Learning from Yorkshire’s Holocaust Torah Scrolls

A talk and round table event in connection with the Torah scrolls of the Memorial Scrolls Trust, kept in Yorkshire.

Please join us for an afternoon of talks and conversations, organised by the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds.

Programme

Coffee, tea and refreshments
3.00-3.25 pm: Parkinson Court North, just outside Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery

Round table: Jewish objects in and after the Holocaust
3.30-4.40pm: Sheppard Room, Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery

Short presentations followed by conversation chaired by Eva Frojmovic, Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies:

Julie-Marthe Cohen: provenance researcher and curator, Amsterdam Jewish Museum; co-curator of the exhibition Looted shown at the Jewish Museum and National Holocaust Museum, 2024.

Ruth Ur: curator, including of new Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece; director of urKultur, international consultancy specialising in museum strategy, public art commissions, campaigns and exhibitions.

Jay Prosser: Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds; storyteller; researcher.

Dr Marc Michaels: Memorial Scrolls Trust MST 1431, The Torah that took the long way round
4.45-5.15pm: Sheppard Room, Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery

In this talk, Dr Marc Michaels – a Torah scribe and PhD from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College) – will share a fascinating discovery in the Memorial Scrolls Trust’s collection.

Book your place

Please register for this event by emailing Sophie Lambert at ll17s2jl@leeds.ac.uk.

More information

This event is free to attend and all are welcome.

It is organised by the Centre of Jewish Studies as part of Learning from Yorkshire’s Holocaust Torah ​​scrolls, a project that reunites Holocaust Torah scrolls now on long-term loan to different organisations in Yorkshire, including Jewish communities and the University of Leeds Cultural Collections & Galleries. The project is funded by a sapling grant from the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

The project team is made up of members from the School of English, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, Memorial Scrolls Trust, Special Collections at the University of Leeds, Leeds University Galleries, Centre for Jewish Studies, Sinai Synagogue Leeds and York Liberal Jewish Community.

For more information about the project, please email Eva Frojmovic at E.Frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk.

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Czech Scroll MST#68, Special Collections, University of Leeds. Image courtesy of Leeds University Libraries.