Press coverage

BBC History Magazine, June 2016 Lisa Peschel has uncovered a series of plays performed by inmates of a Jewish ghetto near Nazi-occupied Prague. Here she...

Article about the PtJA Madison festival in Wisconsin State Journal 17 Aug 2015

Stephen Muir's interview in Jlife (June/July 2015)

Steve Muir writes about selecting music for Holocaust Memorial Day in Leeds, 2015.

Anne Joseph of the Jewish Daily Forward interviews Stephen Muir about the 'Performing the Jewish Archive' project.

"Rather than simply seeing victims of the Holocaust as nothing more than tragedies, the audience was allowed a glimpse into the varied set of experiences that allowed for them to become survivors through their art."

The discovery of 11 scripts from Theresienstadt concentration camp prisoners has led an American playwright to bring them to life on stage. Producer Dr Lisa Peschel has transformed the lost scripts into Theatre in the Theresienstadt Ghetto: Newly Discovered Works which will be staged at London's Bloomsbury Theatre on February 7 and 8.

A University-led research project has attracted significant funding to shine new light on the forgotten works of Jewish artists.

Three academics from the University of York have secured funding totalling more than £3 million from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for two major research projects.

Teri Dobbs, professor of music education, has joined a team of international researchers dedicated to unearthing Jewish cultural treasures from the 1880s to the 1950s.