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We research, teach and raise awareness of relations between Jews and non-Jews, from antiquity to the present day. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
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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?

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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...
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📣One week to go until our webinar!
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?

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November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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/...
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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...
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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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...
Das Sinfoniekonzert im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland
www.topographie.de
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
what happens at EHRI meetings, stays at EHRI meetings 🤔🤔🤔
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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...
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
See you this afternoon!
Please join us for the Annual EHRI-UK Lecture with speakers Michal Frankl, Vanden Daelen Veerle, Michal Brandl and Rachel Pistol!
🗓️ Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ehri-uk-an...
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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CFP
Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives of Life-Writing and Ego-Documents (April 2026)
Deadline: 31 December 2025
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CFP: Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents
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October 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"He's half murdered two people...He's not very good at murdering people"👌😂
In this new interview with author & historian Tony Kushner (@parkesinstitute.bsky.social) he shares the research behind his book The Jewish pedlar: An untold criminal history, which is out now. The book delves into a historical crime to shed new light on Jewish history: youtu.be/E89m8t-ii7I #booksky
The Jewish pedlar by Tony Kushner
YouTube video by Manchester University Press
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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You still have time to make it to Vienna for this!

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Gastvortrag | Neil Gregor: Das Sinfoniekonzert in Nazi-Deutschland: Orchester und deren Publika – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft
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October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Please join us for the Annual EHRI-UK Lecture with speakers Michal Frankl, Vanden Daelen Veerle, Michal Brandl and Rachel Pistol!
🗓️ Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ehri-uk-an...
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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EHRI-UK Fellowships | EHRI-UK
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October 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Happening tomorrow!
Our first event of the academic year is taking place in one week!

Join us for a talk from Simone Gigliotti (@rhulholocaustri.bsky.social)

📅 Tuesday 28 October, 6pm GMT
📍Avenue Campus & online via Zoom
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-close-ye...
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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📣CfA for a PhD position on Jewish Literary Legacies of Colonialism after Decolonisation, as part of "Ambivalent Pasts: On Jewish Colonial Experiences," a new joint research project of the Institute for Jewish History and Culture, the Institute for European History and the Centre Marc Bloch
Stellenausschreibung:
0,65 Promotionsstelle / Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in »Jewish Literary Legacies of Colonialism after Decolonization« im Rahmen des Projekts »Ambivalent Pasts: On Jewish Colonial Experiences«
Bewerbungsschluss: 12. Dezember 2025
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October 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026

We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!

Please share!!
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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"Her harsh & nasal voice completely spoils the effect of the music..." Poor Miss Levy!
This 1895 letter from the West London Synagogue Archives made us smile and is old enough to share without causing embarrassment!
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October 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Our first event of the academic year is taking place in one week!

Join us for a talk from Simone Gigliotti (@rhulholocaustri.bsky.social)

📅 Tuesday 28 October, 6pm GMT
📍Avenue Campus & online via Zoom
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-close-ye...
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Unlocking a vital historical resource: the Schonfeld Archive Project phase two

On the strongroom shelves in Archives and Special Collections at the University of Southampton sit over a thousand boxes containing a single twentieth-century Anglo-Jewish collection: the Schonfeld Archive. This…
Unlocking a vital historical resource: the Schonfeld Archive Project phase two
On the strongroom shelves in Archives and Special Collections at the University of Southampton sit over a thousand boxes containing a single twentieth-century Anglo-Jewish collection: the Schonfeld Archive. This valuable collection of primary source material documents the life and work of Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, an influential figure in twentieth-century Jewish history. Active from the 1930s until his death in 1984, Rabbi Schonfeld was instrumental in rescuing Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe and in advancing orthodox Jewish education in the UK.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
📰 The latest Parkes newsletter is out now!

Catch up on new research, publications, events, PGR and alumni updates, plus an interview with @duhaut.bsky.social and highlights from our MA trip to Poland.
Autumn 2025
Welcome to the Parkes Institute newsletter.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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This file from 1924 contains letters from Albert B. Levermore "of Christian parents" but "desirous of becoming a convert to the Jewish faith and a member of the Reformed Synagogue." He completed a course of introduction and was required to present himself for examination in early 1925
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🎧Tony Kushner was a guest on Voice FM's Book Show (@voicefmradio.bsky.social) last Sunday and chatted with Will White about his latest book, The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History
www.voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/playe...
October 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM