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.
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society, 1 December, 7.30 pm.
School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 2 December, 4.30 pm. Memoirs of Love and Loss: a seminar with Rodge Glass.
Upcoming:
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for Jewish Studies and Gender. Online. 11 December 5.30 pm GMT. Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations.
Manchester Jewish Museum, 20 February. 10.30 am and 6 pm. Workshop for families: Bring an object, tell a story, and evening book talk.
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.
News
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.
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