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SUMMARY:The Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings?
DESCRIPTION:  \nT \nThe Jewish Christian relationship: parent and child or siblings? \nCanon Guy Wilkinson CBE • Bristol \nWhilst the Church of England from 1942 with the formation of the Council of Christians and Jews has issued numerous statements condemning antisemitism\, it was not until 2019 that the C of E’s Faith and Order Commission published its formal guidance on how the C of E’s relationship with Judaism should theologically and practically be understood. ‘God’s Unfailing Word’ states that it should be understood from the perspective that ‘the Christian–Jewish relationship is a gift of God to the Church.’ I will look at the ‘Difficult history’ and the ‘Distinctive relationship’ which it considers. It should be emphasised that although there is an afterword by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis\, this is not a joint document\, but one which represents the current view of the Church of England. \n \nGuy Wilkinson has worked on aid programmes in Africa\, and in the European Commission in Brussels. He then attended theological college\, was ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1987 and served in several parishes before becoming Archdeacon of Bradford. He served as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s and C of E’s Inter Religious Affairs Adviser before serving as Inter Faith Adviser to the bishop of Salisbury and now to the bishop of Bristol. He is married to Tessa and they have five children. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-jewish-christian-relationship-parent-and-child-or-siblings/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Identity,Talk,Torah
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260311T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260311T213000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T063131Z
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SUMMARY:East End Jewish Life
DESCRIPTION:East End Jewish Life \nVivi Lachs • London \nVivi Lachs will introduce her new book\, East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press\, with a lively presentation and performed readings. The book offers an unparalleled view into the life\, labour\, politics and joys of London’s Jewish East End\, from its heyday in the 1890s until the 1950s. These accessible\, often humorously-written sketches capture incisive and sometimes cheeky encounters with challenges and debates of the time. They highlight the complex interactions between Jewish immigrants and their British surroundings\,\nfrom celebrating a new Torah scroll to enlisting in the British army during the First World War without citizenship. They take readers on a journey through local tradition and significant social change\, tracing the ideas and events that impacted the community. \nThe book will be on sale at a 30% launch discount price. \n\nVivi Lachs is a historian of the Jewish East End\, a Yiddish performer\, translator and associate research fellow at University College\, London. She is the co-presenter of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast\, manager of the Great Yiddish Parade\, vice chair of the Yiddish Café Trust and leads tours of the Yiddish East End. She sings and composes tunes for archive London Yiddish songs with the bands Klezmer Klub and Katsha’nes. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/east-end-jewish-life/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T213000
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SUMMARY:The making of the Last Musician of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:The making of the Last Musician of Auschwitz \nToby Trackman • London \nThe Last Musician of Auschwitz is a complex\, powerful film which uses the surprising existence of music in the camp to explore the role of art in preserving a sense of humanity in the face of the most terrible violations.  Director of the film\, Toby Trackman\, will be sharing his deeply personal experience of making the film\, revealing the emotional\, moral and creative challenges that staging musical performances in Auschwitz involve. He will talk through how the film came to be\, share powerfully moving moments from the making of it\, and reflect on how the film has been received in today’s tense and uncertain atmosphere. \n \nRaised in Bristol\, Toby Trackman is an award-winning documentary director\, with a career spanning over 20 years. Known for his beautifully crafted cinematic approach\, he brings creative ambition and compelling storytelling to every project\, whether that’s with A-list superstars such Elton John and Dua Lipa\, or with contributors in the most sensitive of situations\, such as in his films double Grierson award winning film Stabbed and Life and Death in Chicago\, which both explored the trauma left behind by violent crime. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-making-of-the-last-musician-of-auschwitz/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,holocaust,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241221T112740Z
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SUMMARY:Our House: Stories of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:  \nLisa Lipman talks to journalist and radio producer Jo Glanville about her BBC radio documentary Our House\, in which she meets Berliners who have  researched the history of the Jewish families who once lived in their homes. Their discoveries are an intimate and moving portrait of lives that were turned upside down and offer a new way of honouring the memory of German Jews who lost everything in the Holocaust. First broadcast on the BBC World Service on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023\, Jo also tracks down the house where her own mother spent part of her childhood and meets one of the last surviving residents\, now living in the UK. It is a revelatory journey\, uncovering forgotten family stories and revealing how the Nazis deprived Jews of the right to live in their own homes. \nJo Glanville regularly produces and presents programmes for BBC Radio 4\, BBC Radio 3 and BBC World Service. Her journalism has been published in the Guardian\, Prospect\, London Review of Books and the New York Times. She is the editor of Looking for an Enemy: eight essays on antisemitism (Short Books/WW Norton) and Qissat: short stories by Palestinian women (Saqi). \nLisa Lipman has been directing and telling stories on popular programmes for the BBC and other channels for the last 30 years. A colleague of Jo’s\, she is very much looking forward to finding out more about how Jo discovered and pursued this story. \nMembers              – free entry \nFriends & Guests – £8.00 at the door \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/our-house-stories-of-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240410T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240410T210000
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CREATED:20240115T185535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T143911Z
UID:775-1712777400-1712782800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation
DESCRIPTION:This 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 Holocaust survivors in the United States. XXXX \nAfter viewing the film\, Marian Liebmann will lead a discussion\, firstly about the film\, and secondly about the varied experiences of being Second Generation. Marian lives in Bristol and is a longstanding member of DAVAR. Her parents were Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. She coordinates the Bristol and South West Second Generation Group. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/traces-voices-of-the-second-generation/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:holocaust,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T210000
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CREATED:20240115T185316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T071307Z
UID:770-1710358200-1710363600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?
DESCRIPTION: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\, and what lessons might medieval England hold for us today? \nRebecca Abrams is the author of several books on Jewish history\, including The Jewish Journey:  4000 years in 22 objects and Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries.  Her most recent publication is Licoricia of Winchester:  Power and Prejudice in Medieval England.  She teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford and is a regular literary critic for the Financial Times. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/licoricia-of-winchester-an-exception-who-proves-the-rule/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240214T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174105
CREATED:20240115T190200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T072334Z
UID:768-1707939000-1707944400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees
DESCRIPTION: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 Germany\, the difficulties of getting out and into the UK\, and on British attitudes and policies towards refugees. Their contradictory experiences challenge simple views of Britain’s liberal tradition of welcoming refugees. She draws parallels between her parents’ experiences in the 1930s and people today – both refugees and the children of the Windrush generation – in relation to issues such as the ‘tyranny of documentation’\, statelessness and problems with the Home Office. \nEsther Saraga is the daughter of German Jewish refugees. She has forty years’ experience teaching and researching in higher education\, moving from a first degree in mathematics in Cambridge to a PhD in Psychology in London\, feeling finally at home as a feminist critical social scientist at the Open University.  She retired in 2009 to concentrate on this project. Berlin to London. An Emotional History of Two Refugees was published by Vallentine Mitchell in 2019. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/berlin-to-london-an-emotional-history-of-two-refugees/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:holocaust,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231213T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174105
CREATED:20230829T181448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T181448Z
UID:747-1702495800-1702501200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet
DESCRIPTION: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 into the nature of existence itself. The book was illustrated by Josh Baum who lives in Israel. In Josh’s work as an artist and scribe\, he explores the Hebrew letters as sacred signs as well as objects of profound beauty.  Join Mira Z Amiras\, PhD\, writer and director of both the book and film\, and Josh’s brother\, Sam Baum\, the film’s animator.  We will screen the whole film (38m) at the start of the evening so the event will be longer than the normal hour. \nMira Z Amiras\, Ph.D. is an anthropologist\, author\, and award-winning filmmaker. She began her journey into the mystical Aleph-Bet at her father’s knee and studied further with her mentor\, Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. She has lived\, studied\, and travelled throughout the Middle East and North Africa\, camped out 7\,000 miles through Africa\, across the Sahara and overland from Brussels to the Nepalese border. She received her PhD from the University of California and is Professor Emerita of Comparative Religious Studies at San Jose. Mira lives in San Francisco with her family. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/a-journey-into-the-mystical-aleph-bet/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:alephbet,Cinema,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231108T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174105
CREATED:20230829T180717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T180717Z
UID:744-1699471800-1699477200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Shipman and King Cinemas: a celebration of Jewish enterprise and family
DESCRIPTION: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 to be one of Britain’s finest independent cinema circuits\, bringing entertainment to thousands of people through two World Wars\, the Great Depression\, and the challenge of television. Alongside the success of Shipman and King is a human story of business triumph\, family bonds and personal sadness. \nCinema King: A Granddaughter’s memoir\, is available through www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk and all profits will go to the Hailsham Old Pavilion Society charity that maintains Shipman and King’s first cinema which opened in 1921. \nJennifer King is a business psychologist who co-founded a management consultancy where she specialised in working with the medical profession. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. She now works as a Leadership Coach. She lives in Bristol with her husband David Pendleton. They have two daughters and four grandchildren. ‘Cinema King’ is her first memoir. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/shipman-and-king-cinemas-a-celebration-of-jewish-enterprise-and-family/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cinema,history,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174105
CREATED:20230829T180403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T180403Z
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SUMMARY:Once upon a time in Egypt - Memories of a bygone era
DESCRIPTION: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 and traditions. She will also discuss her experience as a refugee\, bringing with it both trauma and a loss of identity. \nViviane Bowell was born and raised in Cairo in a Sephardi community. Her maternal grandparents came from Aleppo in Syria and her paternal ancestors had been expelled from Spain in 1492 before settling in the Ottoman Empire. Expelled from Egypt in 1956\, Viviane’s family arrived in England as penniless refugees and were placed in a disused hostel in the West of England before moving to London.  There she attended a French school and later went to university as a mature student and obtained a law degree.  Viviane moved to Bristol nearly 20 years ago and currently volunteers for two charities supporting refugees and asylum seekers. Since publishing her memoirs and recipe book soon after Covid\, she continues to promote the little-known story of Egyptian Jews and Jews from Arab lands. \nLisa Lipman has been directing and telling stories on popular programmes and documentaries for the BBC and other channels over the last 30 years. She is very much looking forward to delving into Viviane’s own family saga. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/once-upon-a-time-in-egypt-memories-of-a-bygone-era/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Jewish food,Sephardi,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230322T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230322T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174105
CREATED:20230112T142356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230112T142356Z
UID:704-1679513400-1679518800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Finding my way through the woods: migration\, family and food
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDr Michal Nahman is an anthropologist who has written about Israeli society\, reproduction and medicine\, and is now turning her attention to some of the most pressing issues of our time: the food system\, antisemitism\, and intra-Jewish inequality. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/finding-my-way-through-the-woods-migration-family-and-food/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:family,Jewish food,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230222T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174105
CREATED:20230112T142143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230112T142143Z
UID:701-1677094200-1677099600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Jews of Africa
DESCRIPTION: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 Israel. \nClive Lawton was made an OBE in 2016 for services to education and the Jewish community. He is CEO of the Commonwealth Jewish Council which draws together and represents about 40 communities around the globe. He was co-founder of Limmud\, is currently scholar-in-residence at JW3\, the large Jewish Community Centre in London\, an NHS tribunal Chair\, a magistrate on the Wiltshire Bench\, and runs his own international education consultancy.  Clive lectures and has published several books in the fields of religion\, moral and ethical matters\, literature\, politics\, and history. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-jews-of-africa/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Identity,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230125T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174105
CREATED:20230112T141852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230112T141852Z
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SUMMARY:Jews and Jazz: a melting pot of identities
DESCRIPTION: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? \nJewish composers\, musicians\, producers and club owners played a major role in the establishment of the American Jazz scene. One possible reason for this is that Jews used jazz to construct three identities: to become more American\, to emphasize their minority status\, and to become more Jewish. Today a wealth of Israeli musicians is influencing the modern Jazz scene with their own Sephardic and Mizrachi musical flavours. This talk will provide plenty of musical examples and does not require any knowledge of jazz but a willingness to listen with open-minded ears. \nYoav Ben-Shlomo is a lover of music\, including classical\, jazz and klezmer as well as helping run DAVAR on the side. He is neither a professional musician\, still mastering jazz flute and saxophone\, or a Jazz historian\, but he loves to share his knowledge and passion of music. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/jews-and-jazz-a-melting-pot-of-identities/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:music,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174105
CREATED:20220915T094402Z
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UID:667-1670527800-1670533200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Jewish Women's Comics: Bodies and Bibles
DESCRIPTION: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 parents’ garden shed back in 1996. My book is structured like an alternative bible as I chart my movement away from the religious lifestyle I followed as a teenager and find a feminist Jewish identity. Tracing my experiences of family\, motherhood and mental health\, I also critique the patriarchal cannon of art history and bring forth the sidelined\, silenced women of great master paintings. This talk contains adult material\, and trigger topics including: miscarriages\, mental health and maternity. \nSarah Lightman is an artist and writer and Faculty at The Royal Drawing School\, London.  She attended the Slade School of Art for her BA and MFA\, University of Glasgow for her PhD and was an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck\, University of London (2018-2021). She edited the award-winning Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (McFarland 2014)\, published The Book of Sarah (Myriad Editions and Penn State UP 2019) and co-edited Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders (Syracuse UP 2022). \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/jewish-womens-comics-bodies-and-bibles/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:art,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174105
CREATED:20220915T094147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T094147Z
UID:665-1668108600-1668114000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The dilemmas of diversity: How do we show what a Jew looks like?
DESCRIPTION: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. \nKeith Kahn-Harris is a writer and sociologist. He is a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College and a Fellow of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. What does a Jew look like? is his eighth book. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-dilemmas-of-diversity-how-do-we-show-what-a-jew-looks-like/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Identity,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20220915T093501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T093501Z
UID:659-1665689400-1665694800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Jews and the Law in Medieval England
DESCRIPTION:England’s first known Jewish inhabitants came from Normandy soon after the Norman Conquest and by the end of the twelfth century the community in England had been granted a right of residence and a right of free movement plus a substantial degree of autonomy in intra-communal disputes by king Henry II and his sons Richard and John. From the late twelfth century onwards there survives a substantial volume of royal legislation relating to the community. Its main focus was on controlling the money-lending activity of individual Jews both in the interests of the Crown and individual Christian debtors until a statute of 1275 prohibited any future lending at interest. Other legislation echoed contemporary ecclesiastical legislation limiting social contact between Christians and Jews. The end of the medieval community came with the Expulsion of 1290 after which only a handful of Jews remained in England\, those who had converted to Christianity\, many of them living in the House of Converts in Chancery Lane in London. \nPaul Brand is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford where he was a Senior Research Fellow from 1999 to 2014. He is a medieval legal historian and the author of The Origins of the English Legal Profession and The Making of the Common Law both published in 1992 and Kings\, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England in 2003. He is editor of four volumes of The Earliest English Law Reports for the Selden Society and volume VI of Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews. He lives in retirement in rural south Warwickshire. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/jews-and-the-law-in-medieval-england/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220310T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220310T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20220110T092742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T093546Z
UID:618-1646940600-1646944200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:A Land of Milk and Mufletta: what Israeli food says about Israeli culture
DESCRIPTION:Joel Harber • Jerusalem \nIsraeli chefs have recently conquered the culinary world\, but what about all those foods they left behind at home? What do these dishes say about Israel itself? From falafel to petitim\, meurav Yerushalmi to mufleta\, Joel will reveal the culture behind the distinctive foods that make Israel so deliciously… Israeli. \nJoel Haber researches\, writes about and lectures on the topic of Jewish food history\, with a focus on understanding Jewish culture and history via its foods. His writing appears on his blog (www.tasteofjew.com) along with articles in such publications as The Nosher\, Tradition and The Jewish Journal. He has spoken widely to hundreds of attendees\, in both online and in-person venues in multiple countries.  Joel is currently writing a book that examines Shabbat stews from around the world\, using them as a way of tracing the routes of Jewish migrations throughout history.  Additionally\, Joel has worked as a licensed tour guide in Israel for nearly a decade. His most popular single tour is a culinary tasting and history tour in Jerusalem’s famous outdoor market\, Shuk Machane Yehuda. Joel was born and raised in New Jersey\, lived for many years in both New York City and Los Angeles\, and immigrated to Israel in March 2009. He is proud to live in the special city of Jerusalem. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/a-land-of-milk-and-mufletta-what-israeli-food-says-about-israeli-culture/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Jewish food,Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20220110T090045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T093830Z
UID:612-1644521400-1644525000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Ernest Bloch: more than a Jewish composer
DESCRIPTION:Yoav Ben-Shlomo • Bristol \nErnest Bloch\, though not a religious Jew\, is probably the most famous Jewish composer of the twentieth century. Born in Geneva in 1880\, he studied in Brussels\, Frankfurt\, Munich and Paris before creating his “Jewish cycle” and ended his life in the USA. However\, he also composed other important musical works including chamber music and symphonic works that were more impressionistic\, influenced by Debussy and other 20th century composers. Whilst\, much of his music has strong Jewish themes\, he always viewed his works as universalistic with a message that “…transports us into another world and makes us think\, feel\, love differently.” This talk will play excerpts from many of his varied works to illustrate the power of this message. \nYoav Ben-Shlomo is a lover of music\, including classical\, jazz and klezmer. He has collected classical pieces inspired by Jewish themes over the years and enjoys sharing his love of music with others. Yoav is an academic at the University of Bristol and Chair of DAVAR. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/ernest-bloch-more-than-a-jewish-composer/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:music,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20210913T083605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T135020Z
UID:542-1639078200-1639083600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Ghetto:  Travelling through history
DESCRIPTION:“Ghetto” is an extraordinarily complex word which is both a noun and an adjective. It has layers of contrasting meanings accrued over five hundred years and a bewildering array of settings across the globe. It refers to medieval and early modern Jewish history; black experience in the great northern cities of America in the twentieth century; nineteenth-century imaginary ghettos; and our contemporary sense of cities and countries segregated by race and class.  What makes “the ghetto” unique is that it is a place full of historical memory. Sometimes memory makes the ghetto “real”; at other times past versions of the ghetto are forgotten. But\, from the beginning\, ghettos have had a variety of histories and connotations. This talk will show how different ghettos (urban\, racial\, colonial) travel across time and space. \n  \nBryan Cheyette is Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Reading\, and a Fellow of the English Association. He has authored or edited eleven books\, most recently The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP\, 2020). He loves to travel and has held visiting positions at Dartmouth College\, the University of Michigan\, and the University of Pennsylvania\, and he also holds fellowships at the universities of Leeds\, Southampton and Birkbeck College\, London. He is a past book’s editor of The Jewish Quarterly and writes for the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish Renaissance. A self-confessed “revieweroholic”\, he reviews fiction for several British newspapers including the Times Literary Supplement and the Times Higher. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-ghetto-travelling-through-history/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,holocaust,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20210913T083242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T081520Z
UID:535-1634239800-1634245200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Willesden Jewish Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:Willesden Cemetery\, which opened in 1873\, is one of London’s most prestigious Jewish cemeteries.  It is run by the United Synagogue who were fortunate to be awarded a £1.7m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to open Willesden Jewish Cemetery as a place of heritage for the public.  The United Synagogue website describes the Cemetery as “a place of great tranquillity\, the cemetery charts the development of London’s Jewish community over nearly 150 years\, with graves and memorials rich in social history and genealogical detail”. Tours and since COVID\, online presentations\, seek to convey this richness to audiences by bringing alive the stories of a sample of those buried in the Cemetery.  This will be a first for Deborah presenting to a live audience outside the Cemetery. \nDeborah Cohen lives close by the Cemetery and became a volunteer tour guide in 2019.  She is a former NHS director\, and has not quite stopped working as she chairs a local safeguarding adults board\, does some consultancy\, and is a Mental Health Act manager.  Deborah describes her experience as a tour guide as being on a voyage of discovery\, as she learns more and more about the “residents” of the Cemetery\, including people who made remarkable contributions to life in the UK and beyond during their lives. \nTo register for attending either in person or virtually please book via eventbrite \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/willesden-jewish-cemetery/
LOCATION:Redland Quaker Meeting House\, 126 Hampton Road \, Bristol\, BS6 6EJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="DAVAR":MAILTO:info@davarbristol.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201210T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20200901T110141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200901T110141Z
UID:450-1607628600-1607634000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Finding 100 Faces: capturing Jewish diversity
DESCRIPTION:In early 2018\, composer and film maker Benjamin Till\, who had only recently discovered he was Jewish\, decided to make the film 100 Faces to find out more about the community he’d been a member of for 43 years without realising.  His mission was to find one UK-based Jewish person born every year from 1918 to 2017 and it became an odyssey of discovery which took him all over the world. His final 100 people include Jewish people from all walks of life. Rabbis and chazans rub shoulders with Dames\, Lords\, holocaust survivors\, kinder-transportees\, well-known actors\, musicians\, writers and presenters and two men who fought at Cable Street. The whole film is set to music. Benjamin wrote an original score which was performed by the Israel Camera Orchestra.  Sit back and enjoy the film (approx 6 mins) and then hear about the bumpy and inspirational ride which led there! \n \nBenjamin Till is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and composer and pioneer in the field of the documentary musical. He grew up in Northamptonshire and describes himself as a fanatical Midlander of Welsh and Jewish extraction! He has many works to his credit including Our Gay Wedding: The Musical (Channel 4\, BAFTA-nominated\, winner\, Rose D’Or\, Grierson and Prix Italia.) This film is considered one of Channel 4’s most successful ever broadcasts. His most recent film\, 100 Faces\, which features the UK Jewish Community\, won the gold award at the Robinson’s International Short Film Competition. Benjamin sings with\, and is Resident Composer for\, the Jewish Male voice choir\, Mosaic Voices at New West End Synagogue\, London. Their most recent recording of Benjamin’s arrangement of Kol Nidrei was played on Radio 3. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/finding-100-faces-capturing-jewish-diversity-2/
LOCATION:Virtual streamed
CATEGORIES:Cinema,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20200901T105815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201115T113820Z
UID:442-1605209400-1605214800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Creativity against the odds:  Art and Internment during World War Two
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 80th anniversary of the British government’s controversial decision to ‘collar the lot’\, this illustrated lecture will examine the art produced in the British internment camps\, mostly but not only on the Isle of Man. It will do so in the broader context of art produced in other internment situations\, from the Japanese-American camps in the USA to the Nazi POW and concentration camps. Just what is it that makes human beings feel the urge to create in such adverse and inauspicious circumstances? To hear a recording of this talk please click on the following link which will take you to the Insiders/Outsiders youtube channel \n \nMonica Bohm-Duchen is a London-based art historian. Her book Art and the Second World War was published in 2013. She is the initiator and creative director of the nationwide\, year-long Insiders/Outsiders Festival (https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/)\, which celebrates the huge contribution made to British culture by refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe – many of whom were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British government in 1940. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/creativity-against-the-odds-art-and-internment-during-world-war-two/
LOCATION:Virtual streamed
CATEGORIES:art,history,holocaust,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201008T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201008T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20200901T105151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200901T105151Z
UID:434-1602185400-1602190800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Medicine in Ancient Judaism: Why does G-d attempt to kill Moses in Exodus 4?
DESCRIPTION:Directly after the burning bush scene\, G-d inexplicably tries to kill Moses (Exodus 4:24-26). Fortunately\, Moses’ life is saved by Zipporah’s enigmatic “Bridegroom of Blood” ritual. Commentators both ancient and modern have proposed many solutions by filling in the gaps\, proposing reasons such as Moses’ failing courage or procrastination. But what did this episode mean in its original setting? This talk will look at how G-d’s attempt on Moses’ life is better understood in the broader historical context of ancient medicine. In this talk\, Dr Askin will draw upon recent research from her current project\, Medicine in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism\, to explore how and why the Bible’s portrayals of medicine and healing seems so mysterious and distant to us. \n \nDr Lindsey A. Askin is Lecturer in Jewish Studies\, University of Bristol. She is the author of Scribal Culture in Ben Sira (Brill\, 2018)\, which is based on her doctoral thesis (University of Cambridge\, 2012-16). Her research interests include mental illness and medicine in the Bible and ancient Judaism\, scribal culture and literacy\, Ben Sira\, the Dead Sea Scrolls\, and the Book of Jubilees. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/medicine-in-ancient-judaism-why-does-g-d-attempt-to-kill-moses-in-exodus-4-2/
LOCATION:Virtual streamed
CATEGORIES:Medicine,Talk,Torah
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200402T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200402T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20200113T214613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200323T131641Z
UID:391-1585855800-1585861200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Finding 100 Faces: capturing Jewish diversity
DESCRIPTION:THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID-19 \n  \nIn early 2018\, composer and film maker Benjamin Till\, who had only recently discovered he was Jewish\, decided to make the film 100 Faces to find out more about the community he’d been a member of for 43 years without realising.  His mission was to find one UK-based Jewish person born every year from 1918 to 2017 and it became a journey which took him all over the world. His final 100 people include Jewish people from all walks of life. Rabbis and chazans rub shoulders with Holocaust survivors\, kinder-transportees\, well-known actors\, musicians and writers\, and two men who fought at Cable Street. The film is set to an original score performed by the Israel Camera Orchestra.  Sit back and enjoy the film (around 6 mins)\, and then hear about the bumpy and inspirational ride which led there. \n  \nBenjamin Till is an award-winning filmmaker and composer. He grew up in Northamptonshire and describes himself as a fanatical Midlander of Welsh and Jewish extraction. He has many works to his credit including Our Gay Wedding: The Musical\, a Bafta-nominated film is considered one of Channel 4’s most successful broadcasts. His most recent film\, 100 Faces\, won the gold award at the Robinson’s International Short Film Competition. Benjamin sings with\, and is Resident Composer for\, the Jewish male voice choir Mosaic Voices at New West End Synagogue\, London. \n  \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/finding-100-faces-capturing-jewish-diversity/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200311T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200311T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20200113T215815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T125154Z
UID:387-1583955000-1583960400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual?
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED  TO AVOID RISK OF COVID-19 (CORONA VIRUS) INFECTION  \nStanley Kubrick is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York Jewish intelligentsia. Nathan Abrams reexamines the director’s work in context of his ethnic and cultural origins and focuses on several of Kubrick’s key themes-masculinity\, ethical responsibility\, and the nature of evil.-At the same time\, he will explore Kubrick’s fraught relationship with his Jewish identity and his reluctance to be pegged as an ethnic director. \nNathan Abrams is Professor in Film at Bangor University. He co-convenes the British Jewish Contemporary Cultures network. He lectures\, writes and broadcasts widely on UK and American popular culture\, history film and intellectual culture. He co-founded Jewish Film and New Media and recent books are Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (with Robert Kolker\, Oxford University Press\, 2019)\, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers University Press\, 2018)\, Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film\, Television\, and Popular Culture (Northwestern University Press\, 2016). \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/stanley-kubrick-new-york-jewish-intellectual/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Cinema,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200213T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20200113T214205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T214205Z
UID:382-1581622200-1581627600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Henri Tajfel: Explorer of identity and difference
DESCRIPTION:  \nHenri Tajfel was one of the most influential European social psychologists of the 20th century. Rupert Brown will trace his life from his birth in Poland in 1919\, his time as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in World War II\, his post-war work with Jewish orphans in France and Belgium\, and thence to his short but brilliant career as a social psychologist. Tajfel was interested in how and why groups see and treat each other in negative ways. He conducted a famous set of studies – known as the minimal group experiments – and developed Social Identity Theory\, the heart of which is that people’s identities are often intimately tied up with the groups they belong to and they will work hard to make those groups appear superior to other groups. This theory paved the way for subsequent work which shows how mass-scale human violence\, such as the Holocaust\, might be possible. \nRupert Brown is Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex. He obtained his PhD under Tajfel at the University of Bristol and has been an active researcher in the field of intergroup relations and prejudice. He was the recipient of the 2014 Henri Tajfel medal\, awarded by the European Association of Social Psychology and is the author of two widely used student texts\, Group Processes (2019) and Prejudice (2010). His biography of Tajfel is published by Routledge (2019). \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/henri-tajfel-explorer-of-identity-and-difference/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:social psychology,Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20190811T143811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T143811Z
UID:363-1576179000-1576184400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Medicine in Ancient Judaism: Why does G-d attempt to kill Moses in Exodus 4?
DESCRIPTION:Directly after the burning bush scene\, G-d inexplicably tries to kill Moses (Exodus 4:24-26). Fortunately\, Moses’ life is saved by Zipporah’s enigmatic “Bridegroom of Blood” ritual. Commentators both ancient and modern have proposed many solutions by filling in the gaps\, proposing reasons such as Moses’ failing courage or procrastination. But what did this episode mean in its original setting? This talk will look at how G-d’s attempt on Moses’ life is better understood in the broader historical context of ancient medicine. In this talk\, Dr Askin will draw upon recent research from her current project\, Medicine in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism\, to explore how and why the Bible’s portrayals of medicine and healing seems so mysterious and distant to us. \nDr Lindsey A. Askin is Lecturer in Jewish Studies\, University of Bristol. She is the author of Scribal Culture in Ben Sira (Brill\, 2018)\, which is based on her doctoral thesis (University of Cambridge\, 2012-16). Her research interests include mental illness and medicine in the Bible and ancient Judaism\, scribal culture and literacy\, Ben Sira\, the Dead Sea Scrolls\, and the Book of Jubilees. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/medicine-in-ancient-judaism-why-does-g-d-attempt-to-kill-moses-in-exodus-4/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20190811T142920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T142920Z
UID:355-1573759800-1573765200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Here I am; Capturing the Stories of the South Wales Jewish Community
DESCRIPTION:There have been two projects in Cardiff over the last 10 years that have used oral history to capture the stories of the Cardiff Jewish community\, as well as preserving written records. The talk will look at how we went about it and some of the advantages of oral history\, and will give some fascinating snippets from the stories people had to tell. It will also look at what we learnt about identity and belonging and the diversity of experience of the community\, from the last Barmitzvah in a synagogue in Cologne ten days before Kristallnacht to the first Jewish wedding in Kidwelly\, a village in West Wales. \nColin Heyman was involved in the Hineni Oral History project which started the work in 2009 and John Minkes of the Jewish History Association of South Wales has continued the work over the last three years. In our other lives\, Colin is a trainer and facilitator\, John a retired criminologist. Our other joint activity is going to see Cardiff City play \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/here-i-am-capturing-the-stories-of-the-south-wales-jewish-community/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191010T193000
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DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
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UID:346-1570735800-1570741200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Internment of German Jews on the Isle of Man during World War Two
DESCRIPTION:During the second war German Jews living in Britain were classified as enemy aliens\, and in 1940 many were interned in camps on the Isle of Man. These included  David Memel’s father and father in law\, and David has recently visited the sites of the camps. He will discuss  the historical background to the internments\, and the experiences of internees\, mainly based on the accounts of his family. Despite the loss of freedom\, many interesting experiences resulted\, including living with a famous artist and a lion tamer. \nDavid Memel was chair of Limmud Bristol South West 2018 and is a committee member of Davar. He is a retired GP. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/internment-of-german-jews-on-the-isle-of-man-during-world-war-two/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190409T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190409T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T174106
CREATED:20190105T193204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T193204Z
UID:334-1554838200-1554843600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Saudade: A Sephardic journey
DESCRIPTION:  \n10 years ago\, after a series of seemingly disparate coincidences\, Judy Rodrigues began a journey into 300 years of East End London Jewish history\, which led her back through her grandfather’s Sephardic Marrano Jewish roots to Portugal and Northern Spain As an artist\, the histories and stories became part of ‘life being lived’ as they began to permeate\, enrich and expand the poetic metaphors of experience and place through her work. The journey became as much a search for the sense of a lost community\, as that of an individual identity. \n  \nJudy Rodrigues is an artist working in contemporary contexts with a studio at Spike Island\, Bristol. In 2008 she was awarded a residency grant in Mertola\, Portugal followed by an exhibition in Porto. In 2014 she received an Arts Council grant to work in Isle of Wight and exhibited in Dimbola Lodge\, once home of the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. In 2017 she exhibited in Pico Island\, Azores and then worked on a collaborative publication with Portuguese poet Jose Efe. Their book\, In Pico\, will be launched Jan 2019. \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/saudade-a-sephardic-journey/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:art,family,Talk
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