OxTalks is Changing
On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Thousands of families in Israel are demanding to know what happened to their children. In Autumn 2022, a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, brought their story to an international audience in London. The disappeared children belonged to Jewish families who migrated to Israel from the Middle East and North Africa in the 1940s and 50s and were staying in temporary immigration camps. Over half of the children were from Yemen. The case has since become known as the Yemenite, Mizrahi, and Balkan Children Affair, a controversy which rages to this day in Israel. The state officially maintains that the children died, but the families were never shown bodies, graves, or death certificates. Instead, they believe their children were sent away to homes run by women’s organizations and in many cases illicitly adopted, perhaps even abroad. This talk will give an overview of the objectives, content, and curatorial process behind the exhibition, exploring some of the methodological and ethical challenges it raised. It will also place the Yemenite, Mizrahi, and Balkan Children Affair in transnational context, drawing attention to comparisons and connections with other episodes of forcible child removal across the world.
Date:
17 January 2023, 14:15
Venue:
St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details:
Seminar Room 1
Speaker:
Dr James Eastwood (Queen Mary)
Organisers:
Alissa Symon,
Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Part of:
Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Helen Morley,
Rebecca Freeman,
Joby Mullens,
Daniel Burton
