Performing the Jewish Archive
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Sch of Music
Abstract
The manifold catastrophes of the 20th century have torn holes in the cultural fabric of Europe. This project's overarching objective is to re-knit certain threads across those gaps by bringing recently rediscovered musical, theatrical and literary works by Jewish artists back to the attention of scholars and the public. Scholarly outputs will include monographs, journal articles and critical editions, and the project will have wider impact through an interactive web resource, educational projects, and performances at five international cultural festivals.
Our scholarly work and artistic practice will engage with three types of 'Jewish archives': a) the works themselves, often providing information on the complexities of the context in which they were created; b) traditional archival documentation; c) ethnographic archives (oral history and testimony) providing historical information and illuminating the meaning of events for past and present generations. Rather than privileging any type of archive as 'text' and others as 'context,' we consider all three as co-texts mutually illuminating each other. All are equally valuable aspects of our investigation.
Some of these archives are at risk, giving our work special urgency. While new archives open or are discovered in some parts of the world, the fragile memories of elderly survivors are fast disappearing, and family archives are disposed of or deteriorate. Working alongside partner organisations (performers, educators, museums, libraries, archives and policy-makers) in the UK, US, Central Europe, South Africa and Australia, we will follow existing leads to seek out new archives, and help preserve those that have recently come to light.
Our multi-disciplinary team brings research expertise allowing us to focus on the period c.1880-c.1950, the most intense period of Jewish displacement in the modern era. Our case studies include recently recovered theatrical manuscripts from the Terezin Ghetto near Prague, musical works from Eastern Europe uncovered in private collections in Australia, South Africa and England, and literary accounts of survivor experiences written immediately after the Holocaust. Via these case studies of Jewish artistic creation in diverse situations of internment, exile or migration, we will illuminate more broadly the role of art in one of the paradigmatic experiences of the modern age: displacement. When do artists use creative works to represent the rupture of displacement, and when do music, theatre and literature create continuity with their former lives, or a bridge between the old life and the new?
Our co-textual performances create a relationship between past and present, not only by drawing upon on all three types of archives (for example, by interspersing scenes from a rediscovered play with narrated survivor testimony against a backdrop of projected archival images), but by engaging explicitly with the multiple possible meanings of these artefacts from the past, both for their original audiences and ourselves. The performances foreground ways in which that past may live on in our present and future - in a very real sense, 'thinking forward through the past'. Audience response testing, developed during the project, will help us determine how successful we are in generating audience engagement in the present.
We will attract audiences from widely diverse constituencies by featuring world-leading practitioners such as the Nash Ensemble alongside amateur and student performers, and by staging performances in historically significant venues such as the Terezin Memorial (the site of the former WWII Jewish Ghetto) and Clifford's Tower in York (the site of a 12th-century pogrom).
We will perpetuate engagement with these archives by encouraging arts practitioners, policy-makers and cultural event programmers to engage with them, and through educational projects in which participants create their own performances based on archival co-texts.
Our scholarly work and artistic practice will engage with three types of 'Jewish archives': a) the works themselves, often providing information on the complexities of the context in which they were created; b) traditional archival documentation; c) ethnographic archives (oral history and testimony) providing historical information and illuminating the meaning of events for past and present generations. Rather than privileging any type of archive as 'text' and others as 'context,' we consider all three as co-texts mutually illuminating each other. All are equally valuable aspects of our investigation.
Some of these archives are at risk, giving our work special urgency. While new archives open or are discovered in some parts of the world, the fragile memories of elderly survivors are fast disappearing, and family archives are disposed of or deteriorate. Working alongside partner organisations (performers, educators, museums, libraries, archives and policy-makers) in the UK, US, Central Europe, South Africa and Australia, we will follow existing leads to seek out new archives, and help preserve those that have recently come to light.
Our multi-disciplinary team brings research expertise allowing us to focus on the period c.1880-c.1950, the most intense period of Jewish displacement in the modern era. Our case studies include recently recovered theatrical manuscripts from the Terezin Ghetto near Prague, musical works from Eastern Europe uncovered in private collections in Australia, South Africa and England, and literary accounts of survivor experiences written immediately after the Holocaust. Via these case studies of Jewish artistic creation in diverse situations of internment, exile or migration, we will illuminate more broadly the role of art in one of the paradigmatic experiences of the modern age: displacement. When do artists use creative works to represent the rupture of displacement, and when do music, theatre and literature create continuity with their former lives, or a bridge between the old life and the new?
Our co-textual performances create a relationship between past and present, not only by drawing upon on all three types of archives (for example, by interspersing scenes from a rediscovered play with narrated survivor testimony against a backdrop of projected archival images), but by engaging explicitly with the multiple possible meanings of these artefacts from the past, both for their original audiences and ourselves. The performances foreground ways in which that past may live on in our present and future - in a very real sense, 'thinking forward through the past'. Audience response testing, developed during the project, will help us determine how successful we are in generating audience engagement in the present.
We will attract audiences from widely diverse constituencies by featuring world-leading practitioners such as the Nash Ensemble alongside amateur and student performers, and by staging performances in historically significant venues such as the Terezin Memorial (the site of the former WWII Jewish Ghetto) and Clifford's Tower in York (the site of a 12th-century pogrom).
We will perpetuate engagement with these archives by encouraging arts practitioners, policy-makers and cultural event programmers to engage with them, and through educational projects in which participants create their own performances based on archival co-texts.
Planned Impact
Performers:
Through our five festivals and workshops we will work with c.250 amateur and student performers. The number of performers will vary, from c.15 at the Royal Northern College of Music to as many as 40 in Cape Town and nearby Stellenbosch. Each will perform in at least one concert, sometimes alongside world-leading professionals (e.g. The Nash Ensemble, Goldner String Quartet). We will challenge performers to rethink their approach to performance, especially when engaging with materials pertaining to archives.
Composers:
At least 21 young composers, recruited via our partner institutions, will benefit from workshops aligned with our performance festivals. We will foster deeper understanding of the connections between archival co-texts and new compositions. The workshops are based on a pilot scheme developed by Muir, Fligg and Prof Adam Gorb (Head of Composition at RNCM) in 2014. Future compositions will be performed during our conferences and festivals.
Young professional film-makers:
Our video crew (two at any one time, six in total) will benefit from exploring aspects of Jewish culture that otherwise may have remained unknown to them, and which they can explore in their future work for their own greater impact.
Archive, museum and library professionals:
In collaboration with at least 12 archives, museums and libraries, and influencing at least 20-25 individual professionals in this field, we will encourage new ways of engaging with archival and related collections. We will offer theoretical and practical advice regarding archival reanimation, helping professionals increase public engagement.
Community and school groups:
We will benefit at least 120 school children and 80 adults in community and school projects, introducing them to more nuanced understandings of the relationships between the past, present and future, through the performance of archives and co-production of performance outcomes at events such as Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations. We will work with children and educators from around 12 schools via organisations like the Anne Frank Trust and South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, and with community groups like Sinai Synagogue Leeds, Blah Blah Blah Youth Theatre and the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association.
Cultural event organisers:
In our collaborations with those who organise events professionally (ultimately totalling at least 10 organisations around the world), we will influence future programming decisions and strategies pertaining to the exploitation of archives for performance purposes. We will supply them with the anonymised audience response testing methods we develop, and our results.
Arts policy-makers, funders & politicians:
We aim for impact on public policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally. We will engage with an Arts Council representative, and make submissions to two parliamentary groups, plus the Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission. Via our partner network, we will seek similar opportunities in other countries.
Public arts audiences:
c.8,000-10,000 people will benefit from high-quality performances in prestigious and popular venues (5 festivals x 5 performances/festival x 400 average attendance). The potential variety of performances (choral, chamber, orchestral, comedy, historical drama, cabaret) will maximise impact. Audiences will expand their knowledge of repertoire, enhance understanding of archival co-texts, and rethink received notions of Jewish culture.
Website users:
The website audience is potentially huge. The resource will be promoted and added to by our partner organisations, giving it a truly global reach. Users will benefit by being able to engage with our outcomes in a visually appealing way, finding links between co-textual sources, participating in online debates, and viewing academic symposium/conference presentations.
Through our five festivals and workshops we will work with c.250 amateur and student performers. The number of performers will vary, from c.15 at the Royal Northern College of Music to as many as 40 in Cape Town and nearby Stellenbosch. Each will perform in at least one concert, sometimes alongside world-leading professionals (e.g. The Nash Ensemble, Goldner String Quartet). We will challenge performers to rethink their approach to performance, especially when engaging with materials pertaining to archives.
Composers:
At least 21 young composers, recruited via our partner institutions, will benefit from workshops aligned with our performance festivals. We will foster deeper understanding of the connections between archival co-texts and new compositions. The workshops are based on a pilot scheme developed by Muir, Fligg and Prof Adam Gorb (Head of Composition at RNCM) in 2014. Future compositions will be performed during our conferences and festivals.
Young professional film-makers:
Our video crew (two at any one time, six in total) will benefit from exploring aspects of Jewish culture that otherwise may have remained unknown to them, and which they can explore in their future work for their own greater impact.
Archive, museum and library professionals:
In collaboration with at least 12 archives, museums and libraries, and influencing at least 20-25 individual professionals in this field, we will encourage new ways of engaging with archival and related collections. We will offer theoretical and practical advice regarding archival reanimation, helping professionals increase public engagement.
Community and school groups:
We will benefit at least 120 school children and 80 adults in community and school projects, introducing them to more nuanced understandings of the relationships between the past, present and future, through the performance of archives and co-production of performance outcomes at events such as Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations. We will work with children and educators from around 12 schools via organisations like the Anne Frank Trust and South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, and with community groups like Sinai Synagogue Leeds, Blah Blah Blah Youth Theatre and the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association.
Cultural event organisers:
In our collaborations with those who organise events professionally (ultimately totalling at least 10 organisations around the world), we will influence future programming decisions and strategies pertaining to the exploitation of archives for performance purposes. We will supply them with the anonymised audience response testing methods we develop, and our results.
Arts policy-makers, funders & politicians:
We aim for impact on public policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally. We will engage with an Arts Council representative, and make submissions to two parliamentary groups, plus the Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission. Via our partner network, we will seek similar opportunities in other countries.
Public arts audiences:
c.8,000-10,000 people will benefit from high-quality performances in prestigious and popular venues (5 festivals x 5 performances/festival x 400 average attendance). The potential variety of performances (choral, chamber, orchestral, comedy, historical drama, cabaret) will maximise impact. Audiences will expand their knowledge of repertoire, enhance understanding of archival co-texts, and rethink received notions of Jewish culture.
Website users:
The website audience is potentially huge. The resource will be promoted and added to by our partner organisations, giving it a truly global reach. Users will benefit by being able to engage with our outcomes in a visually appealing way, finding links between co-textual sources, participating in online debates, and viewing academic symposium/conference presentations.
Organisations
- University of Leeds (Lead Research Organisation)
- Bootham School (Collaboration)
- Royal Northern College of Music (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (Collaboration)
- Hillel Center, Madison, Wisconsin (Collaboration)
- Anne Frank Trust UK Ltd (Collaboration)
- Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (Collaboration)
- Holocaust Education Trust (Collaboration)
- Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) (Collaboration)
- Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Flying Rabbi Klezmer Ensemble (Collaboration)
- Opera North (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- University of Cape Town (Project Partner)
- Muffled Voices Forum - CEMUT (Project Partner)
- Sydney Jewish Museum (Project Partner)
- Goldner String Quartet (Project Partner)
- Madison Youth Choirs (Project Partner)
- Seattle Symphony (Project Partner)
- Sinai Synagogue Leeds (Project Partner)
- South African Holocaust & Genocide Fdn (Project Partner)
- Terezín Memorial (Czechia) (Project Partner)
- The Nash Ensemble of London (Project Partner)
- British Library (Project Partner)
- Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (Project Partner)
- National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Project Partner)
- Stellenbosch University (Project Partner)
- Jewish Museum in Prague (Project Partner)
- National Archives (Project Partner)
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Project Partner)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Project Partner)
- Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society (Project Partner)
- The Anne Frank Trust UK (Project Partner)
- The Hans Gál Society (Project Partner)
- National Library of Australia (Project Partner)
- Historic Bldgs & Mnts Commis for England (Project Partner)
Publications
Peschel, L.
A Companion to Public History
Peschel, L.
(2016)
The Holocaust on Stage
in BBC History Magazine
Peschel, L.
(2021)
Survivor Testimony about Theatre in the Terezín Ghetto A Longitudinal Case Study
in S: I. M. O. N. SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION.
Simo Muir
(2016)
Rare Yiddish Manusripts from Helsinki Performed Again
Toltz J
(2019)
Out of the Depths: Complexity, Subjectivity and Materiality in the Earliest Accounts of Holocaust Song-Making
in East European Jewish Affairs
Toltz J
(2017)
The Vanished Musicians: Jewish Refugees in Australia
in Musicology Australia
Toltz J.D.
(2016)
Music's Immanent Future: The Deleuzian Turn in Music Studies
Toltz, J
(2016)
Music and Memory at Liberation
in Southerly
| Title | 'Out of the Shadows' (Ze stinu) Festival: Rediscovering Jewish Music & Theatre (Czech Republic) |
| Description | A festival of music and theatre, reanimating rediscovered works thought lost or forgotten as a result of the Holocaust. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | 13 public events plus a travelling exhibition, including concerts, theatrical performances, an educational project with schools and schoolchildren, a symposium, a guided walk, which reached a total live audience of 781. One radio interview, and a future broadcast of a concert (Prague Radio). Collaborations and partnerships: 20 project partners, including The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Prague Conservatory, the Jewish Museum in Prague, Ministry of Culture. As a result, various future collaborations and initiative, including: Gideon Klein Centenary Festival (Prague, 2019); Prague Conservatory students to perform in the UK, 2018. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/prague-terezin-plzen-2016/ |
| Title | A comedy of us Jews (2017) |
| Description | Translation of Jac Weinstein's Yiddish war-time musical comedy, adapted by Aviva Pelham (based on Lisa Peschel's and Simo Muir's script) and performed at the 'Out of the Sahdows' festival in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, 12 September 2017. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The two performances of the show were sold out and after the performances there was a talk-back (moderated by Dr Lisa Peschel) with the researcher, director musical director. The discussion sparked a lot of questions from the audience. |
| URL | https://ptjarchive.leeds.ac.uk/performances/16 |
| Title | A comedy of us Jews (2017) |
| Description | Translation of Jac Weinstein's war time musical comedy in Yiddish, adapted by Dr Lisa Peschel and Simo Muir, was performed by students from the University of York at the York Festival of Ideas, 12-13 June 2017. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The play was used for audience response testing at the University of York for PhD research. |
| URL | https://ptjarchive.leeds.ac.uk/productions/6 |
| Title | Brno Jewish Community Musical-literary evening |
| Description | This event was held for the Brno Jewish community and included readings by an actor of excerpts from David Fligg's new biography of Gideon Klein and solo piano performance of Gideon Klein's works. The community very warmly received the performance. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Although we did not collect evidence of impact, the event was very warmly received and may lead to higher distribution of David Fligg's book. |
| Title | Concert (PIlsen, Czech Republic) |
| Description | Concert, 'Fate and Fairytales', at the House of Music - Musical Conservatory Pilsen, featuring music written by young composers who died as a result of the Holocaust, and music about youth. The concert featured world premiere performances of music by these composers. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | As a result of this concert, one of the performers was invited to London to perform the same repertoire at a Wigmore Hall concert, which was recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/187975702 |
| Title | Concert Finale - Out of the Shadows: Inextinguishable Voices |
| Description | Part of the Madison 2016 'Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music, Literature and Theatre' festival, this concert featured music by composers whose works were thought lost, or were suppressed, as a result of the Holocaust. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | The main impact was to introduce new repertoire to performers and audiences. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/172547889 |
| Title | Concert and tour at Villa Stiassni |
| Description | This concert in honor of Gideon Klein was held at a historic home, now a cultural venue, that previously belonged to a prominent Jewish family. The concert featured works by Klein and that inspired him, and the second performance of Martin Konvicka's new composition commissioned by our project, "Twenty-five." It was performed by the same young musicians who performed in our Prerov concert. The concert was followed by a tour of the historic home. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | We did not collect impact data from the audience, but assume they left with increased knowledge of Gideon Klein as a historical figure and as an artist rather than simply a victim of the Holocaust. We did collect impact data, through interviews with the young musicians and composers, and the project has had significant impact upon them in terms of opening up a new repertoire of work for them to explore. |
| Title | Concert at Prerov chateau |
| Description | This concert, held in memory of Gideon Klein in Prerov, the city of his birth, featured works by him and other composers. It was held in a historic chateau and was performed by young Czech artists. One of the works, 'Twenty-five', for clarinet and piano, was created by a young local composer, Martin Konvicka, and commissioned specifically for this project. The composer was in attendance for this world premiere performance. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The concert was attended by approximately 50 people, most of them local (from the town of Prerov), who are now more aware of the life and work of Gideon Klein and the history of the Holocaust in the Czech lands. They are also now aware of these young musicians and composers, which we hope will have impact on their future careers, as will the commission and recognition received by the composer. |
| Title | Concert at the Pilsen House of Music |
| Description | This performance was initiated and hosted by Vera Mullerova, the pianist who worked with us during both the Performing the Jewish Archive project and Gido's coming home! in a venue associated with the Pilsen music conservatory. The concert featured works by Klein and other composers and readings from David Fligg's new biography on Gideon Klein. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | This event enabled us to reach an audience in a smaller Czech city that included members of the public and students from the Pilsen music conservatory |
| Title | Concert at the Prague Conservatory |
| Description | This concert took place at the Prague Conservatory, where Gideon Klein studied music. It featured the symphony orchestra of the conservatory and a local adult choir. The concert featured works by Klein and works that inspired him, incluidng the Beethoven concerto that he played at his final recital at the conservatory. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This concert had impact upon the approximately 70 spectators, but had perhaps more meaningful impact upon the students of the symphony orchestra, playing works by a composer who, 80 years ago, would have been one of their peers. |
| Title | Concert: Jazz for Gido |
| Description | This jazz concert took place in honor of Gideon Klein at the Loew-Beer villa in Brno, a former private home that has now been renovated as a venue for the arts, as a celebration of his life rather than a commemoration of his death. The concert featured a Czech jazz quartet and a guest saxophone player from Austria. We had a standing-room-only audience that reacted very enthusiastically to the performance. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Although we did not request formal audience feedback from this event, based on their very positive reaction to the concert, we hope they left with changed attitudes, associating Gideon Klein with artistic creation and the pleasure of music in performance rather than seeing him only as a victim of the Holocaust. |
| Title | Concert: Music on the Brink of Destruction - Music from the Holocaust |
| Description | A concert at London's Wigmore Hall featuring music researched by members of the Performing the Jewish Archive project. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | BBC broadcasts of the music; contribution to the BBC documentary which included some of the concert's music. |
| URL | https://pvac-sites.leeds.ac.uk/perfjewarch/files/2015/10/Wigmore-Hall-programme.pdf |
| Title | Concert: The Czech Musical Tradition - Persecution and Inspiration (Prague) |
| Description | Concert of music by Czech composers, including those killed in the Holocaust. The concert included a new work specially commissioned. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | New music being commissioned and subsequently performed in concerts outside of the Czech Republic. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/187975697 |
| Title | Finale concert at the Winternitz villa in Prague |
| Description | This event served as the grand finale to the 'Gido's coming home' project. The concert featured works by Klein himself, performed by members of a Czech string quartet, FAMA Q and a pianist from the Pilsen conservatory, and songs from the interwar period sung by pupils from Prague's Nature School, who are actively engaged in artistic projects relating to the Holocaust. This sold-out event was held in a beautiful historic villa that formerly belonged to a prominent Jewish family but was confiscated during the Nazi occupation. It has now been restored to the descendants of that family, who are now eager to use it as a venue for such cultural events. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Although we did not collect impact data at this venue, there were several beneficiaries: - The audience, who learned not only about Gideon Klein and his work, but about the fate of a local Jewish family during World War II. - The owners of the venue, who are eager to promote it as a culture venue, especially for events with a historic-educational character, and were gratified by the sold-out performance and its quality. - The pupils of the Nature School, which has been engaged for years in cultural projects about the Holocaust, had an opportunity to see the importance of their work through its enthusiastic reception. |
| Title | Fully staged production of Gideon Klein - Portrait of a Composer (Prague) |
| Description | Research-based theatrical presentation on Gideon Klein. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | As a result of this performance, the production will receive further performances in the Czech Republic, UK and Israel, and will be part of the 2019 Milim 'Words for All' literary festival, (Leeds, UK). |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/187975723 |
| Title | Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer |
| Description | A dramatised account, for actors and an on-stage string quartet, of the life and music of Gideon Klein. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | The first performance in the USA generated a considerable amount of interest, including performances in the UK, Czech Republic and Germany, a radio broadcast (German Radio), and translations from English into Czech, German and Hebrew. |
| URL | https://jewishmusicandtheatre.org/works/33 |
| Title | Harlequin in the Ghetto - LSU/Madison version |
| Description | Harlequin in the Ghetto is a performance developed with students at Louisiana State University (LSU) based on the play 'Comedy about a Trap', written in the Terezin Ghetto by Zdenek Jelinek, by adding scenes that portrayed the students' exploration of the history of the ghetto. It was performed at LSU in April 2016 and at the Out of the Shadows festiival in Madison, Wisconsin in May 2016. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Impact upon the student performers (LSU) and spectators (at LSU and in Madison): increased knowledge of the history of the Holocaust. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/harlequin-in-the-ghetto-2/ |
| Title | Harlequin in the Ghetto - York version |
| Description | Harlequin in the Ghetto is a performance developed with students at the University of York based on the play 'Comedy about a Trap', written in the Terezin Ghetto by Zdenek Jelinek. Two versions of the play were developed and performed: a) a 'textual' version that reconstructed as closely as possible the original 'Comedy about a Trap' script b) a 'co-textual' version with added scenes that portrayed the students' exploration of the history of the ghetto and the play's relation to their own present. Both versions were performed in the Out of the Shadows festiival in York and Leeds in June 2016. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Increased knowledge of the Holocaust on the part of our student performers and our public audiences. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/harlequin-in-the-ghetto-6/ |
| Title | Jewish cabaret from Terezin to Helsinki |
| Description | Script and performance combining cabaret material from two Jewish communities (the WWII Jewish Ghetto at Terezin and the Helsinki Jewish community) and linking them with a historical narrative about the fate of both Jewish communities. Performed in the Out of the Shadows Festival in the Czech Republic, Pilsen, September 2016. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Increased knowledge of the Holocaust and Jewish culture on the part of our performers (a Czech klezmer ensemble) and spectators (public audiences). New performance material and possible future performances for the Czech klezmer ensemble. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/jewish-cabaret-from-terezin-to-helsinki/ |
| Title | Laugh with Us (cabaret) |
| Description | Composer Craig Harris and I created a one-hour cabaret performance based on material from a cabaret written in the Terezin ghetto called 'Laugh with Us.' The performance featured Craig as pianist and two performers as actors/singers. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | Impact upon Craig and the performers, as they might perform this work again elsewhere Impact upon the audience, making them aware of the unexpected presence of comedy in a World War II Jewish ghetto. |
| URL | http://www.music.wisc.edu/performing-the-jewish-archive/ |
| Title | Lunch concert at Jewish retirement home Hagibor |
| Description | This concert was a private event held for residents of the Jewish retirement home in Prague, Hagibor, among them some very elderly survivors of the Terezin Ghetto. Most of the residents are extremely limited in their mobility and therefore we were eager to bring some of our cultural activities to them. The performance featured readings from excerpts of the David Fligg's biograph of Gideon Klein and songs performed by pupils from the Nature School in Prague. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | We did not gather impact data from this event, but it was very much appreciated by the approx. 40 residents who attended. |
| Title | Maisel synagogue concert and book presentation |
| Description | This concert was the official launch of the Czech translation of David Fligg's new biography of Gideon Klein. The concert featured works by Klein himself and by two other Terezin composers. It also featured a new musical composition, 'Thirteen attributes of mercy', that we commissioned for this event. It received its world premiere in the presence of the composer, Daniel Chudovsky. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This event, as the official book launch, enabled us to begin selling the book and getting it into the hands of the Czech reading public. It also generated impact for the composer, whose professional life was enhanced by the commission itself and the opportunity for public performance, and upon the audience, who left with a new awareness of Klein and the other Terezin composers and of the availability of a new work about him. |
| Title | Matka Rachel a jeji deti |
| Description | Reconstructed performance of Jac Weinstein's choral tableau 'Mother Rachel and Her Children' (1948) in Czech. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | The performance provided new knowledge how the Holocaust was commemorated during the immediate post-war era. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/prague-terezin-plzen-2016/ |
| Title | Merchants of Helsinki: Yiddish cabaret from Finland |
| Description | Translation of Jac Weinstein's New Year's Revue (1930) in Yiddish, which was adapted and performed by Joanna Weinberg and Geoff Sirmai at 'Out of the Shadows' festival in Sydney, 2017. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The show was sold out and after the performance there was a lively talk-back session with the researcher, performers and producers. The play was seen by a director from Melbourne and will be performed there in the original Yiddish in spring 2018. |
| URL | https://ptjarchive.leeds.ac.uk/productions/8 |
| Title | Mother Rachel and Her Children |
| Description | Reconstructed performance of Jac Weinstein's choral tableau 'Mother Rachel and Her Children' (1948) at the 'Out of the Shadows' festival in Madison, Wisconsin, 1-5 May 2016. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Performance has provided knew knowledge how the Holocaust was commemorated in the immediate post-war era. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/madison-2016/ |
| Title | Mother Rachel and Her Children |
| Description | Reconstructed performance of Jac Weinstein's choral tableau 'Mother Rachel and Her Children' (1948). |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Reconstructed performance of Jac Weinstein's choral tableau 'Mother Rachel and Her Children' (1948) at the 'Out of the Shadows' festival in Leeds and York, 9 June 2016. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/leeds-york-2016/ |
| Title | Out of the Shadows |
| Description | One-day pilot for project that included chamber music performances by Bach, Dancing, and Dynamite Society (Korngold, Kattenburg, etc.); presentation by Henry Sapoznik and Sherry Mayrent of newly discovered materials, Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, UW-Madison; and evening of cabaret--"Why we laugh" and New York City artist Mark Nadler's, "I'm a stranger here myself." |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | Over 500 people attended this event; a great deal of publicity and networking occurred; further collaborations in progress as a result. |
| Title | Out of the Shadows (PtJA Project Exhibition) |
| Description | The portable project exhibition was compiled by a University of Leeds Laidlaw Research and Leadership Scholar, under the instruction and guidance of Dr Stephen Muir (PI) and Dr Simo Muir (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow). Five of the (Co-)Investigators and the Project Consultant each contributed a panel describing their main scholarly contributions to the project in a form suitable for a non-academic audience. To date (March 2017), the exhibition has been displayed at all of our project performances, symposia, and other events since June 2016 - a total of c.nnn occasions in five different cities, in two countries (UK, Czech Republic). In the coming year it will be displayed in two further countries (Australia, South Africa), at our "Archives into the Future" event at the British Library, and at our final conference (as well as at other, unforeseen events). An approximate total of nnn people will have viewed the exhibition by the end of the project. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | The impact has been significant, since the exhibition frames the specific event/performance at which it is displayed, and demonstrates where it fits in the wider context of the project's research questions. This has given rise to very many conversations and interactions between project researchers and members of the public (and our project partners), leading people to think anew about the subject of artistic expression during the Holocaust and other related circumstances. A number of exhibition viewers have later followed up with further questions and requests for information, and/or have subsequently attended events in which they might not otherwise have been interested. The exhibition development process has also had a profound impact upon our University of Leeds Laidlaw Research and Leadership Scholar, who has subsequently expressed interest in postgraduate study in this area. [Report to be updated at the end of the funded period] |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/research/ptja-project-exhibition |
| Title | Part of a larger concert: Premiere of Movement for Harp, composed by Gideon Klein in 1935 (Leeds) |
| Description | Premiere of Movement for Solo Harp by Gideon Klein, from the archives of the Prague Jewish Museum. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Edited version now in progress ready for publication. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/180875359#t=37m43s |
| Title | Prince Bettliegend (Australian version) |
| Description | The performance 'Prince Bettliegend' was developed by a cast of professional actors from the Sydney alternative theatre scene, directed by Professor Ian Maxwell at the University of Sydney and performed at the Out of the Shadows festival in August 2017. Music director Kevin Hunt arranged the music and conducted a jazz band of students from the Sydney Conservatorium. The performance was based on a fragmentary script of the same name that came to light during my research. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The performance was presented to sold-out audiences for three nights during the festival and was seen by approximately 300 people. An edited volume of essays based on the production is scheduled to be published in autumn 2021. |
| URL | https://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/prince-bettliegend-3rd-performance/ |
| Title | Prinz Bettliegend (South African version) |
| Description | Prinz Bettliegend was developed by a group of undergraduate students under the direction of Amelia Brand at Stellenbosch university and performed during the September 2017 Out of the Shadows Festival in Sydney and Cape Town. Music director L. Bredecamp directed a 5-piece ensemble of student and professional musicians. The performance was based on the fragmentary script of the same name that came to light during my research. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The performance was presented on two nights to sold-out audiences and was seen by approximately 150 people. An edited volume of essays based on the production is scheduled to be published in autumn 2021. |
| URL | https://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/prince-bettliegend-2/ |
| Title | Semi-staged presentation: 'Gideon Klein - Portrait of a Composer' (Hillel, Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Description | Semi-theatrical presentation of research on Gideon Klein, with actors and musicians. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Talk-back event immediately afterwards with the audience generated much discussion on issues surrounding the Holocaust. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/172547957 |
| Title | Semi-staged presentation: 'Gideon Klein - Portrait of a Composer' (Holy Trinity Church, Leeds) |
| Description | Semi-staged dramatisation, using actors and musicians, of recent research on Gideon Klein. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | New repertoire for the audience and musicians to engage with; raised awareness from the student actors about creativity in adversity. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/180875489 |
| Title | Simon Parmet's folk song arrangements |
| Description | Performance of Simon Parmet's Yiddish folk song arrangements (10 Yiddish folk songs, Third collection, 1930) as part of 'Oy, how he sung!: Journeys in Jewish Choral Music' concert, ;Out of the Shadows' festival, Madison, Wisconsin, 3 May 2016. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Performance of unknown collection of Yiddish folk songs and knew knowledge of Yiddish choir music tradition. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/oy-how-he-sung-journeys-in-jewish-choral-music/ |
| Title | The Smoke of Home |
| Description | A performance of the script The Smoke of Home, which was written in the World War II Jewish Ghetto at Terezin. Performed by students from the University of York in historic Clifford's Tower, site of a pogrom in 1190. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Increased knowledge of the history of the Holocaust on the part of our student performers and our audience. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/the-smoke-of-home/ |
| Title | Yiddish cabaret songs and sketches from WWII Finland |
| Description | Yiddish cabaret songs and sketches by Jac Weinstein from WWII performed as part of 'Jewish Cabaret from Terezin to Helsinki', 'Out of the Shadows' festival, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 19 Sep 2016 |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Audience had chance to learn about artistic life in Finland during the war and how Weinstein reacted to news about atrocities carried against Jews in German occupied countries. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/zidovsky-kabaret-od-terezina-po-helsinky-jewish-cabaret-from-terezin-... |
| Title | Yiddish cabaret songs from Finland |
| Description | Performance of Yiddish cabaret songs by Jac Weinstein as part of New Budapest Orpheum Society's concert, 'Out of the Shadows' festival, 1 May 2016, Madison, Wisconsin. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Weinstein's songs were performed for the first time and audience had chance to learn about Yiddish cultural life in Finland. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/new-budapest-orpheum-society-cabaret/ |
| Title | Yiddish cabaret songs from Finland |
| Description | Yiddish cabaret songs by Jac Weinstein performed as part of New Budapest Orpheum Society's concert, 'Out of the Shadows' festival, Leeds and York, 16 and 18 June 2016. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Audience had chance to learn about Yiddish cultural life in Helsinki. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/the-new-budapest-orpheum-society-jewish-cabaret-tradition/ |
| Description | The research has revealed a number of interesting, sometimes unexpected findings. For example, audience response testing in Madison WI in August 2016 provisionally suggests that audiences engage with the materials and subjects that we present for reasons other than the expected (detailed results to follow). New archival discoveries in Australia and South Africa have suggested a far wider dispersal of synagogue music, lighter songs and chamber music than previously anticipated. This will cause a reappraisal of the quantity of source material that may still exist unrecovered in formal and information archives around the world. In addition, our explorations into the question of "empathy and the archive" has led us to think anew about ethical, artistic and, indeed, legal issues surrounding the use of sensitive archives for performative purposes. Through our series of symposia (in partnership with the British Library and the Care for the Future project "The Anti-Slavery Useable Past"), we discovered the needs, potential, and limitations of developing creative collaborations between archives and arts practitioners. We were able to begin formulating new strategies and approaches to making such collaborations more effective. |
| Exploitation Route | Our findings will influence understanding of the impact of the Holocaust on music and theatre by Jewish artists. We are already influencing a number of Third Sector organisations around the world (e.g. South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation; Jewish Museum in Prague; The National Archives; the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust) with regard to the interpretation of archival holdings through the performing arts. We have also been approached as consultants on the detailed content and contextualisation of the new permanent exhibitions in the Jewish museums of Johannesburg and Prague, drawing upon our expertise as archival researchers and scholars of Jewish history and culture. Our findings will also be of use to professional performers and events organisers, as they attain a deeper understanding of the rupture in European culture that occurred in the twentieth century, and how they might begin to adjust their programming strategies and redress the historical imbalances and misunderstandings that have become commonplace in the past c.100 years. In education, too, our findings are already having an impact, as evinced by projects with schools in Leeds, York, Madison WI, Prague and Cape Town. Educators will be provided with new strategies and resources to engage students with history and its impact today and in the future, using the arts as an accessible and attractive window into a difficult subject. Our work with the Holocaust Education Trust means that our educational resource packs (which work alongside the project exhibition) will be distributed to nearly every school in the UK, and subsequently in South Africa to each Province's teacher training programme. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://www.JewishMusicandTheatre.org |
| Description | Our findings have been used by educators (South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, Anne Frank Trust, schools in York and Prague) to enhance their delivery of historical topics related to the Holocaust. Findings presented at our conference "Magnified and Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Prayer" have been used by a number of non-academic institutions as the basis of public education programmes, cultural event programmes and publicity and promotional opportunities. Our educational resources have been taken on board by schools in Prague and Madison WI; the Holocaust Education Trust will make them available to nearly every school in the country, and a similar process will take place in South Africa via the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. Whilst they are not strictly "non-academic", our research-based performances nevertheless overlap with the "non-academic", creating a bridge between the scholar and the audience, at the same time bringing to life archives and artefacts that would otherwise have remained dormant for the foreseeable future. A walking tour app of Prague has been developed, based on Dr Fligg's work on Gideon Klein's life in Prague before WWII. This is available in both English and Czech, expanding the availability and accessibility of our research to non-academic audiences. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | UK Government Holocaust Commission |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Initiative in Teacher Education Summit |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | 2015 - ACA ECR Research Incubator Grant |
| Amount | $4,800 (AUD) |
| Funding ID | Y0206 U7015 |
| Organisation | University of Sydney |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Australia |
| Start | 11/2015 |
| End | 10/2016 |
| Description | College of Music and Dramatic Arts Impact Fund |
| Amount | $3,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Louisiana State University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 05/2016 |
| Description | Cultural Activities Fund |
| Amount | 15,000 Kč (CZK) |
| Organisation | Prague Jewish Community |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Start | 03/2016 |
| End | 10/2016 |
| Description | Freilich Foundation ECF Research Grants |
| Amount | $2,989 (AUD) |
| Funding ID | 3GRA |
| Organisation | Australian National University (ANU) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Australia |
| Start | 06/2014 |
| End | 12/2015 |
| Description | Impact accelerator fund |
| Amount | £8,568 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2017 |
| End | 07/2017 |
| Description | Pilsen Municipality Cultural Fund |
| Amount | 70,000 Kč (CZK) |
| Organisation | Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Start | 03/2016 |
| End | 10/2016 |
| Description | Support for Cultural Activities |
| Amount | 50,000 Kč (CZK) |
| Organisation | Gideon Klein Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 10/2016 |
| Title | Audience Face Analysis |
| Description | We have been developing a method to assess audience members' experience of performance by 'reading' their faces during the performance. This process involves filming all audience members' faces and subsequent analysis of the film material using machine learning techniques. Audience faces move as they experience different elements of the performances. The changes include the contraction and relaxation of up to 44 muscles associated with different emotional experiences. Changes in face configuration are visible in the film, and machine learning can be used to evaluate which muscles are active, and thus we can derive which emotions are most present on each face on a frame by frame basis. Through this process, the information we can obtain includes emotions experienced every 20 ms by each audience member, the correlation in emotion experience across all of the audience, and the relationship between expressed emotions and the experience of performances reported by the audience. We are currently investigating how this information can additionally be used to evaluate information about aspects of the personality of individual audience members and how face information can inform researchers, directors and actors about the performance itself. |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | No impact has yet to be realized |
| Title | Avant-Grade Journals (Simbolul 1912, Chemarea 1915) - Romanian Language |
| Description | I have developed this personal archive based on the needs resulted from my research. Given the fact that my research employes a series of methodologies, access to several archival sources is needed. In the past year I've undertook several trips to Romania and Israel in order to gather a significant collection of avant-grade journals. These journals are dated starting 1912 and until 1940. These journals have been scanned / copied by me during my study trips after receiving authorization to do so from the Library/Institution which holds them. These data base is meant only for personal usage during the academic research and, when cited, will be referred according to the copyrights laws. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This database will be extremely useful to future researcher since it holds a significant amount of avant grade journals which I've collected from my trips to the National Library of Isral and from the Library of the Romanian Academy. These database will eventually hold copies of all major avant garde journals published in Romanian between 1912-1940. |
| Title | Catalogue of Keller's works |
| Description | As part of my research it has been necessary to collate all of Hans Keller's writings into a database using referencing software Mendeley, with interactive 'tags' dependent on the themes of the writing and other important details. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Ultimately this will hopefully form the basis of a useful appendix to the PhD thesis, offering a full overview of his writings which has not up until now been available to other researchers. |
| Title | Performing the Jewish Archive website |
| Description | Official website of the Performing the Jewish Archive project showcasing the activity of the project, past and forthcoming events, festivals, conferences. Data includes film footage and images of festival performances. Website stores also the quarterly newsletter of the project. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The website is frequently visited besides general public by researches and professionals on the mailing list of the project. |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/ |
| Title | The Music Experience in Theresienstadt/Jewish Museum of Prague Oral Database |
| Description | A meticulous investigation of the music experience in Theresienstadt via a discourse analysis of testimonies emerging from the oral history database (LAN only) of the Jewish Museum of Prague. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | To be determined via theoretical framework of critical theory of musical remembrance and pedagogy. |
| Description | Anne Frank - Bootham School - PtJA |
| Organisation | Anne Frank Trust UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I have organised the collaboration and, through the PtJA project, provided the funding for a performance to be developed and staged at Bootham School in June 2017 that will include material on my research on the cultural life of the Terezin Ghetto. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Bootham school: a teacher at Bootham School is leading the development and staging of the performance with his students. It will take place at the school. Anne Frank Trust: Head of Education Development is working with us to bring the Trust's exhibition to the school and to provide material that the students can incorporate into their performance. |
| Impact | The performance resulting from this collaboration, titled 'Children, Conflict, and the Art(s) of Hope', will be staged in June 2017. If successful, our working methods may be added as an activity that the Anne Frank Trust regularly offers to schools. The performance in 2017 was successful; however, due to the departure of the collaboration teacher from Bootham School, the collaboration came to an end. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Anne Frank - Bootham School - PtJA |
| Organisation | Bootham School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have organised the collaboration and, through the PtJA project, provided the funding for a performance to be developed and staged at Bootham School in June 2017 that will include material on my research on the cultural life of the Terezin Ghetto. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Bootham school: a teacher at Bootham School is leading the development and staging of the performance with his students. It will take place at the school. Anne Frank Trust: Head of Education Development is working with us to bring the Trust's exhibition to the school and to provide material that the students can incorporate into their performance. |
| Impact | The performance resulting from this collaboration, titled 'Children, Conflict, and the Art(s) of Hope', will be staged in June 2017. If successful, our working methods may be added as an activity that the Anne Frank Trust regularly offers to schools. The performance in 2017 was successful; however, due to the departure of the collaboration teacher from Bootham School, the collaboration came to an end. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Collaborative concert/symposium with conductor Andreas Stoehr, Vienna, Austria |
| Organisation | Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Investigating possibilities for future collaboration(s) with Prof. Stoehr regarding an event with MUK as a major impact from this grant project. Prof. Stoehr is interested in an ancillary project that considers a recording of particular musical works that result from the grant's research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions made at this point by Dr. Dobbs: initial meetings and discussions with Prof. Stoehr and the Vic-Chancellor of MUK. |
| Impact | This collaboration is still in its infancy. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Collaborative project with the Royal Northern College of Music |
| Organisation | Royal Northern College of Music |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Repertoire/arrangements for the choral music; administrative and operational support; publicity; multimedia output. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Student composers and musicians; publicity. |
| Impact | Continuing relationship with the RNCM in the form of contributions to teaching and research. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Conney Project on the Jewish Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Organisation | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Department | Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Planning/organizing major US conference on Jewish Arts. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Planning, support, vision. |
| Impact | Conference to be held April 2017. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Holocaust Education in Schools |
| Organisation | Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Dr. Helen Finch and Dr. Alexandru Bar provided archival expertise to source items in the Yorkshire Holocaust Friendship Association Archive suitable for use in Holocaust education in local schools. We also used our expertise in Holocaust studies to contextualise these items and provide a supporting narrative to render them comprehensible to school children. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The YHSFA trained two volunteers in the use of archival material to support Holocaust education in schools, and made contact with two schools, Thornhill College in Dewsbury and Royds Hall Community School in Huddersfield. The Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah devised workshops using the archival materials and undertook two education sessions, one in each school. |
| Impact | The aim of this project was to design workshops in a more engaging and artistic manner, creating a vivid experience for school students and their teachers, in the spirit of the 'Performing the Jewish Archive' Project. Additionally, this project aimed to transform the traditional powerpoint presentation which is essentially a one way transmission of information to a more enquiry based approach using drama techniques and open questioning to open up a dialogue. The HSFA have learned from this pilot project and will seek to incorporate its insights into their future educational programmes. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Holocaust Education in Schools |
| Organisation | Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr. Helen Finch and Dr. Alexandru Bar provided archival expertise to source items in the Yorkshire Holocaust Friendship Association Archive suitable for use in Holocaust education in local schools. We also used our expertise in Holocaust studies to contextualise these items and provide a supporting narrative to render them comprehensible to school children. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The YHSFA trained two volunteers in the use of archival material to support Holocaust education in schools, and made contact with two schools, Thornhill College in Dewsbury and Royds Hall Community School in Huddersfield. The Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah devised workshops using the archival materials and undertook two education sessions, one in each school. |
| Impact | The aim of this project was to design workshops in a more engaging and artistic manner, creating a vivid experience for school students and their teachers, in the spirit of the 'Performing the Jewish Archive' Project. Additionally, this project aimed to transform the traditional powerpoint presentation which is essentially a one way transmission of information to a more enquiry based approach using drama techniques and open questioning to open up a dialogue. The HSFA have learned from this pilot project and will seek to incorporate its insights into their future educational programmes. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Holocaust Educational Trust CPD courses |
| Organisation | Holocaust Education Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | In September 2016, February 2017, February 2019 and February 2020 I delivered a presentation about the use of drama in Holocaust education, based on my own research and experience in adapting and staging scripts from the Terezin Ghetto. as part of an annual CPD course for teachers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | HET provided the entire infrastructure for delivery of my presentation: they organize annual CPD courses for teachers about Holocaust education. |
| Impact | Presentation for HET annual CPD courses based on Harlequin in the Ghetto, a performance developed as part of the Performing the Jewish Archive project. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Jewish Music and Poetry Project |
| Organisation | Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Performing music composed during the Holocaust/Shoah that has recently been discovered. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In discussion. |
| Impact | Invited lecture-recitals to include Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Midwest Jewish Artists Laboratory |
| Organisation | Hillel Center, Madison, Wisconsin |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Piloting innovative ways of presenting music listening experiences to foster creative outputs by visual artists. |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | Multi-disciplinary: music, visual art, literature, theatre. Impacts will be realised in future networking collaborations. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | PtJA/HSFA pilot project 2015 |
| Organisation | Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The aim of our joint project was to rise awareness on the tragedies of the Holocaust through designing a series of workshops based on the eye witness accounts which are currently told first hand to school children by volunteer speakers who are picking up from where the eyewitnesses have left off and looking at how they can engage young people in schools. These workshops were designed in a more engaging and artistic manner creating a vivid experience for school students and their teachers, in the spirit of the 'Performing the Jewish Archive' Project. Motivated by a desire to recover archival materials, and to stimulate the creation of new works to re-animate existing archival repositories in order to establish a link between past, present and future, the "Performing the Jewish Archive" Project team (University of Leeds) represented by Dr. Helen Finch (PtJA Co-Investigator) and Mr. Alexandru Bar (PhD Candidate) in collaboration with Mr. Anthony Haddon (Theatre in Education Director), the Theatre Co Blah Blah Blah, and the Holocaust Survivors' Friendship Association (HSFA) represented by Mrs. Lilian Black (Chair) and Dr. Tracy Craggs (Project Manager) created this joint project consisting of a series of interactive workshops based on relevant archival materials. I was in charge of keeping records of the entire project, serving both as an observer throughout the entire sessions and as a contributor to the development of these interactive workshops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In order for this joint-project to be successful the HSFA offered its assistance in identifying two speakers, one for each school, prepared to deliver their stories both in their original version and in a different format as proposed by our Theater in Education Director; the two selected speakers were: - Mr. Barry Anysz - second generation family of survivor telling the story of his mother Helga and grandmother Elsbeth; - Mr. Michael Sharp - volunteer speaker (not related to a survivor family) but coming from a point of interest in the project, telling the story of Holocaust survivor Mr. Eugene Black. |
| Impact | Our action plan consisted of two main approaches to promote greater utilization of drama input models when delivering Holocaust Survivors stories in schools, and consequently add value towards teaching this subject: Enhance content delivery by adopting interactive games/exercises, usage of enrichment materials, and creation of new story lines based on the original ones and Encourage student participation by initiating discussions, and facilitate collaboration through games/exercises. We have employed this framework in our pilot project in two schools in order to evaluate the feasibility of each approach. Based on feedback received from pupils and our independent analysis, we then reached several conclusions regarding the future implementation of our action plan on a larger scale with necessary modifications to ensure a successful outcome. This pilot project represented a very good method of identifying some of the challenges of such projects in terms of awareness among school children when addressing the Holocaust. With limited curriculum time dedicated to face-to-face discussion on this topic, our project identified a need to provide additional avenues to facilitate discussion on such topics. This project also identified a need to create workshops dedicated to training the teachers on this subject before introducing it to their pupils. Having teachers moderating at times these types of presentations will ensure students put careful thoughts in comments for more fruitful discussion but in some cases might actually help garner better responses from students shy of speaking up in class in front of strangers. Another alternative to this is to create interactive sessions which not only discuss the Holocaust but do it through an exploratory approach and serve as a model for those teachers who are not familiar with this pedagogical approach. The form and content are linked: "exploring" this subject with children demonstrates how you can treat them with dignity while looking at a system which stripped people of their dignity. Additionally, the project revealed the necessity of training the teachers in order to avoid transforming the presentation in a history lesson overloaded with too many facts some of which are explained and others glossed over; a moralizing lecture telling the young people why they need to know; a voyeuristic presentation of violence and suffering. This project identified the necessity of developing a more interactive way of delivering such stories in such manner that will engage the students. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | The Flying Rabbi Czech klezmer ensemble |
| Organisation | Flying Rabbi Klezmer Ensemble |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | PtJA co-investigator Simo Muir and myself contributed material from our research on Jewish cabaret (sketches, songs and poems) and a script that tied the material together in a historical narrative. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The members of the Flying Rabbi Czech klezmer ensemble revised and edited the translation of the script for performance and prepared and presented the peformance itself. Flying Rabbi performed 'Jewish Cabaret from Terezin to Helsinki' in the Czech Republic in July 2020, with a video introduction by myself (I was unable to travel to introduce the performance in person). The performance took place as an addition to the 'Gido's Coming Home!' project (the performance took place after the grant period ended) and Flying Rabbi plans to perform it again after the pandemic. |
| Impact | Script and performance 'Jewish Cabaret from Terezin to Helsinki', presented at the Out of the Shadows festival in the Czech Republic in September 2016 Engagement event: performance of 'Jewish Cabaret from Terezin to Helsinki' presented in Holešov, Czech Republic, in July 2020 |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Title | App: Walking tour of Prague |
| Description | The app guides the user through the city of Prague, exploring the life and activities of composer Gideon Klein before the Holocaust. It is based upon the research of Dr David Fligg, Project Consultant for Performing the Jewish Archive. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Whilst it is too early to give full details, the app has been used by visitors to Prague to enhance their understanding of the city's pre-war history, and to extend their knowledge of the musical heritage of the city and country. |
| Description | University of LeedsPostgraduate Research Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar which contextualised Gideon Klein's String Trio in a co-textual way, proposing that Klein's reference to music by other composers in his piece was directly linked to his situation as a prisoner in the Terezin camp. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://music.leeds.ac.uk/events/music-research-seminar-david-fligg/ |
| Description | "'Performing the Jewish Archive': The Unsilencing of Jewish Musicians" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Melissa Miller, Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Newsletter and Madison Jewish News |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | "Be Curious" Discovery Day - public folksong workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Be Curious" is a Leeds University campus-wide Discovery Day for the general public. Although the focus is often on the sciences, "Performing the Jewish Archive" was invited to participate because of the project's exploration of the psychological and societal benefits of music and theatre, especially in times of crisis and conflict. Dr Stephen Muir taught a folksong arrangement written in the Terezin Ghetto by composer Gideon Klein to audiences of visitors throughout the day (the session was delivered six times in total). After learning the folksong, the audience learned about the circumstances within which it was composed, how prisoners in Terezin used music and theatre as a psychological survival and coping mechanism as well as an act of defiance against the Nazis, and briefly about the fate of the composer and his acquaintances (though the focus was on the beneficial aspects of music and theatre, and not on the horrors of the Holocaust per se, important as that message is). Finally, the folksong was sung again, this time with emphasis on the allegorical words and poignant musical setting, used by the composer to reflect upon his condition of captivity and express a longing for freedom. Participants reported that they understood far more deeply the significance of such seemingly simple and insignificant works of art, and expressed an appreciation of how the arts can be used in times of crisis to extremely beneficial effect. Participants also stated that they would experience such works of art very differently in the future, and would engage with the underlying issues far more readily and thoughtfully because of the "way in" provided by the music. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.stem.leeds.ac.uk/events/lfos/lfos-public-programme/becurious |
| Description | "Music Education and the Holocaust: So What?" Research paper presented at New Directions Conference, Michigan State University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research paper presented at research conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 13th Leeds Day Limmud |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The presentation of the Performing the Jewish Archive and its forthcoming festival received a lot of interest and people were interested to learn more The project got invitations to participate in performances in their institutions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://limmud.org/day/leeds/ |
| Description | 48th Annual Conference of the Association fro Jewish Studies (San Diego) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper 'Mother Rachel and her children: The first phase of Holocaust remembrance in Finland' at the 48th Annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, 18-20 December 2016, San Diego, USA. The presentation sparked a lively discussion and I got many useful insights that made me reconsider my paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ajs/ajs16/ |
| Description | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) - Radio broadcast interviews, WORT, Madison, Wisconsin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Live radio interview, May 2016, to kick off Madison festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Adviser and speaker for online workshop and performance of the play 'The Smoke of Home' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A day-long actors' workshop and online performance organized by director Guy Woolf and dramaturg Tommo Fowler, in collaboration with the Manchester Jewish Museum, of the play The Smoke of Home, written in the Terezin Ghetto and rediscovered during my research. I advised Woolf and Fowler during the organization of the activity, I conducted a question-and-answer session for the actors during their rehearsal of the play, and participated in a Q&A with the audience of a public online reading of the play that evening. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Archives into the Future I |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | c.80 people attended this day-long workshop at the British Library. The day involved talks given by researchers from "Performing the Jewish Archive" and "The Anti-Slavery Useable Past", partners from the British Library and The National Archives, and Prof Andrew Thompson (Theme Fellow, Care for the Future). Breakout workshops encouraged participants to think deeply about the nature and future of archives, particularly but not exclusively those relating to Jewish culture, and to start to formulate partnerships with others at the workshop with the aim of enriching public engagement with archives through performance and similar activities. Link ups between archives and The National Archives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/archives-into-the-future-i |
| Description | Archives into the Future: Symposium (British Library, London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was the official launch of the 'Performing the Jewish Archive' project, and the event facilitated further discussion of collaborations with existing and future partners, both educational and third sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bl.uk/events/archives-into-the-future |
| Description | Archivist as Interpreter conference (London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk titled 'The scope and the limits of re-performance of archival material' which described one of the techniques we are using to develop performances in the Performing the Jewish Archive project. The talk sparked questions and discussions and made audiences aware of the performances we are presenting in June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bl.uk/events/the-archivist-as-interpreter |
| Description | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) "Care for the Future: Thinking Forward Through the Past" British National Library |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Launch event; discussion facilitator and panelist; terrific discussions and ideas generated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | British Association of Holocaust Studies Fourth Annual Conference (Sheffield) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation in 'Performing the Jewish Archive' panel at the Interpreting Archives conference in Sheffield, 25 July 2017 . The talk was followed by a performance of Weinstein's sketch in English as a rehearsed reading by conference participants, and the songs were performed by students from the University of York. The presentation and reading sparked a lot of questions and there was a lively discussion about the Finnish Jews during WWII and the content of the play. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/161433/british-association-holocaust-studies-con... |
| Description | British Association of Holocaust Studies Fourth Annual Conference (Sheffield) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about the Performing the Jewish Archive projects interactive website at the Interpreting Archives conference in Sheffield, 25 July 2017. The talk sparked a discussion about the future/life span of websites. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/161433/british-association-holocaust-studies-con... |
| Description | Broadcast of works from the concert: Music on the Brink of Destruction - Music from the Holocaust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Broadcast of works from the concert: Music on the Brink of Destruction - Music from the Holocaust, which took place at London's Wigmore Hall. Specifically with regard to one of the works, Topol (The Poplar Tree) by Gideon Klein, it led to further performances and publishing interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/multimedia/ |
| Description | Campus lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mosse-Weinstein Centre for Jewish Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Part of lecture series attended by interested individuals and possible donors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Collegiate Symposium, Performing the Jewish Archive, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Collegiate symposium as part of the project and course designed in response to project: Holocaust: Literature, Music, Memory, and Representation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Concert talk: Lieder and Piano Music by Wilhelm Grosz (Out of the Shadows Festival, Madison Wisconsin, May 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This talk focussed on the Austrian Jewish composer Wilhelm Grosz, with presentations of lieder and piano solo music across the range of his life. Scores were edited for this special presentation, and I provided a biographical narrative throughout the concert presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/lieder-and-piano-music-by-wilhelm-grosz/ |
| Description | Conference paper: These were good times - The Poplar Tree on the edge of |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event was part of a conference marking the centenary of the composer/pianist Gideon Klein, which resulted in the publication of an edited volume. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/en/prize/prizes/grants-aid/publikationensymposien-englisch/torso-li... |
| Description | Contribution to a BBC Radio 3 documentary programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio 3 documentary 'Music on the Brink of Destruction', which complemented the concert of the same name held in London Wigmore Hall (which was also broadcast on BBC Radio 3). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08bbghn |
| Description | Coordinate music of Josima Feldschuh for Wigmore Recital Hall/BBC 3 Radio concert/documentary, London, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Concert/documentary organised by Dr. Shirli Gilbert, University of Southhampton, "Music at the Brink of Destruction." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Day-long workshop and audition (York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 11 undergraduate students and one postgraduate student attended a day-long workshop in which we engaged with a script titled Comedy about a Trap written in the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto. Students generated their own performative and written work and all indicated they wished to be considered for roles in the production to be staged in June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Day-long workshop for Czech teachers on using Terezin plays in Holocaust pedagogy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Twelve Czech teachers attended this day-long workshop, run by myself and organised by the Terezin Initiative Institute in Prague. In the morning we practised simple, low-effort ways for teachers to incorporate plays written in the Terezin Ghetto into their Holocaust pedagogy (for example, recitations and staged readings of the existing scripts). In the afternoon we practised more ambitious projects: adaptations of the scripts, incorporation of survivor testimony and other archival materials into the scripts, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dedication of commemorative plaque in Prerov Jewish cemetery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 12 September 2019 we had a plaque installed in the Jewish cemetery of Prerov, a small Czech city (43,000). It was dedicated to the memory of Gideon Klein, a young composer who was born and raised there, who continued his musical work even in the Terezin Ghetto and perished after being deported from Terezin to Auschwitz. We invited members of the general public and the local Jewish community to attend a short commemoration ceremony. The ceremony was well attended for this type of event (approximately 20 people) and we received unexpectedly thorough media coverage in the local newspaper and television news, which extended the impact considerably. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Diversity and Performance in the Jewish Archive - University of Chester, Diversity Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the Performing the Jewish Archive team took part in the University of Chester's annual Diversity Festival, discussing links between Jewish ethnic and artistic identity in South Africa and pre-war Europe. This led to one of the team members being asked to advise a Liverpool synagogue about Jewish life in pre-war Moravia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/2015/02/25/team-members-taking-part-in-the-chester-diversity-festival-12-mar... |
| Description | European Researchers' Night: Yiddish Cabaret from Rediscovered Finnish-Jewish Archives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards. Audience gave feedback and information valuable for the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://yornight.com/2015/researchers/barley-hall/ |
| Description | First-Year Interest Group, Invited Guest Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The lecture prompted a good deal of questions and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Fourth Sibelius Academy symposium on music history (Helsinki) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper 'Simon Pergament-Parmet - between cosmopolitanism and nationalism at the Fourth Sibelius Academy symposium on music history, 1-3 June 2016, in Helsinki, Finland. 30 academics attended the panel and there was a lively debate about the theme of my paper. I got some useful information for my research and got new contacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.uniarts.fi/en/events/tue-28072015-1532/music-history-and-cosmopolitanism-fourth-sibelius-... |
| Description | Gayle Worland, Wisconsin State Journal, Section E: Sunday's Best, page 1, August 16, 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newspaper article/interview: "Uncovered Jewish Music Taking Stage in Madison," Gayle Worland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Gideon Klein's Prague - Guided walking tour of Prague, Rafael Schachter Institute fort Arts & Humanities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A guided walking tour in Prague of those places associated with the composer/pianist Gideon Klein. It raised awareness of musical and cultural activities in pre-war Prague. As a result, a follow-up seminar is planned for the Institute's 2016 series of events in New York. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.defiantrequiem.org/foundation/enewsletter-july-2015/2015-rafael-sch%C3%A4chter-institute-... |
| Description | Gideon Klein's Prague: Guided walk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A guided tour of Prague, focusing on significant sites in the life of composer Gideon Klein. This was interactive, in as much as it encouraged discussion between the participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/187975730 |
| Description | Gideon Klein: the musician the Nazis tried to silence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Based on recent archival discoveries, this presentation investigated how the composer and pianist Gideon Klein continued to make music against all the odds during the German occupation of Prague, and whilst imprisoned in Terezín. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.defiantrequiem.org/events/gideon-klein-the-musician-the-nazis-tried-to-silence/ |
| Description | Gideon Klein: the musician the Nazis tried to silence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Based on new archival discoveries, this talk investigated how the pianist and composer Gideon Klein continued to make music against all the odds during the German occupation of Prague, and whilst imprisoned in Terezín. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://bterezin.org.il/en/events/past-events/events-2021/ |
| Description | Greenfield Institute, Mosse-Weinstein Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A second invited lecture to 200 (approx.) participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Greenfield Summer Institute, Mosse-Weinstein Centre for Jewish Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 200 attendees at the Greenfield Institute held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which sparked a great deal of questions, discussion, and subsequent speaking invitations/engagements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | HET pedagogical presentation of theatrical scripts from the Terezin ghetto |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | For a November 2011 online teacher training event for the Holocaust Educational Trust, I delivered a participatory workshop: Theatrical scripts from the Terezin ghetto: an interactive session'. Approximately 20 teachers attended and, during our online work with the script, some expressed surprise at the content and the pedagogical possibilities of staging such works. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Holocaust Education Trust CPD course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk for the Holocaust Education Trust's 'Exploring the Holocaust' Residential CPD Course for teachers, 10-14 February 2017. I described a theatre-based project from the PtJA project, Harlequin in the Ghetto, as a case of study of how to use theatre in Holocaust education. In additionl the teachers, professionals from HET were present. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.het.org.uk/education/teacher-training/intensive-cpd-courses |
| Description | Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration and Lecture, University of York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | With colleagues, a series of brief lecture-demonstrations, sharing recent discoveries regarding literary, musical and theatrical works created by Jewish artists in situations of internment, exile and emigration. This resulted in a lively Q&A session afterwards with thew audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/spring-2016/jewish-archive/ |
| Description | Holocaust Memorial Day Talk - Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk to members of a Leeds synagogue, Beth Hamidrash Hagadol, and invited guests, based on my research for the Performing the Jewish Archive project, in observation of Holocaust Memorial Day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Holocaust Memorial Day talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Pupils from a local school attended a day of workshops commemorating Holocaust memorial day, one of which I designed and led, on the subject of Nazi cultural policy to music and musicians. The pupils participated in a discussion and gave feedback to suggest a strong engagement with the subject matter and an increased interest in the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association, Leeds: Musical Scripts from the Terezin Ghetto |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The performances of music arranged by prisoners for comedy plays and sketches performed in the Terezin ghetto generated much interest and debate, realising awareness of performing recently-discovered theatrical resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://holocaustlearning.org/ |
| Description | IMLR Research Training: Wiener Library Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Learned about the archival holdings of the library and got to know the staff and to discuss future collaboration I got an invitation to give a lecture at the Wiener Library |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2014 |
| URL | http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ |
| Description | International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Annual Conference, Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The workshop 'How to use field-work to find family information: A Czech case-study' was an interactive presentation exploring on-the-ground research methods to show how various types of archival research can be utilised to create a comprehensive family portrait. It encouraged participants to think about archival investigations, rather than obtaining information exclusively oneline. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.iajgs2015.org/ |
| Description | International Conference organized by the Kassák Museum and the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The conference of the Kassák Museum and the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences marked the centenary of the beginning of Dada in Zurich. This research on Romanian Jewish Modernism (case study Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco) was selected for a presentation under the name "The Double Identity of Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco - The Archives of an Identity Issue." The talk showed how Tzara and Janco relate to their ethnic and cultural identity, perhaps unconscious in their thoughts, in light of the emergence of the Romanian avant-garde itself. Since this research is hugely novel due to the employment of unique archival materials, the participation to this conference represented a perfect modality of sharing the new discoveries on the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://kassakmuzeum.hu/en/index.php?p=kutatas&id=210 |
| Description | Interview on Czech Radio (Radio 3) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Jewish Composers in Czechoslovakia and the Terezin Ghetto' was the title of this programme, and was part of a number of Czech Radio programmes speciualising in Czech concert music. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/zidovsti-skladatele-v-ceskoslovensku-a-terezinskem-ghettu-6194004 |
| Description | Interview on Prague Radio: Performance sheds new light on life and work of Gideon Klein |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on Prague Radio discussing the theatrical production 'Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer', and also discussing the 'Ze stinu (Out of the Shadows) festival in the Czech Republic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.radio.cz/en/section/in-focus/performance-sheds-new-light-on-life-and-work-of-gideon-klein |
| Description | Introduction to public performance of 'Jewish Cabaret from Terezín to Helsinki' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I contributed a video introduction and organizational support to the July 2020 performance of 'Jewish Cabaret from Terezín to Helsinki', a show I created in 2016 which wove together sketches and songs from the Terezín cabaret Laugh with Us and a Finnish-Jewish wartime cabaret, discovered by postdoctoral researcher Dr Simo Muir, with a historical narrative illuminating the context of both. The performance took place in Holešov, Czech Republic at their annual festival of Jewish culture, and was performed by the Czech klezmer ensemble Flying Rabbi, with event organization by Zdenka Kachlova. The invitation was extended due to the warm reception of our contributions to the festival as a prequel to the Gido's coming home! project in July 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.holesov.cz/1983-druhy-festivalovy-den-byl-plny-velkych-navratu-a-velkych-emoci.html |
| Description | Invited guest lecture, Northwestern University, Bienen School of Music, Evanston, Illinois |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A guest lecture and discussion about my research agenda in conjunction with the "Performing the Jewish Archive" grant, intersecting with my publication in Philosophy of Music Education Review. The students were greatly interested in this work from the perspective of critical and issues of social justice. Plans are made for a guest lecture at Northwestern University, Crown Centre for Jewish Studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Invited lecture and Holocaust education (higher education) summit participant, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Because of my previous involvement with the Belfer Initiative with the USHMM, I was invited to participate in the Holocaust In Teacher Education summit to advise/assess the HITE program with colleagues from across the United States. I was also invited to present a guest lecture on my research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Invited lecture, Syracuse University, Setnor School of Music, Syracuse, NY |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Skype lecture for music education preservice educators at Syracuse University, approximately 25 students attending, sparking lively discussion and interest in learning more about my research and the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Invited talk at Bath Spa University (Bath) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk titled Laughter In The Ghetto: Cabarets From A Concentration Camp at Bath Spa University's Center for Musical Research. It generated a lively discussion and interest in the Perforrming the Jewish Archive project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://cmr.bathspa.ac.uk/2015/10/20/lisa-peschel-university-of-york-laughter-in-the-ghetto-cabarets-... |
| Description | Invited undergraduate lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Guest lecture for undergraduate course, 30 students, in Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This presentation resulted in wide-ranging discussion and subsequent guest lecture requests, including the invitation to create a new course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Jacob Stockinger, The Well-Tempered Ear, August 26 and 27, 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Classical music: The UW-Madison and the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society will hold FREE events this coming Sunday to help bring neglected Jewish music and culture 'out of the 14 shadows' of history," Jacob Stockinger, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Judaic Studies in the Nordic Countries Today: Name Changes and Visions of 'a New Jew' in the Helsinki Jewish Community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Idea was to get together scholars of Jewish Studies in Scandinavia and to introduce each others research. Fruitful discussions and many new contacts. As a result the people gathered want to continue a Scandinavian collaboration on Jewish Studies. The roundtable results in a special issue of a journal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.abo.fi/forskning/en/donnerska_institutet/ |
| Description | Lecture at the Cape Town Holocaust Centre (Cape Town, South Africa). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk titled Theatre and the Holocaust: Recently Rediscovered Scripts from theTerezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto at the Cape Town Holocaust Center, attended by the general public and featuring short performances by the director of the Center and his staff. The talk generated much discussion and interest in the festival to be held in Cape Town in September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://holocaust.org.za/cape-town/cape_town-our_events-Lisa-Peschel.htm |
| Description | Lecture for Fulbright teaching assistants |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Thirty-two English-language teaching assistants, newly arrived from the US for placement in Czech schools all over the country through the Fulbright programme, attended a 90-minute lecture-demonstration regarding how to use the cultural legacy of the Terezin ghetto in their English-language teaching. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Limmud Helsinki: The planned rescue of Finnish Jews to Sweden in 1944 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | First Limmud seminar arranged in Helsinki. The talk sparked a lively discussion and in the audience were people who had personal experiences from the topic discussed and could give valuable information for research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.limud.fi/ |
| Description | Magnified and Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Prayer; Minhag Helsinki and Turku: Tradition and Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked fruitful discussion and gave valuable new information for my research. I got many good contacts and invitations to visit archives and institutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/magnified-sanctified-the-music-of-jewish-prayer/ |
| Description | Music In Performance Invited Guest Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Facebook shares via Google Analytics: 4,500+ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to 750 students, uploaded to Facebook. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Music and the Diaspora: Concert/Lecture, Jewish Cultural Festival/JCC, Krakow, Poland; Jewish Music and Poetry Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Concert/lecture as part of Jewish Cultural Festival in Krakow, Poland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Music in Performance Invited Guest Lectures: Total of Three, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | These lectures reached over 2,100 students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus: October, 2015; February, 2016; and March, 2016. Due to UW-Madison's stature and reach, the audiences were comprised of students from across the globe. These lectures were the first of their kind to be offered in the course's history and garnered the highest possible marks from student evaluations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| Description | Music of Young Composers Lost to Holocaust; Jewish Cultural Festival Krakow (Galician Jewish Museum); Jewish Music and Poetry Project--moderator |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Concert/discussion hosted by Jewish Cultural Festival, Krakow, Poland with Jewish Music and Poetry Project, San Franciscon, CA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Music on the Brink of Destruction (performance) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Performing the Jewish Archive researchers Stephen Muir, Joseph Toltz, Teryl Dobbs and David Fligg curated a substantial proportion of the concert Music on the Brink of Destruction at London's prestigious Wigmore Hall on 4 January 2017. The repertoire performed derived completely from the archival findings and creative work of the research team. Wigmore Hall was sold out to capacity (c.540). Subsequently, the concert was broadcast in sections during the week beginning 23 January 2017, reaching an audience of c.10,000 in the UK and possibly also abroad. The impact has included a substantial increase in interest in our research and activities, enquiries regarding participation and collaboration, increased awareness among audiences of a far broader range of Jewish artistic activities than before, and influence upon the practices and repertoire of professional musicians and concert producers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jfcxk |
| Description | Music under German Occupation 1938-1945 - Musicology conference, Manchester University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Conference jointly organised by the University of Manchester and Royal Holloway University of London exploring complicity and resistance by musicians under German occupation during the Second World War. It attracted scholars from Europe and the USA, and one of the outcomes will be the publication of papers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://musicundergermanoccupation.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Music under the Third Reich - Series of seminars for German school students, Prague |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Students from the Gymnasium Heide-Ost in north Germany attended these seminars, was hosted by the Terezín Initiative Institute (TII) in Prague. It was part of the 'Jewish music in concentration camps' project (Musiker und Musik in Konzentrationslagern) that the students are currently engaged in with the Foundation Against Extremism and Violence. As part of it, the students visited Terezín. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.stiftung-geug-heide.de/neue_projekte.htm |
| Description | Online Lecture for Czech-Jewish Heritage Organization SHCSJ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews, based in New York, invited me to deliver an online lecture about theatre scripts written in the Terezin Ghetto to their members and the general public followed by a Q&A session. A survivor of the ghetto joined me online to read some excerpts from the scripts. Approximately 300 people attended, and their comments and questions in the chat indicated changed views about some aspects of the cultural life of the ghetto. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.shcsj.org/events-1/2021/2/10/three-views-to-the-east-the-representation-of-eastern-jews-... |
| Description | Out of the Shadows Festival (Leeds & York 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Out of the Shadows in Leeds and York featured cabaret, chamber music and songs from the Terezín Ghetto, choral music by émigré composers, a powerful oratorio of Jewish suffering and redemption, presented by such illustrious artists as The Nash Ensemble of London, the New Budapest Orpheum Society (Chicago), and cello-piano duo Noreen and Phillip Silver (Maine, USA). An exhibition of drawings by children in the Terezín ghetto was also featured, along with several premieres: a recently-discovered harp piece by Gideon Klein, works by 12-year-old prodigy Josima Feldschuh, and newly-composed opera scenes based on Jewish archival materials, all prefaced by a powerful performance (in York's Clifford's Tower) of a play written by inmates of the Terezín Ghetto, titled "The Smoke of Home". The impact of each individual event is described with the relevant event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/leeds-york-2016/ |
| Description | Out of the Shadows Festival (Madison 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The international 1-day festival 'Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music, Literature and Theater' took place in Madison, Wisconsin, 30 August 2015. The festival featured a Sound Salon with Sherry Mayrent and Henry Sapoznik, a concert by Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, and a two-act cabaret evening with 'Laugh with Us' and 'I Am a Stranger Here Myself'. The impact of each individual event within the festival is described separately with those events. However, the professional coordinator whom we engaged to manage the festival describes the festival as a whole as "life-changing", and having a profound impact upon the way in which she will approach her professional event-management and curatorial roles in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/madison-2015 |
| Description | Out of the Shadows Festival (Madison 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | After welcoming over 500 people to our one-day event in Madison last August, the full festival "Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music, Literature and Theater" was the first of five festivals around the world. There were five days of performing events from Sunday, May 1, through Thursday, May 5, 2016. Local partners included the UW-Madison School of Music, Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, and the Arts Institute at UW-Madison, Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Madison Youth Choirs, and Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra. The impact of each individual event within the festival is described with the event in question. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/madison-2016 |
| Description | Out of the Shadows Festival (Prague, Pilsen and Terezin 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Out of the Shadows' in Prague, Pilsen and Terezín featured a wealth of exciting and moving performances derived from the vast accumulation of music and drama that was forgotten or thought lost because of the Holocaust. The festival was part of the international research project Performing the Jewish Archive (www.ptja.leeds.ac.uk), a collaboration between the Universities of Leeds and York (UK), Madison-Wisconsin (USA), and Sydney Conservatorium (Australia). The project researchers explore established and previously unknown archives around the world to locate these materials, at the same time challenging the very definition of what an 'archive' is and how we present it to the public in a meaningful and accessible manner. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2016 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/prague-terezin-plzen-2016/ |
| Description | Panel: Association for Slavic, East European, and East Asian Studies (ASEEES) Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Panel on which I presented Response, Remembrance, Reception, ASEEES conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Panel: Music History and Cosmopolitanism (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Together with other team members from Performing the Jewish Archive, we presented a panel entitled "Rootless Cosmopolitans: Jewish Musicians and displacement in the mid-20th century" at the Fourth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History, June 1-3, 2016 at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.uniarts.fi/en/cosmopol2016 |
| Description | Part of a larger concert: Premiere of Topol (The Poplar), composed by Gideon Klein in 1938 (Pilsen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Premiere of work from the archives of the Jewish Museum Prague. As a direct result, the BBC will be including this piece in a London concert in 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/187975702 |
| Description | Performance at Performing the Jewish Archive performance festival (Madison, WI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 120 spectators attended a cabaret/lecture that I co-created and presented with performers from Minneapolis, Minnesota at a one-day Performing the Jewish Archive festival in Madison, Wisconsin. The cabaret/lecture consisted of scenes and songs from a cabaret written in the Terezín Ghetto that came to light during my research, interspersed with my commentary about the script and the authors. The performance generated interest in our longer festival to be held in Madison in May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.music.wisc.edu/performing-the-jewish-archive/ |
| Description | Performance, Empathy, Trauma and the Archive (Sydney) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper 'Merchants of Helsinki: Performing Jewish stereotypes' at the Performance, Empathy, Trauma and the Archive symposium in Sydney 13-14 August 2017. I got useful feedback about my paper and have submitted it to a journal special issue with papers from the symposium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/sydney-2017/ |
| Description | Performing the Archive/Between Two Worlds and Performance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked question and remarks that were useful for further research Got good contacts with other scholars and invitations to visit their institutions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://performingthearchive2015.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Post-performance talk (Minneapolis, USA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I gave a post-show talk on the history of the Terezin ghetto after a performance of 'Why We Laugh', a play based on a cabaret titled 'Laugh with Us' that was written and performed in the ghetto. I collaborated on developing the play back in 2011, three years before the Performing the Jewish Archive project commenced, and many techniques we deveoped during that process have been carried over into the PtJA project. Several undergraduate students from the University of Minnesota were in the audience and wrote essays for one of their classes about the performance, which were sent to me by their tutor. Students and audience members had many good questions and were interested to hear of the PtJA performances to take place in Madison, WI in May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.fortunesfooltheatre.org/what-were-doing.html |
| Description | Prague Radio interview: Performing the Jewish Archive: an international project revives the work of persecuted playwrights and composers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel interview with PtJA researchers about the forthcoming Ze stinu (Out of the Shadows) festival in the Czech Republic, and recent research-related discoveries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.radio.cz/en/section/books/performing-the-jewish-archive-an-international-project-revives-... |
| Description | Pre-concert lectures and panel, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Madison, Wisconsin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pre-concert lectures regarding music written by exiled Jewish composers; reached approximately 1500 audience members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Pre-concert talk for Bach Dancing Dynamite Society concert, Madison (Wisconsin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk entitled 'European Jewish Composers in America' discussing the impact that exile and emigration had on the composers on the programme. A talk-back with the audience afterwards produced lively discussion about the effects of exile on creativity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/246938164 |
| Description | Pre-concert talk for Fate and Fairytales: the music of Wilhelm Grosz and Zigmund Schul (Out of the Shadows Festival, Leeds, June 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 audience members attended this concert, where I gave a 15 minute biographical talk about the lives of Zigmund Schul and Wilhelm Grosz. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/fate-and-fairytales-the-music-of-wilhelm-grosz-and-zikmund-schul/ |
| Description | Pre-concert talk for Nash Ensemble concert, Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk entitled 'Creativity in Adversity', focusing on how and why music flourished in the Terezin ghetto. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/246939742 |
| Description | Presentation for European Researchers' Night (York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Myself and two colleagues from the Performing the Jewish Archive project presented our research at Yornight: York's European Researchers' Night. My presentation was titled Laugh with Us: A Cabaret from a Concentration Camp and included performances of selected scenes by undergraduate students. The presentation for an audience of approximately 12 people generated many questions and interest in our performances to be held in York and Leeds in April and June. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://yornight.com/2015/activities/barley-hall/laugh-with-us/ |
| Description | Public lecture (Ottawa, Canada) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In September 2015 I gave a lecture as one of a series of endowed lectures, the Shannon Lectures in History, at Carleton Univerity. The talk, titled Theatre and the Holocaust: Recently Rediscovered Scripts from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto, was very well attended, generated a lively Q&A, and increased interest in the Performing the Jewish Archive performances happening in Madison, WI in May 2016. While there I also recorded an interview to be released as a podcast in spring 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://carleton.ca/history/cu-events/shannon-lecture-theatre-and-the-holocaust-recently-rediscovered... |
| Description | Public lecture (York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give the lecture at the Merchant Adventurers' Arts Discovery Event, an annual lecture series hosted by a York guild. In the lecture, titled Laughter In The Ghetto: Cabarets From A Concentration Camp, I presented my most recent research on the social effects of humour in theatrical performances in the Terezin Ghetto. Approximately 200 people attended the lecture in the historic Merchant Adventurers' Guild Hall. The talk generated many questions and interest in our performances to take place in York and Leeds in April and June. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/autumn2015/laughter-ghetto/ |
| Description | Public lecture about using plays from the Terezin Ghetto in Holocaust pedagogy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This lecture in Czech, titled 'Terezin theatrical texts in pedagogy of the Holocaust', was hosted by the Jewish Museum in Prague. I presented two case studies on various ways that one of the plays written in the Terezin ghetto can be used in Holocaust education today. We did not request formal feedback, but I hope the audience left with a new awareness of the potential pedagogical applications of the plays. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Public lecture, Sinai Synagogue, Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk at Sinai Reform Synagogue, Leeds, disseminating aspects of the research from "Performing the Jewish Archive", particularly my own work on synagogue composers from Russia and in South Africa. Around 65 members of the synagogue (and guests) attended the talk, which was part of a monthly Friday evening pre-Shabbat dinner lecture series. The talk generated much discussion about migration, about fragmented archives and their preservation and re-animation, and about the wider issues addressed by "Performing the Jewish Archive". The synagogue leadership were also inspired to engage in more cultural activities to increase the education and understanding of the community. A number of attendees have since attended other project events, and will attend the festival "Out of the Shadows" in Leeds/York in June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Radio broadcast (Czech Republic) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Three investigators on the Performing the Jewish Archive project (Steve Muir, David Fligg and myself) were interviewed by a journalist in Prague for an English-language broadcast on Czech radio regarding our research and our upcoming performance festival in the Czech Republic in September 2016. The broadcast is also available over the internet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.radio.cz/en/section/books/performing-the-jewish-archive-an-international-project-revives-... |
| Description | Radio broadcast interviews, WORT, Madison, Wisconsin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Two interviews regarding the Holocaust, the project, and my research resulted in wide public interest in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Reintegrating the music of Hans Gal and Gideon Klein |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Musicologist David Fligg, and Hans Gal's daughter, Eva Fox-Gal, discuss how they continue to promote the music of Gál and Gideon Klein so that this repertoire is seen beyond the strictures of the impact of the Holocaust. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/xKrTloucw6E |
| Description | Research lecture for Professional Development Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation demonstrated how recent research of Holocaust archives can reanimate music and theatre once thought lost or destroyed. This was an new area, introducing new research techniques, for the postgraduates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/music-and-memorialisation-performing-holocaust-testimony/ |
| Description | Respondent for research workshop (London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In July 2015 I served as an invited respondent for a joint research workshop for approximately 12 PhD candidates from the UK and Israel, held by the Wiener Library and Yad Vashem. The workshop increased interest in the research I am doing as part of the Performing the Jewish Archive project and, through a professor who was present, enabled me to make contact with the Holocaust Center in Hong Kong, which may invited members of the Performing the Jewish Archive team to present our work there in August 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Whats-On?item=182 |
| Description | Responses to young composers, pedagogy day, Prague, CZ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Reviewed and provided substantive/assessment feedback to young composers as part of pedagogy day, affiliated with Terezin Initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Royal Musical Association Annual Conference (London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Academic paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.rma.ac.uk/conferences/rma-annual.asp |
| Description | Sandy Tabachnik, Isthmus, August 26, 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newspaper article: "Buried Treasures: Festival Presents Rediscovered Theater and Music Works by Jewish Artists," Sandy Tabachnik. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Script workshop (Ottawa, Canada) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | With Professor David Dean of Carleton University I held a workshop, with his MA students, of a fragmentary script written in the Terezin Ghetto titled Comedy about a Trap. His students had done research before the workshop regarding the history of the ghetto, the history of interwar theatre, etc. and came prepared to talk about the possible influences upon the author. We read through the script and then speculated about the action on the missing pages. The students may attend the performance of Comedy about a Trap that I am preparing for the Performing the Jewish Archive festival in Madison, WI in May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Seminar of Federation for Yiddish in Sweden: S. An-skys Dibbuk som motesplats mellan tva varldar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussions afterwards. I got many new contacts with researchers who are interested in the Performing the Jewish Archive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.jiddischforbundet.se/ |
| Description | Sir John Manduell Research Forum, Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 'Performing a Holocaust Archive' is the title of the research seminar to commemorate the 2017 Holocaust Memorial Day. The seminar investigated how music and theatre once thought lost during the Holocaust have been rediscovered and performed. It was part of ongoing collaborations between the RNCM and PtJA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.rncm.ac.uk/series/research-forums/ |
| Description | Special to the State Journal, College of Letters & Science supplement, Wisconsin State Journal, March 22, 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Making Music in Times of Stress Can Ease Suffering," Teryl Dobbs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Study session for the York Liberal Jewish Community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I conducted a study session on theatre in the Terezin Ghetto for members of the York Liberal Jewish Community, presenting on the history of the cultural life of the ghetto and reading with them a script of particular interest to the community (a play for the Jewish holiday of Purim). The presentation and the play generated many questions and interest in the performances to be staged by the Performing the Jewish Archive project in April and June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Symposium 'Musical Culture/s of the Habsburg Monarchy and its Successor States (University of Music & Performing Arts, Vienna) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 'Gideon Klein - Musical Rupture and Jewish Migration' is the title of the paper presented. It has led to a further collaboration with one of the symposium's organisers. A publication of the proceedings is planned. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.mdw.ac.at/817 |
| Description | Talk and performance at Limmud conference (Birmingham) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Three investigators from the Performing the Jewish Archive team (Steve Muir, David Fligg and myself) presented on our research at this national conference on Jewish topics which also attracts international participation. In my own segment of the presentation I discussed plays written in the Terezin ghetto and four of my undergraduate students performed excerpts from the plays. The hall was full, the presentation generated much discussion, and several people stayed after to discuss with us further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://limmud.org/conference/ |
| Description | Talk at Goldsmiths University (London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk titled Laughter In The Ghetto: Cabarets From A Concentration Camp to an audience of university staff and postgraduate students. The talk generated a very lively discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=9214 |
| Description | Talk at Holocaust Memorial Day event (York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | With colleagues from the University of York and University of Leeds I organized a program for Holocaust Memorial Day that included a presentation of research from the project 'Performing the Jewish Archive.' The talk generated discussion and questions and raised interest in the performances taking place in York and Leeds in June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk: From Moravia to Merseyside: The Curious Story of a Torah Scroll |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk to the Liverpool Jewish Historical Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/2016/09/06/from-moravia-to-merseyside-the-curious-story-of-a-torah-scroll/ |
| Description | Teri Barr, Brava Magazine, March 2015, pp. 21 - 22. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview: "Connecting People and Performance: Teri Dobbs Rediscovers her Roots and Jewish Musical History-Connect-In her Shoes," |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | The Edge of Words - Performing Memory: Study Day, Edinburgh University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This study day focused on representations of the Holocaust in music and poetry, either written during or since the Holocaust. Two live performances of Gideon Klein's String Trio were performed at the beginning and at the end of the day, leading to a discussion on how perceptions of the music might have changed as the day progressed, in light of the sessions presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/edge-of-words |
| Description | The Last Chords in the Auschwitz Universe: 76th Anniversary of the Liberation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a live webinar broadcast on YouTube organised by Taube Jewish Heritage Tours (based in Warsaw) to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2021. Around 1500 people signed up for this event, and there have been a further 500 viewings on YouTube. A film about Gideon Klein's internment in Fürstengrube was followed by an interview/Q&A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/ZiJgcjXkdR0 |
| Description | Transnational Holocaust Memory: session on Jewish literature and theatre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chairing a session about Jewish literature and theatre. High standard presentations of various aspects on the Holocaust and literature. Lively discussions and excellent opportunity for networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://transnationalholocaustmemory.org/ |
| Description | UCL Institute of Jewish Studies spring 2016 lecture series: Brothers-in-arms with Nazi Germans, Jews in Finland during World War II |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A public talk about Finnish Jews during WWII. The event was well attended and sparked a lot of discussion. People reported that the talk changed their perception of the situation of Jews in Northern Europe during the war. The organizer of the event wants to arrange another talk about Finnish Jews in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ijs/index |
| Description | UK National Holocaust Memorial Day Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The PI Dr Muir advised upon, and had oversight of, the Jewish musical elements of the 2017 UK National Holocaust Memorial Day Event at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster. The event is organised annually by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, with direct funding from central government. It was held in the presence of 200 Holocaust and genocide survivors and around 1,000 guests. It was also recorded, and extracts (including the elements curated by Dr Muir) feature in a video available on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's website. The project's research was highlighted by the event's narrator, Mishal Husain, demonstrating the importance of our work to a distinguished audience, including the UK Chief Rabbi, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid MP, Leader of the Official Opposition Jeremy Corbyn, and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. Dr Muir also directed members of the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds chamber choir, performing "Mogen owos" [Shield to our fathers] by Josef Gottbeter, and "Min hammeitzar korosi yoh" [I called upon the Lord in distress; Psalm 118: 5-24], by Froim Spektor and Josef Gottbeter. Both pieces were direct outcomes of Dr Muir's research for Performing the Jewish Archive, discovered in a cache of manuscripts in Cape Town, South Africa. Audience members subsequently contacted Dr Muir to indicate how much they had been affected by the performance. A number of them enquired about the possibility of having further access to the project's outcomes with a view to integrating them into their own professional (and amateur) practices. Our partner The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust also reported that our participation had considerable impact upon them as an organisation, causing them to rethink some of the ways in which they programme music into important ceremonies like this one, and encouraging them to think more rigorously about the source and meaning of musical elements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://hmd.org.uk/news/uk-commemorative-ceremony-holocaust-memorial-day-2017 |
| Description | WORT Radio Interview, Yom Ha'Shoah, April 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for Yom Ha'Shoah as connected with Performing the Jewish Archive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Walking tour: Gideon Klein's Prague |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This walking tour, led by David Fligg, visited several venues in Prague of importance to Gideon Klein and made audiences aware of his links with spaces they move through in their daily lives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Welcome and Introduction to Practitioner Symposium, Jewish Museum of Prague |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduction and welcome to practitioner symposium, Czech Republic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Welcome and Introduction: Collage Concert Finale, Madison Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Final concert of Madison festival, May 5, 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Welcome and Introduction: Fractured Lives/Music of Josima Feldschuh (concert), Leeds, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Concert of young composers from the Shoah; premieres. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Welcome and Introduction: Gideon Klein--Portrait of a Composer, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to performance/dramatic reading of "Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Welcome to Madison PtJA Festival, May 1, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Welcome and opening of festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Yidish in Finland (Sholem-Aleichem Centre, New York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public talk (Yiddish in Finland), in Yiddish, at the Sholem-Aleichem Centre, New York. Talk and discussion about Yiddish culture in Finland and Performing the Jewish Archives project. The talk gave an opportunity to get to know many professionals working on Yiddish culture in New York. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |