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Bangor University(威尔士班戈大学)
所在地区:威尔士所在城市:BangorTIMES排名:56
一键免费快速申请文章正文综述详细专业照片新闻校友录已获Offer学生资料A Lecturer in Film Studies at Bangor University has just won a major new award to rejuvenate Jewish life in the North Wales region.A Lecturer in Film Studies at Bangor University has just won a major new award to rejuvenate Jewish life in the North Wales region.
Dr. Nathan Abrams of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries has been awarded a Sparks Grant worth £10,000 by the Clore Jewish Development Fund in London.
The award is part of a new national initiative to support Jewish communities outside London.
Dr. Abrams aims to put Bangor back on the map Jewishly by rejuvenating and sparking Jewish life in this part of North Wales and to discover and bring together those Jews, whether individuals or families, who are located here, through a series of regular lively and imaginative events and initiatives.
These events would emphasise that no Jewish 'experience' is necessary and that any Jew, regardless of religious affiliation, background, education, or language would be welcome to attend and participate. Some of these events would have an interfaith focus and others would be for the benefit of students, as well as the wider community.
From the 1890s until the mid-1970s, Bangor used to have both an active Jewish community and Jewish students society. Unfortunately, however, for a variety of reasons both of them have declined and there is no active Jewish community or society in this part of Wales. Yet, there are still Jews who live, work, and study here but have no central point of communal focus or meeting as the nearest synagogue is in Llandudno, over twenty miles away.
Dr. Abrams wishes to try to discover how many Jews live in the area, and to get them together for a series of lively events, perhaps with the eventual — and somewhat ambitious, he admits — aim to reform the community.
The overall outcome would be, in the first instance, to provide a focal point -- both real and virtual -- for communal meeting, to raise awareness of the Jewish experience of North Wales, and to establish a network, centred in Bangor, for the Jews of Gwynedd, Anglesey and surrounding areas.
Dr. Abrams would like to hear from anyone who is Jewish and would like to be involved. He can be contacted at the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries,
