Jay Prosser
@jaydprosser.bsky.social
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
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.
June 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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.
A year ago today. Paperback and US edition coming soon. Nothing without this person.
May 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A year ago today. Paperback and US edition coming soon. Nothing without this person.
Not anymore apparently, Simone. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
April 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Not anymore apparently, Simone. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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...
March 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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...
March 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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...
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...
March 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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...
February 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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...
February 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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...
Now is precisely the time for loving strangers. @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social tonight. Please join me. www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/event/secret...
February 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Now is precisely the time for loving strangers. @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social tonight. Please join me. www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/event/secret...
Objects and stories. Touching my mother's refugee past. @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/activitie/br...
February 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Objects and stories. Touching my mother's refugee past. @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/activitie/br...
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...
February 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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...
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....
February 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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....
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.
February 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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.
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...
January 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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...
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...
January 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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...
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...
January 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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...
Truly honoured to be included in Jewish Book Week 2025.
January 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Truly honoured to be included in Jewish Book Week 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...
January 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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...
December 27, 2024 at 7:46 AM
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
December 26, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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
The best Jewish memoir last year? My piece on it for @theconversation.com. @rachelcockerell.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-five-bes...
December 18, 2024 at 3:57 PM
The best Jewish memoir last year? My piece on it for @theconversation.com. @rachelcockerell.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-five-bes...
Tomorrow @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social -Brandeis Institute. The women who made me. www.brandeis.edu/hbi/events/i...
December 10, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Tomorrow @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social -Brandeis Institute. The women who made me. www.brandeis.edu/hbi/events/i...
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...
December 6, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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...
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.
December 5, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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.