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).
@uclhjs.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social
21.01.2026 10:38 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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
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)
22.01.2026 09:31 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow!
19.01.2026 17:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jews, Judaism and Mental Health Zoom Series
Explore Jewish mental health, depression, and Haredi psychotherapy on Tuesdays from 1-2pm.
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
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
14.01.2026 13:01 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Looking forward to presenting @uclssees.bsky.social next week on Tea Arciszewska’s life and her (tragically timely) modernist play about children in wartime, “Miryeml.”
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
25.11.2025 07:03 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language.
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
20.11.2025 19:50 — 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
Event poster for 'Mourning a lost future: Miryeml, a Yiddish Drama of Children in Wartime' with a photo of Tea Arciszewska.
Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
21.11.2025 11:13 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Architecture of Memory
Architecture of Memory explores architectural disappearance, urban remembrance and functional change amid social upheaval. Using archival, architectural and artistic methods, Natalia Romik investigate...
Do check out this *absolutely amazing* volume on Jewish spaces in postwar Poland by UCL @uclhjs.bsky.social and Bartlett graduate Natalia Romik (Warsaw), published yesterday.
Big congratulations from a very proud former co-supervisor :-)
Open access from UCL Press:
uclpress.co.uk/book/archite...
28.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
📆 Coming up on 18 Nov: UCL Lunch Hour Lecture, The Witch in the Bible and Beyond
Hear from Dr Alinda Damsma on her research about the impact of the Bible on the early modern witch-hunts. These lectures are free, open to all and online.
Book now: buff.ly/LupLYZS
@uclhjs.bsky.social
05.11.2025 09:30 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
HJS academics are offering free in-person workshops to schools to support students wishing to enter the competition.
24.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
History Prize 2026
2020 saw the launch of the Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize, an annual competition to honour Sir Martin’s work and inspire the next generation of historians.
We are delighted to launch the 2026 Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize with the SMG Learning Centre! We are inviting entries from UK students in Years 10 and 11, with a First Prize of £400 and a Second Prize of £200. sirmartingilbertlearningcentre.org/smg-history-...
24.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
May their memory be a blessing 🕯️
07.10.2025 09:45 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lunch Hour Lecture | The Witch in the Bible and Beyond | 18 November
Join this lecture where Dr Alinda Damsma (UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies) will introduce her research on the impact of the Bible on the early modern witch-hunts.
Book your free place now: buff.ly/LupLYZS
@uclhjs.bsky.social
29.09.2025 13:31 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Shana tova to all those celebrating!!
Wishing you and yours a joyful and sweet new year 🍎🍯
22.09.2025 08:31 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Mazel tov to joint HJS and @uclssees.bsky.social student Dov Forman on being named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Content Creators for his work posting educational content about the Holocaust on TikTok and Instagram. time.com/collections/... @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
10.09.2025 16:46 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Smiling woman in maroon and black academic robe with black soft cap with gold tassle.
Congratulations to the new @uclhjs.bsky.social BA graduates and to all of us for making it to @artshumsucl.bsky.social graduation despite the Tube strikes. (I’m also amazed that Marston Events sourced full @upenn.edu regalia from across the pond for my first graduation as academic staff.)
09.09.2025 19:20 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#CfP | AJS annouces 2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2025
12.06.2025 20:17 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
12.06.2025 13:35 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Project MUSE - Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies-Volume 43, Number 1, 2025
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'
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54964
12.06.2025 13:35 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
🌟 Tonight! 🌟
05.06.2025 13:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Universität Graz
Job -- Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies, University of Graz
March - June 2026
@biajs.bsky.social @jewishstudies.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social
jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/df62...
05.06.2025 11:46 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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
30.05.2025 16:30 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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?"
03.06.2025 09:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.05.2025 10:26 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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...
16.05.2025 11:53 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
16.05.2025 11:49 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The Yiddish Book Center recovers, preserves, teaches, and celebrates Yiddish literature and culture to advance a fuller understanding of Jewish history and identity.
Posts about the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in UCL Libraries, including news and info about print and electronic resources, useful websites, etc. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish-studies
The AJS is a learned society whose mission is to advance research and teaching in Jewish Studies at colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning, and to foster greater understanding of Jewish Studies scholarship among the wider public.
SASA promotes interest in all fields of Ancient Studies by uniting graduate students & engaging high school & college students.
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The @ucl.ac.uk Faculty of Arts and Humanities is recognised globally for teaching & research excellence. Arts and Humanities subjects ranked 7th in world Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 by subject.
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
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An international group of early career scholars interested in #JewishStudies and #JewishHistory. Proud to be part of the Jewish Historical Society of England.
Contact us via jhse.ngg@gmail.com and join our mailing list: https://www.jhse.org/general-9
Sometimes director, sometimes writer, often opera, interactive theatre, Shakespeare & TTRPGs.
https://www.leodoulton.com
Historian: Eastern Europe, Romania, Holocaust and genocide, minorities, legal history, transitional justice; Associate Professor - Chapman University; views are my own
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
I am a Hebraica-Judaica Cataloging Librarian, cataloging across the board in subjects and classification, ranging from 15th cen. through newest publications.
The leading authority on Judaic librarianship.
www.jewishlibraries.org
For 200 years, UCL Laws has been one of the leading centres of legal education in the world.
An English-language podcast dedicated to books and ideas from Israel, the Middle East and other broadly related topics. Hosted by Gilad Halpern and Yael Berda.
https://tlv1.fm/podcasts/tel-aviv-review-show/
The UK's Jewish security organisation and leading authority on antisemitism, extremism and anti-Jewish terrorism.
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We are the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Based in the School of Humanities, we offer research-led degrees in Modern Languages, Comparative Literature & Culture, Liberal Arts.
We work with UCL staff and students and organisations to turn knowledge and ideas into the solutions that benefit us all.
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