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Loving Strangers: launches, talks

Past:

Social Brew Crew, London, SW15. 3 June, 2.30 pm. An heirloom, a Song, a Creed (writing your life story).

Hurlingham Club, London, SW6. 5 June, 6 pm. Lunch with 'fizz'

Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds. 17 June, 1.00-2.15 pm. Secret Lives of Our Jewish Mothers: In conversation with Monique Charlesworth. Also online.

Harif: Association of Jews from the MENA. 18 June, 7.30 p.m. Online event,

School of English, University of Leeds. Writing Family Memoirs: In conversation with Jess Richards. 26 June, 4.30-6.00 pm. In person and online.

Millim, online event, 1 July (in conversation with Jonathan Straight)

Leeds, Trinity and All Saints College, 6 July: The Camphorwood Chest: Bringing to Life an Archive of Stories

British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies conference, University of Bristol, 10 July: 'A Woman Named Zed: Writing Asian Jewish Women Back into the Japanese Prisoner-of-War Story'

Street party book launch, SW15, 20 July.

Abraham Events, 27 September. Online and in Manchester.

Upcoming:

Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society, 1 December, 7.30 pm. Location tbc.

University of Edinburgh, 2 December. Time and location tbc.

Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for Jewish Studies and Gender. Online. 11 December 5.30 pm GMT 

Manchester Jewish Museum, 20 March. Time tbc.

Columbia University, NYC, 2 April. Time tbc.

Waterstones, York (date tbc)

Chelsea Synagogue, London (date tbc)

Jewish Museum, Singapore (date tbc)

. . . further dates and locations to be added.

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Other events

Memory objects in our libraries and in our attics, Leeds Limmud, 15 September, 2019.

Jewish Objects in a Time of Crisis: Cecil Roth as Collector, Jewish Historical Society of England, 8 June, 2020. Pandemic session. Watch here.

 

Voices of Sephardi/Mizrahi Memory: In conversation with Leslie Hakim-Dowek and Bea Lewkowicz,  3 February, 2020

 

On writing my Asian-Jewish family biography, ARK, Menorah, Manchester, 18 October, 2021

Can a Shoe Sole Speak? Animating Holocaust Archives, Holocaust Centre North, 1 March, 2024

Art and Faith, York Interfaith Group, York, 2 April, 2024

Holocaust relics in Thessaloniki, Greece: Theft, Recycling, Burial, Looted exhibition and conference, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 10 September, 2024

The Jewish Elgin Marbles? On Cecil Roth’s Salonican shoe soles, Jewish Cultural Heritage symposium, Sheffield, 26 September, 2024

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Shortlist, Craft Creative Nonfiction Prize, 2024
Top 6%, Bridport Memoir Prize, 2022Special Mention, Spread the Word Life Writing Prize, 2021
Honourable Mention, Curt Johnson Prose Prize, 2021

 

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