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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Truly honoured to be included in Jewish Book Week 2025.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Honoured to be asked to do this. December 11 online. www.brandeis.edu/hbi/events/i....

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Next week Shir Kochavi @universityofleeds.bsky.social (also online) on her new book on cultural heritage and museums in Israel after the Holocaust. Please join us. Shir's book is fascinating, brilliantly researched, timely. @biajs.bsky.social cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/alumn...

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'We are brothers with the Turks, and partners with the Jews. Our goal is to isolate hotheads and persuade them that history cannot be altered.' Yiannis Boutaris of Thessaloniki, may his memory be a blessing. balkaninsight.com/2024/11/12/t...

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How lovely is this. A signed copy of Mishal Husain's memoir, generous enough to mention my book. Common threads indeed.

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'Chloé Manasseh’s artwork draws together the tropical abundance of Singapore and the iconography of her Middle Eastern Jewish heritage. Her fusion of different senses of what it means to be Asian, also of an ancient legacy with adopted surroundings, really resonates for me.' Hinterland.

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'Each life is an encyclopaedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly reshuffled and reordered in every conceivable way’ (Italo Calvino). I made a workshop for @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/hinterla...

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This interview with my mother and cousin Moshe Elias, made by my brilliant filmmaker niece, Rosa Prosser, for Sephardi Voices. youtu.be/NQdDGk7FZUQ?...

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Monday. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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On the trail of this 'loot,' a shoe sole that won't leave me alone. As ever, I feel I know nothing, but have everything to learn. www.jayprosser.com/holocaust-sh...

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Heading to this. Not excited. Rather a knot of anxiety/dread of something awful happening. Though it already has and is. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...

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If you're going to be in NY, please come along. Grateful to Marianne Hirsch for organising and to Mikhal Dekel and Carol Becker for dialoguing with me.

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'Gripping, evocative, and important'. Such a generous review in the Asian Review of Books, even when I get something (oy, but that's me) wrong. @BlackSpringUK asianreviewofbooks.com/content/lovi...

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The good people at The Literary Consultancy are running an accessible course in Conscious Writing for writers wishing to lead more conscious lives. This is sponsored by Wellbeing in the Arts and there are some free bursaries available. Please share widely

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Welcome to Bluesky @jaydprosser.bsky.social I’m now half way through Loving Strangers and loving it bsky.app/profile/biaj...

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