JHSE – SUSSEX BRANCH – AUTUMN PROGRAMME
The branch is delighted to confirm three speakers for the autumn, all of whom are able to address us via Zoom. The Society has set up a Zoom account, which is available to the branches, and we will take advantage of this facility. An email will be sent out by JHSE to all those on the branch mailing list a few days before each meeting, giving the Zoom details, and there will also be links to each meeting on the JHSE website, JHSE.org, on the Events page. Meetings are free to both members and non-members for now, but a charge of £5.00 for non-members will be introduced in due course.
On 29th September we will be hearing from our speaker delayed from 5th May, Vivi Lachs. Her subject is ‘Whitechapel Noise: politics, sex, and religion in London’s East End 1884-1914’. This talk, illustrated with song, examines the abundance of kupletn (rhyming couplets) written by songwriters and poets in pre-first world war London, and includes music-hall songs, satirical verse and much more, all told with humour, intensity, and passion.
Our next meeting will be on 27th October when we will be joined by Miri Rubin, the new JHSE President. Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London, and a distinguished scholar of Jewish History. Her title is Jewish History Today and she will speak about trends in the recent three decades or so which have seen an extraordinary flourishing of new approaches to the study of Jewish lives in the past, and this is true for all periods and regions. She will also speak about the latest developments in the work of JHSE.
On 24th November Dr Ronnie Fraser will talk about the Jewish contribution to the Royal Flying Corps in World War 1. Ronnie Fraser is a retired University Lecturer and researcher for the website ‘British Jews in the First World War-We Were There Too’.
Ronnie will tell us about British Jewry’s involvement with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War which was both glorious and inglorious, full of bravery and the mundane. Of the 50,000 Jews who served in the British armed forces approximately 2000 Jews served with the RFC and RNAS. The Jewish experience of the war was no different to that of other sections of British society as all sectors of Anglo-Jewry lost many of their young men. His talk will include references to RFC members with Brighton connections.
All meetings will commence at 7.45, with the Zoom room open from 7.30, and end by 9.15 as usual.
Please keep an eye open for further announcements and emails from JHSE in due course. If you do not receive emails from JHSE, and would like to be on the branch mailing list, please email Sharon at info@jhse.org.