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to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · Nov 4
Join us in London in July!

CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE

#BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck

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Call for Papers: BIAJS Conference 2026 (13-15 July, Birkbeck, University of London)
CALL FOR PAPERS #BIAJS2026 Space and Place in Jewish Studies British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026 Birkbeck, University of London | July 2026   “there is…
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seethetreasures.bsky.social
What links a sock, a girl's diary and a glass jar from 1873?

Our 2024 visit to @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social was a dive into their collections exploring Manchester's Jewish community.

Read our blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/collect...

#JewishHistory #JewishCommunity #Manchester
Collection Encounter: Manchester Jewish Museum - hiddentreasurenew
Collection Encounter: Manchester Jewish Museum
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January 30, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Tova Benjamin will join us online on 11 February to discuss the place of ‘ethnicity’ in new forms of late 19th century popular violence, and developing shared understandings of Roma and Jewish histories of marginalization in the East European borderlands. Book here: bit.ly/3NOQv8o
February 3, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Please join us for a talk with Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social for the Annual Karten Lecture

🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 6:00 pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus & Online
🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-actors-and-the-making-of-jewish-internationalism-tickets-1980464745366?aff=bluesky
Abstract picture reading "The Karten Lecture 2026, Legal actors and the making of Jewish internationalism, Noëmie Duhaut, Tuesday 10 February, 6 pm, Avenue Campus and online", with the logos of the University of Southampton and the Parkes Institute
February 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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There's still time to propose a paper for 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies' #BIAJS2026 as the deadline for abstracts has been extended to 13 February!
February 3, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Anyone researching Solomon Hart, first jew to be admitted to Royal Academy? @lulgalleries.bsky.social is keen to make our collection more accessible and would love to hear from you. @biajs.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Deadline is 6pm today!!
January 30, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Jewish material can present unique challenges to those working with it.

This blog runs through some top tips for archivists and others working with Jewish material, including reading Hebrew and caring for sacred texts.

Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/an-intr...

#Blog #Archives
An introduction to Jewish terminology for cataloguing - hiddentreasurenew
Workshop: Jewish terminology for cataloguing
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January 19, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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Tomorrow evening! Especially for early-career scholars in Jewish studies…
newgenerationgroup.bsky.social JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social · 18d
NGG Social & Networking Event 📣 Join us for a 2026 catch-up: meet other NGG members, share what you’re working on, and chat plans for the year ahead.

🗓 Thu 29 Jan
🕖 19:00–20:00 (UK time)
💻 Online (Zoom)
📩 DM us for the link or email: jhse.ngg@gmail.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Our Jews, Judaism and Mental Health series is free and open to the public.

The second session is on 20 January from 1-20m GMT on Zoom

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Jews, Judaism and Mental Health Zoom Series
Explore Jewish mental health, depression, and Haredi psychotherapy on Tuesdays from 1-2pm.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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BISA’s David Feldman on antisemitism in Britain and what can be done

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Tuesday briefing: Why efforts to tackle Britain’s long history of antisemitism have fallen short
In today’s newsletter: A scholar of antisemitism on how we define it, how it has operated in Britain, and what can be done
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January 20, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1864 Israel Zangwill was born.
A British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, his work earned him the nickname the “Dickens of the Ghetto”.
Find out more about his life and work in our blog buff.ly/ByNZFQU
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Black and white photograph of Israel Zangwill. He has wavy dark hair. He is wearing wire framed glasses sat on his nose. He is wearing a suit jacket and silk cravat tied at the neck.
January 21, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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HJS Research Fellow Abigail Pearson has discovered a previously unknown Syriac version of the ‘Revelation of Ezra’ (a famous medieval text used to predict the coming year based on the day of the week on which it began)
A newly discovered Syriac version of the ‘Revelation of Ezra’
HJS Research Fellow Abigail Pearson has discovered a previously unknown Syriac version of a famous medieval text
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January 22, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Deadline is 15 Feb for abstracts for the next NGG of JHSE conference!
newgenerationgroup.bsky.social JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social · Dec 9
📣 CfP: New Generation Group Conference “Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation”, UCL, Mon 11 May 2026.
20-min papers on how Jewish lives & stories are voiced, imagined & recorded.
300-word abstract + 100-word bio to jhse.ngg@gmail.com by 15 Feb 2026.
#JewishStudies
Call for Papers poster for the New Generation Group, Jewish Historical Society of England, at UCL. Conference title: ‘Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation’, 11 May 2026. Text notes themes around how Jewish lives and stories are told, plus sample topics and instructions to submit a 300-word abstract and 100-word bio to jhse.ngg@gmail.com by 15 February 2026.
January 28, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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The theme for tomorrow's Holocaust Memorial Day is Bridging Generations.

This photograph, held by @holocaustnorth.bsky.social, shows Berta Klipstein and her grandmother in Bielska, Poland, 1935.

Find out more about her experiences here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/be...

#Archives #HMD
January 26, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Join us online on 11 February to hear Tova Benjamin discuss “When is Violence ‘Ethnic’? On Jews as Victims and Perpetrators”. Book here: bit.ly/3NOQv8o
January 28, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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🏆 The 2026 BIAJS Book Prize competition is now open!

We invite submissions focused on topics relating to the ancient and medieval periods for a prize of £1,000 to be announced at our July conference

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Correction: BIAJS Book Prize call
BIAJS Book Prize 2026 We are pleased to announce that the 2026 BIAJS Book Prize competition is now open. The book prize initiative was launched in 2018 to recognise and promote outstanding scholars…
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January 28, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Come learn Edwardian ballroom dances from a 1909 Jewish dance card in the Gaster Papers!
With dance instructor Susan de Guardiola (USA), Subject Librarian @vrfreedman.bsky.social and myself (talking about Jewish balls).

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January 21, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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Get your hands on some really great books in British & Irish Jewish studies, including Gavin Schaffer's 'An unorthodox history', Tony Kushner's 'The Jewish pedlar', a study of Jewish refugee nurses by Jane Brooks, & 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social
manchesterup.bsky.social Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Jan 5
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉

To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026.

Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Two fantastic events coming up from Jargon: Holocaust Memorial Day with the great @ankahajkova.bsky.social, author of People Without History Are Dust, at the brilliant @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, and legend David Rosenberg doing a From Yiddish to Bangla Street Life walk

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Events — Jargon
We organise in-person events in London, from writers in conversation to film screenings, panel discussions, artist workshops, and more.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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!!! 10 days left for submitting proposals !!! #BIAJS2026
January 20, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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"Litvinoff’s novels speak to the long history of Jewish radicalism in Britain, one in which commitment and ambivalence thrived in equal measure."

M. Syd Rosen explores in our latest article on History Workshop.
Rehearsals for the Big One
M. Syd Rosen asks, how might the forgotten novels of Emanuel Litvinoff help us to understand the legacy of the Russian Revolution?
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December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, Astronomical tract. It is based on a medieval Latin version of a work by Messahalah, a Jew of Alexandria who wrote in Arabic c. 815. The frontispiece is an astronomical rotula with a moveable index attached, illuminated with red and yellow pigment...
Ancient manuscript page showing a circular astronomical diagram with concentric rings and inscriptions. A rotating arm points outwards.
January 19, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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The Centre for Jewish Studies at @universityofleeds.bsky.social is honoured to welcome Dr. Amy Williams as this year's Holocaust Memorial Day speaker. She will talk about 'Kindertransport: New Discoveries, or Rethinking the Kindertransport 87 years On' ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture 2026
For this year's Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture, Dr Amy Williams will speak on 'Kindertransport: New Discoveries, or Rethinking the Kindertransport 87 Years On…'.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Tickets are on sale for Jewish Book Week 2026!

And this year, for our 75th anniversary, we’re going big...

Expect +160 speakers and events at Kings Place, online, and pop-up events across London this 28 Feb - 8 March.

Explore the programme: shorturl.at/6oU2f 🎉 📚

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January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Please join us for this Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture with @annakoch.bsky.social to hear more about the return journeys of Italian Jews who survived the camps in Eastern Europe and travelled across countries devastated by war.

🗓️ 27 January, 1.30pm
📍 Online
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Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture - A Long Road: Italian Holocaust Survivors’ Journeys Home
Join us for this Lunch Hour Lecture with Anna Koch, DAAD Francis Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London
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January 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM