Jay Prosser

Two bits of happy grant news after a tough year, for collaborative projects on theme of TIKKUN -- 'repair'. Working with amazing colleagues, including, here Mordechai Pinchas Sofer STaM (Marc Michaels), on digitally 'repairing' destroyed Torah scroll.

Anyone researching Solomon Hart, first jew to be admitted to Royal Academy? @lulgalleries.bsky.social is keen to make our collection more accessible and would love to hear from you. @biajs.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

Loving Strangers - Jewish Literary Foundation Watch Loving Strangers on the JLF Player. This event, featuring Jay Prosser and Leslie Hakim-Dowek, is from Jewish Book Week 2025.

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

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies Are you a dynamic person holding a recent doctoral degree with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities? Does your research and teaching demonstrate a sustain...

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

Acquired it in Greece, not Poland.

Opening up pioneering Jewish historian’s treasured collection Looked at from one side, it’s the leather sole of a child’s shoe, a scarce resource re-purposed during wartime.

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

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

Transforming an Archival Object into an Educational Tool: the Czech Torah Scroll Sophia Lambert, a History PhD student, has been working as an Assistant on the Learning from Yorkshire’s Holocaust Torah Scrolls Project at the University of Leeds. In this post Sophia explores the…

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

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

Horizon 2025 CSA, but may apply for an alternative. Can you send me an email once you've read this? Great to hear from you.

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

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

Let’s embrace the REF’s radical redefinition of academic excellence We finally have a mechanism to overthrow the UK’s neo-feudal system of academic gatekeeping, say Krzysztof Nawratek and Lakshmi Priya Rajendran

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

Reform and liberal rabbis hit back at Supreme Court biological sex ruling - Jewish News Progressive clergy say judgment welcomed by feminists across the UK puts trans members at greater risk of discrimination and suicide

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

Trans rights and political backlash: five key moments in history Over the last century, progress for trans people has been met with political and cultural backlash at every step.

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

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

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.

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

Trump Administration Threatens Extreme Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities Under the Trump administration, DOGE recommended staff cuts by as much as 70 to 80 percent, as well as the cancellation of all outstanding grants.

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

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

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

thanks for letting me know, Sam! :) Hope this works now. heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/tra...

A new issue of the Journal of Transcultural Studies is now available open-access! It features articles by @jaydprosser.bsky.social (Leeds), Alexander Vesey (Tokyo), Ori Sela (Tel Aviv) and Dhruv Raina (New Delhi/Pune).

Great reads all; check them out here:
heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/tra...

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

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

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

Early 90s I used to live right next door to this. I don't remember parrots. New arrivals?

Loving Strangers - Jewish Literary Foundation Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns is a powerful family memoir reimagining Jewish identity beyond the familiar landscapes of Europe and the Shoah, journeying through Iraq, ...

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

Lovely to meet you, Anna. Looking forward to continued conversation.

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