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November 2022

The dilemmas of diversity: How do we show what a Jew looks like?

10th November 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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Earlier this year, Keith Kahn-Harris published a book called What does a Jew look like?, a collaboration with the photographer Rob Stothard. The book tries to challenge the use of stock photos of strictly orthodox Jews in the British media, by presenting portraits that capture the diversity of British Jews. But demonstrating diversity carries its own dilemmas. In this talk Keith Kahn-Harris will explore the challenges in explaining Jewish diversity to the wider world. Keith Kahn-Harris is a writer and sociologist.…

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December 2022

Jewish Women’s Comics: Bodies and Bibles

8th December 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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Charlotte 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 and artworks that have inspired me as I produced The Book of Sarah, my autobiographical graphic novel distilled from thousands of diary drawings begun in my…

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January 2023
£5

Jews and Jazz: a melting pot of identities

25th January 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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What 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 Jazz chords? Jewish composers, musicians, producers and club owners played a major role in the establishment of the American Jazz scene. One possible reason for…

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February 2023
£5

The Jews of Africa

22nd February 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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Many 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 of these communities, how they came into existence and the conundrums they throw up for the established Jewish community, not least, but not only, in…

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March 2023
£5

Finding my way through the woods: migration, family and food

22nd March 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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What 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 contemporary culinary cultures and society. Dr Michal Nahman is an anthropologist who has written about Israeli society, reproduction and medicine, and is now turning her…

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October 2023
£5.00

Once upon a time in Egypt – Memories of a bygone era

11th October 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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In 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 the Pearl of the Nile. Viviane will evoke a world which no longer exists and will talk about a Sephardi community with its unique customs…

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November 2023
£5.00

Shipman and King Cinemas: a celebration of Jewish enterprise and family

8th November 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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In 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 a tiny cinema in the back of a Sussex pub. Through their foresight and dedication to the world of entertainment, Shipman and King Cinemas grew…

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December 2023
£5.00

A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet

13th December 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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Malkah 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 Day before Creation, and its companion volume, Malkah’s Notebook, documenting Malkah’s lifelong journey into Jewish mystical texts, far-off places, archaeological digs, ancient gods, and ultimately…

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February 2024
£5

Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees

February 14 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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In 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 it felt’ to live through these historic events. The experiences of these two refugees, set in their historical context, shed light on life in Nazi…

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March 2024
£5

Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?

March 13 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Redland Quaker Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road
Bristol, BS6 6EJ United Kingdom
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The 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 rising antisemitism, she also experienced at first hand mounting anti-Jewish legislation, local expulsions and violent attacks that culminated in personal tragedy.   Who was this extraordinary woman,…

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