Conferences, Lectures, Publications

March 2024 Colloquium, ‘ Writing Jewish Women’s Lives, at OCLW, Wolfson College , University of Oxford

January 2024 Pending: Seven Languages  Eight Passports, Nine Countries. A Double Life . A Memoir  

2021 Lecture, West London Synagogue, The case  of Reszö Kasztner  and Hungarian Jews during World  War II

2021 MILLIM: Lecture, Vincent van Gogh and Modernity

2021 B’nai Brith  Lecture, Peggy Guggenheim:  American Heiress, Modern Art Patron and  Jewish Identity

2019 B’nai Brith lecture,  Jewish Patronage  of French Impressionists  18960’s -1930s

2018  Conference,  ‘Patronage and Jewish Culture’ @ Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel

VG Paper: Peggy Guggenheim: American Heiress, Modern Art Patron, and the Paradoxes of Jewish Identity.

2008 Conference,  ‘The Art Collector between Philanthropy and Self-Glorification @ University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands:

VG Paper: The Art Dealer and Collector as Visionary: Discovering Vincent van Gogh in Wilhelmina Germany (1900 – 1914)

(Ed. Eva Rovers ‘Journal of the History of Collections’, Volume 21, Number 2, 2009, Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press, 2009)

2007 Conference,   ‘ Jüdische Sammler und ihr Beitrag zur Kultur der Moderne’  (Jewish Collectors, and their Contribution to Modern Culture) @ University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany:

VG Paper: Wilhelm II Hugo von Tschudi and Jewish Patronage of French Modern Art

(Eds.Annette Weber, Jihan Radjai-Ordoubadi for SERIES:  Schriften der Hochschule fur Judische Studien Heidelberg, Band/Vol.4. Universitatsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011)

2007 Conference,  ‘Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture’ @ University College London, London.

VG Paper: Longing and Belonging: French Impressionism and Jewish Patronage

(Eds. Gideon Reuveni and Nils Roemer, Vol. 11, ‘Studies in Judaica, Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, BRILL, UK 2010).

2006, Conference, ‘ Jews , Art and Scholarship’  @ University College London, London

VG Paper: German Jewish Patronage of Modern Art in Imperial Germany

2004 Conference @ University College London

VG Lecture: Jews and the Avant-Garde in Fin-de-Siècle Paris and Berlin

 2003 (LIMMUD)

VG Lecture: Why Jewish Museums in Germany?

1996, Exhibition Catalogue: Rubies and Rebels: Jewish Identity in Contemporary British Art

(Eds. Veronica Grodzinski, Monica Bohm-Duchen, Lund Humphries, London 1996)

Selected Articles

September 2010: TACHLES, Zurich,  VG: Vielfalt Mutiger Macher, Jüdisches Kulturelles Leben in London

October 2006: APOLLO, London VG:  Der Kunsthändler Paul Cassirer als Verleger (Paul Cassirer, Art Dealer and Art Publisher)

VG: Exhibition Review, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main.

Summer 2006: Jewish Quarterly, London, VG: Collecting against the Grain: French Impressionism and Jewish Patronage.

Autumn 2003: AUFBAU, Zurich, VG: Gegen den Strom Sammeln. Französischer Impressionismus und jüdische Schirmherrschaft im Deutschen Kaiserreich (1900-1914)

Winter 2002/03: Jewish Quarterly, London : VG 2000 Years of German Jewish History, Berlin Jewish Museum First Anniversary.

Winter 2001/02: Jewish Quarterly, London  VG: If Not Now, When?  Exhibition Review, Jewish Libeskind Museum, Berlin.

Winter 1999/2000: Jewish Quarterly, London : VG: Berlin Metropolis: Jews and New Culture in Berlin

(1890-1918)

November 1996/97: ISSUES: Art, Architecture and Design

VG: Gender, Religion and Ethnicity: Jewish Women in Visual Culture (with Monica Bohm-Duchen)

Selected Travel Articles

2011: Kerala, Rotten Apples in Paradise

2010: Carnival in Venice, Travelling Solo, (inc. photographs)

2009: South Africa, a Woman Traveller’s Diary, (inc. photographs)

2007: Houston, Texas, a Different Planet

2004: The Silk Route through Uzbekistan, (inc. photographs)