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When the Text Draws You In: Literacy Assemblages in a Luxembourgish Synagogue
Author(s): Badder, Anastasia
Date: 2025
Topics: Hebrew, Chedarim / Supplementary Schools, Jewish Education, Main Topic: Education, Synagogues, Artefacts and Material Culture, Teaching and Pedagogy
Abstract: The Hebrew language learning process amongst students in a Liberal Jewish congregational school in Luxembourg presents a compelling case for attending to the materiality of literacy. This article draws on new materialist perspectives and the concept of the assemblage to understand how the powerful pull of objects, in particular a children’s a prayer book, brought students, things, and language into new relations that enabled the emergence of new literacies. Zooming in on the clash between schooled literacy and synagogue-based Hebrew literacy and the ways this clash was resolved by taking literacy as an assemblage, this article explores how material objects made possible alternative modes and aims of literacy and ways of being and being perceived as literate. In doing so, this article troubles the supposed centrality of text-in-itself amongst Jewish communities and seeks a middle ground between recent literacy studies that tend to focus on language ideology while ignoring the material and vice versa.
Time, Materiality, and History in UK-Based Interfaith Solidarity Work
Author(s): Egorova, Yulia
Date: 2024
Topics: Anthropology, Ethnography, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other, Artefacts and Material Culture, Memory, Trauma
Abstract: In this paper, building upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted among members of one initiative of Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I discuss how my interlocutors thematize the temporal dimension of anti-minority discrimination and perceive remaining historical material heritage associated with it. Using the example of problematic artifacts pertaining to mediaeval Lincoln, such as the so-called “shrine of Little Hugh,” I discuss how in engaging the memory of traumatic past events in Jewish history activists of inter-faith dialogue reflect on their current conditions of minoritization and attempt a projection of their communities’ lives in the UK in the future. I also borrow insight from the presentist theoretical framework in anthropology of time to highlight the impact my interlocutors’ life histories have had on the way they relate to and conceptualize their own and other minoritized groups’ histories and imagine their personal and collective futures based on their experiences in the present. I suggest that in these reflections, narratives of positive historical trajectories in the minority experience sit alongside an anticipation of multiple possible futures, some inflected with anxiety about a repetition of difficult pasts, others imbued with a vision connecting the past, present and future of minoritized communities into a common presence.
Britain’s New Holocaust Memorial as Sacred Site
Author(s): Tollerton, David
Date: 2017
Topics: Holocaust Memorials, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
The Sacred Lineage of the UK’s new Holocaust Memorial
Author(s): Mutton, Isabelle
Date: 2019
Topics: Holocaust Memorials, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
The Jewish Museum London
Author(s): Pieren, Kathrin
Date: 2011
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage