Project Award, SALC Research Development Fund
Reading Texts for Business and Faith Meetings. Alex Samely has been awarded £5,624 to fund a project entitled "Supporting the efficiency of meetings with preparatory reading”. All over the world organisations devoted to commerce, administration, education or faith routinely use meetings with “pre-reads” to conduct their business. In such meetings people will often understand what they say to each other by recalling meanings from the document, or the document may become quoted and discussed. The project will explore how the results of recent research, which Alex Samely conducted for a forthcoming book on Reading and Experience, may support training to make such meetings more productive and beneficial.
New Publication
Jewish Studies. Moshe Behar published an essay titled "Were There—and Can There Be—Arab Jews?" In the Contending Modernities project. Further information.
New Publication
Jewish studies. Moshe Behar's essay "The IHRA, Israel, and Antisemitism" was published in Arabic in the Journal Israel Affairs. Further information.
Presentations, Limmud
Jewish Studies. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz (Seeing God in the Bible, Going native: An anthropologist at Limmud, A scream in the night: Isaiah and social justice) and Katja Stuerzenhofecker ('The synagogues were closing, what could we do as women?' British ritual adaptation under COVID-19) will be presenting at Limmud Festival 2021, the UK's largest annual Jewish cultural event taking place on Dec 24-28. Further information.
Public Lectures, Online
Jewish and Muslim Studies. CJS Hon. Research Fellow Michael Hilton announces a new course 'Judaism and Islam: A shared history' that he is leading with Dr Harith Ramli of Edge Hill University. The next session is 'Is every Torah scroll/Quran mushaf the same? ', 25 Jan 2022. Email for further information.
New Publication
Jewish Studies. CJS fellow BL Lancaster, 'The Faces of God: A kabbalistic “myth” and its implications for consciousness' in P. Dennison (Ed.), Perspectives on Consciousness (Nova Science, 2021), 277-317. Further information.
Screen and Talk
Jewish Studies. The Centre for Jewish Studies and the Department of Drama at Manchester University are pleased to announce that the next Screen & Talk event will be the streaming of ‘Jacob the liar’ (1974) by Frank Beyer. Jacob the Liar was unique in Eastern Bloc film and the original to Peter Kassovitz’s Hollywood remake of 1999 with Robin Williams. In addition to receiving national and international accolades, it was the only East German film to be nominated for an Academy Award. Live online discussion panel with Becker’s biographer Sander L. Gilman (Emory University); Sabine Hake (The University of Texas); the actor, director and author Blanche Kommerell, who shot to fame in her role as Rosa Frankfurter in Frank Beyer’s Jacob the Liar; and Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester). 2 Feb 2022, 6.30pm GMT, online, register here. In collaboration with Manchester Reform Synagogue. Further information.
Blog entry, Rylands Library
Jewish Studies. Stefania Silvestri has written a blog post 'From Calcutta to Tarcento: Jewish marriage contracts from the collections' for the John Rylands Institute and Library. Further information.
Blog entry, 50 Jewish Objects
50 Jewish Objects Artwork. As part of the activities of the 50 Jewish Objects project, creative pieces are commissioned for contemporary artists in response to selected artefacts from the John Rylands Library and the research produced by Dr Stefania Silvestri. In the first blogpost by artist Daniel Gouly he discusses the creative processes behind his new commission. Further information.
50 Jewish Objects Exhibition
Jewish studies. Four objects from the 50 Jewish Objects are currently on display in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library gallery. See Stefania Silvestri's blog on the exhibition. Further information.