Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society – Loving Strangers: Jay Prosser – 7.30pm

Loving Strangers: Jay Prosser

Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society

Loving Strangers is a family memoir that builds a bridge across the terrible divides of our times. It’s a Jewish book, but not just a Jewish book. It moves Jewish writing away from its customary setting of the Holocaust and Europe, transporting Jewish identity instead to Iraq, India, China and Singapore. It shows Jews integrating with others, not divisive, not separate: not antagonistic. Jay Prosser is Reader in Humanities at the University of Leeds, where he specialises in Jewish studies and creative nonfiction.