Panel, British Library
Holocaust Libraries. Professor Dreyfus will participate in a panel conversation with experts from Lithuania and the Head of the Bodleian Library Oxford about the history of libraries, lives and narratives in European cityscapes of the Holocaust. The in-person event is hosted by the British Library on 11 October 2022. Further information
Biblical Hebrew Reading Group
Biblical and Jewish Studies. Phillip Alexander will lead a reading group to provide students at BA, MA or PhD levels who have done some Hebrew with the opportunity to advance their knowledge. The first meeting will be on Monday 3rd October at 11am on Zoom, with an initial focus on Ruth.
Podcast, The Poet of Whitechapel
Yiddish Poetry. Podcast presented by Rachel Lichtenstein now available on Mixcloud. 'A programme about the extraordinary life and work of the Yiddish poet Avram Nachum Stencl who went from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in southern Poland to the bohemian cafés of pre-war Berlin before finally escaping Nazi Germany to arrive in Whitechapel, the heart of the Jewish East End. He soon became London’s foremost Yiddish poet, founding the literary journal 'Loshn un Lebn' and the weekly 'Friends of Yiddish' meetings at Toynbee Hall with its lively mixture of poetry, politics, literature and song, all part of his mission to keep the Yiddish language alive.' Further information.
Committee, BIAJS
Helping to shape Jewish studies in the UK. Alex Samely, Co-Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies, was recently elected as a member of the committee of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS) His term will extend until 2027. He joins in this new role his Manchester/Lund colleague Dr Katharina Keim, who is the committee's representative for Post-Graduate and Early Career Research.
Online essay, WritersMosaic project
Jewish Multiculturalism. CJS honorary research fellow Dr Rachel Lichtenstein (MMU) has contributed towards the Royal Literary Fund's WritersMosaic project, in a special edition titled 'Jewish Multiculturalism'. Her essay and recording tell the story of activist Beatty Orwell, the oldest surviving witness to the Battle of Cable Street. To read and listen online, see further information.
Conference paper, CBL
Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof George Brooke will speak in Leuven at The Colloquium Biblivum Lovaniense on 'Performing Scripture in the Scrolls from Qumran and in the New Testament.' 3 August 2022. Further information.
Funding, Screen & Talk Jewish Studies
Holocaust Studies. Congratulations to Cathy Gelbin and Katja Stuerzenhofecker who have been awarded £740 of funding by the Manchester Jean Monet Centre of Excellence towards the Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 event series Jews, Gay People and the Holocaust. This will comprise of a public film series, an expert panel discussion, and a Jewish community workshop. Further details will be published in due course.
Student Prize, BIAJS
Jewish studies. Congratulations to third-year student Andras Schweiczer (BA Theological Studies in Philosophy & Ethics) who has been awarded the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS) Student Prize for a dissertation entitled 'Red, White, and Green: Three Aspects of the Debates on Zionism between 1897 and 1917' (supervisor: Alex Samely).
Screen & Talk, Film discussion
Film Studies. Cathy Gelbin and Katja Stuerzenhofecker co-organized the online streaming and panel discussion of The Brasch Family (Germany 2018) on 13 June 2022. A recording of the discussion with the film’s director and international experts is now available. Watch on YouTube.
Podcast, Sherman Lecture 2021
Jewish Studies. The 2021 Sherman Community Lecture by Prof George Brooke (University of Manchester) is now available to view online. The lecture entitled "Questioning Qumran: Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls" was on 9 Dec 2021. Further information.