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We research, teach and raise awareness of relations between Jews and non-Jews, from antiquity to the present day. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 8d
Post text: Interested in starting a PhD at the Parkes Institute in 2026-27? Join a hybrid panel and Q&A session on Wednesday 3 December, 16.00-17.30 (Avenue Campus and Teams). A panel of PhD students and staff will share advice and answer all your questions on the application process, available funding, the joys and challenges of doing a PhD, and things to consider when applying. To receive the link/detail, contact Claire Le Foll c.le-foll@soton.ac.uk. Logo of the Parkes Institute at the bottom of the picture.
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Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents

University of Southampton, 14 April 2026
Submit by 31 Dec 2025

Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute).

More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Don't forget to register for our last event of the semester, a talk with Antoinette Moses on "Success or failure: The Evian Conference of 1938"

📍 Avenue Campus (LTC) & online via Zoom
🗓️ Tuesday 2 December, 6 PM GMT
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/success-or...
Poster for a talk with Antoinette Moses entitled "Success of failure: The Evian Conference of 1938", taking place on Tuesday, 2 December at 6 pm, on Avenue Campus & Online. The poster shows a photo of a man talking to a group of men sitting at a table and listening to him, with a woman and a man in the foreground. Logos of the University of Southampton and the Parkes Institute.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more

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November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first of the Nuremberg Trials, which led to the conviction of 19 of the most influential Nazi leaders. Southampton's collections include books on the trials and papers from the subsequent Nuremberg Military Tribunals.
A shelf of books on the Nuremberg Trials in the Parkes Library.
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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📢There is still time to apply for the EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships! Deadline 30 November 2025 📅 Please share within your networks. @ehri-project.eu @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Happening tomorrow!
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Please join us for our annual Interfaith Lecture, delivered this year by Geoffrey Levin

📅Thursday 20 November, 6pm GMT
📍Avenue Campus & Online
🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-palestine-question-a-history-of-american-jews-and-palestinian-rights-tickets-1754138408199?aff=bluesky
Poster advertising The Interfaith Lecture 2025 Our Palestine Question: A History of American Jews and Palestinian Rights, A Talk with Geofrrey Levin, Thursday 20 November, 6 PM, Avenue Campus & Online. The image shows two women and a woman boarding a plane with Arabic writing on the plane. Logos of the Parkes Institute and the University of Southampton are at the bottom of the poster.
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Our Behind the Scenes tour will include a chance to visit our conservation studios and hear about the amazing work the team to to preserve and conserve our collections.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Post text: Interested in starting a PhD at the Parkes Institute in 2026-27? Join a hybrid panel and Q&A session on Wednesday 3 December, 16.00-17.30 (Avenue Campus and Teams). A panel of PhD students and staff will share advice and answer all your questions on the application process, available funding, the joys and challenges of doing a PhD, and things to consider when applying. To receive the link/detail, contact Claire Le Foll c.le-foll@soton.ac.uk. Logo of the Parkes Institute at the bottom of the picture.
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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There's still time to register!
parkesinstitute.bsky.social Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 16d
Interested in deepening your knowledge of the Holocaust? Want to find out more about the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage and about the scholarships we offer?

🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...
Poster advertising the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage at the University of Southampton. It shows two students looking at a Holocaust memorial next to a forest and says "Join a webinar with members of the Parkes Institute on 20 November at 4pm (GMT) to find out more about the course." The poster displays a QR code to register
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Letters regarding loss of ship Lord Raglan, departed from Liverpool in 1863, & regarding a passenger, Mark Bernstein. Mrs Bernstein wished to remarry and the synagogue required proof of the death of her first husband
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Handwritten letter. Creamy buff coloured paper with brown black ink sent from 68 Paradise Street, Liverpool on 28 April 1864
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Contact us to tell us about the wonderful collections you hold!
uknatarcsector.bsky.social UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social · 15d
Do you hold collections that relate to the Holocaust, whether that be its prehistory, its aftermath, or the role of antisemitism before, during and after WWII?

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are keen to hear from you... (1/3)
A person removing a labelled carboard box from a large row of shelves containing similar cardboard boxes.
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Some really interesting correspondence found among the papers of the West London Synagogue respecting Mosaic Law and the proposed marriage of Mr Drucquer and Miss de Meza in 1872.
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Handwritten letter. Very dark brown ink on cream buff paper. The letter starts: University College, Jan 12 1872. Dear Mr Elkin
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents

University of Southampton, 14 April 2026
Submit by 31 Dec 2025

Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute).

More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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📣One week to go until our webinar!
parkesinstitute.bsky.social Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 16d
Interested in deepening your knowledge of the Holocaust? Want to find out more about the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage and about the scholarships we offer?

🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...
Poster advertising the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage at the University of Southampton. It shows two students looking at a Holocaust memorial next to a forest and says "Join a webinar with members of the Parkes Institute on 20 November at 4pm (GMT) to find out more about the course." The poster displays a QR code to register
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Please join us for our annual Interfaith Lecture, delivered this year by Geoffrey Levin

📅Thursday 20 November, 6pm GMT
📍Avenue Campus & Online
🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-palestine-question-a-history-of-american-jews-and-palestinian-rights-tickets-1754138408199?aff=bluesky
Poster advertising The Interfaith Lecture 2025 Our Palestine Question: A History of American Jews and Palestinian Rights, A Talk with Geofrrey Levin, Thursday 20 November, 6 PM, Avenue Campus & Online. The image shows two women and a woman boarding a plane with Arabic writing on the plane. Logos of the Parkes Institute and the University of Southampton are at the bottom of the poster.
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Interested in deepening your knowledge of the Holocaust? Want to find out more about the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage and about the scholarships we offer?

🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...
Poster advertising the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage at the University of Southampton. It shows two students looking at a Holocaust memorial next to a forest and says "Join a webinar with members of the Parkes Institute on 20 November at 4pm (GMT) to find out more about the course." The poster displays a QR code to register
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Find us in Room 1001 of Sir James Matthews Building, where Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushka-ar.bsky.social is running a collage workshop about her travelling exhibition The Wandering Jew
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November 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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It's a great honour to have been invited to speak about my book in Berlin again, this time in German, and this time at the @topographie.de - Topographie des Terrors - on 10 December. Details here - do come along if you are in Berlin!
www.topographie.de/veranstaltun...
Das Sinfoniekonzert im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland
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November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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what happens at EHRI meetings, stays at EHRI meetings 🤔🤔🤔
A very important EHRI person metamorphosing into a trex to conclude a rich day of discussions
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Very nice to see so many people showing up for the annual European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Lecture at the University of Southampton!
@ehri-project.eu @ehri-uk.bsky.social @ehri-hr.bsky.social @drpistol.bsky.social
Audience and panelists at the annual EHRI lecture at the university of southampton
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents

University of Southampton, 14 April 2026
Submit by 31 Dec 2025

Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute).

More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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See you this afternoon!
parkesinstitute.bsky.social Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 29d
Please join us for the Annual EHRI-UK Lecture with speakers Michal Frankl, Vanden Daelen Veerle, Michal Brandl and Rachel Pistol!
🗓️ Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ehri-uk-an...
Image with EHRI logo and text reading "EHRI-UK Annual Lecture: Transnational Holocaust Research in a Digital Age, a roundtable with Michal Frankl, Veerle Vanden Daelen, Michal Brandl & Rachel Pistol, Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm, Avenue Campus"
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Please spread the word

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November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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CFP
Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives of Life-Writing and Ego-Documents (April 2026)
Deadline: 31 December 2025
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CFP: Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents
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October 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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"He's half murdered two people...He's not very good at murdering people"👌😂
manchesterup.bsky.social Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 28d
In this new interview with author & historian Tony Kushner (@parkesinstitute.bsky.social) he shares the research behind his book The Jewish pedlar: An untold criminal history, which is out now. The book delves into a historical crime to shed new light on Jewish history: youtu.be/E89m8t-ii7I #booksky
The Jewish pedlar by Tony Kushner
YouTube video by Manchester University Press
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM