Aviva Dautch

Dr Aviva Dautch (born 5 May 1978, Salford, England) is a British poet, academic, curator and magazine publisher, who is of Eastern European ancestry.[1] She lives in London[2] and has an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths University of London[3] and a PhD in Creative Writing and Contemporary Poetics from Royal Holloway, University of London.[4]

Dr Aviva Dautch
Born(1978-05-05)5 May 1978
Salford, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationPoet, academic, curator and magazine publisher
Websitehttps://www.avivadautch.com/

Her sequence of poems about clearing her hoarding mother's home won the 2017 Primers Prize[5] and were featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.[6] In 2018 she was commissioned by Bradford Literature Festival to create a poetic response to Gustav Klimt's work to mark his centenary. The resulting film poem was shown at the Hay Festival.[7] The same year she received an Authors' Foundation award from the Society of Authors.[8]

She is well known in the Jewish community, where she lectures internationally on Jewish arts and culture.[9] From 2014 to 2016, she was Poet in Residence at the Jewish Museum London[10] and these poems received a research award for International Jewish Women in the Arts from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University.[11] Dautch teaches Jewish Culture and Holocaust Studies at the University of Roehampton[1] and lectures at the London School of Jewish Studies.[12] She is a trustee of The Inter Faith Network, the Inter Faith Youth Trust and the Jewish Council for Racial Equality.[13] In 2020 she was appointed Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance magazine.[14]

#NeverAgainIsNow

On 19 June 2018, Dautch retweeted a video of detention facilities for refugee children in the United States with the hashtag #NeverAgainIsNow, which went viral.[15] Her tweet was one of the first uses of this hashtag as a rallying cry and commentary on parallels between American President Donald Trump's immigration policies and the Nazi era. Since then, it has been used widely by Jewish campaigning groups across America protesting against migrant detention and the separation of children from their families.[16][17][18] During a BBC Radio 4 interview,[19] Dautch explained that her intention was not to diminish the atrocities of the Holocaust, or to suggest that Trump had an explicit genocidal agenda, but as a call to social action and to draw attention to research about the stages through which a climate is created that will allow genocide or atrocity to take place. These include discrimination, dehumanisation and classification and separation of the other both physically and through language.[20]

References
  1. Cashdan, Liz (July 2018). "Bringing it all back home". Jewish Renaissance: 42–43.
  2. "Aviva Dautch". Poetry Society. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  3. "Aviva Dautch". Modern Poetry in Translation. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  4. "Ms Aviva Dautch". Royal Holloway University of London. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  5. "Jewish author dubbed as 'one to watch' wins major national poetry prize". Jewish News. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  6. "BBC Radio 4 – Woman's Hour, Migraines, 'Suffragettes in trousers', Aviva Dautch". BBC. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  7. "Jo Brandon, Aviva Dautch, Shazea Quraishi". Hay Festival. 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  8. "Aviva Dautch". Bradford Literature Festival. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  9. "Jewish author dubbed as 'one to watch' wins major national poetry prize". Jewish News. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  10. "The Yehuda Amichai Festival". Free Word. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  11. "HBI Research Awards 2016". Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  12. "Dr Aviva Dautch, Lecturer". London School of Jewish Studies. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  13. "Aviva Dautch". New Statesman. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  14. "Arts expert named new head of quarterly Jewish magazine". Jewish News. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  15. Dautch, Dr Aviva (19 June 2018). "I've seen several tweets comparing this to Nazis / The Holocaust and saying things like "this is how it begins". I teach Holocaust Literature so let me be clear – this ISN'T how it began. This is already several stages along the way.#NeverAgainIsNow". @avivadautch. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  16. Conley, Julia (1 July 2019). "#NeverAgainIsNow: 36 Arrested As Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Block Road to Migrant Detention Center". Common Dreams. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  17. Caplan, Michaela (11 July 2019). "Never Again Is Now". Tikkun. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  18. Kaplan Sommer, Allison (5 July 2019). "For Progressive Jewish American Activists, 'Never Again Is Now' – and Israel Is Yesterday's News". Haaretz. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  19. "Woman's Hour – Migraines, 'Suffragettes in trousers', Aviva Dautch". BBC Sounds. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  20. "The ten stages of genocide". Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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