Klezmer performance
Klezmorim of Manchester. Richard Fay's Klezmorim will perform at the Klezmer Evening at Hallé at St. Michael's. 7pm - 9pm, Monday 14 November 2022. Further Information.
Sherman Community Lecture 2022
Jewish Studies. Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz (University of Manchester) will give the next Sherman Community Lecture entitled "The Jewel in the Crown of Anglo-Jewry? A History of Limmud". Thursday 6 December 2022 8pm (via Zoom). Further information.
PGR and Postdoc group, JHSE
Jewish Studies. The Jewish Historical Society of England have set up a Jewish history and Jewish studies PGR/Postdoc group, offering a peer group with events including discussions with authors of new history books, reading groups and methodological workshops. PGRs and Postdocs interested in joining the group should email Sophie Wilson (sophie.wilson@qmul.ac.uk).
Klezmer, Manchester Culture Awards
Jewish and Irish Music. ‘Amid the Mirk Over the Irk: When Irish Meets Klezmer’ is an imagined musical meeting of two of Manchester’s longest-established and prominent immigrant communities: the Irish and the Jewish. The film of the overture (co-produced by Richard Fay) is a finalist in the ‘Made in Manchester’ category of the Manchester Culture Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on 24 November 2022. Watch the film on YouTube. Further information.
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.