Jewish Cultural Heritage: Between the Local and the Global

Cultural Heritage is a broad concept which offers a bridge between the past and the future.

Short provocations from speakers will explore the diversity and breadth of Jewish cultural heritage in the broadest sense, both the tangible and intangible, both at local and global levels.

Organised by the Sheffield Jewish Studies Research Network at the University of Sheffield and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds.

Programme

Session 1 (2pm – 3pm)

Professor Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds): Helen Rosenau and the Synagogue as Architectural Form (online)

Dr Alina Legeyda (Newcastle University): Verzets (Resistance) Museum vs. Anne Frank House: The Case of Dominants in Jewish Cultural Heritage (online)

Dr Carmen Levick (University of Sheffield): Museal Displays and Absent Voices: Eva Heyman’s Journal and Local(ised) Narratives of Identity

Daniella Hovsha (University of Sheffield): If you can’t kiss in the Anne Frank House, where can you? An analysis of the representation of the Anne Frank House in The Fault in Our Stars.

Tea and coffee break (3.15pm – 3.30pm)

Session 2 (3.30pm – 4.45pm)

Dr Jay Prosser (University of Leeds): The Jewish Elgin Marbles? On Cecil Roth’s Salonican shoe soles

Dr Eva Frojmovic (University of Leeds): Collecting in the shadow of fascism: Cecil Roth's manuscript collection (University of Leeds)

Sophia Lambert (University of Leeds): Identity, Death, Mourning and Commemoration: Bradford’s Reform Jewish Cemetery 1877-1935

Rabbi Elisheva in conversation with Dr Louise Hampson (University of York): The Jewbury Redevelopment (hybrid)

Session 3 (4.45pm – 5pm)

Open discussion about possible future collaborations.

Venue

Seminar Room G14
9 Mappin Street
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S1 4DT

More information

This is an in-person event only.

Please contact: Jewishstudiessheffield@gmail.com for further information.

Image

Detail from a photograph of the Jewish cemetery at Bowden Street (JCA/2/2/9). Image courtesy of Sheffield Libraries.