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Jewish studies. Professor Jean-Marc Dreyfus has co-curated an exhibition currently displaying at Le Mémorial de la Shoah en France, displaying a new collection of propaganda photos on the first roundup of Jews in Paris, in 1941. He has published an opinion piece in The New York Times titled ‘France has a new picture of the Holocaust’. Discover the exhibition on the museum’s website. You can also hear more on this an interview of Professor Dreyfus on France 24.
Abraham events, Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region
Jewish studies. Professor Jean-Marc Dreyfus delivered a talk titled ‘Doctor Satan. Marcel Petiot, a killer of Jews in Occupied Paris’ as part of the Abraham events, on Friday 15 May 2026, online. The talk focused on Marcel Petiot, the most famous serial killer in modern French history. He was beheaded in April 1946 for having killed 26 people, most of them Jews, whom he had promised to smuggle out of occupied France. The talk reconsidered this gruesome story and analysed, with the eye of an historian, how it is linked to the Holocaust in France. Watch the recording of the talk or for further information visit the Abraham events webpage.
Department of History award for undergraduate student
Jewish education. Congratulations to Archie MacConnel, L3 History student, who was awarded one of the 2026 History awards, as 'most conscientious' student, for his field trip to Poland. T. In Poland, Archie visited the sites of death camps, and later wrote a report about his experience.
New publication
Jewish studies. CJS fellow Richard Fay has co-authored a paper (with Zhuomin Huang) in Intercultural Communication Education titled, ‘Intercultural musicking - portraits and narratives of klezmer ensemble experience.’ DOI: https://doi.org/10.29140/ice.v8n2.103051.
New publication
Jewish studies. CJS fellow Richard Fay has published a paper in Language and Intercultural Communication titled, ‘The practice of intercultural musicking - a ‘mirky’ business.’ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2610817
Israel Seminar Series, University of Cambridge
Jewish studies. Moshe Behar will speak at the University of Cambridge’s Israel Seminar Series this week, on ‘Leftist Arabised Jews on the Conundrum of Individual and Collective Rights: three Chapters between 1919 and 1954’. Wednesday 4 March, 5.15 - 6.15pm at the University of Cambridge. Further information.
Sherman Conversation in Jewish Studies 2026
Jewish Studies. Prof. Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth) and Dr. Roy Bar Sadeh (Manchester) in conversation "Muslim-Jewish Modernity: Towards an Entangled History?" Chaired by Dr. Tom Woerner-Powell (Manchester). Wednesday 18th February 2026, 5.30-7.00pm, on campus and online. Venue TBA via registration, which is required - tickets here.
Bogdanow Lectures 2026
Holocaust and Jewish Studies. The CJS is delighted to announce that the Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2026 will be given by Professor Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth and Harvard University). The lectures are entitled: The Yellow Star in Church: Baptized Jews in Nazi Germany and It's Happening Here: Antisemitism in the United States. 16 and 17 February 2026, 5.30pm, on campus and online. Venue TBA via registration, which is required - tickets here.
Classics research seminar
Septuagint studies. The Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology (CAHAE) research seminar invites you to hear a paper by Thomas Ford from Münster titled ‘A Fragment of Septuagint Habakkuk from Trinity College, Cambridge’. Thursday 27 November, 5pm, Sam Alex A115. The seminar will be followed by a reception.
Book launch
Jewish mysticism. Alison Bashford will discuss her new book Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic, which includes a study of religion, scientific thought and Jewish mysticism. Monday 17 November at Blackwell’s Manchester, 6.30pm. Tickets and further information here.