JEWISH CULTURAL HERITAGE: Between the Local and the Global

Location: 9 Mappin Street, SR G14, University of Sheffield
Date: 26 September 2024
Time: 1-5pm

Programme

1pm – 2pm Lunch G14
2pm – 3pm Session 1:

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): Reimagining Marginalised Memory: An Exploration of Holocaust Fiction and Memorialisation in South Africa

G14
3pm – 3.30pm Tea and coffee break G14
3.30pm – 4.30pm Session 2:

Jay Prosser: The Jewish Elgin Marbles? On Cecil Roth’s Salonican shoe soles

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

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

G14
4.30pm – 5pm Open discussion about possible future collaborations. G14

Additional information

If you cannot attend the event in-person, please use the following Zoom link to attend (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82422739665?pwd=aJ75gr5E5oedhIxQmaCOxQ8TDT2XbQ.1). The link will be live from 2pm (UK time).

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