The University of Leeds has recently been awarded a grant of more than £1.5 million by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a collaborative project with the University of York and a range of international partners entitled ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’. The British Library and The National Archives will also be involved. The ‘project's objective is to bring recently rediscovered musical, theatrical and literary works by Jewish artists back to the attention of scholars and the public, and to stimulate the creation of new works based on archives. This scholarly work and artistic practice will engage with and re-theorise traditional archives, ethnographic archives, and artistic works themselves. The multi-disciplinary team will focus on the years 1880-1950, an intense period of Jewish displacement, in order to illuminate the role of art in displacement.’ The University of Leeds news release is at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3589/thinking_forward_through_the_past
Dr Clive D Field, OBE
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