Centre for Jewish Studies 05/06/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 05/06/2023

New publication

Science and Religion. Daniel Langton, "Evolution" in Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online, edited by Martin Thurner, Peter Schäfer, Christoph Markschies, Amy-Jill Levine, Rainer Kampling and Walter Homolka. (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023). Manuscript and online.

Centre for Jewish Studies 23/05/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 23/05/2023

Webinar, Jewish cemeteries as visitor destinations

Jewish studies. Hosted by The Foundation for Jewish Heritage for those leading work with Jewish heritage, heritage industry experts and an invited audience, this webinar explores how and to what extent Jewish cemeteries are currently being used as visitor destinations across seven countries in Europe, and how current initiatives might contribute to the sustaining and promotion of more historic Jewish cemeteries. 24 May, 9.30am-5pm CET. Further information and registration details are available here.

Centre for Jewish Studies 16/05/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 16/05/2023

Research seminar, History Dept

Holocaust Studies. Anne Knowles, the Col. James C. McBride Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maine, will present a paper entitled "How Can We Map the Holocaust." 4:15pm on 18 May 2023. Join Zoom webinar here.

Centre for Jewish Studies 09/05/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 09/05/2023

Klezmer performances

Upcoming concerts. A Klezmer Klassica performance will take place as part of Chorlton Arts Festival on 20 May at Chorlton Unitarian Church, 3:30-4:30pm. Tickets and further information are available here. The Klezmer Tune Club will play at the Manchester Jewish Museum on 21 May, 2:30-4pm. Tickets and further information are available here.

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

BBC Radio 4, ‘In Our Time’

Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish Studies. George Brooke was a contributor to In Our Time on the topic of ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls’, the revelatory collection of Biblical texts and other documents dating from around 250 BC to AD 68, which were first rediscovered in a cave in 1946. Thu 4 May. Listen Again.

Centre for Jewish Studies 19/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 19/04/2023

Research seminar

Jewish & French Studies. Julia Elsky (Loyola University, Chicago) will discuss her book, Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices and Wartime France (2020), paying particular attention to Benjamin Fondane's rewriting of his poetry during the war. 4pm Zoom webinar.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94407197096

Centre for Jewish Studies 19/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 19/04/2023

Book launch

Italian Studies. Professor Robert Gordon (Cambridge). Book Launch: Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long Twentieth Century (UCL, 2023). Modern Luck sets out to explore the enigma of luck’s presence in modernity, examining the hybrid forms it has taken on in the modern imagination, and in particular in the field of modern stories. Analysing a rich and unusually eclectic range of narrative taken from literature, film, music, television and theatre, it lays out first the usages and meanings of the language of luck, and then the key figures, patterns and motifs that govern the stories told about it, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Among other things this book considers the survival narrative of Primo Levi. 24 April, 5pm GMT.

The event will take place in person in Samuel Alexander A7 and will be live-streamed on Zoom. To register for this event, either in person or online, please visit our Eventbrite page. For further information, please contact Mara Josi (mara.josi@manchester.ac.uk).

Centre for Jewish Studies 17/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 17/04/2023

Screen and Talk panel discussion

Holocaust Studies. We are delighted that the recording of the panel discussion of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 film series: Jews, Gay People and the Holocaust, is now available to view. View again.

Centre for Jewish Studies 17/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 17/04/2023

Sherman Conversation, application extension 30 April

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 15/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 15/04/2023

Podcast, Sherman Community Lecture 2022

Modern Jewish Studies. We are delighted to announce that the podcast of Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz's Sherman Community Lecture, entitled "A Jewel in the Crown of Anglo-Jewry? History of Limmud", is now available to view. View again.