{"product_id":"loving-strangers-1","title":"Loving Strangers","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Jay Prosser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNon-fiction | Paperback\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book has already won the Hazel Rowley Prize (US, 2020) for the best proposal for a first-time biographer and was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize (UK, 2019) for the best unpublished biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJay Prosser has written a family memoir that at its core, builds a bridge across the terrible divides of our times. It’s a Jewish book, but not just a Jewish book. It moves Jewish writing away from its customary setting of the Holocaust and Europe and transports Jewish identity to Iraq, India, China and Singapore: places and cultures that most people (including Jews themselves) don’t associate with Jewish identity. It shows Jews integrating with others, not divisive, not separate: not antagonistic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe issue of intermarriage is increasingly important for all racial groups and this book speaks beyond the Jewish community, in relation to how we treat strangers in the form of immigrants and other communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blackspringpressgroup.com\/blogs\/author-q-as\/author-q-and-a-with-jay-prosser\" title=\"Loving Strangers Q\u0026amp;A\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead our Q\u0026amp;A with Jay Prosser about\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLoving Strangers\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eHERE\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"shopify-section-template--17637475909790__image_with_text_xTapwX\" class=\"shopify-section section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-template--17637475909790__image_with_text_xTapwX-padding gradient color-scheme-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page-width\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image-with-text image-with-text--overlap isolate collapse-corners\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image-with-text__grid grid grid--gapless grid--1-col grid--3-col-tablet\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image-with-text__text-item grid__item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"ImageWithText--template--17637475909790__image_with_text_xTapwX\" class=\"image-with-text__content image-with-text__content--top image-with-text__content--desktop-left image-with-text__content--mobile-left image-with-text__content--adapt content-container gradient color-scheme-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image-with-text__text rte body\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJay Prosser is a Reader in Humanities at the University of Leeds, where he specialises in Jewish studies and creative nonfiction. He has published academic books, including the first study of transsexual life writing, ‘Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality’ (1998; Columbia UP), a book that continues to sell very well 25 years after publication; and ‘Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss’ (2004; Minnesota UP), an exploration of how writers have used photographs. He has worked on a book with Amnesty International examining the value of photographs of atrocity in our news media (Picturing Atrocity; Reaktion; 2012) and edited collections, including C20th American fiction, and gender and narrative. He has specialised in writing about Jews in Asia and Jews’ relations with other groups, particularly Arabs and Muslims. Visit his website,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jayprosser.com\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jayprosser.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.jayprosser.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Black Spring Press Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59971062694272,"sku":null,"price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/7354\/files\/9781915406934.jpg?v=1790356582","url":"https:\/\/blackspringpressgroup.com\/products\/loving-strangers-1","provider":"The Black Spring Press Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}