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Our Spring 2026 newsletter is now available!
Inside: new publications, EHRI-UK updates, an interview with @samsamev.bsky.social, student and alumni highlights, public engagement activity, and upcoming events.
Explore the full edition at sway.cloud.microsoft/XByIbTAWL14L...
NGG Book Talk 📚 Join us with Elizabeth E. Imber for a talk and Q&A on her latest book, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism".
🗓 Tue 24 Feb 2026
🕓 16:00 (UK time)
💻 Online (Zoom)
📩 DM us for the link or email: jhse.ngg@gmail.com
(or check our newsletter)
Missed Tony Kushner's interview for Hannah's Bookshelf on North Manchester FM 106.6?
🎧 You can catch again here:
www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Book...
Some new words from me on collaging the Wandering Jew after taking the exhibition and workshops to the 'Arts and Humanities Day' @unisouthampton.bsky.social:
thewanderingjewexhibition.co.uk/reflections/...
Here's my new blog post about Jewish dance cards and a recent UCL bicentennial event where we learned Edwardian ballroom dances from a Jewish dance card in @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social to the same tunes that were performed in 1909. #UCL200
In partnership with @uclhjs.bsky.social and the UCL IJS.
Deadline end of 29th May to submit for our Book Prize!!
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Join us on 2 March at Birkbeck to hear Michael Berkowitz on the elusive story of Jewish Hollywood’s role in World War II. Book here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/hollyw...
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Looking forward to this great exhibition curated by our PhD candidate and outreach fellow Maddie Walch launching at God's House Tower in Southampton on Thursday 5th March!
More details and sign up for the launch event here:
🔗 godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/memo...
The Leo Baeck Institute London and the British-German Association are pleased to invite you to
KINDERTRANSPORT IN BRITISH MEMORY AND CULTURE: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Thursday, 19 March 2026, 7.00 – 8.00 PM (GMT)
Book now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransp...
Book launch of “Happiness” Tues 10 March, 7-8.30pm
Join Professor Maria Rubins and Dr Bryan Karetnyk at the launch of 'Happiness' by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Takes place at Pushkin House, register at: www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...
Coming up in a couple of weeks!
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📣New blog post: The ‘Deaf Kindertransport’: Emerging Research on Dr Felix Reich
@charlieknight.bsky.social explores how attention to disability and migration reveals the extreme pressures refugees faced and the strategies they developed to navigate them.
Read here:
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-cen...
Congratulations and good luck to our friends @leobaeckcollege.bsky.social who are opening their new reading room this week. We'll have more about it in our next Archivist in the Spotlight but in the meantime, find out about their library collection here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/leo...
16.02.2026 12:11 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Deadline to apply is this Friday!
18.02.2026 11:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0From @samsamev.bsky.social @anoushka-ar.bsky.social @eliaou-balouka.bsky.social & more — get up to Manchester to have a look!!
18.02.2026 11:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Later this month in Leeds, @rachelshabi.bsky.social discussing decoloniality and Jewish identity
16.02.2026 16:14 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Learn about this new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book at Sasha Senderovich's 26 Feb UCL Institute for Jewish Studies talk 'In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Translating Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union'.
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Call for Applications: Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop at Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 22 June-3 July 2026 - in collaboration with @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Deadline to apply 20th Feb!
www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app...
💶 apply for funding through European Association of Jewish Studies for conferences, workshops, etc! Deadline 26th March
09.02.2026 10:17 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Poster titled “Call for Participants: Holocaust Studies – Navigating the Field,” advertising a one-day academic networking event on 26 May 2026 at the Imperial War Museum, London, for early career researchers and postgraduates, with details about roundtables, speed networking, and application deadline of 31 March 2026.
📢 Exciting opportunity for ECRs & postgrads!
Applications are open for 'Holocaust Studies: Navigating the Field', a one-day networking event for ECRs & postgrads at the Imperial War Museum on 26 May 2026.
More details below, apply by 31 March ⬇️
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!
03.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Join us next month for a talk with Sir Michael Moritz about his latest book, Ausländer. Michael will be in conversation with Lord Daniel Finkelstein.
This new work uncovers the history of Michael's close family members murdered by the Nazis.
Tickets: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-t...
“Don't cry, it doesn't belong to us”:
critical thoughts on commemoration as a means of inclusion: Mizrahi Jews and
Holocaust memory in Israel
Online talk with Becky Kook TOMORROW
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
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
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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
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
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!
03.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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
30.01.2026 18:04 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Deadline is 6pm today!!
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