Real privilege to do this conversation on objects, parents, grief and Jews from the Middle East with my dear friend Leslie Hakim-Dowek. jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/lovin...

Join us at the Centre for Jewish Studies @universityofleeds.bsky.social. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

In the meantime, you can read the story of this object and the Roth Collection here: www.leeds.ac.uk/news-arts-cu...

This complex, fraught, and tragic object is currently being investigated by a team at the University of Leeds led by @jaydprosser.bsky.social. The sole has several layers, and multi-spectral imaging is being undertaken to understand the whole object. What are the other layers? We'll know soon.

leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/t... Author of this actually my assistant on the project Sophia Lambert.

I am seeking academic and sectoral partners to join a consortium for a Horizon (EU) 2025 funding bid for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network focused on Jewish Cultural Heritage. #Jewish #Heritage #Museums #Tourism #Culture www.b2match.com/e/radiance-m...

Applying for EU funding. Please contact me if this call resonates for you: Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage. platform.crowdhelix.com/opportunitie....

A year ago today. Paperback and US edition coming soon. Nothing without this person.

REF2029: 'shatters the artificial barrier between “prestigious” research and real-world impact.'. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/lets...

www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-and-l... @jewishnews.bsky.social @rabbirobyn.bsky.social

I wrote about some precedents for yesterday's UK Supreme Court decision in @uk.theconversation.com. @transwatch.bsky.social @stonewalluk.bsky.social theconversation.com/trans-rights...

Not anymore apparently, Simone. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

As I return fro the US researching Salonika Holocaust material culture in Jewish archives, I am reeling from what they, and my friends, are facing. Maybe In a few months time, I would not have been able to do such independent research. @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/universities....

Today I met a curator of a small Holocaust museum in Nebraska who's already had to cancel an exhibition. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Wednesday April 2 2025, 6-7:30 PM. Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns. A conversation, with respondents Carol Becker (Columbia School of the Arts) and Mikhal Dekel (CUNY Graduate Center). Faculty House, Columbia University. Register here. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My article on the Jewish mahallah of Singapore now out with Journal of Transcultural Studies. Thanks to National Archives and Jewish Welfare Board Singapore for their fantastic resources. Looking forward to further collaboration on mapping the mahallah. heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/tra...

A new issue of the Journal of Transcultural Studies is now available open-access! It features articles by @jaydprosser.bsky.social (Leeds), Alexander Vesey (Tokyo), Ori Sela (Tel Aviv) and Dhruv Raina (New Delhi/Pune). Great reads all; check them out here: heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/tra...

I interviewed my mother about why my Chinese grandmother became such a strong Jew. Here's what she said. More of this story of loving strangers @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk on Sunday. jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/lovin...

My brilliant filmmaker niece, Rosa Prosser, is working on a film about our Asian Jewish legacy in Singapore. Here's a clip. More to come at jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/.../loving-s...

Returns to our mothers' archives. A visual conversation with Leslie Hakim-Dowek at @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk next week. Still a few tickets left. jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/lovin...

Next up: really excited to be in conversation @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk Book Week with my dear friend, photographer Leslie Hakim-Dowek, on our parallel journeys into our mothers' archives. The things they keep. jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/lovin...

Now is precisely the time for loving strangers. @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social tonight. Please join me. www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/event/secret...

These would be used for storing tallit and tefillin and were gifted to Abdallah Iny, for his bar mitzvah in 1883. It’s just incredible to think that these objects survived over 140 years and now have a home in our collection!

Is there an object that fascinates you? Tomorrow, author Jay Prosser is leading a creative workshop for families, where we’ll write stories inspired by special objects in our lives. We asked Jay to share an object that holds deep meaning for him and here’s what he said 👇@jaydprosser.bsky.social

Objects and stories. Touching my mother's refugee past. @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/activitie/br...

I'll be giving away a free copy of my book to the first person to answer my question about camphor. Please come along to @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social this Thursday. www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/event/secret...

Thank you @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for this lovely opportunity talk about Loving Strangers. Geraldine Gudefin a wonderful and very apt host for all things we have in common in Jewish Singapore! megaphone.link/NBNK3036047164

My father's Malay kris. An object I WON'T be bringing to @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social Bring an Object, Tell a Story. www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/activitie/br...

Objects beckon us to tell their stories. This amazing wooden washboard remade into a cricket bat held by @mcrjewishmuseum came to England from Riga around 1910 with Leon Krieger, whose brother Michael, a joiner, remained in Russia. www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/activitie/br....

Join us on Thursday, 20 February for two inspiring events with author @jaydprosser.bsky.social 📖 Perfect for the whole family in the morning and a thought-provoking evening for history lovers. Details below! 👇

A machzor (prayer book) of a Holocaust victim found in Theresienstadt, returned to his granddaughter in the UK some 80 years later. An amazing story, now a brilliant play. The Memorial Scrolls Trust.

A whole new meaning to 'scrolling' at the University of Leeds Cultural Collections. @lulgalleries.bsky.social Digitising scroll rescued from the Holocaust. leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/d...

Tomorrow. I'll be speaking about why Holocaust remembrance matters for a better future.

Very excited to be doing this writing workshop @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social. Bring children too! Thanks to @drsherry.bsky.social for inviting me. www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/activitie/br...

I am honoured to be speaking at the 600 Candles event in @yorkminster.bsky.social on behalf of @York Liberal Jewish Community next Thursday. yorkminster.org/wha.../event...

Truly honoured to be included in Jewish Book Week 2025.

University of Leeds Sophia Lambert discusses her fascinating PhD research on Bradford's Reform Jewish Burial Ground. Zoom Friday. @biajs.bsky.social @progressivejudaism.bsky.social abrahampresentations.aweb.page/p/7602dd18-2...

Work with me on Holocaust Torah scrolls and outreach with different communities. Project intern. Please recirculate. @biajs.bsky.social @holocauststudies.bsky.social @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @lulgalleries.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Jewish 'mahallah' of Singapore: my mother relives her childhood. #Mizrahi #Sephardi #Singapore

Does Singapore have a Raffles-must-fall movement? Apparently so, but without traction. Curious to think about why. newnaratif.com/raffles-must... @garethknapman.bsky.social

The best Jewish memoir last year? My piece on it for @theconversation.com. @rachelcockerell.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-five-bes...

Tomorrow @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social -Brandeis Institute. The women who made me. www.brandeis.edu/hbi/events/i...

Next Wed. Dec. 11: @jaydprosser.bsky.social joins the HBI Conversations Series to discuss “Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, A Legacy, A Son Returns," a moving memoir of his family’s roots in the Singaporean Jewish community, China & among Baghdadi Jews from India. Join us! bit.ly/HBIEVENTS 🧵

Learning from Yorkshire’s Holocaust Torah ​​Scrolls. Excited to announce we've got funding for this project. @lulgalleries.bsky.social, @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social. lahri.leeds.ac.uk/.../learning...

Grateful to get to have public conversation about memoirs, loss and jewishness with @rodgeglass.bsky.social in Edinburgh earlier this week. One of us dressed for summer. The other defeated by the Scottish cold.

Join #hbiconversations !⬇️⬇️ Dec 11 “Loving Strangers” with @jaydprosser.bsky.social Jan 22 “Traces of a Jewish Artist” with @kerrywallach.bsky.social Feb 26 “We Would Never” with Tova Mirvis #jewsky #booksky

If you can't be bothered/don't have time to read my book, here's the musical version. youtu.be/vBnxpmebCvs?...

Looking forward to meeting @rodgeglass.bsky.social and discussing love, loss, memoir - and Jewish legacies. divinity.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Unpacking the camphorwood chest in Edinburgh next Sunday. Thank you, @Hannah Holtschneider for inviting me! ejls.org/2024/11/21/1...