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 — 👍 20 🔁 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 — 👍 10 🔁 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
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity with @elirubin.bsky.social
📅 14 May, 18:00 BST
💻 Online
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-je...
05.05.2025 08:31 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 4
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.
02.05.2025 08:31 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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