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The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations

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The Rev. Dr James Parkes (1894–1981) formally created the Parkes Library in 1961, with the aim of providing ‘a centre for research by non-Jewish and Jewish scholars and students…into the whole field of relations between Judaism and other religions’. James Parkes was an extraordinary person; a volatile nonconformist, a creative force and a person who confronted antisemitism head-on.

He demanded a world in which it was safe to be a Jew. In the years leading up to the war he tried to warn an unheeding Church of the fate facing the Jews of Europe and, as a ‘righteous gentile’, he actively rescued many Jewish refugees, including the grandfather of the actress Rachel Weisz. He was co-founder of The Council of Christians and Jews and devoted his life to combating antisemitism, reaching out in reconciliation to the Jews whom he believed Christianity had failed.

Southampton’s links with Jewish studies go back further than this, however, to the beginning of the twentieth century, when Claude Montefiore, an outstanding Jewish scholar of the Bible and early Jewish-Christian relations, became president of the University College of Southampton, which was later to become the University of Southampton. Much of Montefiore’s personal library is housed in Southampton’s Parkes Library for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, which was established in 1964 to house the massive private collection of James Parkes.

Since then, the study of Jewish history and culture has developed enormously at

Southampton. This success was marked in the year 2000, when the Parkes Institute received the largest research grant ever awarded to a Jewish studies-related centre in a British university. Over £800,000 was given to the centre by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to fund five research projects.

Today, the Parkes Library forms the basis of one of the Hartley Library’s special collections. It consists of both an archive and a printed section, and is housed in magnificent, state-of-the-art quarters in the Hartley Library’s new extension.

The Parkes Institute is a community of scholars, curators, librarians, students, Friends of Parkes and activists, whose work is based around the rich resource of the library and archive. Through our research, publications, teaching and conservation work, we seek to provide a world-class centre for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations throughout the ages; to study the experience of minorities and outsiders , and to examine the power of prejudice, from antiquity to the contemporary world.

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‘Parkes belongs to that procession of men who in dangerous ages urge upon their fellows the need to practise a degree of honest realism that alone will enable them to save mankind.’ From James Parkes’ obituary, The Times, 8 August 1981

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Report of the Head of the Parkes 4 Institute, Professor Tony Kushner

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Conferences, Lectures and Seminars 9 in the Parkes Institute

Postgraduate Studies in Jewish �0 History and Culture

Report by Chevening Scholar, �0 Tatsiana Amosava

Reports by Members of the �� Parkes Institute

Special Collections Report: �6 Dr Chris Woolgar, Head of Special Collections, the Hartley Library

Parkes Library Report: �8 Jenny Ruthven, Parkes Librarian, printed collections, the Hartley Library

Publications and Papers by �9 Members of the Parkes Institute

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Professor Tony KushnerThe period 2005/6 has been a dynamic year for the Parkes Institute. In March 2006 the Greek Bible project, carried out in cooperation with the Department of Classics, University of Reading, concluded its work. This formally brought to an end the Arts and Humanities Research Centre (AHRC) Parkes Research Centre, which began in 2000 and was under the umbrella of the Parkes Institute. We are delighted to report that through the End of Award Report, the work of the Centre was assessed as ‘good’ by the AHRC. In its five and a half years, the Centre produced a remarkable total of 12 books; 16 edited volumes; 68 articles/chapters; 176 conference papers/lectures; a database; 2 websites; over 100 media appearances/

articles; 20 conferences; 40 public seminars; 2 exhibitions; and the award of 19 doctorates and 3 MPhils!

For some of our outstanding young scholars to move on and for us to be recruiting exciting new colleagues is a sign of a dynamic international centre. The past academic year has been no exception and we are delighted to welcome Professor Joachim Schlör from Potsdam University, who takes up the post of chair in modern Jewish/non-Jewish relations. Joachim’s range of interests and expertise is truly impressive. He is an authority on urban studies (the history and perception of cities such as Berlin, Tel-Aviv or Odessa), topography (the role and meaning of space in history and culture, the history of Jewish forms

of settlement), migration (the history of German Jews in Palestine/Israel, but also in Britain and the United States) and archives (the study of connections between historical events and the archival collections in a European context). In general, he is trying to build an interdisciplinary bridge between his own field of (German) cultural studies – Empirische Kulturwissenschaft – and other fields related to Jewish history and culture.

Among his many publications are: Das Ich der Stadt. Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität, Nights in the Big City and Endlich im Gelobten Land? Deutsche Juden Unterwegs In Eine Neue Heimat. Professor Schlör will be teaching on our undergraduate programme and has taken over as the convenor of our flagship MA in Jewish History and Culture.

At a more junior academic level, the Parkes Institute appointed a new Ian Karten Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Dr James Jordan was appointed from a very strong and diverse field. It is a particular pleasure to introduce James, who came to the University of Southampton as a mature student to study history and English. He then progressed to the MA in Jewish History and Culture where, appropriately, he gained a Karten studentship. From the MA, Dr Jordan put his interdisciplinary skills gained at undergraduate and MA level to excellent use on his PhD on American film and the Holocaust, carried out in the English Department. James will be turning his thesis into an academic monograph and embarking on his intriguing postdoctoral research on Jews and British television. He will also continue in his role as joint editor of the Parkes Institute sponsored journal, Holocaust Studies.

I am extremely pleased to be able to report that Frances Clarke, the dynamic and enterprising administrator of the Parkes Institute, has had her position made permanent by the School of Humanities. Frances, as many of you will be aware, organises our seminar and lecture programme, oversees the Friends of the Parkes Library scheme, and generally promotes the Institute through a range of publicity materials and organised events.

In July 2006 we were very sad to lose Dr Nils Roemer, but thrilled for him that he has moved to a prestigious chair in Jewish studies at Dallas University. Nils is

a fine young scholar who, in his five years at Southampton, was a superb teacher at undergraduate and MA level. He inspired a new generation of PhD students at the Parkes Institute who will ensure that his exceptional contributions to German Jewish scholarship will continue to be felt at Southampton. Dr Roemer was our Karten Lecturer in modern Jewish/non-Jewish relations and we are pleased to report that the process to replace him is already well advanced and, once appointed, the new incumbent will begin in September 2007. In the interim, a temporary Karten Fellow, Dr Aimée Bunting, has been appointed. Aimée is another product of the Parkes Institute: a former undergraduate, MA and PhD student. She will be continuing her research interests and outreach expertise in Holocaust studies and also developing funding applications, especially in conjunction with the Parkes Library and Jewish archive collections.

Finally, in relation to arrivals and departures, we also say goodbye to Dr Nadia Valman, who has been a stalwart of the Parkes Institute for the past 10 years within the English Department. Nadia started at the Parkes Institute as a Karten Fellow and then was a key researcher in the AHRC Parkes Research Centre. Her scholarship on Jews, gender and English literature has been path-breaking and undergraduates through to doctoral students have benefited from her impeccable and challenging instruction. Nadia continues to edit the Parkes Institute journal, Jewish Culture and History, and we will keep in close contact with her and hope she flourishes at Queen Mary, University of London.

As ever, the last academic year has been a busy one for the Parkes Institute. Our outreach programme continues to thrive and all our public lectures and seminars were well attended. Highlights were the annual Parkes and Montefiore Lectures and the continuation of our theme on Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, with speakers from key organisations involved in such dialogue. A new venture, and one revealing the potential of new technology to extend a global reach, was provided by our collaboration with the Worldwide Universities Network, and a lecture delivered at the University of Illinois by Professor Michael Rothberg by live video link in Southampton.

We were particularly pleased to organise a visit by the South Hampshire Council of Christians and Jews, of which I am honoured to be the Vice President. Lastly, in relation to the seminar and lecture programme, a particularly poignant event was the joint launch of the two biographies of Rev. Dr James Parkes by Colin Richmond and Haim Chertok. Both their biographies of the great man have been positively received by reviewers.

The series of seminars organised by the Institute for the Bournemouth Jewish community had another very successful year, the theme this year being: ‘From Shtetl to Metropolis: Exploring nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish literature’. I was also thrilled to be invited to lead a study weekend by Cheshire Reform Synagogue on the theme of ‘Confronting Prejudice’. Individual members of the Parkes Institute gave talks and lectures to a wide range of audiences, locally, nationally and internationally. Dr Dan Levene was a guest scholar, one of a specially invited group, at The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Truly the most moving moment in the year was the award of an honorary doctorate to Ben Helfgott, a Holocaust survivor who was a student at the University of Southampton after the war. Ben has been a supporter of Holocaust education and a campaigner for the rights of Holocaust survivors. Over the years he has been greatly supportive of the efforts of the Parkes Institute and has also helped the Parkes Library and Jewish archive collections. The gathering of his family and friends, and the telling of his life story, at the degree ceremony for the Jewish history and culture students, was utterly poignant and something that those present will never forget.

On the teaching front, the number of undergraduate courses on offer which are linked to the Parkes Institute continues to grow, and we are currently developing the possibility of pathways in Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The long-established MA in Jewish history and culture continues to flourish and it has been given a tremendous boost by the Chevening Fellowships, supported by the Rayne Foundation and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which have enabled two more East European students to study on our course.

We are proud of our PhD programme and it is truly pleasing to see the progress that our students have made on it. Many of our former PhD students have gone on to highly successful careers, including within academia. Of particular note this year in this respect is Dr Donald Bloxham, now of Edinburgh University, who won a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding young scholars in Britain. Many of Donald’s achievements have their origins in work carried out originally within the Parkes Institute and we send our congratulations to him.

As you will see from the individual reports, it has also been a year of many major publications by the members of the Parkes Institute, who continue to produce books and articles of the highest international quality on a wide range of scholarly topics. Disseminating our work remains a high priority and many of our team have appeared on the media and contributed articles to the press.

The amazing new facilities in the University Library archives and within the Parkes Library itself make researching there a tremendous pleasure, and it is pleasing that the collections are used not only by students and staff from Southampton, but also by scholars and members of the public from around the globe. As will emerge in the library report, there have been some really exciting accessions on both the archive and printed fronts this last year, ranging from the papers of Jewish entertainer and popular writer, David Kossoff, to those relating to campaigners for Soviet Jewry. All in all, some 500 boxes of Jewish archive material have been added to the existing collections, and many thousands of books through a deposit from the Institute of Jewish Affairs.

The multilayered and energetic programme of teaching, research and outreach work that we carry out is coordinated by the Parkes Institute Management Committee and we want to pay tribute once more to the firm, helpful and calm guiding hand of Dr Bill Brooks, who has generously continued to be its chair and made sure that it operates collegiately and effectively. Thanks are also due to Dr Mark Levene, who was director of the Parkes Institute for this academic year. Mark provided his usual drive, enthusiasm and

commitment to the wider aims of the Institute and further developed many of our programmes, especially in relation to the pursuit of the study of Jewish-Muslim-Christian relations.

As ever, it is appropriate to end my report by expressing gratitude to our generous patrons and supporters. The continued support of the Ian Karten Charitable Trust in so many of our activities has been essential to our continued success. We are also indebted to the Hanadiv Foundation, which has supported work in the archives as well as academic posts and Parkes Institute conferences. Of particular note this year is the Hanadiv Foundation’s grant to the Parkes Institute journal, Patterns of Prejudice, which is expanding in frequency and international reach. The support of the Moss family to establish undergraduate and postgraduate prizes within the Parkes Institute is a wonderful addition to our activities and a great incentive to our students to continue to produce high-quality work. Once again, such outside support in partnership with the University of Southampton is the basis of our international reputation for scholarship of the highest quality and greatest social relevance in a troubled world.

Pictured below: Mr Ben Helfgott receives the honorary degree of Doctor of the University

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In the first semester we welcomed to our seminar series several distinguished representatives from different faith organisations, as part of our ongoing commitment to raising awareness of Jewish-Muslim relations. These included Dr Michael Ipgrave, secretary of the Churches’ Commission for Interfaith Relations, Rev. Canon Dr David Marshall, former chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Harry Hagopian, coordinator of the Holy Land Ecumenical Foundation. The Montefiore Lecture, given by Mehri Niknam, was another notable contribution to this theme.

Tony Kushner appeared in a major documentary on the British fascist, William Joyce, which has been shown internationally and has been awarded several prizes. He was advisor and contributor on a CD-ROM welcoming new immigrants to Southampton, and spoke to and advised the Southampton Council of Faiths. He was on the advisory committee of several academic and heritage bodies and, in February 2006,

joined the new International Advisory Committee of the Ford Foundation/Hanadiv Foundation programme on Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia.

Collaboration with the Worldwide Universities Network resulted in a live video link in Southampton for a lecture by Professor Michael Rothberg, which was delivered at the University of Illinois.

November 2005 saw a visit to Parkes by the South Hampshire Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ), when they held their Annual General Meeting here, straight after the evening’s Parkes seminar, which took the form of an entertaining lecture on the work of the Parkes Institute by Dr Mark Levene. Among the audience, as well as friends from the CCJ, we were delighted to welcome members of the public and representatives from the Southampton University Jewish Society (SUJS).

In February 2006 we held a book launch and reception for the two biographies

of Rev. Dr James Parkes. The respective authors of these volumes, Colin Richmond and Haim Chertok, were both present and the event was attended by more than 60 guests. Both these biographies of the great man have been well received by reviewers.

Once again, the Parkes Institute was delighted to collaborate with Mr Gerald Normie to organise a series of special seminars for the Bournemouth Jewish Representative Council. The title of this year’s ‘mini-series’ of seminars was: ‘From Shtetl to Metropolis: Exploring nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish literature’, and three lectures were given:

Thursday 16 February (in Bournemouth), Dr Natan Meir (Parkes Institute, University of Southampton), ‘The stories of David Bergelson’;

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Thursday 23 February (in Southampton), Dr Nils Roemer (Parkes Institute, University of Southampton), ‘Joseph Roth’s The Wandering Jews’;

Thursday 2 March (in Bournemouth), Dr Tobias Brinkmann (Parkes Institute, University of Southampton), ‘The writings (in English) of Abraham Cahan’.

This lively mini-series was greatly enjoyed by its appreciative audience.

We were delighted to receive feedback from the many places that displayed ‘Connections’, the touring exhibition that we created in conjunction with the Asian-Black-Jewish Forum (see also the website at www.connections-exhibition.org). Here is a selection of comments:

City Hall, London: (October 2005) At a rough estimate, we believe that approximately 4,000 people would have viewed the exhibition during October. (Rosemary Emodi)

Bournemouth: (30 January – 18 February 2006) Approximately 2,320 people visited the exhibition. Quotes from the Comments Book:

‘Powerful presentation…’

‘Impressive!’

‘An important addition to combat racism.’

‘Thought-provoking…’

‘Very moving.’

‘Well balanced and unbiased…’

‘Would be great to tour local schools with the exhibition.’

English Heritage: (August 2005) Just wanted to write and say thank you very much for organising for the Connections Exhibition to come to the Festival of History. We had about 17,500 people over the two days – so hopefully a lot of people would have seen the exhibition. It was a great addition to the event – so thank you very much. (Emily Burns, Event Development Manager)

Hornsey School: (September 2005) The linking of experiences of black, Jewish and Asian people in Britain meant very few students felt ‘left out’. Students were able to see the challenge to racism from among different ethnic groups and how the exhibition itself contributed to the struggle

against racism. Thank you very much indeed for letting the school use this work. We intend to use the online resource and CD in classes. (Michele Lambert, PSHE/Citizenship Coordinator)

King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham: (October 2005) The exhibition was excellent in many ways. It was seen by approximately 1,300 people in total. The various panels were informative, clear, concise and vibrant in nature. We used the display in conjunction with partner schools and across departments such as History, Geography, Citizenship, English and Psychology. We also raised awareness in assembly and encouraged pupils to stop and look at it as it was located in the main foyer. The resource packs were useful and effective. Staff were very impressed. Overall, excellent. (Simon Bird)

Shaftesbury High School, Harrow: The exhibition was important, interesting, thought-provoking, unusual and helpful … The teachers’ guide was very useful for further work. We would like to have it again and invite parents and colleagues from other schools and agencies. (Simon Sackwild)

Still on the subject of exhibitions: while our lines of communication with the London Jewish Cultural Centre, the Wiener Library and elsewhere remained strong, this academic year was noteworthy for an outreach project which failed to materialise. As part of our bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for the project ‘Jews Then: Muslims Now’, the Parkes Institute proposed to develop two exhibitions and a series of events in coordination with London-based organisations. The first exhibition would have involved cooperation and coordination with the Jewish Museum in Camden, with which we already have close links. The creation of the second exhibition represented an entirely new departure, working with people living in today’s East End, mostly of Bengali or Somali background. Here, we were seeking the expert advice and assistance of Eastside Community Heritage, which has already done much hands-on work in East End schools and community centres, not least in its ‘Our Brick Lane’ project, recording the cultural life and history of this famous street. ‘Jews Then:

Muslims Now’ offered the possibility of a very real interaction and synergy between academic research as pursued at Parkes and a grass-roots exploration of contemporary (as well as more historic) immigrant identity. The failure to win AHRC support this time round, however, does not mean that we would not seek to pursue the project at a later date.

In July, Ben Helfgott and members of his family spent the day with the Parkes Institute and enjoyed a tour of the new facilities in the Parkes Library and archive before attending the ceremony to award Ben with an honorary doctorate. This was followed by a celebratory dinner.

Pictured below: Prof. Micheal Rothberg.

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‘In the past, senior members of the Parkes Institute, including Tony Kushner and David Cesarani, have pioneered work in the cultural and social sphere, relating the relationship between constructs of Englishness with the event of the Holocaust.’

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The Holocaust and Englishness

This workshop was held in September 2006, both to coincide with the exhibition held at the Hartley Library to mark the 350th anniversary of the readmission of the Jews, and to reflect past and ongoing work at the Parkes Institute. In the past, senior members of the Parkes Institute, including Tony Kushner and David Cesarani, have pioneered work in the cultural and social sphere, relating the relationship between constructs of Englishness with the event of the Holocaust. At this workshop, younger and older scholars combined to provide a platform for new work and to explore the possibilities of future work in this field. Professor Colin Richmond, long associated with the Parkes Institute, opened the proceedings by analysing recent biographical writings on P G Wodehouse and his failure to confront Nazi genocide, in spite of his war experiences. He was followed by past and current Parkes Institute postgraduates. Dr Tom Lawson, now lecturer at Winchester University and a fellow of the Parkes Institute, analysed the Church of England and the memory of the Holocaust, following

up from his recent successfully received monograph. Hazel Starmes, who is in the final stages of her PhD, provided an analysis of the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial and its relationship with the Englishness of other memorials in this public London space. Finally, James Jordan, the new Karten Fellow, provided an introduction to his new research project on Jews and British television by analysing the work of Jewish refugee television producer, Rudolph Cartier. Other ongoing work at the Parkes Institute, including that of Aimée Bunting, reflected the importance of this conference’s themes and showed the potential for future work in this area as British culture and society continue to engage more deeply with the Holocaust.

Extensive preparatory work has also been carried out for future conferences, to be held in the academic year 2006/7. These include: ‘Holocaust Journeys’, a conference organised jointly with the John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton (December 2006), and ‘Prelude to the Holocaust? The Mass Dynamics of Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern and East-Central Europe: New Archival Evidence’, to be held in spring 2007, which is being part-

sponsored by the Hanadiv Foundation. This symposium will convene leading scholars in the histories of Russia, Eastern Europe and the Jewish communities of those lands, in order to share knowledge on the complex subject of anti-Jewish violence in the half-century prior to the Holocaust. The programme will focus specifically on the question of ‘preludes’ to the Holocaust: did large-scale attacks on Jews in Eastern Europe somehow lay the foundations for the genocide planned by the Nazis, but in many cases executed with help, or at least without opposition, from local East European peoples? The symposium will enable participants to present the results of a decade and a half of research in the newly opened archives of the former Eastern bloc countries. Papers focusing on specific examples of anti-Jewish violence will be woven into comparative and interdisciplinary panels and discussion sessions, providing an invaluable breadth of perspective on the topic.

Conferences, Lectures and Seminars in the Parkes Institute

SeminarsTuesday October ��, the Parkes Lecture: Professor Greg Walker (University of Leicester), ‘And Here is Your Host! Jews and Others in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament’.

Tuesday October �5, John Rose (author of Myths of Zionism), ‘Middle Eastern Jewish Voices over the Millennia: A non-Zionist Perspective’.

Tuesday November 8, Dr Mark Levene (University of Southampton), ‘The Work of the Parkes Institute’ (an open event with the local Council of Christians and Jews).

Tuesday November �9, Ven. Dr Michael Ipgrave (Secretary of the Churches’ Commission for Interfaith Relations and Archdeacon of Southwark), ‘Building a Bridge between Muslims and Christians’.

Tuesday December ��, Dr Harry Hagopian (Coordinator, Holy Land Ecumenical Foundation), ‘Multifaith Dialogue and the Middle East’.

Tuesday January ��, Rev. Canon Dr David Marshall (former chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury), ‘Christian-Muslim Relations’.

Tuesday February ��, the Montefiore Lecture: Mehri Niknam MBE (Executive Director, the Maimonides Foundation), ‘Jewish/Muslim Relations in the Medieval Period’.

Tuesday March �, the Karten Lecture: Dr Raphael Gross (Director, Leo Baeck Institute), ‘Nazism and Moral Feelings’.

Tuesday March ��, Dr William Kenefick (University of Dundee), ‘An Examination of Oral Testimonies of the Immigrant Experience in Glasgow’.

Development

Katherine O’Brien, University of Southampton Development Office

It has been another very successful year in terms of fund-raising for the Parkes Institute. We have been delighted to welcome new supporters onto the Friends of Parkes scheme and continue to expand this programme. We have also been very fortunate in receiving several significant gifts, both from private individuals and from charitable foundations. In particular, we would like to thank Mr and Mrs Ian Karten for its unwavering support, the Rayne Foundation for their ongoing commitment to our scholarship programme, and the Hanadiv Charitable Foundation for its generous assistance with the Patterns of Prejudice journal. We would also like to thank Mr Sidney Moss and his family, along with the trustees of the SWWJ Foundation, for deciding to create two new annual awards with their gift.

Within the last 12 months, the Office of Development and Alumni Relations has been dramatically restructured and several new members have been recruited to the team. Under the leadership of Mr Joel B Munson, the Board of Trustees has been expanded, as has the breadth and depth of fund-raising ventures across campus. With an increased commitment to raising philanthropic gifts, it is hoped that the support for the unique teaching and research activities provided within the Parkes Centre will continue to grow.

We have tried to acknowledge all our supporters in the list opposite. If we have made any mistakes or omissions, please accept our sincere apologies. This information is correct to the best of our knowledge.

On behalf of the Executive Director of Southampton University Development Trust and all the Trustees, we would like to thank our many generous friends and supporters.

Mr and Mrs Abraham and Micaele Barzilai

Mrs Ann Hutchinson

Mrs Anita Pheby

Dr Ben Steinberg

Mrs Bernice Dubois

Bertie Black Foundation

Dr Brenda Mountford

Mrs C Rein

Mrs Celia Dworkin

Mr David Lewis

Ms Diana Abbott

Dr Derek Pheby

Mrs Doris Black

Mrs Elizabeth Neiss

Prof. Ernst Sondheimer

Mrs Esther Stern

Mr George Lewith

Mr Gordon Franks

The Hanadiv Charitable Foundation

The Ian Karten Charitable Trust

Mr Ian McCreery

Mrs Jane Barron

Mr John Mountford

Ms Linda Rosen

Ms Liz Kessler

Mr Lutz Noack

Mr and Mrs M Goldstein

Mr N J Clayton

Prof. Paul Smith

Mrs Ruth Weyl

The Rayne Foundation

Mr Raymond Berry

Rev. Richard Coggins

Mr Rodney Curtis

Mrs Rosalind Woodcock

Mrs Ruby Parsons

Mr Sidney Moss

Dr Sophia Marshman

Mr Stanley Cohen

Starkman Ltd

The SWWJ Charitable Foundation

Mr Tim Roberts

Mrs Verity Steele

Mr Walter Kammerling

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Dr Tobias Brinkmann, Lecturer in Modern Jewish/non-Jewish RelationsIn 2005/6 I continued to work on my research project, ‘Migration and Metropolis’, which deals with Jewish and other migrants in Berlin after the First World War. I presented a number of talks on more general aspects of the project, in Britain and at international conferences in Germany, the Netherlands, the United States and Israel. In May, together with Derek Penslar of the University of Toronto, I convened an international conference, ‘The Jews in the Modern World: Beyond the Nation-State’, in Berlin. The papers focused on the transnational dimension of Jewish history, but also on the local sphere. A publication of the conference papers is planned.

During the summer I continued to carry out research in Berlin. The photograph below shows the remains of Ruhleben station in suburban Berlin.

A former Auswandererbahnhof (emigrant train station), Ruhleben was characterised by a Berlin journalist in 1900 as: ‘the strangest and in more than one respect most interesting train station of the Imperial capital’. Ruhleben was opened in November 1891 as a so-called ‘control station’. Mary Antin, a young Jewish girl from Polotzk in the Russian Empire, described her experience of Ruhleben in an account of her transatlantic journey entitled: ‘From Polotzk to Boston’ (1899). Germans, some in white overalls, rushed the migrants off the train, separated men from women and children, and threw the luggage on a big pile. Antin describes a scene of complete chaos as the bewildered and terrified migrants were herded into a small building. They were forced to undress and undergo disinfection in a primitive shower – only to be quickly hurried back onto the train, which took them to Hamburg. After a two-week quarantine in what felt like a prison, the family boarded the ship to Boston, where they arrived safely two weeks later.

The harsh German measures experienced by Mary Antin were in fact part of a system of ‘remote control’ (Zolberg) established by the United States, the main recipient of European migrants. After 1880, the arrival in North America and Western Europe of increasingly

‘strange’ people from Eastern and Southern Europe, as well as Asia, led to discussions about immigration restrictions. These ‘new’ migrants were perceived as ‘racially’ and culturally threatening. Already in 1882, US Congress had excluded Chinese migrants from entering. The outbreak of contagious disease in Hamburg, Central Russia and New York in the early 1890s also led to calls for thorough screening of migrants. The US Government was responding to the strongly increasing migration by examining immigrants. After 1891, persons who were judged ‘likely to become a public charge’, were ill, had been involved in criminal or immoral activities, or appeared in other ways suspicious, were refused entry and returned. For this purpose, a federal immigration authority and screening facilities were established. And following the Hamburg cholera outbreak, the US Government demanded proof of medical checks and a period of quarantine before embarkation in Europe. On 2 January 1892, the Irish girl, Annie Moore, was the first immigrant to pass through the reception centre Ellis Island in New York Harbour. It was hardly a coincidence that the Ruhleben ‘control station’ near Berlin had been put into operation only a few weeks earlier, in November 1891.

A significant number of the two million Jews who left Eastern Europe for the United States passed through Ruhleben. German Jewish aid associations had a presence in the building, providing the transmigrants with kosher food and advice. The outbreak of the Great War in 1914 interrupted the transatlantic migration almost overnight. During the First World War the German government interned several thousand British civilians as enemy aliens at Ruhleben, only a few hundred yards from the train and disinfection station. Before migration could recover in the aftermath of the war, the United States closed its doors to Eastern Europeans. Ruhleben lost its function. Amazingly, the building survived the war and the massive post-1945 construction in this industrial area.

I am coordinating my research on the Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe with other international researchers. With several partners from German and Scandinavian universities, I plan to convene a conference on Jewish transmigration from Eastern Europe through Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Britain between 1860 and 1950. I am working on several article-length publications on Jewish transmigration through Germany and Berlin.

Reports by Members of the Parkes Institute

Ruhleben, Berlin; the former Auswandererbahnhof

PhD studentsThe last academic year was a year in which a group of our doctoral students completed their theses, submitting them for examination in autumn 2006. These included Tim Grady, a former Jewish history and culture PhD student, whose thesis explored the memorialisation of the Jewish war dead in interwar Germany (supervised by Dr Nils Roemer and Dr Neil Gregor); Margaret Marlow, a former mature undergraduate student, whose thesis examines place identity in relation to slave narratives and Holocaust survivor testimonies (supervised by Dr John Oldfield and Prof. Tony Kushner); Judith Pedersen, whose thesis investigated the coverage of the Holocaust on British television since the 1950s (supervised by Prof. Tony Kushner and Dr Lucy Mazdon); and Philip Jewell, another former undergraduate and MA student, whose thesis analyses the place of magic in the works of Flavius Josephus (supervised by Dr Sarah Pearce).

Other students, including Peter Batty (Heinrich Graetz and the Second Temple Period), Jane Gerson (food and Jewish identity in Britain), Hazel Starmes (representation of non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust), Michelle Perkins (gender and ethnicity in France from the 1930s to 1944) and Greg Smart (the press and anti-alienism in Britain, 1880–1914), successfully upgraded to PhD status and are entering the final year of their studies.

We are delighted to welcome our new PhD students to the Parkes programme for the forthcoming year. These include Agnese Pavule, a former Chevening MA student from Latvia, who is coming back to Southampton, funded by the University’s archive studentship, to work on gender and philanthropy in late Victorian England; and Jamie Ashworth, funded by the Hanadiv Foundation and working on the Auschwitz Album. Agnese will be supervised by Tony Kushner and Jamie by Andrea Reiter and Tobias Brinkmann.

MA Jewish History and Culture/MRes Jewish History and CultureThe MA in Jewish history and culture completed its sixth year and continues to develop in fresh areas as the number of academic staff in the Parkes Institute

carries on expanding. What was particularly pleasing about the intake of students for the academic year 2005/6 was their international nature. We were joined by Tatsiana Amosava from Belarus, Dan Danciuti from Romania and Julie Smethurst from the USA. In addition, there were students from the United Kingdom, including several mature students from the Southampton region. It is also pleasing to report that the MRes is proving a particularly attractive option to students. On the MRes, students focus more on their dissertation, which consists of 35,000 words of original research.

As ever, we welcome the generous support of our talented MA students by the Karten Trust, the Chevening Foundation, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Rayne Foundation.

Report by Chevening Scholar, Tatsiana AmosavaI am very grateful to the academic staff of the School of Humanities, Department of Jewish History and Culture and all the members of the Parkes Institute who chose me to spend the year 2005/6 at the University of Southampton.

This experience was unique and unforgettable. The University has a brilliant collection of books on Judaica, and the Institute itself has an excellent archive, with literature and personal correspondence connected to Jewish history and life in Britain and other European countries. To have access to such a treasury of knowledge is a dream for any person interested in Jewish history.

Individual tutorial courses in Jewish history are provided by the specialists deeply interested in their subjects. Dr Dan Levene worked with me on the different aspects of the Babylonian Talmud. We spent many hours discussing the opinions of different scholars on the origin, structure and idiosyncrasies of the Talmud.

Another course which deeply impressed me was the history of Eastern European Jewry. Working with genuine texts, both historical and fictional, concerning Jewish communities in this region gives you an absolutely new outlook on Jewish life in Eastern Europe and helps to explain many dramatic events

in the history of Jewry all over the world. This course is designed by Dr Natan Meir, under whose supervision I have written several academic assignments and my MA dissertation. Furthermore, he helped me with other challenges, such as the translation of Karaite texts from the Cairo Geniza, the analysis of which appeared as the basis for my presentation at the historical conference at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

The theme of my dissertation was inspired by many years of working on the topic of the language policy in Israel. My supervisor Dr Natan Meir helped me to choose the most appropriate aspect of the subject, because this topic is multifaceted and needs detailed consideration. In my dissertation I dealt with a particular period in the activities of the Academy of the Hebrew language. The Proceedings of the Academy for recent years are available on the Internet, but the earlier years (including the first years of the existence of the Academy) are covered only by the original Proceedings kept in the archives. It was really captivating and enjoyable research, which has given me a new experience of getting extremely interesting data from original documents. I feel that to have access to the original historical documents and to work with them is a real advantage of the course and a strong point of the academic programme for history at the University of Southampton.

Continuing PhD/MPhilPhilip Jewell (supervised by Dr Sarah Pearce) has submitted his thesis and is due to be examined before the end of 2006, while Peter Batty (supervised by Dr Sarah Pearce) made a very successful transition from MPhil to PhD status and is set to submit in 2007.

Anne Lloyd (supervised by Dr Mark Levene) continues to make great progress with her thesis: ‘Jews under Fire, British Jewry and Military Service, 1914–1918’, which is forthcoming for upgrade in 2006/7.

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I am also editing a collection of essays on migration during the Weimar Republic with Professor Jochen Oltmer (Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück).

In the academic year 2005/6 I became the convenor for the Diaspora course for third-year students. In addition to my undergraduate units, ‘American immigration history since 1600’ and ‘The Holocaust’, I

taught a new unit for MA students on the ghetto concept.

I continue to serve as the representative of the Migration/Immigration network of the Social Science History Association and as member of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Tony Kushner, Marcus Sieff Professor of HistoryThis has been an unusual year for me as I was, for the first time in my two decades at Southampton, given extended research leave, which proved to be extremely profitable and productive. My managerial responsibilities were not totally removed and I continued to direct the AHRC Parkes Research Centre during its final six months (until March 2006) and was responsible for the successful conclusion of the project, ensuring that all its promised outputs were reached. Beyond the AHRC Centre I was on the appointment panel for a professorial and fellowship appointment in History/Parkes Institute

in the School of Humanities and have been part of the history discipline’s Research Assessment Exercise team. I have continued to supervise a large group of PhD students and have attracted new recruits for the coming academic year. I am also preparing a new special subject on ‘Refugees’ for 2006/7, perhaps the only such course taught within history in a British higher education institution, and am looking forward to returning in my role as director of the Parkes Institute.

With regard to research, my monographs published in 2004 and 2005 continue to enjoy excellent academic reviews and I have completed the final stages (incorporating readers’ reports, copy-editing and proofs) for my major monograph, Remembering Refugees: Then and Now, to be published by Manchester University Press in September 2006. During my leave I made substantial progress on a new major monograph, Jewishness and Popular Memory, for which I have received a contract from Manchester University Press. All the research and most of the writing for this project was completed in the leave period, leaving the final rewriting to be carried out in summer 2007. I have also begun the co-editing of the volume coming out of the 2005 Cape Town-Southampton ‘Port Jews’ conference, to be published in 2007/8. I have also completed several articles for journals and key essay collections and have had several others published.

My media work has included extensive citation in The Guardian and Jewish Chronicle, as well as in American newspapers. I appeared in a major documentary on the renegade British fascist, William Joyce, which has been shown internationally and has been awarded several prizes. I have advised and contributed to a CD-ROM welcoming new immigrants to Southampton, and have spoken to and advised the Southampton Council of Faiths. In April 2006 I gave a keynote lecture at Grinnell College, Iowa, on the resurgence of antisemitism. I was also honoured to give the keynote lecture at the annual general meeting of the national legal charity, Asylum Aid, in October 2005. I continue to co-edit the internationally recognised journal, Patterns of Prejudice, and a major monograph series on Jewish culture and history for Vallentine Mitchell. I am on the advisory committee of several academic and heritage bodies and, in February 2006, joined the new International Advisory Committee

of the Ford Foundation/Hanadiv Foundation programme on Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia. I have also been external examiner for a PhD at the University of Manchester. I was particularly pleased to give a series of lectures and workshops at a study weekend held in July 2006 in the Peak District, organised by Cheshire Reform Synagogue, and have given talks to various local and national organisations and societies, including one to the Southampton Interfaith Link on religions and humour following the Danish cartoon controversy.

Dr Dan Levene, Ian Karten Lecturer in Jewish History and CultureThe past academic year has been a full and fruitful one. I started in the first semester with a full teaching schedule that included a new first-year undergraduate course, ‘Early Jewish magic’, that was very popular and a joy to teach. The second-year undergraduate course, ‘Old Testament texts’, with its Hebrew language element, also recruited well. As a supplement to these two, I designed a new third-year undergraduate special subject course, ‘History through texts’, which will consist of intense tutoring in the middle and late Aramaic dialects in which so much of Jewish and other late antique to medieval historical materials survive. I now provide a full set of undergraduate courses that offer students the chance to acquire knowledge of the some of the classical corpus of Jewish literature up to early medieval times, and a proficiency in the Hebrew and Aramaic languages that will allow them to progress to postgraduate studies in early Jewish history and culture. My contribution to the postgraduate programme this year was also successful.

Other activities during the first half of this past year included my contribution to a conference at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds that accompanied the exhibition, ‘Bronze: The power of life and death’, where I presented the paper, ‘Transmission of metals in early Jewish sources’. I was invited because the work I have been doing with Professor Beno Rothenberg from University College London (see publications and papers on page 19) is pioneering in this area. I was also invited to give a lecture on my work with late antique magical texts in memory of the late

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Dr Dan Levene outside the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

professor J B Segal at the Leo-Baeck Institute at London, where this prominent scholar in Semitics taught for many years.

During the second semester and most of the summer I was honoured by an invitation to spend half a year at the prestigious Institute of Advanced Studies in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, as part of a small group of specialists focusing on the theme of ‘Occult Powers and Officiants in Near Eastern Cultures’. The main objective of the Institute for Advanced Studies is to serve as a catalyst for outstanding scholarly work in a wide variety of fields, such as Jewish studies, history, philosophy, Islamic studies, literature, life sciences, mathematics and physics. Among the small group of specialists in this group of scholars were Professor Shaul Shaked from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr Gideon Bohak from Tel-Aviv University, Drs Yuval Harari from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Professor Alexander Fodor from Eötvös Lorlánd University in Hungary, Professor David Jordan from the University of Athens and Professor Tzvi Abusch from Brandeis University. The combining of philologist-historians whose specialities are working with primary source materials in languages such as Sumerian, Akkadian, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic proved to be very fruitful. Our programme of work included personal research, weekly seminars, a variety of primary source reading groups and a conference from which a book will be published in 2007.

While in Jerusalem I was also asked to present a paper at The Kenyon Institute of the Council of British Research in the Levant.

I continue to be invited by the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at UCL to sit on a panel of specialists on the Aramaic language and to participate in the series of seminars on the Aramaic of the Zohar – the late medieval Jewish mystical text.

I have now served my fourth year as a British Association of Jewish Studies committee member, I am also on the scientific committee of the Institute of Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies at the Institute of Archaeology at UCL; I am an honorary research fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at UCL and a lifetime fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University.

Dr Mark Levene, Reader in Comparative HistoryAs director of Parkes in 2005/6, I have had a busy and challenging academic year. Particular highlights have been the very strong bids we made for Hanadiv and AHRC funding: in the former case, for a multi-contributor critique of the ‘new antisemitism’; in the latter, around the proposed project, ‘Jews Then: Muslims Now’, which would have interrogated the role of ethnic brokers among migrant communities in London’s East End and Berlin. These bids have been firmly in the Parkesian tradition, that is, team efforts, with Jewish/non-Jewish relations always to the fore. They made a good running, but ultimately were not successful.

Research work continues with the third volume of Genocide in the Age of the Nation State, which will deal with Europe and near-Europe in the period 1912–1948. It will thus be considering the particular – and in many respects entirely exceptional – place of the Holocaust in the wider gamut of genocide. It will, however, also be seeking to place the destruction of European Jewry more firmly within a European context of genocide within this period.

Currently, as well as the article on Holocaust Memorial Day published in 2006, a number of others, on different themes, including Herzl and Africa, and Martin Buber and the tradition of non-violence in Jewish thought and action, are likely to published in 2006–7. ‘Zones of Violence’, the Oxford University Press series edition conceived by myself and Dr Donald Bloxham, is also coming on well, with two new contracts placed this last year: the first, with Dr Richard Reid of Durham University for a study of the Ethiopian highlands; the second, with Dr Fikret Adanir of Bochum University, for his on the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia. These join those already in progress by Dr Mark Biondich (on the Balkans) and Dr Alexander Prusin (East European Frontiers, ‘The Lands Between’). A further two commissions are expected in the near future.

Teaching remains important. All three BA courses of mine – Palestine under the British Mandate; Islam and the West; and Looking beyond the Holocaust (a course on genocide in the contemporary world) – are recruiting extraordinarily well and with some stellar results this last year, especially in terms of dissertations. I continue, too, to be much involved in outreach, with lectures

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to the Imperial War Museum and to the London Jewish Cultural Centre. My part-time doctoral student Anne Lloyd continues to make great progress with her thesis, ‘Jews under Fire, British Jewry and Military Service, 1914–1918’, which is forthcoming for upgrade in 2006/7.

In addition to my work in Parkes, I continue to be active in Crisis Forum (Forum for the Study of Crisis in the 21st Century, www.crisis-forum.org.uk) of which I am a co-founder.

Dr Natan Meir, Lecturer in East European Jewish HistoryIn the autumn of 2005, I spent several months at the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies at Utrecht University, doing research for a new comparative project on Jewish women in modern Europe. This research project, for which I received a grant from the World Universities Network staff exchange programme, took me to a number of different archives and libraries throughout Holland. I also had the opportunity to attend seminars and lectures at my host institution, which is a leading centre of women’s studies in Europe.

Over the course of the year, I travelled to Kiev and Jerusalem in order to do archival and library research, for which I had received a grant from the British Academy. This research enabled me to complete the final draft of my book, Jewish Metropolis: The Jews of Kiev, 1859–1914 (which is now under consideration by a number of academic presses), as well as a number of scholarly articles. One of those articles, ‘Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians in Kiev: Intergroup Relations in Late Imperial Associational Life’, will be published in the prestigious American journal Slavic Review in autumn 2006.

In February 2006, I coordinated our third adult education lecture series in Bournemouth, in cooperation with the Bournemouth Jewish Representative Council. The series this year was on the theme of ‘Modern Jewish Literature from East to West’, and comprised lectures on literary creativity in Yiddish, Hebrew and English. I spoke on the Yiddish writer David Bergelson and his short stories on the theme of shtetl and city life in revolutionary Russia.

As coordinator of our Chevening/Rayne Scholarships for East European students, I oversaw the application and selection

process for the scholarships. Our final choices were two students from the Czech Republic and Romania, who will join us in September 2007 to study on the MA in Jewish History and Culture. They will replace Dan Danciuti of Romania and Tatsiana Amosava (whose report can be found on page 10) of Belarus, who did excellent work as students at Parkes, writing MA dissertations on the history of the Holocaust in Romania and Israeli language policy, respectively.

In August, I participated in an academic study tour of Jewish sites in Poland, which enabled me to gain additional insight into my own work on East European Jewish history, as well as to make valuable contacts in Warsaw, Cracow and Wroclaw.

Dr Sarah Pearce, Ian Karten Senior Lecturer in Jewish HistoryThis year saw the completion of the AHRC Parkes Centre’s ‘Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World’ project, in which I worked during the period 2001–6, with the Parkes Centre’s partners at Reading University, Professor Tessa Rajak and Dr James Aitken, and, at Cambridge University, Dr Jennifer Dines. Among the various public outcomes of this project, we have now delivered an electronic database of the Greek Bible’s political terminology to the Arts and Humanities Data Service. We also worked together to edit Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Monarchy, a volume of 16 essays, including contributions by each member of the team, now in press with the University of California Press at Berkeley. A co-authored monograph on the Greek Bible in historical context, The Quest for the Historical Septuagint, will be published by Cambridge University Press. My monograph on Philo of Alexandria, The Land of the Body: Studies in the Representation of Egypt in Philo of Alexandria, is in press with Mohr Siebeck of Tübingen.

I continued to teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Jewish history and culture at the University of Southampton, and to supervise two PhD students. Of these, Philip Jewell has submitted his thesis and is due to be examined before the end of 2006, while Peter Batty made a very successful transition from MPhil to PhD status and is set to submit in 2007. I also

acted as external examiner of PhD theses in Jewish history at Trinity College, Dublin and Reading University, and continue to act as external examiner in Hebrew Bible and Jewish studies at the University of Glasgow.

Dr Andrea Reiter, Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages and Fellow of the Parkes InstituteAs in previous years, I have been teaching my MA option on Holocaust literature. I have also contributed to the ‘Approaches to Jewish history and culture’ unit.

The highlight of this past academic year was the October launch of my edited book, Children of the Holocaust, by Lord Janner of Braunstone at the Moses Room in the House of Lords. This occasion also marked the relaunch of The Journal of Holocaust Studies. I have also been asked to join the Board of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies.

Over the past year I have completed a monograph on exile identity and the German Jewish writer Hans Sahl, which should appear in print in the course of the academic year 2006/7.

Dr Nadia Valman,

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Since coming back from maternity leave in November

2005, I had a short return to teaching, followed by a semester

of research leave beginning in February 2006. My time was spent

completing a number of research projects and beginning new work.

I researched and wrote an essay entitled, ‘Little Jew Boys Made Good: Anglo-Jewish Fiction and the Boer War’, which discusses novels, ethnographic and journalistic writing about Jews at the time of the South African War at the turn of the nineteenth century, and focuses on the two dominant images of Jews, as gothic villains and as idealised entrepreneurs. The essay will be included in the volume co-edited by myself and Eitan Bar-Yosef of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, entitled, The ‘Jew’ in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: From the East End to East Africa. The collection of essays is based on the conference held at Southampton in 2003 and will be published by Palgrave next year. Eitan and I have also recently finished co-writing the introduction to the volume.

I also completed an essay, ‘Amy Levy and the Literary Representation of the Jewess’, and a co-written introduction to the volume of essays edited by myself and Naomi Hetherington, based on the conference on Amy Levy held at the University of Southampton in 2002. The volume is now complete and will be submitted to Wayne State University Press in September.

I attended some important conferences where I was able to begin branching out in new research directions. In December I convened a panel with colleagues from the USA at the Modern Languages Association conference in Washington, DC. The panel was entitled ‘Belles Juives: The Jewess in European Literature, 1750–1850’, and the title of my paper was ‘The Martyred Jewess in Victorian Literature’. The panel enabled me to examine my work on the figure of the Jewess in British literature of the nineteenth century in the context of scholars working on German and French

literature, and I am planning to expand the panel into a collection of essays looking comparatively at the representation of the Jewess in European literature. In February I presented a paper entitled ‘The Waters of Babylon: Exile, Nation and the Jews’ at the international symposium on British Romanticism and the Jews, held at Senate House, University of London. I also presented a paper on Jewish women in a joint seminar with Rabia Lemahieu-Evans, on ‘Jewish and Muslim women in comparative context’, at the Forum for the Comparative Study of Muslims and Jews, organised by Royal Holloway, University of London.

I continue to edit the journal Jewish History and Culture, which has now expanded to three issues a year. This year I commissioned new special issues on ‘New Age Judaism’ and ‘Yiddish Culture in Britain’.

Sadly, I will be leaving Southampton at the end of December 2006 for a new job at Queen Mary, University of London. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff of the Parkes Institute for 10 years of collegial company that have been extraordinarily stimulating, intellectually demanding and always fun.

‘This year saw the completion of the AHRC Parkes Centre’s ‘Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World’ project, in which I worked during the period 2001–6, with the Parkes Centre’s partners at Reading University, Professor Tessa Rajak and Dr James Aitken.’Dr Sarah Pearce, Ian Karten Senior Lecturer in Jewish History

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Conservation and preservation

The Division continues to devote considerable resources to the basic processing of new accessions, preparing them for use by readers. Routine processing, which involves surface cleaning, relaxing, flattening and rehousing in acid-free materials, has been carried out on 1,055 boxes of papers from the archives of the Institute of Jewish Affairs, the Serafinovic collection and the archives of the West London Synagogue.

In terms of conservation, the focus has been on ensuring the completion of works outstanding from the building project, especially that relating to the new conservation studios.

Visits, papers, exhibitions and advice

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�� Feb �006 Guests at the launch of biographies of Dr James Parkes by Haim Chertok and Professor Colin Richmond

�6 July �006 Ben Helfgott, honorary graduate, and guests

� Sept �006 Delegates at the Englishness and the Holocaust Conference

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4 Sept – �� Oct �006 ‘In a style…fitting to us Jewes’: Anglo-Jewish Life from the Resettlement (exhibition)

Copies of photographs in the collections from the British Mandate in Palestine have been used within Professor Bashir Makhoul’s exhibition ‘Return’, which addresses the notion of return in relation to Israeli and Palestinian politics and culture, combining old photographs with contemporary images of the places. The exhibition will open in the University’s Winchester Gallery in October 2006, before touring to other venues in the UK and the Qing Dao and Changzhou museums in China.

ConferencesA one-day conference on Englishness and the Holocaust was held in the Hartley Library on 7 September 2006.

Recent publications based on the archive collections (or by staff)D Cesarani and G Romain (eds), Jews and Port Cities, 1590–1990: Commerce, community and cosmopolitanism (London, 2006: special issue of Jewish Culture and History), including:

J Goldstein, ‘Singapore, Manila and Barbin as reference points for Asian “Port Jewish” identity’, pp. 271–90.

A R J Kushner, ‘From Atlantic Hotel to Atlantic Park: Anglo-America, Port Jews and the invisible transmigrant’, pp. 247–60.

H Chertok, He Also Spoke as a Jew: The life of James Parkes (London, 2006).

M Freud-Kandel, Orthodox Judaism since 1913: An ideology forsaken (London, 2006).

N Gregor, N Roemer and M Roseman (eds), German History from the Margins (Bloomington, Indiana, 2006).

H H Kaplan, Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The critical years 1806–1816 (Stanford, California, 2006).

A R J Kushner, Remembering Refugees: Then and now (Manchester, 2006).

P Lawson, Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein (London, 2005).

T Lawson, The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism (Woodbridge, 2006).

A N Newman, N J Evans, J G Smith and S W Issroff, Jewish Migration to South Africa: The records of the Poor Jews’ Temporary Shelter, 1885–1914 (Cape Town, 2006).

A Pendlebury, Portraying the ‘Jew’ in First World War Britain (London, 2005).

H Pollins, ‘Herbert Martin James Loewe in Oxford’, Jewish Journal of Sociology 48 (2006), pp. 34–49.

A Reiter (ed.), Children of the Holocaust (London, 2005).

Dr Chris Woolgar, Head of Special Collections, the Hartley LibraryThe year covered by this report has seen a wide range of activity. On the curatorial side, there has been further growth in reader numbers and document productions, continuing the trend seen last year (the first full year of operation in the new archive accommodation); and there has also been an increase in the volume of accessions. The programme of exhibitions in the Special Collections Gallery now has an established place in the cultural life of the campus and beyond. The Gallery has been the venue for a number of events during the course of the year and the exhibition programme has been closely linked to academic activity.

Accommodation

The Division’s accommodation within the Hartley Library is now fully operational. There are some residual tasks associated with the building project which remain outstanding, principally connected with the final fitting-out of the conservation studio.

Accessions

This year the Division acquired 23 separate collections, amounting to 606 boxes of papers. A substantial proportion of these relates to Anglo-Jewry. There has been a major addition to the archives of the Institute of Jewish Affairs (now Jewish Policy Research), particularly its research collections and surveys of Anglo-Jewry. At the same time, the Institute has passed to the Special Collections Division some 8,000 volumes, the balance of its printed collections. Other collections with a Jewish focus include the archive of David Kossoff, which reflects his work as a performer on screen and in the theatre, with further literary papers and material for work on biblical stories. Papers of Dr Colin Shindler relate to his work campaigning for Soviet Jewry and his research on Jews involved in the Spanish Civil War. Further accessions of note include the minute books of the Bridge in Britain programme, which enabled young people, trainees or school leavers to spend a year in Israel, 1960–72; family correspondence, particularly for the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, of Natalie Moses (later Koch), who was born in Esslingen in 1906

and came to the UK as a trainee teacher in 1932, but never went back to Germany; and papers of Frederick Dudley Samuel, CBE, DSO, with many of the letters written by Samuel, while serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France, 1915–18, to his wife.

Cataloguing and production of guides

Work was completed on the cataloguing of substantial additions to the archives of the West London Synagogue (MS 140) and the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (MS 301); the papers of Dr Asenath Petrie; the archives of Bridge in Britain; the papers of Dr Colin Shindler ; and the correspondence of Frederick Samuel.

Usage of the Division’s website and online databases (at www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk) continues to grow, running at more than 26,000 accesses per week. During the year, the final arrangements have been made for the transfer of the databases to new software (Oracle), and it is expected that the new service will begin in October 2006. A substantial revision to the website will follow.

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Use of the manuscript collections in the University Library (� August �005 – �� July �006)

Readers 2,325

Individual researchers 1,583

Groups of manuscripts 5,298 produced

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‘Bristol Public Library has donated a collection of mainly nineteenth-century publications on Judaism and Jewish history, formerly part of the library of Rabbi Nürnberg of Bath.’Jenny Ruthven, Parkes Librarian, printed collections, the Hartley Library

Tobias Brinkman:

Publications

‘From Gemeinde to “Community”: Jewish Immigrants in Chicago 1840–1923’, in Tales of Two Cities/Stadtgeschichten: Hamburg & Chicago, Claudia Schnurmann and Iris Wigger (eds) (LIT Verlag, Münster, 2006), pp. 123–37.

‘On the Dialectics of “E Pluribus Unum”: Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the First Settlement of Jews in North America’ (Simon Dubnow Institut Jahrbuch 4, 2005), pp. 377–93.

‘Jews, Germans, or Americans?: German-Jewish Immigrants in the Nineteenth-Century United States’, in The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness, Krista O’Donnell, Renate Bridenthal and Nancy Reagin (eds), (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2005), pp. 111–40.

‘Topographien der Migration – Jüdische Durchwanderung in Berlin nach 1918’, in Synchrone Welten – Zeitenräume jüdischer Geschichte, Dan Diner (ed.) (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2005), pp. 175–98.

‘Jewish Mass Migrations between Empire and Nation State’ (Przegląd Polonijny, 13 January 2005), pp. 99–116.

Papers

‘Immigrants vs. Gastarbeiter? Migration to the United States and Germany’ (together with Annemarie Sammartino, Oberlin College), lecture, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 21 September 2006.

‘Deutsch-jüdische Auswanderung in die USA’, lecture, Touro College, Berlin, 22 June 2006.

‘Between Borders: Jewish Transmigrants in Germany before and after the First World War’, conference, Jewish Immigration in the 20th Century, Ben Gurion University, Beersheva/Neeve Zohar, Dead Sea, 23–25 May 2006.

‘A Diaspora on the Move? Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Berlin after 1918’, conference, ‘The Jews in the Modern World: Beyond the Nation’, Berlin (convened by University of Toronto, University of Southampton, Simon Dubnow Institute and German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), 2–3 May 2006.

‘Between “Gemeinschaft” and Community: The Transformation of Jewish Communities in 19th Century Britain, Germany, and the United States’, lecture, Anglo-Jewish Historical Society, Singers Hill Synagogue, Birmingham, 14 May 2006.

‘Transnational Affiliations: Jewish Philanthropic Organizations in Germany and the United States and the Jewish Mass Migration from Eastern Europe 1870–1925’, conference, ‘Philanthropy in History: German and American Perspectives’, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 30 March – 1 April 2006.

‘Germans and Transmigrants: The Impact of American Immigration Policies in Europe before and after the First World War’, European Social Science History conference, Amsterdam, 22–24 March 2006.

Tony Kushner:

Publications

‘Genocide’, in Matthew Gibney and Randall Hansen (eds), Immigration and Asylum (ABC-CLIO, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 260–5.

‘Anglo-America, Port Jews and the Invisible Transmigrant’, in David Cesarani and Gemma Romain (eds), Jews and Port Cities, 1590–1990 (Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2006), pp. 247–60.

‘Great Britons: Immigration, History and Memory’, in K Burrell and P Panayi (eds), Histories and Memories: Migrants and Their History in Britain (IB Tauris, 2006), pp. 18–34, 260–4.

‘Holocaust Testimony, Ethics and the Problem of Representation’, Poetics Today, vol. 27, no. 2 (summer 2006), pp. 275–96.

‘Opinion Polls and Mass-Observation’, in Jay Winter and John Merriman (eds), Europe Since 1914 – Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction (Thomson Gale, New York, 2006), pp. 1928–9.

Papers

‘One Hundred Years of Anti-Alienism’, Asylum Aid Annual General Meeting, London, October 2005.

‘Mass-Observation and Surrealism’, Manchester University conference on Mass-Observation, November 2005.

‘Comparing Jewish and Muslim Memories in Britain’, Royal Holloway, University of London, November 2005.

‘350 Years of Anglo-Jewish History’, London Jewish Cultural Centre, January 2006.

‘Disraeli and Anglo-Jewish History’, Chabad, Oxford, February 2006.

‘Judaism, Jewishness and Humour’, Southampton Inter-Faith Link seminar on religions and humour, March 2006.

‘Antisemitism in Britain’, International conference, ‘The Resurgence of Antisemitism’ in the west, Grinnell College, Iowa, April 2006.

‘Dealing with difference’, international workshop on comparative study of Jews and Muslims, Royal Holloway, University of London, June 2006.

‘Confronting Prejudice: Then and Now; Them and Us’, Cheshire Reform Synagogue study weekend, June/July 2006.

‘Bill Williams and British Jewish Historiography: Past, Present and Future’, Manchester University, September 2006.

Dan Levene:

Publications

‘Liturgy and magic bowls’, in Robert Hayward (ed.), Studies in Jewish Prayer (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005), pp. 163–84.

Papers

‘Transmission of metals in early Jewish sources’, in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Bronze: The power of life and death’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2 December 2005.

Publications and Papers by Members of the Parkes Institute

Jenny Ruthven, Parkes Librarian, printed collections, the Hartley LibraryThe Parkes Library has received a further deposit of approximately 8,000 books from the Library of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. The material includes books on the history of Jewish communities, particularly those in Europe and the United States, antisemitism, the State of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. There are also publications on race relations, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, which will be added to the general stock of the Hartley Library. The material is currently being sorted and checked against existing holdings, prior to being added to stock.

During the year, the Parkes Library received a number of donations. These include books on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust from the library of Gerald Fleming, author of Hitler and the Final Solution (1984),

presented by Mrs W Fleming, and books on Jewish medical ethics and the history of Anglo-Jewry from the library of Mervyn Goodman, general practitioner and member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, presented by Mrs J Goodman. Bristol Public Library has donated a collection of mainly nineteenth-century publications on Judaism and Jewish history, formerly part of the library of Rabbi Nürnberg of Bath.

The closure of New College has meant that a number of books from New College library have been transferred to the Parkes Library, in many cases providing extra copies of books currently in demand for courses.

The amount of new material to be added to the collection necessitated some respacing of the library during the summer vacation, and this has also provided more space in the reference area to accommodate the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica.

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‘Britain’s Holocaust Memorial Day: A Case of Post-Cold War Wish-Fulfilment, or Brazen Hypocrisy?’ Human Rights Review, vol. 7, no. 32 (2006), pp. 26–59.

Papers

‘Turning Comparison on its Head’, conference, ‘20th Century Genocides beyond the Holocaust’, Wiener Library, 11 October 2005.

‘Connections between Terrorism and Genocide’, project seminar 1 (Terrorism), ‘Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe’, Merton College, Oxford, 24–26 September 2005.

‘The Holocaust: A Problem of Comparison?’, conference, ‘The Holocaust and the Problem of Comparison’, Wiener Library and Birkbeck, University of London, 9 May 2006.

‘Researching the Politics of Mass Murder’, conference, ‘Teaching and Researching the Politics of Mass Murder’, Kingston University, Surrey, 22–23 June 2006.

‘Systemic Aspect of Genocide in the European Rimlands’, project seminar 2 (genocide), ‘Political Violence in Twentieth- Century Europe’, University of Edinburgh, 1–3 September 2006.

Andrea Reiter:Publications

Children of the Holocaust (ed.) (Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2005).

‘Kinds of Testimony: Children of the Holocaust’, in Andrea Reiter (ed.), Children of the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2005), pp. 1–11.

‘Diaspora und Hybridität: Der Exilant als Mittler’, in Karl Müller (ed.), Zwischenwelt (Drava, Klagenfurt, 2006).

Sarah Pearce:Publications

‘Speaking with the Voice of God: The High Court according to Greek Deuteronomy 17.8–13’, in C Hempel and J Lieu (eds), Biblical Traditions in Transmission. Essays in Honour of Michael Knibb (Brill, Boston, 2006), pp. 237–48.

‘Josephus’, ‘Onkelos’, ‘Philo of Alexandria’ and ‘Pseudepigrapha’, in E Kessler and N Wenborn (eds), Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005), pp. 242–3, 322–3, 341–2 and 361–2.

Papers

‘Philo of Alexandria and the River Nile’, AHRB Parkes Centre Conference, ‘Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory’, University of Cape Town, January 2005.

‘Philo and Egyptian Identity’, AHRC Parkes Centre Colloquium on Ethnicity, University of Reading, March 2005.

‘Philo on the Nile’, Society of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2005.

‘Philo and the Greek Bible’, Society for Old Testament Studies, Birmingham, January 2006.

Publications and Papers by Members of the Parkes Institute Members of the Parkes Institute

Members of the Management Committee of the Parkes Institute

Dr Bill Brooks Associate Dean (Education) of Law, Arts and Social Sciences (Chair)

Professor Jane Falkingham Associate Dean of Law, Arts and Social Sciences

Dr Oren Ben-Dor (Law)

Dr Mark Brown University Librarian

Dr Chris Woolgar Head of Special Collections

Ms Karen Robson Deputy Head of Special Collections

Ms Jenny Ruthven Parkes Librarian

Dr Bernard Harris (Social Sciences)

Ms Katherine O’Brien (Development Office)

Members of the Board of Studies of the Parkes Institute

Dr Tobias Brinkmann

Ms Frances Clarke Administrator of the Parkes Institute

Professor Tony Kushner Head of the Parkes Institute

Dr Dan Levene

Dr Mark Levene

Dr Natan Meir

Dr Sarah Pearce

Dr Andrea Reiter

Dr Nadia Valman

Fellows of the Parkes Institute

Dr Oren Ben-Dor (Law)

Dr David Glover (English)

Dr Bernard Harris (Social Sciences)

Dr Andrea Reiter (Modern Languages)

Dr Patricia Skinner (History)

Honorary Fellows of the Parkes Institute

Dr Mishtooni Bose (Christ Church, Oxford)

Professor David Cesarani (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Rev. Richard Coggins (Emeritus Professor, King’s College London)

Dr Ruth Gilbert (University College, Winchester)

Professor Brian Klug (St Benet’s, Oxford)

Dr Tom Lawson (University College, Winchester)

Dr Joanna Newman (London Jewish Cultural Centre)

Mr Gerald Normie

Professor Tessa Rajak (University of Reading)

Dr Jo Reilly

Professor Mark Roseman (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London)

Professor Clare Ungerson

Dr Klaus Weber

Patrons of the Parkes InstituteThe Sidney and Elizabeth Corob Charitable Foundation

Right Rev. Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford

Sir Gordon Higginson

Right Rev. Crispian Hollis, Bishop of Portsmouth

Mr Ian Karten, CBE and Mrs Mildred Karten

Dr Elizabeth Maxwell

Sir Howard Newby

Lady Helen Oppenheimer

Lord Plant of Highfield

Professor Peter Pulzer

Frederic Raphael Esq.

Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth

Right Rev. Michael Scott-Joynt, Bishop of Winchester

Professor Geza Vermes, FBA

Most Rev. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

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