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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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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...
Poster for a talk with Antoinette Moses entitled "Success of failure: The Evian Conference of 1938", taking place on Tuesday, 2 December at 6 pm, on Avenue Campus & Online. The poster shows a photo of a man talking to a group of men sitting at a table and listening to him, with a woman and a man in the foreground. Logos of the University of Southampton and the Parkes Institute.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Post text: Interested in starting a PhD at the Parkes Institute in 2026-27? Join a hybrid panel and Q&A session on Wednesday 3 December, 16.00-17.30 (Avenue Campus and Teams). A panel of PhD students and staff will share advice and answer all your questions on the application process, available funding, the joys and challenges of doing a PhD, and things to consider when applying. To receive the link/detail, contact Claire Le Foll c.le-foll@soton.ac.uk. Logo of the Parkes Institute at the bottom of the picture.
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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
Poster advertising The Interfaith Lecture 2025 Our Palestine Question: A History of American Jews and Palestinian Rights, A Talk with Geofrrey Levin, Thursday 20 November, 6 PM, Avenue Campus & Online. The image shows two women and a woman boarding a plane with Arabic writing on the plane. Logos of the Parkes Institute and the University of Southampton are at the bottom of the poster.
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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?

🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...
Poster advertising the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage at the University of Southampton. It shows two students looking at a Holocaust memorial next to a forest and says "Join a webinar with members of the Parkes Institute on 20 November at 4pm (GMT) to find out more about the course." The poster displays a QR code to register
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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what happens at EHRI meetings, stays at EHRI meetings 🤔🤔🤔
A very important EHRI person metamorphosing into a trex to conclude a rich day of discussions
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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
Audience and panelists at the annual EHRI lecture at the university of southampton
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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...
Image with EHRI logo and text reading "EHRI-UK Annual Lecture: Transnational Holocaust Research in a Digital Age, a roundtable with Michal Frankl, Veerle Vanden Daelen, Michal Brandl & Rachel Pistol, Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm, Avenue Campus"
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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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...
Poster for Simone Gigliotti's talk "A Close yet Distant Suffering: Tracing the Holocaust Survivor Diaspora in New Zealand" taking place at 6 pm on Tuesday 28 October on Avenue Campus and Online. Logos of the University of Southampton and of the Parkes Institute
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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🎧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...
Will White and Tony Kushner in the Voice FM studio
October 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Tony Kushner's letter to the Observer's editor, published yesterday
Tony Kushner's letter in the Observer of October 12, 2025, arguing that Britain has never been immune to Jew hatred
October 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Image with a text saying "The Parkes Institute stands together with Britain’s Jewish community after last week's horrific attacks at Heaton Park synagogue. Our thoughts are with the families and friends of Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz and all who have been affected by these events. In the spirit of James Parkes and the inclusive response of the people of Manchester, we seek mutual understanding and respect for all communities." Logo of the Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations.
October 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Today is a busy day on Avenue Campus! We're chatting with many prospective students and their parents.
Interested?
➡️Register for our next open day, which is coming up soon (October 18)!
🔗https://www.southampton.ac.uk/open-days/undergraduate
October 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Did you know that the archives of the Jewish Board of Guardians (now Jewish Care), as well as those of many Anglo-Jewish organisations, are housed at the University of Southampton's Special Collections? Thanks to the shout-out in the latest issue of the Jewish Chronicle, now you know!
Short article from the Jewish Chronicle - first part Short article from the Jewish Chronicle - second part
September 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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🚨Applications are now open for our Visiting Fellow programme🚨

Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Southampton for up to two months between October 2025 & May 2026!

Deadline: Thursday 10 July 2025

www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...
Call for applications for the Parkes Institute Visiting Fellowship for the 2025/26 academic year
June 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Join our very own Professor Tony Kushner for an evening at October Books ‪(@octoberbooks.bsky.social)‬ to discuss his new book, 'The Jewish Pedlar'.

📅 Wednesday 4 June, 6pm
📍 October Books, Southampton
🎟 £5, redeemable against a purchase of 'The Jewish Pedlar'
Flyer for the launch of Tony Kushner's book The Jewish Pedlar at October Books, Southampton, on Wednesday 4th June 2025, 6 pm.
May 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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1 week to go until our 'Wandering Jew: Book Launch and Digital Exhibition Launch' webinar with @llampertweissig.bsky.social & @anoushka-ar.bsky.social

Tuesday 27th May, online, 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument...

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May 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Our final event of the year is a double bill with @llampertweissig.bsky.social talking about her recent 'Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew' &
@anoushka-ar.bsky.social launching her digital travelling exhibition
🎟️ May 27th 6pm, online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument...
May 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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🎥 Kidnapped recounts how a young Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, was secretly baptised, kidnapped by the Pope’s police and raised Christian.
@duhaut.bsky.social discusses how this sent shockwaves throughout the mid-19th century Jewish world & transformed Jewish diplomacy
30th April 7.30pm Union Films
April 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Are you interested in studying the Holocaust?

Join us on 8 May (5pm BST / 1PM EDT) for a webinar with members of the Parkes Institute & the History Department @unisouthampton.bsky.social to learn about our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage.

Register here 👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Webinar poster from University of Southampton for "MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage" course. Event on 8 May at 5pm BST. Includes QR code and link to register: https://bit.ly/42NDb8l.
April 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Join us next week for the talk 'Writing Jerusalem, Erasing Jerusalem: on Arabic and Hebrew texts in the streets of modern Jerusalem' by Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social

📅 Tuesday 29 April, 6pm (GMT)
📍 Avenue Campus (Southampton) & online
Register now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-je...
A promotional poster for a University of Southampton event titled “Writing Jerusalem, Erasing Jerusalem: A talk with Yair Wallach.” The background shows a photograph of a conflict-damaged urban area with rubble, graffiti-covered walls, and buildings in disrepair. Event details read: “Tuesday 29 April | 6 PM | Avenue Campus & Online.” Logos for the University of Southampton and the Parkes Institute appear in the bottom corners.
April 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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🗓️ We also have an in-person open event on Tuesday 6th May at 6pm in Lecture Theatre C on Avenue Campus!

Join us to hear more about the course and postgraduate study with the Parkes Institute. You will also get to meet current students and recent graduates of the MA - drinks and snacks provided!
April 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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They then travelled to Oświęcim where they had a guided tour of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp sites and the museum there. This gave the students an opportunity to reflect on the different memorial sites they had seen and guided tours they had experienced during the trip.
April 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Day 4 - Płaszów & Auschwitz
On their final day in Poland, our MA students had a guided tour of the commemorative monuments and memorial site of the former forced labour and concentration camp, Płaszów, with Kamil from Muzeum KL Płaszów.
April 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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After travelling to Kraków, the students visited the Eagle Pharmacy and the remains of Kraków Ghetto Wall. Their final stop of the day was to see the statue of Wojtek the Soldier Bear in Jordan Park which commemorates the men of the 2nd Polish Corps.
April 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Day 3 - Warsaw → Kielce → Słomniki → Kraków
The students left Warsaw in the morning to visit the memorials of the Kielce Ghetto before heading to Słomniki where they followed the directions of Polish Scouts to find a memorial to the Jewish community of Słomniki.
April 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM