Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: Leeds Responses

Join us for a roundtable, jointly hosted with the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies and the Centre for Jewish Studies. The roundtable discussion will respond to the travelling exhibition Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: People, Places, Impressions (1939–1988). This richly researched exhibition explores the exile, intellectual networks and British encounters of Elias Canetti (1905–1994), the Bulgarian‑born, Sephardi‑Jewish writer who became one of the twentieth century’s most compelling observers of crowds, power and modernity. Drawing on newly accessible diaries, notebooks and personal papers, the exhibition traces Canetti’s journey from Central Europe to wartime Britain, his outsider perspective on British society, and his creative exchanges with artists, writers and fellow émigrés.