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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 · 09/06/2025

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.

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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 · 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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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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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 · 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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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 · 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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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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

'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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

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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