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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Really looking forward to this conversation with legal historian Geraldine Gudefin. Untold histories, taboo stories - loss and redemption. Asian-Jewish Family Histories in Colonial and Postcolonial Singapore. April 9th 10am-12pm (CET). Zoom link please contact nadia.malinovich@ephe.sorbonne.fr

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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.

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

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...

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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.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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.

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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....

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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....

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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.

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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...

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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...

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Bruno M. Shirley @brunomshirley.com · 07/03/2025

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...

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Vol. 15 No. 1-2 (2024) | The Journal of Transcultural Studies

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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...

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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

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Manchester Jewish Museum @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

These would be used for storing tallit and tefillin and were gifted to Abdallah Iny, for his bar mitzvah in 1883. It’s just incredible to think that these objects survived over 140 years and now have a home in our collection!

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Manchester Jewish Museum @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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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Jay Prosser, "Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns" (Black Spring Press, 2024) by New Books in Jewish Studies

An interview with Jay Prosser

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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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Manchester Jewish Museum @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Truly honoured to be included in Jewish Book Week 2025.

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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

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Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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 🧵

Text: Brandeis Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series. Image, Left: Book Cover with a photo of a wooden chest and the text Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, A Legacy, A Son Returns, Jay Prosser; Right: a photo of Jay Prosser, a man smiling and wearing a stripped shirt.

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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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Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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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