Professor Tony R.J. Kushner BSc, MA, PhD
James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations
Professor Tony Kushner is a James Parkes Professor of the history of Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton.
Tony Kushner is Professor in the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations and History Department at the University of Southampton. Educated at the University of Sheffield (BA and PhD) and the University of Connecticut (MA), he was formerly historian for the Manchester Jewish Museum. He then moved to Southampton to be director of the Parkes Institute in 1986, developing it to be one of the largest centres for Jewish studies in Europe.
He is the author of eight monographs, including The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination: A Social and Cultural History (Blackwell, 1994); The Holocaust: Critical Historical Responses (with Donald Bloxham, Manchester University Press, 2005); Remembering Refugees: Then and Now (Manchester University Press, 2006); Anglo-Jewry since 1066: Place, Locality and Memory (Manchester University Press, 2009) and The Battle of Britishness.
His most recent book is Journeys from the Abyss: The Holocaust and Forced Migration (Liverpool University Press, 2018) and he is currently working on a study of Jacob Harris, a Jewish triple murderer in Sussex, 1734 and, with Dr Aimee Bunting, Co-Presents to the Holocaust. He is co-editor of the journal Patterns of Prejudice and deputy editor of Jewish Culture and History.
Qualifications:
- BSc, University of Sheffield, 1981
- MA, University of Connecticut, 1982
- PhD, University of Sheffield, 1986
Appointments held:
- Historian of Manchester Jewish Museum, 1985-1986