Media
There's a lot of music in Loving Strangers. I had fun including some of it here to this slideshow of images from the book.
I interviewed my mother and her cousin for Sephardi Voices UK about growing up Jewish in Singapore and their experiences as refugees during WW2. Filmed by Rosa Prosser. Full interview on request from Sephardi Voices UK.
Loving Strangers: A talk for Harif (Association of Jews from the MENA)
Voices of Sephardi/Mizrahi Memory: A Conversation
A conversation with photographer and writer Leslie Hakim-Dowek and Sephardi Voices curator, Bea Lewkowicz.
Interview with Georgia Hennessey Jackson on why memoir
I have been blessed with MANY wonderful students over the years. In this interview for Leeds Student Radio, Georgia Hennessey Jackson chats to me about about family memoir – why it matters, how to do it, and which our favourites are. Wait for the music; this is student radio after all.
Tracking the Mahallah
Why was the Jewish area of Singapore named with an Arabic term? In this talk I suggest that the Jews of Singapore brought their Ottoman Empire pasts with them, in naming their neighbourhood ‘mahallah’ (literally, ‘encampment’).
The Salonican Jewish Shoe Sole
I discovered this amazing Jewish shoe sole in the University of Leeds library. In a talk I gave for the Jewish Historical Society of England, I read it as a poignant symbol of the Holocaust in Greece, and of the traumatic relationships between Jews and Greeks in the city of Salonica.
Radio interviews
Why and how to record a loved one's family history? Conversation and call-in with ABC Radio