Loving Strangers
A Camphorwood Chest, A Legacy, A Son Returns
Will be published approx. on 11. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
386 pages
978-1-915406-93-4 (ISBN)
Description
JAY PROSSER HAS WRITTEN A FAMILY MEMOIR THAT, AT ITS CORE, BUILDS A BRIDGE ACROSS THE TERRIBLE DIVIDES OF OUR TIMES
Jay Prosser has written a family memoir that at its core, 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 and transports Jewish identity to Iraq, India, China and Singapore: places and cultures that most people (including Jews themselves) don’t associate with Jewish identity. It shows Jews integrating with others, not divisive, not separate: not antagonistic.
The issue of intermarriage is increasingly important for all racial groups and this book speaks beyond the Jewish community, in relation to how we treat strangers in the form of immigrants and other communities.
Jay Prosser has written a family memoir that at its core, 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 and transports Jewish identity to Iraq, India, China and Singapore: places and cultures that most people (including Jews themselves) don’t associate with Jewish identity. It shows Jews integrating with others, not divisive, not separate: not antagonistic.
The issue of intermarriage is increasingly important for all racial groups and this book speaks beyond the Jewish community, in relation to how we treat strangers in the form of immigrants and other communities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
281 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915406-93-4 (9781915406934)
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Jay Prosser is Professor of Humanities at the University of Leeds. A writer and scholar of autobiography and life writing, his work explores identity and the narratives through which people make sense of their lives and the world. He has published widely, including Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (Columbia University Press, 1998), a pioneering study that continues to be widely read, and Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), an exploration of how writers use photographs. He has also collaborated with Amnesty International on Picturing Atrocity (Reaktion, 2012) and edited collections on twentieth-century American fiction and on gender and narrative. His books have been influential in the fields of life writing and cultural studies.