TALKS

Tuesday 20 May

Tales of Jewish Sudan

According to kashrut (traditional Jewish dietary practice), meat and dairy products cannot be eaten together. So what do you do if you’ve got a sweet tooth, but your dinner contains meat and all the desserts are made with butter? Daisy Abboudi, deputy director of Sephardi Voices UK, is here to answer questions like this and more as she discusses Tales of Jewish Sudan. She founded this online oral history project in light of her Sudanese heritage, with the view to preserving the testimonies and recipes of the little-known Jewish community that lived in Sudan from the turn of the 20th Century to the early 1970s. This event is part of Jewish Women’s Voices, a series of talks focusing on Jewish women, well-known or otherwise, exploring how they shaped global society and culture over the centuries. Read more about JWV in the Winter 2025 issue of JR.

2pm. FREE. ONLINE & The Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD. www.oclw.web.ox.ac.uk   

Tuesday 3 June

Touching Photographs/Prompting Postmemories

What do photographs from pre-Holocaust Europe tell us about Jewish life and how the legacies of its destruction have shaped subsequent generations? Marianne Hirsch, professor emerita of comparative literature and gender studies at Columbia University, joins multi-award-winning artist Sara Davidmann in conversation, during which they’ll discuss the effects of family photographs on their respective written and artistic works. Attendees are invited to bring one photograph and think about the stories it provokes. This event is part of Jewish Women’s Voices, a series of talks focusing on Jewish women, well-known or otherwise, exploring how they shaped global society and culture over the centuries. Read more about JWV in the Winter 2025 issue of JR.

2pm. FREE. ONLINE & The Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD. www.oclw.web.ox.ac.uk