Jay Prosser

Jay Prosser is a Reader in Humanities at Leeds University. His latest book is Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns, about his family history.

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Family history

How I embraced my identity as a mixed-race, British-Asian Jew

I grew up enchanted by an alluring wooden box. Re-opening this heirloom 15 years ago revealed the Jewish seam in my family’s exotic history

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Singapore romance: Esther (formerly Sim Koh-wei) and Jacob Elias