Post doctorate opportunity, University of Manchester
Call for proposals for post-doctoral fellowship. The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe offers a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies for two years. The Foundation only allows one application per institution, and so there will be an internal selection process for The University of Manchester. Internal deadline: 1 Dec 2021. Further information.
Gaster seminar
Jewish Studies. This academic year (2021-22) the John Rylands Research Institute will complete the online cataloguing of the codices in Hebrew script in the Rylands Library Manchester. To mark the occasion the John Rylands Research Institute and the Manchester University Centre for Jewish Studies are hosting a series of seminars in autumn 2021 and spring 2022 which will explore aspects of the Rylands Gaster collection, and related collections. The next seminar in the series is by Dr Stefania Silvestri, “Not Only Books: Understanding Artefacts in the Rylands Gaster Collection”. 7 Dec 2021, 2 - 3.30pm, online. Further information.
Bernard Jackson Prize 2021
Postgraduate prize. This prize of £100 is awarded annually to the student with 'the highest grade for a master's dissertation in Jewish Studies' at the University of Manchester. It honours the Centre's second co-director Bernard Jackson. For 2021 it was awarded to Emily Warner for a thesis on 'Levinas and the Feminine Other: What is the significance of the feminine within the face-to-face encounter?’ (Supervisor: Professor Alexander Samely). Further information.
BBC Radio 4, Beyond Belief
Jewish Studies. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz appeared as part of a panel discussion on 'Orthodox Jewish women'. 4.30pm, 29 Nov 2021. Listen again.
Blog entry, Jewish Book Council
Jewish Studies. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, "‘You Mean Superstitions?’: Exploring the Customs of Orthodox Jewish Women". "'Oh — you mean superstitions?'. This was how most of my interviewees reacted when I asked them about Orthodox Jewish women’s customs and practices..." Further information.
Conference paper, Austria
Holocaust Studies. CJS fellow Ion Popa gave a presentation (online) entitled "Forgotten Archives, Forgotten Stories – The Persecution of Zionists in Communist Romania in the Context of Jewish Dissidence (1945-1955)" at the conference "Precarious Archives, Precarious Voices: Expanding Jewish Narratives from the Margins" organised at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. 19 November 2021. Further information.
New publication
Dead Sea Scolls. George Brooke, 'Dead Sea Scrolls' in Walfish BD, Furey C, Römer T, editors, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin: de Gruyter, Walter GmbH & Co. 2021). Further information.
Research paper, Romania
Holocaust Studies. CJS fellow Ion Popa gave a presentation (in person) entitled 'Jewish Dissidence in Romania and the Persecution of Zionists in the First Decade of Communism (1945-1955)' at the Federation of Jewish Community of Romania/Centre for the Study of Romanian Jewish History. 25 November 2021. Further information.
Blog, The Conversation
Jewish-Christian relations. CJS fellow Tony Kushner, ‘The Church of England is apologizing for medieval antisemitism – why now?’, The Conversation, 16 July 2021. Further information.
Hebrew manuscripts added to Manchester Digital Collections
Jewish Studies. Over a hundred Hebrew manuscripts have been added to the Manchester Digital Collections at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. The internationally-renowned Hebrew collections are astonishingly diverse, covering all aspects of Jewish life as lived in Europe, North Africa and further afield. These manuscripts have been digitised and catalogued as part of an ongoing project led by Philip Alexander and Alex Samely. For the first time, expert catalogue descriptions by Research Associate Zsófia Buda, developed from previous work by Alex Samely and Stefania Silvestri, are available alongside ultra-high-quality images of the items themselves. Further information.