New podcast series
Jewish Studies and New Testament Studies. 'What would Jesus the Jew do?' is new podcast exploring key questions that will help readers of the New Testament to better understand Judaism at the time of Jesus. In each episode, scholars from the Centre for Jewish Studies and Centre for Biblical Studies at the University of Manchester talk listeners through a topic. The companion website provides links to all of the episodes as well as additional resources to deepen your understanding. Further information.
Film event, Drama with Centre for Jewish Studies and German
Holocaust Studies. You are invited to the screening of Farewell, Herr Schwarz (Germany/Israel, 2014) followed by filmmaker Q&A session. Yael Reuveny’s documentary attempts to answer for the filmmaker herself why her great-uncle, a Holocaust survivor, chose to resettle in East Germany after the war and start a family there; a life her family in Israel only learned about after his death in the late 1980s.
The event takes place on Monday 15 April 2024, 12:00 – 15:00. Please email katja.stuerzenhofecker@manchester.ac.uk for venue details.
Student travel grant
Holocaust studies. As part of her bequest to the University of Manchester, Prof. Fanny Bogdanow funded an annual lecture series and a number of student travel bursaries for educational visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau. This year the Centre for Jewish Studies can allocate up to 2 awards of £400 each. Application deadline: 8 April 2024. For more details on eligibility and how to apply, see further information.
New podcast
Holocaust Studies. We are delighted to announce that the Bogdanow Lectures 2024 are now available to view online. The series is entitled 'The Return of the Repressed: Ukraine's Unresolved Pasts' and was presented by Prof. Omer Bartov (Brown University). Lecture 1: History, Myth, and Fiction: Narratives of the Ukrainian Past. Lecture 2: Coexistence and Violence: The Reality and Memory of Genocide in Ukraine. View podcasts.
Workshop, USHMM
Ion Popa will lead a workshop with The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum titled ‘Finding Religion in the USHMM Collections: New Methods for Archival Research’. In-person workshop, 29 July- 2 August 2024. Further information.
Research seminar, University of Glasgow
Moshe Behar will present a paper titled ‘Nullified by Holocaust and Nakba? Arabised-Jews, 1937-1956’. 8 February, 4-5.30pm on Zoom and in-person at 4 The Square, room 205 (University of Glasgow).
Research seminar, History Dept
31 Jan 2024. Dr. Nina Valbousquet will present a paper to the Humanitarian History Dept Seminar on ‘Catholic Humanitarianism through War and Genocide: the Vatican, the Holocaust and Jewish Refugees (1930s-1950s)’. This event will run from 4-5pm and will be held in C1.18 (Ellen Wilkinson). All are welcome to attend.
Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2024
Online Lectures in Holocaust Studies. Prof. Omer Bartov (Brown University), ‘The Return of the Repressed: Ukraine's Unresolved Pasts’, 6pm GMT, 30 and 31 Jan 2024. For zoom links see further information.
Sherman Community Lecture 2023
Annual lecture in Jewish Studies. Prof Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Arizona State University) gave this year's lecture, co-hosted with the Jewish Rep Council, on "Judaism and Climate Change: Religious Responses to the Eco-Crisis." Mon 27 Nov. Watch again.
The Megillah at the Rylands
Rachel Lichtenstein has been working with the Rothschild Foundation Haanadiv Europe for the relaunch of their Hidden Treasures website. Read her blog post here.