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Dr James Jordan

Karten Lecturer, Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, PGR Coordinator

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Dr James Jordan is a Karten Lecturer, Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations in English at the University of Southampton.

I came to Southampton in 1994 as an undergraduate in English and History. An MA in Jewish History and Culture was followed by a PhD entitled Bearing Witness to the Holocaust in the Courtroom of American Fictive Film. This thesis was grounded in the tension between film and history, exploring how different strategies of representation have been used to bear witness to the Holocaust in the cinematic courtroom.

In 2005-6 I worked as Teaching Fellow in Jewish Fictions and Modernism at Southampton. I subsequently held the Ian Karten Research Fellowship, a five-year post within English under the auspices of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, before becoming the Karten Lecturer for the Parkes Institute.

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Research interests

My work takes me across a number of different fields that intersect with an interest and research expertise in Holocaust studies and education, Post-war Britain, museums and public history, film and television studies, history, race and racism.

I am currently writing a monograph on the role and representation of Jews in post-war British television. This will use influential figures such as Ronald Waldman (head of Light Entertainment) and Rudolph Cartier (the celebrated producer and director) to explore the pivotal role played behind the scenes by Jews in the early days of BBC television and to argue that the BBC was culturally diverse in its staff and output. With that in mind, this research also considers the on-screen presence and representation of ‘the Jew’, Jewish culture and traditions, and Judaism across the same period, analysing the implications this has for the notion of a multicultural Britain. I am also working on a related project looking specifically at how the Holocaust has been reported, depicted and indeed imagined by BBC television from 1946 to 1979. Examples of the initial findings of these projects can be seen by going to the publications tab.

I welcome any and all enquiries on any of the above subjects and would be delighted to hear from anyone prospective PhD students wanting to work in a related area.

I am the co-editor of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, an interdisciplinary journal published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with the Parkes Institute which explores the history and memory of the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews and other Nazi genocides. The Journal is interested in publishing work on the Nazi genocides as historical and social phenomena, their origins and consequences, as well as issues of cultural representation and memorialisation through the investigation of film, literature, testimony and public rituals.

Visit the Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History website.

Articles

Jordan, J. (2014). A wandering view: writing Jews and Jewishness on British television. European Judaism. A Journal for the New Europe, 47(2), 50-59. DOI: 10.3167/ej.2014.47.02.07
Jordan, J. (2013). The Wandering Who. Jewish Quarterly, 60(3-4), 71-74. DOI: 10.1080/0449010X.2013.855448
Jordan, J. (2012). Another man’s faith? The image of Judaism in the BBC television series Men Seeking God. Jewish Culture and History, 12(3), 463-476. DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2012.721493
Jordan, J. (2011). The BBC's Written Archives, Rudolph Cartier and Left Staff File L1/2177. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 8, 234-251. DOI: 10.3366/jbctv.2011.0030
Jordan, J. (2011). The Prisoner (1952) and the perpetrator in early post-war British television. Holocaust Studies, 17(2-3), 207-229.
Jordan, J. (2010). Assimilated, integrated, other: an introduction to Jews and British television, 1946-1955. Jewish Culture and History, 12(1 & 2), 251-266.
Jordan, J. (2010). What we have gained is infinitely more than that small loss: Rudolph Cartier and The Dybbuk. Jewish Culture and History, 11(1-2).

Books

Jordan, J. (2015). From Nuremberg to Hollywood: the Holocaust in the courtroom of American fictive film. Middlesex, GB: Vallentine Mitchell.
Jordan, J., Schloer, J., & Leff, L. (Eds.) (2015). Jewish Migration and the Archive. Abingdon, GB: Routledge.
Jordan, J., & Lanicek, J. (Eds.) (2013). Governments-in-exile and the Jews during the Second World War. Middlesex, GB: Vallentine Mitchell.
Jordan, J., Kushner, A., & Pearce, S. (Eds.) (2010). Jewish journeys: from Philo to Hip Hop. (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies). Elstree, GB: Vallentine Mitchell.
Lawson, T., & Jordan, J. (Eds.) (2008). The memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Elstree, GB: Vallentine Mitchell.

Book Chapters

Jordan, J. (2018). ‘The most varied, colourful, confusing hubub in the world’: The East End, Television and the Documentary Imagination, July 1939. In J. Craig-Norton, A. Kushner, & C. Wiesse (Eds.), Migrant Histories: Histories from the 17th to the 21st Centuries: : Essays in Honour of Colin Holmes (Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics). Routledge.
Jordan, J. (2015). Another man’s faith? The image of Judaism in the BBC television series Men Seeking God. In H. Ewence, & H. Spurling (Eds.), Visualizing Jews Through the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism (pp. 247-264). New York and Oxford: Routledge.
Jordan, J. (2013). "A Strange, Special Day. Playing a Ghost, yet Haunting Myself." The Holocaust, the magical and the real in Elijah Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn (1993). In R. Ahrens, & K. Stierstorfer (Eds.), Symbolism 12/13 (pp. 245-260). Berlin, DE: De Gruyter.
Jordan, J. (2013). ‘And the trouble is where to begin to spring surprises on you. Perhaps a place you might least like to remember.’ This is Your Life and the BBC’s images of the Holocaust in the twenty years before Holocaust. In C. Sharples, & O. Jensen (Eds.), Britain and the Holocaust: Remembering and Representing War and Genocide Basingstoke, GB: Palgrave.
Jordan, J., Kushner, T., & Pearce, S. (2010). Introduction: the Nature of Jewish Journeys. In J. Jordan, T. Kushner, & S. Pearce (Eds.), Jewish journeys: from Philo to Hip Hop (pp. 3-24). (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies). Edgware, UK: Vallentine Mitchell.

Thesis

Jordan, J. (2003). Bearing witness to the Holocaust in the courtroom of American fictive film

Dr James Jordan
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