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WORK TITLE: From Nuremberg to Hollywood
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PSEUDONYM(S): Jordan, James Alexander
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University of Southampton, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
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Writer, historian, and educator. University of Southampton, England, teaching fellow in Jewish fictions and modernism, 2005-06; Karten Lecturer, Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, and PGR coordinator, 2006—.
WRITINGS
Contributor to books, including Britain and the Holocaust: Remembering and Representing War and Genocide, edited by Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen, Palgrave (Basingstoke, England), 2013; and Visualizing Jews through the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism, edited by Hannah Ewence and Helen Spurling, Routledge (New York, NY), 2015.
Contributor to journals and periodicals, including Jewish Culture and History, Journal of British Cinema and Television, and Holocaust Studies.
SIDELIGHTS
James Jordan is a writer, historian, and educator based at the University of Southampton in Southampton, England, where he is the Karten Lecturer at the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations and also serves as the PGR coordinator. Jordan’s academic research has focused on various topics, including museums and public history, race and racism, Holocaust studies, post-World War II Britain, and film and television studies. Jordan holds a B.A. in English and history, an M.A. in Jewish history and culture, and a Ph.D. in history, all from the University of Southampton.
In his book From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Fictive Film, Jordan examines in detail how the Holocaust–in particular the trials of alleged Holocaust criminals–have been represented in American motion pictures from 1944 to 2000. This book was based on his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Southampton. It covers a number of well-known and very popular films, such as Judgment at Nuremberg (1962) starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, and a young William Shatner. The film earned Maximilian Schell an Academy Award for best actor. Jordan examines other movies such as None Shall Escape, God on Trial, Operation Eichmann, The Man in the Glass Booth, Sealed Verdict, and Never Forget. He even covers a made-for-television film starring Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, the attorney character that made him famous, in Perry Mason and the Case of the Desperate Deception. The author discusses how these films reflected the search for justice that occurred after World War II and sets out how they used various resources, including newsreel footage and flashbacks, to give the stories dramatic and emotional power.
Jordan is also the editor of books on Jewish history and related subjects. Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War, edited by Jordan and Jan Lanicek, presents a number of essays that examine how members of the Allied Powers in World War II, other than the United States and England, “responded to the Nazi persecution and extermination of European Jewry,” noted a writer in Reference & Research Book News.
The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia, edited by Jordan and Tom Lawson, contains seven essays that analyze how Holocaust memory has developed in Australia since 1945. The essays come from Australian scholars such as academics, museum professionals, and researchers, and demonstrate how Holocaust memory in Australia is both collective, because of its similarities to memory in other countries, and individual, because of how it developed under the influence of Australian politics, culture, and history.
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PERIODICALS
ProtoView, February, 2016, review of From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Fictive Film.
Reference & Research Book News, August, 2008, review of The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia.
ONLINE
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, https://networks.h-net.org/ (December 1, 2016), Julia Eichenberg, review of Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War.
University of Southampton, https://www.southampton.ac.uk/ (September 13, 2017), faculty profile.
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.
===publications===
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. (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
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From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Fictive Film
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From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Fictive Film James Jordan
Vallentine Mitchell
2016
245 pages
$89.95
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Covering Hollywood films, made-for-TV movies, and TV mini-series, this study examines representations of the Holocaust and Holocaust trials in American films made between 1944 and 2000. The study demonstrates how the trial movies relied on actual courtroom proceedings and also discusses techniques used in these films, such as newsreel footage, newsreel style, and flashbacks. Films discussed includes None Shall Escape, The Reader, God on Trial, The Stranger, Sealed Verdict, Verboten! , Judgement at Nuremburg, Operation Eichmann, The Man in the Glass Booth, Music Box, Perry Mason and the Case of the Desperate Deception, Skokie, Never Forget, and Nuremburg. The book includes a filmography. Distributed in the US by ISBS. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)
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"From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Fictive Film." ProtoView, Feb. 2016.
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The memory of the holocaust in Australia
Reference & Research Book News.
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The memory of the holocaust in Australia. Ed. by Tom Lawson and James Jordan. Vallentine Mitchell
2007
152 pages
$74.95
Hardcover
DS135
Lawson (modern history, U. of Winchester, UK) and Jordan (English, U. of Southampton, UK) present a collection of seven essays examining the development of Holocaust memory in Australia since 1945. Written by seven Australian academics, researchers, and museum professionals, the essays consider the shape and impact of Holocaust memories in Australian politics and society, particularly amongst the country's Jewish communities. Together they demonstrate the degree to which Holocaust memory is both collective--in the similarity of its development, shape and texture in Western societies--and highly singular in that the form the Holocaust takes in a society is often determined by the specific cultural and political contexts, from the micro to the national level. No subject index. Distributed in the US by ISBS.
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"The memory of the holocaust in Australia." Reference & Research Book News, Aug. 2008. PowerSearch,
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Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War
Julia Eichenberg
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. (Dec. 2016): From Book Review Index Plus.
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Eichenberg, Julia. "Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War." H-Net: Humanities and Social
Sciences Online, 2016. PowerSearch, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do? p=GPS&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA487400874&it=r&asid=0e25281e66c828989e9d52c690faeff9. Accessed 9 Aug. 2017.
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Governments-in-exile and the Jews during the Second World War
Reference & Research Book News.
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Governments-in-exile and the Jews during the Second World War. Ed. by Jan Lanicek and James Jordan.
Vallentine Mitchell
2013
269 pages
$84.95
Hardcover
D810
Regarding bystanders to the Holocaust, research has mainly focused on the major Allied powers of the US and UK. In a volume based on a conference held in 2010 at the U. of Southampton, UK, Lanicek (Jewish history, U. of New South Wales, Sydney) and Jordan (Jewish/non-Jewish relations, U. of Southampton) compile perspectives on how other members of the Allies responded to the Nazi persecution and extermination of European Jewry, including the Heimschaffungsaktion, the under-studied repatriation ultimatum of 1942-43. International scholars present a comparative analysis of policies and actions of governments-in-exile, including factors affecting whether Jewish survivors received restitution. Distributed in the US by ISBS.
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Governments-in-exile and the Jews during the Second World War." Reference & Research Book News, Aug. 2013.
PowerSearch, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do? p=GPS&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA338401503&it=r&asid=f3248e125ef3f74d2bf6a51cddf8391c. Accessed 9 Aug. 2017.
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