Centre for Jewish Studies 21/03/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 21/03/2023

MA fees bursaries in Jewish Studies

Masters degree studies at the University of Manchester, 2023-24. This is a home fees bursary for MA students who make Jewish Studies topics their main study focus in their MA in Religions and Theology. This bursary will be awarded on a competitive basis. There are no eligibility criteria based on nationality, but please note that the bursary is restricted to the maximum cost of home fees. Deadline: 23 June 2023. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 17/03/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 17/03/2023

Language Tutor in Modern Hebrew (part time)

Language Experience for All Programme (LEAP). The further particulars specify, among other requirements, that applicants "must possess near-native command of both Hebrew and English; demonstrate excellent language-teaching skills; and have an educational background appropriate to the delivery of the specified duties. Experience of teaching and assessing advanced Hebrew language skills at tertiary level, in person and online, are essential. Experience teaching in UK higher education and a track record in curriculum development are highly desirable..." Deadline: 29 March 2023.

Employment type: Fixed Term
Hours Per Week: 4.86
Contract Duration: from 1 September 2023 to 30 June 2024
Salary: £35,308 to £43,155 pro rata depending on relevant experience
Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 06/03/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 06/03/2023

Funding, postdoctorate

Holocaust Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations. Congratulations to CJS honorary research fellow Ion Popa for the renewal of his Gerda Henkel Scholarship (2023-2024) on the topic 'The Holy War: Churches' Counter-Secularism and the Destruction of European Jewry'. He will continue to be based in Manchester for the next year.

Centre for Jewish Studies 22/02/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 22/02/2023

Sherman Conversation

Jewish Studies. The Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the Sherman Conversation 2023: ‘Encountering Others, Encountering Ourselves’: Reflexivity and the Jewish Studies Researcher, 4 September 2023.

This workshop seeks to explore collaboratively and reflexively our positions as Jewish Studies researchers in relation to the Jewish subjects we study. We invite applications from researchers at all career stages working in Jewish Studies, broadly defined as scholarly engagement with Jewish subjects, past and present. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 18/01/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 18/01/2023

Screen & Talk

Jewish Studies. The Centre for Jewish Studies in collaboration with the Department of Drama and Manchester Reform Synagogue are pleased to announce the next Screen & Talk event for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: Jews, Gay People and the Holocaust, an online film series and live-streamed panel discussion with public Q&A, 2-8 February 2023.

Chiming with the 25th anniversary of the release of the controversial landmark film Bent (UK / Japan 1997), the five films in this online series explore the predicaments of gay people and Jews during the Holocaust and its aftermath among the postwar generation. The concluding panel discussion with public Q&A brings together researchers with Jewish and LGBTQ community and cultural practitioners who will consider the distinct Holocaust histories and partly clashing cultural memories at hand. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 05/01/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 05/01/2023

Inaugural public lecture, Durham University

Jewish History. Daniel Langton will give the inaugural annual Sweeting Judeo-Christian History Lecture, organized by the university’s Centre for Catholic Studies. The topic will be 'Darwin's Jews: Evolutionary Theory, Jewish Thought, and Interfaith Relations.' Ushaw College, 6pm on Tue 21 Feb 2023.

Centre for Jewish Studies 06/12/2022 Centre for Jewish Studies 06/12/2022

Bernard Jackson Prize 2022

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 2022 it was awarded to Kerry McCall (MA in History) for a thesis on 'Negotiating Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Victorian Britain: Case studies in wider literature and the press' (supervisor: Daniel Langton)

Centre for Jewish Studies 05/12/2022 Centre for Jewish Studies 05/12/2022

Limmud Festival 2022

Jewish Studies. The University of Manchester is well represented at Limmud Festival 2022, the volunteer-run Jewish learning event running from 23–28 December. Katja Stuerzenhofecker will participate in the panel discussion ‘The UK Jewish community in the age of Covid: What changed and what didn't?.' Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz will lead several sessions including a presentation of her recent research as CJS Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Also presenting are CJS and R&T alumni/ae Ariel Abel and Sarah McCulloch, and SALC colleague Noelle Dückmann Gallagher.

Centre for Jewish Studies 01/12/2022 Centre for Jewish Studies 01/12/2022

Klezmer accompaniment

Klezmorim of Manchester have played an accompaniment to a short film about life on Bury New Road as seen through the eyes of ten women from the Jewish women's group, Alevai. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 25/11/2022 Centre for Jewish Studies 25/11/2022

Klemperer Online database

The University Library has purchased access to the Klemperer Online: Tagebücher 1918-1959 database, offering the complete and unabridged diaries of Victor Klemper, which are among the most important sources of 20th century German history. The German texts feature an extensive commentary and contain over a third more material than the print editions, which were bestsellers at the time of publication. Further information.