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Jewish Women’s Comics: Bodies and Bibles
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomCharlotte Salomon, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Sharon Rudahl, and Miriam Libicki, just some of the names of the maverick Jewish women who have transformed the world of autobiographical graphic narratives. They have challenged the traditional rubrics of comics making, and found authentic drawing styles and voices on their pages. In this talk I will introduce the artists … Continue reading Jewish Women’s Comics: Bodies and Bibles
Jews and Jazz: a melting pot of identities
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomWhat has Charlie Parker’s classic bebop tune ‘Anthropology’ got to do with George Gershwin? What was the role of Jewish composers in establishing the great American Song Book and how did this establish mainstream jazz standards? How does the Freygish scale found in klezmer music relate to the Phyrgian dominant mode used in minor 2-5-1 … Continue reading Jews and Jazz: a melting pot of identities
The Jews of Africa
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomMany suspect that the 21st century will be Africa's century, but for many of us the African continent remains a fairly unknown place. Least known amongst its many unknown features is the emergence of new Jewish communities to join the long-standing ones that have been there for nearly two centuries. Clive Lawton will explore some … Continue reading The Jews of Africa
Finding my way through the woods: migration, family and food
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomWhat can food and family history teach us about issues of migration, gender and family? From the recipes and stories of one Sephardi family in Greece and Turkey in the late 19th and early 20th century, as well as a cooking demo and tasting, Michal takes us on a culinary family history involving messages about … Continue reading Finding my way through the woods: migration, family and food
Once upon a time in Egypt – Memories of a bygone era
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomIn this conversation with Lisa Lipman, Viviane will discuss her childhood in Egypt and her memories of growing up in a Jewish community which at the time numbered 80,000 . They all left or were expelled between 1948 and 1967. The 1930s to early 1950s are considered Egypt’s golden era, when Cairo was known as … Continue reading Once upon a time in Egypt – Memories of a bygone era
Shipman and King Cinemas: a celebration of Jewish enterprise and family
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomIn this illustrated talk, Jenny King tells the remarkable story of her grandfather Sam King and his journey from an impoverished Jewish immigrant family to a cinema and property mogul. Together with his friend Alf Shipman, they fulfilled their dream of building a chain of magnificent Art Deco cinemas, starting in the First World War with … Continue reading Shipman and King Cinemas: a celebration of Jewish enterprise and family
A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomMalkah is a child when her father tries to teach her to read Torah. But they don’t get very far. As Malkah studies, her questions multiply. She discovers an earlier, hidden story of creation within the Hebrew Aleph-Bet letters in the first line of Genesis. And a door opens. Thus starts the award-winning film, The … Continue reading A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet
Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomIn this talk, Esther Saraga explores her complex and ambivalent relationships as daughter and academic to a vast collection of family papers concerned with my parents’ forced migration from Nazi Germany. She recognised that the letters do not ‘speak for themselves’, but tell several different possible stories. I have used the papers to explore ‘how … Continue reading Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees
Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomThe remarkable medieval moneylender, Licoricia of Winchester rose from obscure beginnings to become the personal banker to Henry III and the richest Jewish woman in 13th century England. Twice married, twice widowed and the mother of four sons, she was a self-made woman in a man-made world. But in an age of political turmoil and … Continue reading Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?
TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomThis fifty-minute documentary film explores the Holocaust’s impact on the children of survivors, including recorded interviews. They share their families’ true stories and explore the complexities of having Holocaust survivors as parents. It is produced by Tracey Goldring who is founder of Searching for Identity, an organisation that works with second and third generation of … Continue reading TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation
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