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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 victims of the...

by Sonny Kosky The Grand Order of Israel and Shield of David Friendly Society the last surviving Jewish friendly society in the friendly society movement has been dissolved and its assets have now been distributed to its last remaining members. It was evident over the past few years that the society was regularly losing members through death and resignation and the final nail in the coffin has been the 2019 Covid pandemic which severely curtailed its activities which were in the main social,...