Centre for Jewish Studies 01/04/2024 Centre for Jewish Studies 01/04/2024

New podcast series

Jewish Studies and New Testament Studies. 'What would Jesus the Jew do?' is new podcast exploring key questions that will help readers of the New Testament to better understand Judaism at the time of Jesus. In each episode, scholars from the Centre for Jewish Studies and Centre for Biblical Studies at the University of Manchester talk listeners through a topic. The companion website provides links to all of the episodes as well as additional resources to deepen your understanding. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 20/03/2024 Centre for Jewish Studies 20/03/2024

Film event, Drama with Centre for Jewish Studies and German

Holocaust Studies. You are invited to the screening of Farewell, Herr Schwarz (Germany/Israel, 2014) followed by filmmaker Q&A session. Yael Reuveny’s documentary attempts to answer for the filmmaker herself why her great-uncle, a Holocaust survivor, chose to resettle in East Germany after the war and start a family there; a life her family in Israel only learned about after his death in the late 1980s.

The event takes place on Monday 15 April 2024, 12:00 – 15:00. Please email katja.stuerzenhofecker@manchester.ac.uk for venue details.

Centre for Jewish Studies 15/03/2024 Centre for Jewish Studies 15/03/2024

Student travel grant

Holocaust studies. As part of her bequest to the University of Manchester, Prof. Fanny Bogdanow funded an annual lecture series and a number of student travel bursaries for educational visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau. This year the Centre for Jewish Studies can allocate up to 2 awards of £400 each. Application deadline: 8 April 2024. For more details on eligibility and how to apply, see further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 13/03/2024 Centre for Jewish Studies 13/03/2024

New podcast

Holocaust Studies. We are delighted to announce that the Bogdanow Lectures 2024 are now available to view online. The series is entitled 'The Return of the Repressed: Ukraine's Unresolved Pasts' and was presented by Prof. Omer Bartov (Brown University). Lecture 1: History, Myth, and Fiction: Narratives of the Ukrainian Past. Lecture 2: Coexistence and Violence: The Reality and Memory of Genocide in Ukraine. View podcasts.

Centre for Jewish Studies 16/02/2024 Centre for Jewish Studies 16/02/2024

Workshop, USHMM

Ion Popa will lead a workshop with The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum titled ‘Finding Religion in the USHMM Collections: New Methods for Archival Research’. In-person workshop, 29 July- 2 August 2024. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 05/02/2024 Centre for Jewish Studies 05/02/2024

Research seminar, University of Glasgow

Moshe Behar will present a paper titled ‘Nullified by Holocaust and Nakba? Arabised-Jews, 1937-1956’. 8 February, 4-5.30pm on Zoom and in-person at 4 The Square, room 205 (University of Glasgow).

Centre for Jewish Studies 17/01/2024 Centre for Jewish Studies 17/01/2024

Research seminar, History Dept

31 Jan 2024. Dr. Nina Valbousquet will present a paper to the Humanitarian History Dept Seminar on ‘Catholic Humanitarianism through War and Genocide: the Vatican, the Holocaust and Jewish Refugees (1930s-1950s)’. This event will run from 4-5pm and will be held in C1.18 (Ellen Wilkinson). All are welcome to attend.

Centre for Jewish Studies 04/01/2024 Centre for Jewish Studies 04/01/2024

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2024

Online Lectures in Holocaust Studies. Prof. Omer Bartov (Brown University), ‘The Return of the Repressed: Ukraine's Unresolved Pasts’, 6pm GMT, 30 and 31 Jan 2024. For zoom links see further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 16/11/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 16/11/2023

Sherman Community Lecture 2023

Annual lecture in Jewish Studies. Prof Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Arizona State University) gave this year's lecture, co-hosted with the Jewish Rep Council, on "Judaism and Climate Change: Religious Responses to the Eco-Crisis." Mon 27 Nov. Watch again.

Centre for Jewish Studies 14/11/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 14/11/2023

The Megillah at the Rylands

Rachel Lichtenstein has been working with the Rothschild Foundation Haanadiv Europe for the relaunch of their Hidden Treasures website. Read her blog post here.

Centre for Jewish Studies 13/10/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 13/10/2023

Appointment, Office for Students

Consultant role. Daniel Langton has been appointed as the lead assessor for Jewish Studies for the Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of Higher Education in England.

Centre for Jewish Studies 10/10/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 10/10/2023

Teaching

UK Jewish Film Festival. Students taking RELT20121 Religion, Culture and Gender can look forward to a gender-themed evening at Cineworld Parrs Wood on 15 November 2023 at 19:00. Katja Stuerzenhofecker is organizing free tickets for the course group to watch the comedy Matchmaking (2022) with support from the Student Enhancement Fund.

Centre for Jewish Studies 09/10/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 09/10/2023

Conference paper

Jewish Studies. Alex Samely delivered a paper at the 12th congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies in Frankfurt on 19 July 2023, on the topic "Experiencing the Mishnah as an Open or Controlling Text in Antiquity". Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 03/10/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 03/10/2023

New publication

Jewish studies. The Prophets edited by Rabbi Michael Hilton and Alasdair Nisbet, published by Liberal Jewish Synagogue London, 2023. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 29/09/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 29/09/2023

New publication

Religion and Science. Daniel R. Langton, 'An Historical Overview of Jewish Theological Responses to Evolution', Theology and Science (2023) e-pub, 1-25. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 07/07/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 07/07/2023

New publication

Ancient Judaism. Alex Samely, “The Use of Genre for Many Text Meanings: Apocalypse and 1 Enoch”, in Lorenzo DiTommaso and Matthew Goff (eds.), Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature Press), pp. 157–196. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 07/07/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 07/07/2023

New publication

Religion and Science. Daniel R. Langton, 'Naphtali Levy's Divine World: Jewish Tradition, Panentheism and Darwinism', Theology and Science 23:1 (2023), 1-19. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 30/06/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 30/06/2023

Klezmer performance and video recording

Forthcoming event. Klezmer Klassica will perform as part of Sacred Music at the Bradford Literature Festival. 2 July 2023, 6.30-8.15pm. Further information.

A video recording of Klezmer Klassica's performance of Joseph Achron's 'Hebrew Luluby & Melody' from earlier this year is now available to watch on YouTube.

Centre for Jewish Studies 09/06/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 09/06/2023

Book talk, History Dept

Natalie Zemon Davis (Professor Emerita, University of Toronto and Princeton University) will join via Zoom to discuss her scholarship and latest book, Listening to the Languages of the People (Central European Press, 2022). Ranging from Romania to France at the turn of the twentieth century, this is story of migration that partakes of biography, linguistics, and Jewish studies. Jean-Marc Dreyfus will be one of the responders. 4pm, Samuel Alexander Bldg Room, A7.

Centre for Jewish Studies 05/06/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 05/06/2023

New publication

Science and Religion. Daniel Langton, "Evolution" in Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online, edited by Martin Thurner, Peter Schäfer, Christoph Markschies, Amy-Jill Levine, Rainer Kampling and Walter Homolka. (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023). Manuscript and online.