Judaica in Scotland, 1817 - Present: Objects of Faith, Migration and Identity

我最感兴趣的是研究苏格兰犹太人的风格、生产和仪式使用，以揭示苏格兰犹太人的迁移模式、社会互动、政治地位，当然还有宗教仪式。我的学习和研究告诉我，物质文化，就像艺术一样，可以充分说明特定时间和地点的人类经历，我毫不怀疑苏格兰犹太人的仪式对象代表了英国外围犹太社区的跨文化体验。我很高兴听到这个研究领域正在被探索关于苏格兰景观中的犹太人经历，我很乐意成为讨论的一部分。要做到这一点，就需要调查苏格兰犹太人在家里和礼拜场所的仪式物品的风格选择，以及与非犹太宗教物品和欧洲其他地区的犹太人在同一时期的交叉比较。我热衷于发现哪些物品可以告诉我们犹太社区是如何相互联系的，以及他们是如何被普通大众看待的；总体的宗教仪式和犹太人口构成。我希望看到苏格兰犹太物质文化的发展受到其所有者和创造者不同生活经历的影响，而不是孤立地出现的。我知道需要进行背景档案研究，并欢迎有机会探索苏格兰的图书馆和档案。当然，我也有兴趣深入研究欧洲各地博物馆的犹太藏品，并希望进一步促进苏格兰的知识库。我强烈认为，博物馆空间中的犹太物品应该被视为属于不同的收藏，并给予它们保存和传播所需的资金和视频时间。为此目的，应当用准确的元数据对这些材料进行适当编目，并应当发展联机数据库，以便对现有材料进行全球研究。

I am most interested in researching the style, production, and ritual usage of Scottish Judaica in order to uncover the migratory patterns, social interactions, political standing, and, of course, religious observance of Scottish Jews. My studies and research have shown me that material culture, much like art, can speak volumes about human experience during a particular time and place and I have no doubt that Scottish Jewish ritual objects represent the transcultural experience of peripheral Jewish communities of the UK. I am excited to hear that this area of study is being explored with regards to the Jewish experience in the Scottish landscape and would love to be part of the discussion. To do so will require investigating the stylistic choices of Scottish Jewish ceremonial objects both at home and at spaces of worship as well as the cross comparison to non-Jewish religious items and Judaica from other regions in Europe at around the same period. I am keen to uncover what objects can tell us about how Jewish communities networked amongst themselves as well as how they sought to be viewed by the general population; overall religious observance and Jewish population makeup. I expect to see that the development of Scottish Jewish material culture was influenced by the varied life experiences of its owners and creators, and in no way emerged in an isolated manner. I am aware that contextual archival research will be required and welcome the opportunity to explore the libraries and archives of Scotland. Naturally, I am also interested in delving into the Judaica collections at museums across Europe and hope to further the catalyzation of repositories within Scotland. I feel strongly that Jewish objects within the museum space should be recognized as belonging to distinct collections and given the funding and facetime required for their preservation and promulgation. To that end, these materials should be catalogued appropriately with accurate metadata and online databases should be developed to allow for the global study of the materials at hand.