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Jay Prosser

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Prof Humanities @universityofleeds. Personal and cultural stories to head off divisive times. Mixed race, Asian Jewish, trans veteran. Most recent: Loving Strangers. Working on: Holocaust Torah scroll shoe soles from Salonika. https://www.jayprosser.com

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · 28d

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

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...

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Jul 10

Acquired it in Greece, not Poland.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

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.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · Jul 10

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 · Jul 8

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

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…

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Jun 24

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...

MSCA DN 2025: Jewish Cultural Heritage | The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Matchmaking Platform

The platform provides an opportunity for companies, SMEs, Universities, Research Centres, NGOs, to find partners and offer opportunities to future MSCA fellows

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Jun 9

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.

Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Jun 9

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 · May 28

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · May 1

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

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Apr 17

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...

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.

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Apr 16

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Apr 11

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....

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 · Apr 8

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...

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.

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Mar 23

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...

Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Mar 10

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 · Mar 10

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

The Jewish Mahallah of Singapore as a Site of Transcultural Memory | The Journal of Transcultural Studies

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Bruno M. Shirley @brunomshirley.com · Mar 7

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

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Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Mar 5

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 · Feb 28

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...

Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Feb 27

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...

Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social · Feb 24

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

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