UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies

#CfP | AJS annouces 2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2025

Co-edited by Jerzy Tomaszewski z''l and me, and contributions by Hanna Zaremska, Adam Teller, @connyaust.bsky.social, Michael Schulz, Artur Markowski, Andrej Zamoiski, Piotr Kendziorek, Marcin Urynowicz, and August Grabski

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Extremely chuffed to see a book forum dedicated to ‘Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands' (2022), in 'Shofar. Journal for Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies'

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🌟 Tonight! 🌟

Job -- Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies, University of Graz
March - June 2026
@biajs.bsky.social @jewishstudies.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social
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What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? Who discovered them? And why are they important? In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Philip Alexander FBA explores the history of the scrolls, and their role in uncovering the beginnings of Western Mysticism. buff.ly/KFQIXOS

Image grabbed from Tumblr that says, "today's date is the 3rd? What's next, the 4th? the 5th? The minor fall, the major lift?"

Interested in getting more involved in #JewishStudies in the UK and beyond? We'd be delighted to welcome you to our team. As an NGG committee member, you'll get to shape our programmes and connect early career scholars with more senior ones. @jewishhistorical.bsky.social

YouTube video by Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies SIMS Katz Dating Saints 2025 1

You can also watch Prof Sacha Stern's lecture on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT_W...

SIMS-Katz Fellow Sacha Stern Initiates Us into the Art and Science of Medieval Timekeeping Looking for dating advice? Read on!

“Dating Saints: A Remarkable Hebrew Compendium of Astronomy and Calendars”
Prof Sacha Stern for the the 8th SIMS & Katz Distinguished Fellow’s Annual Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies

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Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: meet the author To celebrate the publication of Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Text, we are delighted to publish an interview with the author, Dr Assaf Bar-Moshe.

A newx textbook on Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: Meet the author Dr Assaf Bar-Moshe

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Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity with @elirubin.bsky.social
📅 14 May, 18:00 BST
💻 Online
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A German (Jew) in Warsaw: The banker Samuel Fraenkel Online lecture (Zoom) by Markus Nesselrodt, in association with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies

A German (Jew) in Warsaw: The Banker Samuel Fraenkel
📅 7 May,18:00 BST
💻 Online
Samuel Fraenkel was born a Prussian Jew in Berlin in 1773 and died a Catholic Pole in 1833. This lecture will use his life to exemplify the impact of Prussian migration on Polish history.

A Saint Against the State? The Contemporary Revival of a Hasidic Miracle Worker This lecture explores the transnational Hasidic revival centered around the Kerestirer Rebbe, Yeshaya Steiner, highlighting his broader populist appeal beyond his mystical protection against rodents

🌟 A Saint Against the State? The Contemporary Revival of a Hasidic Miracle Worker 🌟
📅 8 May
📍 UCL
Explore the revival of a Hasidic miracle worker in modern times at "Saint Against the State." Delve into the cultural and spiritual significance of this phenomenon. www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...

Overlooking language skills ‘risks limiting the scope and impact of UK research’, new British Academy report finds A new British Academy report highlights how multilingualism could strengthen the UK’s research, warning that language skills remain undervalued and underused in academia - despite a wealth of linguist...

@uclhjs.bsky.social offers training in a variety of ancient and modern Jewish languages (for both students in our degree programs and continuing education students).

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King’s College London is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, on a full-time, indefinite contract. King’s is able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK. The closing date for applications is 27 April 2025. my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

A Day in the Life of a Hebrew and Jewish Studies Student | UCL Arts & Humanities | UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities Blog UCL Homepage

Thinking of studying at HJS? Get a peek into a day in the life of BA Hebrew & Jewish Studies student Niamh O’Connor.

Check out her routine: buff.ly/41p6G0w

Practice-led multidisciplinarity in Jewish Studies:

Led by PhD student Keren Rubner, staff and students @uclhjs.bsky.social explore Jewish culinary traditions and get a challah ready for Friday

Purim Sameach!

Study

3 scholarships for the MA Jewish Studies at UCL, each worth £ 4,000:

- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics

www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...

Hebrew and Jewish Studies student Niamh O’Connor gives a glimpse into her daily routine for the @ucl.ac.uk A&H Blog. Thanks, Niamh! 😊
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#StudentLife #HebrewStudies

Dislocation: Russophone Poetry Against the War in Ukraine A SSEES Culture and Society in Modern Russia seminar with Prof Julia Nemirovskaya. Please note that this event will be delivered in Russian.

Join us next week for this Culture and Society in Modern Russia seminar with Prof Julia Nemirovskaya, who will discuss the themes and evolution of styles in protest war poetry.

🗓️ 26 February at 4pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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Yiddish Choices: Before, During, and After the Holocaust In person talk by Anita Norich (Emeritus University of Michigan), an esteemed scholar of Yiddish literature who has published on topics such as the Holocaust in American Yiddish literature, translatin...

On 25 Feb at 6pm, my esteemed colleague Prof Anita Norich will give an in-person public talk in London at UCL on "Yiddish Choices: Before, During, and After the Holocaust." Open to the public, but pre-registration required. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-je...

UCL and @uclhjs.bsky.social graduate Natalia Romik becomes fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin @wiko-berlin.bsky.social

Here, she discusses her project on Jewish hide-outs during the Second World War, presented in several exhibitions & publications:

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Reviving Yiddish Theater in London and Recovering Female Playwrights: An Interview with Sonia Gollance | In geveb Tamara Gleason Friedberg sat down with Sonia Gollance in Summer 2024 to discuss Yiddish theater in London, her translation of Tea Arciszewska's Miryeml, and wh

ICYMI: Reviving Yiddish Theater in London and Recovering Female Playwrights: An Interview with @sgollance.bsky.social for @ingeveb.bsky.social

New issue. Now available in journal format. Studies in Polish Jewry Polin. Cover for the journal issue sits to the right, the cover features an art work depicting Yeheskiel Kaufman. The work is an in an ink on paper drawing by Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum (1900–1954). The cover is overlaid on the same artwork in the background. The Littman 60th anniversary logo sits in the bottom left, a silver glinting 60 sits next to the date 1965-2025 in colourful font.

New in Polin Vol 37: Zuzanna Krzemieñ re-examines Solomon Dubno’s vision for Hebrew literature and his break with Mendelssohn, and Marc Caplan compares maskilic comedy with Sturm und Drang melodrama. Read more: bit.ly/Polin-Vol-37
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Ladino On the Internet: Sepharad 4 Written during a postdoc at HJS, "Ladino on the Internet" is the first English language critical and systematic account of the online revitalisation of Ladino.

In his new open-access book with Routledge, "Ladino on the Internet," Carlos Yebra López reveals how today's global Ladino-speaking community primarily connects online.

African and South Asian Histories of the Holocaust - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum This workshop brings together scholars of Africa and South Asia to explore the intersections of African, South Asian, and Jewish experiences of the Holocaust, focusing on historical encounters,…

Research Workshop: African and South Asian Histories of the Holocaust

Organised by Prof Shirli Gilbert, @ushmm.bsky.social, and Trinity College, Cambridge University

February 27 - 28,
Cambridge, England

Event poster for 'Ladino on the Internet' with a photo of the book cover. Online event.

Please join us for the next #PROLang seminar with Carlos Yebra López to hear more about his book 'Ladino on the Internet', the first critical and systematic account written in English on the online revitalisation of Ladino.

🗓️ 25 February at 6pm
📍 Online
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February is a very exciting month for Yiddish London, with a number of events coming up, but the launch of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast is something audiences worldwide can enjoy.

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