Our next lecture is the annual Montefiore Lecture. This year, we're delighted to welcome Hindy Najman (orieloxford.bsky.social) for a talk titled 'Scriptural Vitality and the Shaping of Jewish Tradition'. 🗓️ Tues 3 March, 6:00 pm GMT 📍 Avenue Campus & online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scriptural...

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📢 Exciting opportunity for ECRs & postgrads! Applications are open for 'Holocaust Studies: Navigating the Field', a one-day networking event for ECRs & postgrads at the Imperial War Museum on 26 May 2026. More details below, apply by 31 March ⬇️

Two important #CallForPapers for researchers working in Holocaust studies: Rethinking Holocaust History through Geospatial Approaches (18-19 May, Prague) & Documenting the Holocaust: Testimonies as Historical Evidence (16-17 June, Warsaw) www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Image ©IWM D 25288

Please join us for a talk with Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social for the Annual Karten Lecture 🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 6:00 pm GMT 📍 Avenue Campus & Online 🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-actors-and-the-making-of-jewish-internationalism-tickets-1980464745366?aff=bluesky

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, so we share an item buff.ly/wBvIkTP recently used in our searchroom by a young researcher - the theme of the commemoration this year is 'Bridging Generations', emphasizing the ongoing responsibility of remembrance beyond survivors.

#OnThisDay in 1851 barrister, scientist & inventor Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons was born. The family papers provide a glimpse into his research on electricity, motor vehicles and the improvement of the construction of fire proof buildings buff.ly/HnTWPk4

First, opening remarks from our Director, Professor James Jordan after a welcome from the Mayor of Southampton #HMD #HolocaustMemorialDay

Starting now! Join the livestream of the event here: youtube.com/live/YWM9rK5...

🚨New blog post!🚨 Learn more about #Hampshire’s #Jewish community in this piece by Immy Tozer, who writes about the Historic Jewish Hampshire project as part of her fellowship with with @parkesinstitute.bsky.social ⬇️ hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/blog...

📢Last call to get tickets for Southampton's Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day 2026 event tomorrow evening. To join us, sign up using the link below: 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...

#OnThisDay in 1864 Israel Zangwill was born. A British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, his work earned him the nickname the “Dickens of the Ghetto”. Find out more about his life and work in our blog buff.ly/ByNZFQU @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

There’s still time to join us this week to hear from Immy Tozer about the newest #Hampshire project Historic Jewish Hampshire 🥳 📍 Zoom 🗓️ 14th January ⏰ 7pm Register here: hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/histo... @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social #JewishHistory

On Wednesday, members of the Parkes Institute delivered a series of workshops and a lecture at Barton Peveril Sixth Form College as part of our annual Outreach visit. Students learnt about the Holocaust and Jewish history through a range of sources and contexts. Read more in our upcoming newsletter!

By our honorary fellow Bryan Cheyette!

January is here and that can only mean one thing … the start of our 2026 webinar series 🥳 Kicking the series off we’ll be joined by Immy Tozer, who’ll be discussing the Historic Jewish Hampshire project 📍 Zoom 🗓️ 14th January ⏰ 7pm hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/histo... Please join us!

The second in-person meeting of @ehri-project.eu National Coordinators Committee took place at @unisouthampton.bsky.social during November 2025 with delegates from all 11 national nodes. Read more about the meeting in our Winter Newsletter www.ehri-uk.org/_files/ugd/7... #2025roundup

In the final post of our #2025roundup we reflect that this year @ehri-project.eu officially joined the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance as a Permanent International Partner. Read more about our partnership www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-eric-jo... Best wishes for the New Year from EHRI-UK!

In November 2025 we held our inaugural annual lecture at @parkesinstitute.bsky.social where senior members of @ehri-project.eu discussed ‘Transnational Holocaust Research in a Digital Age’. Subscribe to our newsletter for more news & events in 2026. www.ehri-uk.org/contact-ehri... #2025roundup

Don't miss this webinar with our 2024-25 outreach fellow and postgraduate researcher Immy Tozer!

Applications are now open for the University of Southampton's International Summer School 2026! There's a rich range of courses available, including Public History and Global Cultural Heritage led by Dr Charlotte Joy (Archaeology) and our own Dr Janek Gryta (History).

Some gems from the family album of Herbert Adler, Director of Jewish Education for the UK's Central Committee for Jewish Education in the 1920s and 1930s. For more winter fun content: specialcollectionsuniversityofsouthampton.wordpress.com/2022/12/07/w...

My paper, "Reflections on Translating, Curating and Collaging the Wandering Jew", explores personal and ethnographic insights on working through this thorny legend in textual and visual form, and a workshop hosted at Limmud! journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts...

⚖️ NEW special issue 'Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State' in EthnoScripts: Contemporary Anthropology with BIAJS highlights from co-editors and contributors @samsamev.bsky.social and Yulia Egorova, and also by @anoushka-ar.bsky.social journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts...

🎊 @parkesinstitute.bsky.social at Limmud! I am organising the PhD engagement programme with 5 post/doctoral researchers presenting on Jewish studies. Participants include @josephfinlay.bsky.social, and @hannahewence.bsky.social as mentor! Also, sessions on heritage, academia & Wandering Jews 🎊

☎️Last call for our hybrid panel and Q&A session! ☎️

❗tomorrow❗

Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents University of Southampton, 14 April 2026 Submit by 31 Dec 2025 Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute). More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...

Don't forget to register for our last event of the semester, a talk with Antoinette Moses on "Success or failure: The Evian Conference of 1938" 📍 Avenue Campus (LTC) & online via Zoom 🗓️ Tuesday 2 December, 6 PM GMT 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/success-or...

📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more ➡️ bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/u...

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first of the Nuremberg Trials, which led to the conviction of 19 of the most influential Nazi leaders. Southampton's collections include books on the trials and papers from the subsequent Nuremberg Military Tribunals.

📢There is still time to apply for the EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships! Deadline 30 November 2025 📅 Please share within your networks. @ehri-project.eu @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

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Our Behind the Scenes tour will include a chance to visit our conservation studios and hear about the amazing work the team to to preserve and conserve our collections. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @uosengagement.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social

There's still time to register!

Letters regarding loss of ship Lord Raglan, departed from Liverpool in 1863, & regarding a passenger, Mark Bernstein. Mrs Bernstein wished to remarry and the synagogue required proof of the death of her first husband @biajs.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

Contact us to tell us about the wonderful collections you hold!

Some really interesting correspondence found among the papers of the West London Synagogue respecting Mosaic Law and the proposed marriage of Mr Drucquer and Miss de Meza in 1872. @biajs.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social buff.ly/xHnc1E9

Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents University of Southampton, 14 April 2026 Submit by 31 Dec 2025 Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute). More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...

📣One week to go until our webinar!

Please join us for our annual Interfaith Lecture, delivered this year by Geoffrey Levin 📅Thursday 20 November, 6pm GMT 📍Avenue Campus & Online 🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-palestine-question-a-history-of-american-jews-and-palestinian-rights-tickets-1754138408199?aff=bluesky

Interested in deepening your knowledge of the Holocaust? Want to find out more about the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage and about the scholarships we offer? 🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

Find us in Room 1001 of Sir James Matthews Building, where Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushka-ar.bsky.social is running a collage workshop about her travelling exhibition The Wandering Jew www.southamptonartshumfest.co.uk/artshumday/w...

It's a great honour to have been invited to speak about my book in Berlin again, this time in German, and this time at the @topographie.de - Topographie des Terrors - on 10 December. Details here - do come along if you are in Berlin! www.topographie.de/veranstaltun...

what happens at EHRI meetings, stays at EHRI meetings 🤔🤔🤔

Very nice to see so many people showing up for the annual European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Lecture at the University of Southampton! @ehri-project.eu @ehri-uk.bsky.social @ehri-hr.bsky.social @drpistol.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents University of Southampton, 14 April 2026 Submit by 31 Dec 2025 Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute). More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...

See you this afternoon!

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