I am currently working on a project that explores how Jewish life took shape in provincial England between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Much of Anglo Jewish historiography has understandably focused on places where institutional archives are dense: London, later Manchester, and other urban centres where synagogues, schools, and communal boards generated substantial records. Yet beyond these centres lay smaller towns and ports where Jewish presence was lighter, mo

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Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies Solomon Schonfeld Lecture ‎Zoë Waxman is Professor of Holocaust History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Writing the Holocaust: memory, testimony, representation (2006), Anne Frank (2015), and Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History (2017), as well as numerous articles relating to the Holocaust and genocide. Visitors to Auschwitz today cannot help but be struck by the sheer range of objects brought there by the vi