already taken place proved a rich two days of papers and talks, Fringe (www.welcometoterezin.org). for the Jubilee this academic year. with speakers including Sir Andrew Burns, As reported elsewhere in the Review I gave and my thanks go to Nic for the idea, the It has also been a busy year with teaching and this year’s Karten Lecture on the theme of Dr invitation and the conference itself. giving papers at a range of academic and Who and Jewish identity, a talk based on a public events. With regards to the former I In terms of my own teaching, I have once piece commissioned by the Jewish was lucky to have committed students at both again convened modules on the history and Quarterly’s fiftieth anniversary issue. Other undergraduate and MA level. One of the representation of the Holocaust for English talks have seen Parkes’s presence at the highlights was my second year group project, and History, as well as teaching occasional European Association for Jewish Studies which this year focused on the ‘35s’ – a weeks for Parkes colleagues on other conference in Paris (July 2014) and at a remarkable organisation of Jewish women in modules. I have also taught on the Jewish number of events arranged under the BJ: CC Britain who campaigned with great success History and Culture MA, including the banner by Ruth Gilbert and Nathan Abrams. from the 1970s for Soviet Jewry. The students partnership MA at the London Jewish This year has also been good in terms of interviewed one of the founders of the ‘35s’, Cultural Centre. As in previous years the future plans, with preparations for the Parkes Rita Eker, and presented their findings in a teaching has included trips to Itchen College Jubilee programme as outlined elsewhere. public presentation and also in the form of a and BBC South for a tour of the studio. As Earlier this year it was announced that successful lesson to students at a local school ever my thanks go to Christian Scott and Professor Phyllis Lassner had been awarded a who benefited greatly from their expertise Shaun O’Toole at Itchen, and Claire Reynolds prestigious Vice-Chancellors jubilee and enthusiasm. I have also enjoyed at the BBC. The students also benefitted Fellowship, starting next year. This has been contributing to the MA programme both in greatly from visits by Zigi Shipper and Walter arranged in partnership with English and I am Southampton and London and have been Kammerling, two survivors who are grateful to my colleague Will May for his help supervising some of the extended longstanding supporters of Parkes and in making this possible. On a personal level I dissertations being produced by our first continue to inspire. It was also my pleasure to have been awarded a Mandelbaum fellowship cohort of students based at the London meet for the first time Henry Schachter, a for late 2015. This will enable me to spend a Jewish Cultural Centre. child survivor who spent the war years in month in Sydney to give a series of public and hiding. Henry spoke at this year’s Holocaust university lectures, research seminars and One of the privileges of Memorial Day and in preparation he and I, researching the Holocaust in Australian film with Parkes honorary fellow Graham Cole, and television. being in the academic world visited Itchen College where Henry spoke to an enthralled audience for over an hour. It I continue to edit Holocaust Studies, work on is the possibility of sharing was a moving performance even more Parkes internationalisation, and am subject work with scholars from impressive given that this was his first such lead for the Minor in Jewish History and public talk. Culture. We are currently writing a proposal across the world. for a Minor in Holocaust Studies and hope to Working with the wider community and local This year I was invited to give papers at have more news on this next year. schools has always been part of the Parkes conferences in Copenhagen (dedicated to ethos as can be seen in the Outreach section. Publications this year have included a special migration and memory); Frankfurt (two visits As part of this commitment, in addition to issue of Jewish Culture anf History on the – one a lecture on the Kindertransport to mark Lifelong Learning classes and Study Days, I theme of Jewish migration and Archvies, the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the delivered the TEAtime lecture on the theme co-edited with Joachim Schlöer and Lisa Leff other a major event to explore Jewish of the Holocaust and the moving image. (American University, Washington). This experiences of the First World War); Salzburg TEAtime (http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ volume brought together selected pieces (with our international partners who were teatime) is aimed at Year 12 and Year 13 from the conference held in Cape Town in celebrating the tenth anniversary of the students, connecting them to the world-class April 2011 and illustrates the range of ways in centre for Jewish cultural studies there); and research being undertaken here. Students which the themes intersect, including papers Paris for the European Association for Jewish from across , Dorset, Sussex and on smells and suitcases as sites (and stores) Studies conference where we have organised the Isle of Wight all participated, as did their of memory, as well as those which engage Parkes Institute panels to mark our Jubilee. teachers, who were invited on a tour of the with more traditional archives. These have been stimulating events and have archives and Parkes Library. helped me take forward various research projects on ethnicity and the British armed 28 Kindertransport Memorial at Liverpool Street Station. Image courtesy of Isabel Wollaston

forces, and Holocaust journeys, both of which taught, for the first time, a Year 1 module on presented a huge responsibility, it was also a I hope to publish in book form in the future. I ‘Russia in Revolution’. I also taught Masters most enriching experience that taught me a was also delighted to visit our partners in the students who had (i) chosen my MA option great deal in terms of problem solving and University of Cape Town to carry out the five on ‘Jewish society and Culture in Eastern thinking creatively to keep the programme year review of the Kaplan Centre which was a Europe’; (ii) individually negotiated their going and expanding. rewarding experience. own topics; and, (iii) who were enrolled on In terms of research, I contributed to the final the Partnership module. Additionally, I ran a Communicating our work to a wider public is workshop organised by the French-funded weekly ‘Yiddish Circle’ both during and always challenging but is also -- following the research project on the ‘Constitution of outside term time, and launched a doctoral example of James Parkes himself - a very Human and Social Sciences in Russia’, seminar. These were attended by Parkes PhD important function of the Institute. presenting a paper on ‘Regional studies in the and MA students (see specific reports). Alongside contributing regularly to our rich Belorussian Soviet Republic’ based on Although happy to be back teaching outreach programme in the Parkes Institute, I archival research carried out at the undergraduates and immersing myself in have worked on radio and television Belorussian Academy of Sciences. Although Russian and Soviet history, I particularly documentaries, advised local and national focused on non-Jewish history, this paper enjoyed teaching the extremely enthusiastic museum exhibitions and written articles for reveals some fascinating aspects of the group of Parkes postgraduate students of the press, especially relating to First World scientific collaboration between Jews and whom four had a strong interest in the history War centenary events. It has, in short, been a Belorussians. I am particularly interested in of East-European Jewish history and wrote somewhat exhausting but deeply fulfilling conducting further research into this very their MA dissertations under my supervision. year. much under-researched area as part of my This wonderful teaching year culminated in a ongoing project on minorities in Eastern very rewarding and stimulating trip to Poland Dr Claire Le Foll Europe (1905-1939). with my MA students. Lecturer in Eastern European History After a semester away on research leave in This year was particularly demanding in Professor Sarah Pearce 2013, this year has been very busy both in terms of administration. Apart from dealing Ian Karten Professor of Ancient terms of teaching and my administrative with incoming and outgoing exchange Jewish Studies responsibilities. In the first semester, in students in my role as Study abroad Within the department of History, this is my addition to my second year module on ‘Jews coordinator for History, I convened the second year as Head of Department. I in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union’, I Jewish History and Culture MA/MRes continue to teach at undergraduate and co-taught a very popular module on ‘Stalin programme (with the invaluable help of Jane postgraduate level, with the bulk of my and Stalinism’. In the second semester, I Gerson for the London side). Although this teaching focused on a Year 2 course on 29 ‘Cleopatra’s Egypt’, the context (Ptolemaic primarily on the Jewish philosopher Philo of about the reception of Josephus in Anglo- and early Roman Egypt) for much of my work Alexandria, and the ways in which his work as Jewry since 1841. on the history and culture of Greek-speaking an interpreter of the Greek Bible opens up 2013 saw my final and seventh year as co-chair Jews in the Greek and Roman worlds. 63 new perspectives on the world of first- (with Dr Ellen Birnbaum) of the Philo of students put this course as their first choice century Alexandria and its Jewish and Alexandria Seminar and its annual meetings at for next year, which is very encouraging news non-Jewish communities. A major part of my the North American Society of Biblical and a great incentive to further develop current research involves the preparation of a Literature. teaching in this field. I also helped to set up new English translation and commentary on and teach a new final year course on ‘The Philo’s On the Decalogue for the Philo of In March 2014, I took up the role of Editor Bible and History’, ranging from the ancient Alexandria Commentary Series. I will be (working alongside Sacha Stern) of the world to the present day, with contributions presenting a paper at a panel dedicated to my Journal of Jewish Studies, and I continue to from me on the use of the Bible in Henry work on this commentary at the Society of serve as Associate Editor (with David Runia VIII’s divorce and in debates about slavery in Biblical Literature annual meeting which and Gregory Sterling) of The Studia Philonica nineteenth-century America. I had the takes place this year in San Diego; this will be Annual (SPA), as well as contributing to the privilege of supervising Claire Skilton’s an excellent opportunity to learn from my International Bibliography team responsible excellent MA dissertation on ‘Thackeray: the colleagues, with respondents including Hindy for the supplements to SPA. Man and the Historian. A Case Study in the Najman (Yale), Manuel Alexandre (Lisbon), Critical Reception of Flavius Josephus’, in James Royse (Claremont, CA), and Abraham Dr Dan Levene which Claire delved into the archives at Eton Terian (National Academy of Sciences, Reader in Jewish History and Culture and Cambridge and uncovered a good deal of Armenia). Every year offers new directions, challenges new and valuable material. I am currently a collaborator on an AHRC and experiences, and this year was no My research continues to focus on the project based at the on exception. In regards to teaching the highlight reception and interpretation of traditions of ‘The Reception of Josephus in Jewish Culture for me was the chance to convene the Jewish the Bible in the Second Temple period, and, from the Eighteenth Century to the Present’, History and Culture MA Core-Course: ‘Jews more generally, in the culture and society of and to that end I have presented several and Non-Jews: Relations from Antiquity to Jews in the Hellenistic world and the early papers on ‘Josephus in the Jewish Chronicle’, the Present’. Having also, later in the year, Roman Empire. My current research focuses a surprisingly fertile source of information given a lecture to our MA group in London I

Dan Levene and Ewa 30 Balicka-Witakowska had a chance to work with a great group of MA Dr Mark Levene Dr Kathrin Pieren students with a wide variety of interests in Reader in Comparative History Rothschild Post-doctoral Research Fellow Jewish history. Much of the other teaching I On 12 December 2013, with days to spare for Since April 2014 I am in the second year of my did this year was with first years which is on the completion of the Research Excellence part-time fellowship, which I am holding the other spectrum of student experience. Framework (REF) the two volumes of The alongside my part-time role as Curator and This teaching is especially gratifying as it Crisis of Genocide, were published on schedule Manager of Petersfield Museum. offers the possibility of introducing a wide by Oxford University Press. I should add that In the first 15 months of my research on the range of Jewish topics to new students for this would never have been brought to history of Jewish museums in Britain from whom this is all new ground. The other completion without the bibliography the 1950s to the present I collected a great teaching experience that I particularly prepared by Parkes doctoral student, Jennifer amount of data, including committee enjoyed was the Institute’s November Study Craig-Norton. So unbounded thanks to her! minutes, exhibition programmes, education Day on the topic ‘What is Judaism?’. I Thus, ends a long chapter in this individual’s packs, photographs, marketing brochures and contributed a talk on the Ethiopian Jews in research work. Though not quite. Reception similar material, and I started to process the which I highlighted the tensions between of the books are now doing the rounds, and in information. In order to assess how the role current identities and recent research on addition to anticipated reviews in academic and significance of Jewish museums is their historical origins. journals, there has been an important notice perceived today, I am currently scheduling in Corriere della Sera and an expected review In terms of research it has been for me a dual interviews with museum staff and other soon in the leading Israeli daily Yediot path of both ongoing and new research stakeholders and prepare some audience Aharanoth. Readers may note the omission of directions. Work has progressed on the research. In spring 2014 I presented first the British broadsheets - which is a matter of preparation of the Berlin Museum collection outcomes of the project in the Public History regret. Whether a further volume in this of late antique magical texts. This fine Seminar series at the Institute of Historical genocide series - focused on the period of the collection of just over 140 specimens contains Research. Moreover, I organised an Cold War - ever sees the light of day will be mainly healing incantation which is akin to international panel on Jewish museums for dependent on sufficient research funding to prayer in style. This material provides a the annual conference of the European free me for a prolonged period of writing. snapshot into the popular belief systems of Association for Jewish Studies in Paris this Currently, I am involved in a minor way in a the Jews and fellow Aramaic speaking summer. populations of Mesopotamia; the region project to make a film on Indian Jewry and in known today as Iraq. I lead a team of a more major way as historical consultant for Parallel to this research, I am working on two specialists from the UK, Italy and Israel in a scoping study for a possible ‘Balfour articles on the early history of Jewish this work. This year we have finished a Declaration’ exhibition at the Jewish museums in Britain. Furthermore, I advise detailed catalogue of the Berlin collection and Museum, London. A particular pleasure of the Ben Uri Gallery in London, one of the are in the midst of preparing the first volume this last year has been involvement in the MA organisations whose history I have been of four in which these manuscripts will be class at LJCC, where I used to teach some researching, on a project to conserve their published in full detail with translation and quarter of century ago. I found the experience archival sources and make them available to commentary. so stimulating that I am going back to teach a the wider public. I will also be involved in class on Jews and Greeks - the modern period, curating the historical part of their centenary My newer area of research that is, with a focus on Salonika, in the exhibition in summer 2015, which includes autumn. Salonika indeed is a particular oral history research. focuses on Ethiopian research focus currently. But then Levantine In the spring term I tutored a group project cross-fertilisations and interconnections healing and protective for second year BA students. Furthermore, I between peoples have always been a taught on Jewish museums on both MA particular interest of mine. As had the nature manuscripts. courses on Jewish History and Culture in of their modern rupture. The partnership Southampton and London, and I contributed This branch of the Ethiopic literature is very seminar between the Parkes MA London and to a Parkes Study Day with a presentation on poorly studied and so it is my intention to MA Southampton students at LJCC in late Jewish art. This coming autumn I am due to open it up to greater scrutiny using my March was one such occasion for such an teach a first year BA course on ‘Migration, experience with its Jewish equivalent. exploration, the subject being the Identity, and Politics: The Jewish East End, Ethiopia is a rather inaccessible mountainous circumstances of the Palestinian Nakba as set 1880s-1950s’. region that has rich and ancient indigenous against the Israeli war of independence. For literary traditions. Once an empire that was anybody interested more broadly in my take respected by both Rome and Persia, its on the nature of (genocidal) ruptures of this uniquely Old Testament inspired brands of kind the Holocaust included see the podcast Christianity and Judaism have much to interview for new books in genocide studies inform us. Having visited Ethiopia once again www.newbooksingenocidestudies.com. At this year to give a series of lectures, I have just over an hour in length - this is the nearest strengthened my network of collaborators thing on hand to an hour long distillation of and scope of research. the over 1000 pages of Crisis of Genocide.

31 Anne Frank Museum at the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Dr Tom Plant colleagues on the outreach team and my Dr Andrea Reiter Karten Postdoctoral Outreach Fellow wider Parkes colleagues for their support Reader in Modern Languages and Fellow of It has been a busy but productive and throughout the year. It is difficult to select a the Parkes Institute enjoyable year of teaching, outreach and highlight from such a successful year for My main achievement, apart from taking over research. I have been fortunate to take on an Parkes outreach, however for perhaps the as the Director of the Faculty of Humanities expanded teaching role this year, delivering a most rewarding event was Holocaust Graduate School, was the publication of my new course on ‘Jews in Germany before the Memorial Day 2014, organised in conjunction book Contemporary Jewish Writers: Austria Holocaust’ (devised by my colleague Shirli with Parkes colleagues and Southampton after Waldheim which appeared last Gilbert), in addition to established courses Solent University. Hugely important in its December. This book was launched in two such as ‘Who is Anne Frank?’ and ‘The Making own right, for me the event also captures the events: in April at the Austrian Cultural of Englishness’. The highlight of my teaching diverse outreach work that Parkes does Forum in London and in May at the has been my third year Special Subject on the including work with local schools and Literaturhaus in Vienna. The latter event also Holocaust, which has been one of the most colleges, wider adult education and public featured one of the authors whose work I am enjoyable and stimulating units I have ever engagement. I’d like to thank Christian Scott discussing in my book. taught. at Itchen , Rebecca Stratton from South Downs College, as well I have also taken over the editorship of the I was also privileged to be as students from both institutions, for their bulletin for the PEN-Zentrum support and participation in Holocaust deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland / PEN nominated by my students, Memorial Day. Special thanks should also go Centre German Writers Abroad. The first to Phil Gibson and Southampton Solent newsletter I have been responsible for along with other Parkes University, whose support for HMD has appeared in June. colleagues, for a SUSU always been unfailing, and to Sr Catherine Cruz, Graham Cole, Matt Fletcher, James Professor Joachim Schlör Excellence in Teaching Jordan and Sarah Shawyer for their help and Professor of Modern Jewish/non-Jewish Award for ‘Contribution to support in organising the event. Relations When Dame Julia Neuberger gave a talk at the Finally, I have continued to work on adapting Academic Support’. University of Southampton some years ago my PhD thesis, an investigation of she mentioned that her mother, born in My outreach responsibilities have continued constructions of identity in three Anglo- Heilbronn/Germany in 1915, had come to and expanded this year. Sarah Shawyer and I Jewish youth movements in the 1940s and England as a refugee in 1937. Liesel Schwab, were joined as junior outreach fellows by 1950s, into a book. I am also beginning to nee Rosenthal, managed to bring her brother Jennifer Craig-Norton in 2013, and by Jen outline a new project on Jewish youth in and her parents out of Germany, and in her Arnold in 2014 following Sarah’s departure. 1960s Britain, exploring young Jews’ later years she was an active member of the Parkes outreach activities would be neither relationship with wider developments in Association of Jewish Refugees and possible nor successful without the British youth culture and society in this contributor to AJR Information. Since enthusiastic and dedicated support of our period. Heilbronn has been my place of birth as well, I colleagues, and I would like to thank both my went up to Julia after her talk, and some 32 months later, in her flat in London, we opened I am studying vernacular books and I have substantially expanded my teaching two boxes full of bundles of letters which her pamphlets that were written and published this year, which has been a special pleasure mother had kept, and left like that, until her between 1450 and 1750 with the sole and for me in terms of being able to work more death in 2002 – hundreds of letters that explicit aim of promulgating fear and hatred closely with colleagues in the Parkes Institute document Liesel Schwab’s emigration to of Jews amongst a less learned ‘popular and History, as well as with the students, who England, her efforts to help her family, her readership/audience’. By analysing the have been fantastic! I have a new third year own development as a newly independent development and nature of the rhetoric, course on ‘The Bible and History’ which is you woman who experienced her emigration arguments, images and vocabulary used to team-taught with Sarah Pearce, Mark Stoyle as an emancipation. During my research leave depict Jews as an inherently alien and hostile and Nick Karn. I am a big fan of team- in semester one, I have worked my way group during the early modern period, he teaching, and this module provided an through the letters, made contact with family members and relatives, searched for intends to demonstrate how the language of opportunity to discuss a fascinating subject additional information in archives in demonization used in twenty-first century with students and colleagues alike. Many Heilbronn and elsewhere, and finally ‘popular’ “Hate literature” targetting Jews thanks to them for making the module so managed to finish a book manuscript which has deep roots running back to early printed enjoyable! I also developed a second year will hopefully be published in May 2015 – for propaganda works. In March I published my course on ‘Rebels with a Cause: The Liesel’s 100th birthday. third book: the first critical edition, study and Historical Origins of Christianity’, which translation into English of the highly- reflects my particular interests in Jewish- Apart from this I have given papers at influential seventeenth-century Spanish Christian relations and questions of the conferences in Hamburg (on Robert Gilbert anti-Semitic polemic of Fray Francisco de ‘parting of the ways’ (a term first coined by as a translator of American musical comedy), Torrejoncillo, Centinela contra Judios puesta en James Parkes). This module ran for the first in London (on a song written by Robert la torre de la Iglesia de Dios (Madrid, 1674). time and the students on the course were Gilbert and Hermann Leopoldi during their brilliant – really engaged and thoughtful and exile in New York, “da wär’s halt gut wenn I am presently completing an absolute pleasure to teach. I am looking man Englisch könnt”), and in Los Angeles (on forward to teaching both courses again Werner Richard Heymann and his a monograph provisionally next year. contribution to Hollywood movies and the entitled “Anti-Semitic exile community there). In terms of outreach, I have been really Conspiracy Theories in pleased with the new directions that we have I had the wonderful opportunity to spend the Early Modern Iberian taken the outreach programme this year, semester two on a visiting Professorship at whilst continuing to build on our existing the Centre for Jewish Studies, Graz World: Religion and the activities (see report within this Annual University – teaching three courses, one on Politics of Fear”. Review). I am very committed to widening Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, one on the participation and so have been really “Ethnography of Migration” (a possible next Dr Helen Spurling delighted that we have been able to develop book project), and one on German-Austrian- off-campus adult education, build further Ian Karten Research and Outreach Fellow Jewish cabaret, operetta, and film in exile. I partnerships with local communities, and have given a public lecture on Victor Laszlo, This year I have very much enjoyed the also work with a range of local state schools the imagined leader of the European opportunity to develop my research on and colleges. There have been so many anti-fascist resistance in Michael Curtiz Jewish apocalypticism in Late Antiquity, rewarding moments this year that it is very movie ‘Casablanca’ (1942), and I have including working on my next book on Pirqe difficult to single out one in particular, but it organized a workshop on “The Sea Voyage as Mashiah, a Hebrew midrashic apocalypse was very important to me when a local an experience of transition in the migration from Palestine. I was particularly pleased to teacher told me that we had shown her process” (20 June), bringing together be invited to speak on the subject at Oxford students that they did have the talent to go to researchers from Germany, Austria and and get feedback on my arguments and ideas. university, given them the confidence to Switzerland to discuss the possibilities of I have also been working with old Parkesian, apply, as well as nuture their enthusiasm for future cooperation, joint research projects Hannah Ewence, on an edited collection for the subject. and publications in the context of this Routledge entitled Visualising Jews through the maritime topic. Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Special thanks go to Tony, James, Claire and Jewishness and Judaism, which has required Sarah for their unstinting support throughout Dr François Soyer much hard work but also lots of opportunities the last year, and to Tom Plant, Sarah Lecturer to have interesting conversations with Shawyer, Jennifer Craig-Norton, Jen Arnold and Tracy Storey for all their extraordinary I am currently conducting research funded by Hannah. I was pleased to finally see in print hard work on our outreach programme. the Australian Research Council on the topic my Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise, a Ultimately, however, it is due to the support of anti-semitic conspiracy theories in the collection of translations on Jewish concepts of and contributions of all members of Parkes early modern Iberian world (Spain, Portugal Gehinnom and Gan Eden published by across the whole range of outreach activities and their overseas empires). Eerdmanns. that our work in this area is so successful.

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Dr Karen Robson Sir David Lionel Salomons. Born in 1885, he was one of the lost Senior Archivist generation of young men lost in the First World War. A captain Special Collections Report: Archives and Manuscripts in the 1st/3rd Kent Fortress Engineers, he died at Mudros Bay in the Dardenelles in 1915. In 1952 James Parkes wrote a booklet relating the story of the three David Salomons at Broomhill in Kent. The house had been The draft of the booklet by Parkes, together with transferred to Kent County Council and had become the David correspondence and other papers relating to it, form part of Salomons House convalescent home. The proceeds of Parkes’ collection MS 60 the archive of James Parkes. The first part of booklet were to be used in aid of the patients of the home. this archive came to the University of Southampton alongside the Parkes Library in 1964. Given this Parkes connection, it is Between them the three David Salomons lived at Broomhill for fitting that in 2014, the Archives and Manuscripts acquired two just over a century from 1829 onwards, a century of immense large volumes of papers relating to Salomons family members, change in British life. Sir David Salomons, first Baronet most notably the first two Davids. The papers, which date from (1797-1873), was a banker who also had a distinguished public 1810 to 1924, provide a fascinating glimpse into Sir David career, serving as Lord Mayor of London and as Member of Salomons’ public career and to Sir David Lionel Goldsmid- Parliament for Greenwich. Salomons was first elected as MP Stern-Salomons’ scientific research, including relating to before the Jewish emancipation bill was introduced and was electricity, motor vehicles and the improvement of the prosecuted from not taking the oath of allegiance. His nephew construction of fire proof buildings. There is material on his and heir, Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons (1851- support for the conversion of a site for the use of the Royal 1925) was a barrister, scientist and inventor who pioneered Engineers in 1912. Captain David Salomons was an officer in the developments in motoring and electricity. The final David, Royal Engineers before raising the Kent Fortress Engineers. Captain David Reginald Salomons, was the only son and heir of 34 Parkes Library Report

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Jenny Ruthven The task of making the material available to readers continued over Parkes Librarian (printed collections), Hartley Library the next few years. The books were catalogued and classified, and the Work this year has concentrated on cataloguing books purchased bookplate re-designed – the Parkes squirrel giving way to an open through the library book fund, with over 400 titles having been added book – and by January 1969 the Parkes Library was described as being to the collection since last August. Material has been acquired in a readily accessible for consultation and reading. wide range of subjects in support of the varied teaching and research The subsequent development of the collection has resulted from the interests of members of the Parkes Institute. Recent acquisitions continued support of the University Library and also the generous include Jewish Immigrants in London 1880-1939 by Susan L. donations and deposits made by both individuals and organisations. Tananbaum (Pickering & Chatto, 2014), Josephus, the Emperors and the In the case of individuals, this can range from the donation of a single City of Rome: from Hostage to Historian William den Hollander (Brill, item which fills a gap in the collection, to the presentation of a large 2014) and Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban personal library which represents a lifetime of collecting. Zionism Hizky Shoman (Academic Studies, 2014). Organisations which have contributed to the development of the It is fifty years since the newly arrived Parkes Library was reported in collection include the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, the Board the University Library’s Annual Report as being an ‘unexpected of Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish Association, and in these cases it is source of great interest and value to several departments of the not unknown for books to arrive by the lorry load! University’. The Library of 6,500 books and pamphlets was officially The Parkes Library now includes some 28,000 items and continues to opened by Edmund de Rothschild in June 1965, the Deputy Vice- develop as the major resource for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish Chancellor using the occasion to announce the establishment of a relations envisaged by James Parkes and all those involved in its Parkes Fellowship, which it was hoped, would attract young scholars transfer to Southampton in 1964. who would carry on the work of James Parkes. 35 Publications and Papers by Members of the Parkes Institute

36 Dr Devorah Baum TEAtime lecture, Southampton, February 2014 ‘European Jewry and the Great War’, Goethe ‘Teaching Fact with Fiction: The Holocaust and Film University, Frankfurt, April 2014. Publications in the Classroom’, Royal Wootton Bassett, May 2014 [with Aimee Bunting] ‘Constructing a (British) ‘Editorial’, Jewish Quarterly vol.60 no.3 (Autumn- ‘Reviewing the Extermination: Dr Who, Daleks and Holocaust Narrative: A Cultural Reading of British Winter 2013), 2-3. the Changing Face of Jewish Identity’, Ian and Co-Presents to the Shoah’, International ‘Writing Memories: A Jewish Quarterly Mildren Karten Memorial Lecture, Southampton, Conference ‘Research Fields of Jewish Cultural Conversation with Eva Hoffman and Lisa May 2014 History’, University of Salzburg, May 2014. Appignanesi’, interview in Jewish Quarterly vol.60 ‘Will Tomorrow Be a Wonderful Day for the Juggler? ‘Holocaust Memorialization in Britain’, Conference no. 3 (Autumn-Winter 2013), 31-35. Survivors in Early Postwar Film’, Lifelong Learning ‘Memory and Contestation: Histories and ‘Textuality’, in Nadia Valman and Laurence Roth study day, Southampton, June 20014 Representations of African Enslavement and the Holocaust in Britain Today’, Pears Institute/UCL (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary ‘The Elephant in the Room? The Absent Presence of Legacies of British Slave ownership project, June Jewish Cultures (Routledge, August 2014). Anne Frank in Modern Film and Television’, 2014. Papers Southampton, June 2014 ‘Jewish “Illegal Immigration” to Palestine and the ‘Dr Who and Jewish/non-Jewish Relations’, ‘Secularisation and its Discontents’, Warwick Impact of the Holocaust, 1945-48’, Parkes Institute European Assocation for Jewish Studies, Paris, July University, Religion and Literature Symposium, cultural day, June 2014. 2014. Warwick, May 2014. ‘Britain and the Holocaust’, European Association of Dr James Jordan Professor Tony Kushner Jewish Studies international conference, Paris, July 2014. Publications Publications ‘The Politics of British Jewry and the Memory of the ‘The Boys (and Girls) Not From Brazil: From Russia From Nuremberg to Hollywood: the Holocaust in World War I’, Conference, Jewish Historical Society to Rio and Back Again via Southampton and the courtroom of American fictive film(in press, of England, September 2014. Hamburg’ in Tobias Brinkmann (ed.), Points of Vallentine Mitchell, 2014) Passage (Berg, 2013), pp.148-62. Dr Claire Le Foll ‘Jewish Migration and the Archive’, Jewish Culture ‘Loose Connections? Britain and the “Final and History, volume 15, issues 1-2, April-August 2014, Publications Solution”’, in Caroline Sharples and Olaf edited by James Jordan, Lisa Leff and Joachim Jensen(eds), Britain and the Holocaust: Book review of Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Lenin’s Schlöer. Remembering and Representing War and Genocide Jewish Question (Yale University Press, 2010), ‘A Wandering View: Writing Jews and Jewishness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp.51-70. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (forthcoming on British Television’, European Judaism, Volume 47, 2014). ‘British Jewry and Social Responsibility’, Jewish 2014, edited by Axel Stahler and Sue Vice Quarterly vol.60 no.3 (2013), pp.66-9. ‘La première étude ethnographique sur les Juifs de (forthcoming) Russie: science juive ou science impériale?’, in ‘Another Man’s Faith? The Image of Judaism in BBC Papers J. Baumgarten and C. Trautmann-Waller (eds), Television’s Men Seeking God (1954)’ in Hannah ‘Belgian refugees in the First World War’, BBC Radio Folklore juif (CNRS éditions, 2014). Ewence and Helen Spurling, eds, Visualizing Jews script meeting, Folkestone, October 2013. through the Ages (forthcoming, Routledge, 2014) Papers ‘Stephen Lawrence and Anne Frank’, Parkes ‘Regional Studies in the BSSR: a Soviet attempt to ‘The Wandering Who’, Jewish Quarterly, 60:3-4 Institute cultural day, Southampton, November create an all-embracing scientific discipline’, (2013), pp. 71-74 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/044901 2013. 0X.2013.855448 international workshop ‘Human sciences, social ‘The Memory of Migration: Past, Present and sciences, natural sciences: contacts, influences, ‘“A Strange, Special Day. Playing a Ghost, yet Future’, International conference ‘Migration and the common discourses’, Paris, October 2013. Haunting Myself.” The Holocaust, the Magical and Uses of Memory’, University of Copenhagen, ‘Early twentieth-century Jews and Belorussians: the Real in Elijah Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn’ (1993) November 2013. in Symbolism, volume XII, edited by Axel Stahler, Scrutinizing ‘anti-imperial’ relations between Jews December 2013 ‘Co-Presents and the Holocaust: Allied POWs in and a ‘small nation’, Modern Jewish History Seminar, Auschwitz’, Parkes Institute seminar, November Oxford University, February 2014. ‘“And the trouble is where to begin to spring 2013. surprises on you. Perhaps a place you might least ‘Jews and small nations in Eastern Europe’, like to remember.” This is Your Life and the BBC’s ‘Can the Jewish Prostitute Speak?’, Cape Town European Association of Jewish Studies images of the Holocaust in the twenty years before Holocaust Museum, November 2013. international conference, Paris, July 2014. ‘The Memory of the Kindertransport’, Fritz Bauer Holocaust’ in Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen Dr Mark Levene (eds.) Britain and the Holocaust: Remembering and Institute, Leo Baeck Institute, Frankfurt, November Representing War and Genocide (Palgrave, 2013) 2013. Publications ‘Reflections on Writing a Jewish history of Papers, Talks and Conferences The Crisis of Genocide, vol. 1, Devastation: The Southampton’, Local History Group, Southampton, European Rimlands, 1912-1938 (London and New ‘A Strange, Special Day. Playing a Ghost, yet January 2014. York: Oxford University Press 2013). Haunting Myself.’ Memory and Trauma in Elijah ‘The Memory of Atlantic Park, Eastleigh: Spitfires The Crisis of Genocide, vol. 2, Annihilation: The Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn, Portsmouth, July 2013 versus the stateless’, Parkes Institute conference European Rimlands, 1939-1953 (London and New ‘This is Your Life and the Holocaust’, Southampton, ‘Transmigrancy, Place and Memory’, Southampton, York: Oxford University Press 2013). August 2013 April 2014. with Daniele Conversi, ‘Subsistence societies, ‘A Wandering View of Jews and Jewishness’, ‘War and Minorities: Towards a Theoretical Model’, globalisation, climate change and genocide: Birkbeck, September 2013 International Conference ‘War and Minorities’, Discourses of vulnerability and resilience’, The University of Chester, April 2014. ‘The Holocaust and the Postcolonial’, Wiener International Journal of Human Rights vol. 18 no.3 Library, January 2014 ‘Contesting the Memory of British Jewry and the (2014), 279-295. ‘Exploring the Holocaust and the Moving Image:’, First World War’, International conference 37 Papers (ed.) The Image and Its Prohibition in Jewish ‘”Solange wir auf dem Schiff waren, hatten wir ein Antiquity (Journal of Jewish Studies Supplements 2; Zuhause”. Reisen als kulturelle Praxis im ‘Re-evaluating the structural violence in Britain’s rise Oxford, 2013). Migrationsprozess jüdischer Auswanderer’ in: to hegemony through the prism of the Voyage. Jahrbuch für Reise- und ‘Anthropocene’, The unequal dead: catastrophe and ‘Philo of Alexandria on the Second Commandment,’ Tourismusforschung 2013: Mobilität, hg. v. Johanna the historical reproduction of inequality in Sarah Pearce (ed.), The Image and its Prohibition Rolshoven u. Dunja Sporrer, S. 226-246 colloquium, Centre for History and Economics, in Jewish Antiquity, Journal of Jewish Studies Magdalene College, Cambridge, March 2014 Supplements (Oxford, 2013), 49–76. ‘Exilforschung. Ein internationales Jahrbuch. Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Gesellschaft für ‘Minorities, Genocide, and the Psychopathology of ‘Rethinking the Other in Antiquity’, Antichthon vol. Exilforschung. Band 31: Dinge des Exils’ hg. von the Great War’, Minorities and the First World War, 47 (2013), 140–155. Doerte Bischoff u. Joachim Schlör. München 2013 International Conference, University of Chester, ‘On the Decalogue,’ in Louis H. Feldman et al (eds), April 2014. Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related Conference Report ‘Invented Jewish Traditions. Jüdisches Erbe in Europa zwischen Erinnerung und ‘Armenians and Jews and the Crystallisation of the to Scripture (Lincoln, NE, 2013), 989–1032. Inszenierung’, 17.11.2013-20.11.2013, Hamburg, in: Minorities Question during World War One’, The Papers H-Soz-u-Kult, 20.12.2013, http://hsozkult.geschichte. Great War, Analysis and Interpretation, hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=5146. International Conference, Sapienza University, ‘Philo’s Sources’, panel organised at the Society of Rome, June 2014. Biblical Literature, Baltimore, MD, November 2013. Papers ‘Jews and Intermarriage in Roman Alexandria’, King’s ‘Imagining an alternative path of history: E. P. ‘Robert Gilbert as a translator‘, Conference Migrants College, London, January 2014. Thompson and the coming of the Anthropocene’, as ‘Translators’: Mediating External Influences on ‘What can radical historians offer to a world ‘Jewish Perspectives on Slavery’, University of Post World War II Western Europe, 1945-1973 threatened by climate change?’ workshops, Raphael Chichester, January 2014. Conference, University of Hamburg, 24-26 October Samuel History Centre, Birkbeck College, University ‘Josephus and the Jewish Chronicle’, Parkes 2013 of London, May 2014. Seminar, Feb 2014. ‘Werner Richard Heymann in Hollywood’, Dr Dan Levene ‘Book Launch: The Image and Its Prohibition in Conference Los Angeles as a crossing-site of Jewish Antiquity’, The David Patterson Seminars, German-Jewish-American encounters Conference, Publications Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, (May University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 7-9 With D. Marx and S. Bhayro, ““Gabriel is on their 2014). February 2014 Right.” Angelic Protection in Jewish Magic and ‘Josephus and the Jewish Chronicle: 1907-1931’, “Da wär’s halt gut, wenn man Englisch könnt‘. Babylonian Lore,’ Studia Mesopotamica, Jahrbuch AHRC Workshop: ‘The Jewish Reception of Robert Gilbert and Hermann Leopoldi in their New für altorientalische Geschichte und Kultur, I (2014), Josephus in the 20th and 21st Centuries’, (June Yorker exile, conference Singing a Song in a Foreign 185-198. 2014). Land, Royal College of Music, 21-23 February 2014 ‘Victor Laszlo – ein Wunsch-Bild aus der Emigration’, Papers and Talks Dr Kathrin Pieren Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 4 June 2014 ‘The Jews of Ethiopia’, Parkes Institute ‘What is Papers ‘The Sea Voyage as a transitional experience. Judaism?’ Study day, November 2013 ‘The Social and Cultural Role of Jewish Museums – Introduction’, workshop The Sea Voyage as a ‘The collection of incantation bowls in Berlin, it’s transitional experience in migration processes spectacular array of curses and some examples of the Case of Britain’, World Union of Jewish Studies Conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 28 July workshop, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 20 June scribal characteristics’, guest lecture at the Jewish 2014. Studies Institute at the Martin Luther University of 2013 Halle-Wittenberg, November 2013 ‘From Nation to Migration: The Changing Dr Helen Spurling Interpretations of Jewish History and Art in ‘Aramaic dialects and intercultural relations’, guest Publications lecture at University of Addis Ababa, January 2014 Anglo-Jewish Museums’, Public History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, 7 May 2014 ‘Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise’, in Richard ‘Magic, , guest Bauckham, James Davila and Alexander Panayotov lecture at University of Addis Ababa, January 2014 Dr Andrea Reiter (eds), Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More ‘Samtla (Search And Mining Tools with Linguistic Pubications Noncanonical Scriptures (Grand Rapids: Analysis)’, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Eerdmanns, 2013), pp.699-753. Cambridge 2014 Contemporary Jewish Writers: Austria after ‘Ethiopian Jews’, London Jewish Cultural Centre, Waldheim (Routledge 2013). Papers and Talks London, May 2014 Professor Joachim Schlör ‘Jewish apocalypticism in the seventh-eighth ‘The Lefafa Sedeq, also Known as The Bandlet of centuries CE’, Seminar on Jewish History and Righteousness’, at a Conference titled ‘Scripted Publications Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period, University Forms of Magic Knowledge: Grimoires in the Matrix ‘Heimat im Koffer. – “Oder über das of Oxford, January 2014. of Western Cultures’, The Hebrew University of Emigrantendasein.” (Falls nicht zu ‘Apocalypticism and Apologetic in Late Antiquity: Jerusalem, the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, traurig).”Deutschösterreichisch-jüdisches Kabarett The case of Pirqe Mashiaḥ’, British Association for Jerusalem, June 2014 im amerikanischen Exil”’ in Anat Feinberg (Hg.), Jewish Studies, July 2014. Jews on the German Stage. Aschkenas. Zeitschrift Professor Sarah Pearce ‘Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Traditions in Late für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden 2014 (in press) Antiquity’, European Association for Jewish Studies, Publications ‘”Da wär’s halt gut, wenn man Englisch könnt!” July 2014. The Words of Moses: Studies in the Reception of Robert Gilbert, Hermann Leopoldi and the Role of Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period (Texts Languages between Exile and Return’ in and Studies in Ancient Judaism 152; Tübingen, Mohr Przekładaniec Journal of Literary Translation, Siebeck, 2013). 28/2014, ed. By Magdalena Wligórska (in press)

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