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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 · 21d
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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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.”
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uclssees.bsky.social UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 4d
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
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Event poster for 'Mourning a lost future: Miryeml, a Yiddish Drama of Children in Wartime' with a photo of Tea Arciszews­ka.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more

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November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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This Thursday at @uolsbc.bsky.social !
uolsbc.bsky.social StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · 18d
Please join us on the 27th of November for the 2025 Stanley Burton Centre’s Aubrey Newman Lecture. This lecture was initiated in 2006 to honour Professor Aubrey Newman, founder of the Stanley Burton Centre in 1992. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-s... @waitmanwbeorn.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Now part of the Jewish Museum London collection, this is one of only two surviving Jewish union banners in Britain.

Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/lo...

#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #JewishCommunity #WorkingClassHistory #Archives
London Jewish Bakers Union banner - hiddentreasurenew
London Jewish Bakers Union banner • The Jewish Museum, London
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November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Read the latest newsletter from the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies/Centre for German-Jewish Studies, @ldml.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk

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November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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uclssees.bsky.social
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
Event poster for 'Mourning a lost future: Miryeml, a Yiddish Drama of Children in Wartime' with a photo of Tea Arciszews­ka.
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first of the Nuremberg Trials, which led to the conviction of 19 of the most influential Nazi leaders. Southampton's collections include books on the trials and papers from the subsequent Nuremberg Military Tribunals.
A shelf of books on the Nuremberg Trials in the Parkes Library.
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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seethetreasures.bsky.social
Our friends Jewish History Association of South Wales are expanding their scope to the whole of Wales and have plenty of new projects celebrating Welsh Jewish heritage.

Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/the-jew...

#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Wales #NewBlogPost
The Jewish History Association of Wales: From South Wales Roots to a National Vision - hiddentreasurenew
The Jewish History Association of South Wales turns eight this year. Laura Henley Harrison, project manager, tells us about how the organisation is changing to celebrate more of the Jewish heritage ac...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Join us for the final lecture in our 2025 Lecture Series, Belonging and Exclusion.

Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm.

Book now:
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November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Superb maps of Oxford's medieval Jewish heritage: www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/oxford-jewis...
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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kenanmalik.bsky.social Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 8d
Tomorrow I’m giving a talk at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (@bisa-bkk.bsky.social) on “How racism reclaimed its identity”. Do come along bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/how-ra...
How racism reclaimed its identity | Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
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November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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New pub from @yairwallach.bsky.social!
yairwallach.bsky.social Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 22d
In a new article (open access!) I argue that the Ottoman state played a crucial role in creating Ashkenazi identity in Jerusalem - as an overarching category for Yiddish speaking Jews from Central and East European countries.

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The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
The familiar grouping of Yiddish speaking Jews of Central and Eastern Europe into the single overarching identity of ‘Ashkenazim’, emerged initially in multi-lingual Jewish contexts. This article e...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors.

Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:
Book Talk: People without History are Dust, Anna Hájková - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership is delighted to host Dr Anna Hájková in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt about Dr. Hájková’s new book, People without History are Dust: Queer…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I have a new open-access article in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series. It examines an unknown Judaeo-Arabic manuscript of Genesis from the 10th century. I argue that it's evidence of medieval Jews reciting the Bible in a formal register of Egyptian Arabic. doi.org/10.11647/obp...
A Jewish Translation of Genesis in 10th-Century Egyptian Arabic
MS Firkovitch Yevr. II B 1526 comes from a Judaeo-Arabic translation of the biblical book of Genesis produced no later than the tenth century. It consists of two parchment folios containing most of Ge...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Join us on 18 November!
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jewishhistorical.bsky.social Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social · 22d
Licoricia of Winchester: Power & Prejudice in Medieval England
Tue 18 Nov 19:30 NW London
Location tbd

Award-winning Oxford author Rebecca Abrams talks about her book ‘Licoricia of Winchester’ - a most successful female financier in medieval England

Book your place

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Licoricia of Winchester: Power & Prejudice in Medieval England | JHSE
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November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe Jewish studies grants are now open.

The Collaborative Fellowships in Jewish Heritage supports universities and heritage institutions to jointly recruit a PhD or postdoctoral fellow.

Find out more: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...

#Grants
Collaborative Fellowships in Jewish Heritage - Rothschild
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November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back!

For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.

Open for booking now:
PhD and a Cup of Tea - Spatial Research of Łódź's Jewish Middle and Upper-Class Before the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Part of our PhD and a Cup of Tea series of academic seminars. Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research exploring the spatial conduct of Łódź's Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Pictured: David Nachmann, around 1934. He was allowed to return to Chemnitz from Poland to wrap up his affairs, but was then arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social #Humap

Learn more www.refugeemap.org/map/reco...
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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🚨 New faculty publication! 🚨

Ever wondered how the alphabet became what it is today? Part of the answer lies in Dr. Nathaniel E. Greene's new article (co-authored w/Prof. Jeremy M. Hutton, @uwmadison.bsky.social) investigating the origins of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician scripts.

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The Rise of “National” Scripts in the Iron Age II: A Proposal | Maarav: Vol 29, No 1-2
Northwest Semitic paleographic data has inspired a consensus that several “national” scripts had become well-established by the Iron IIB. Many treat these scripts as expressions of self-contained iden...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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A wonderful blog about our collections and display on Redbridge's Jewish stories by Dr Rachel Lichtenstein 👇
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Join us in London for BIAJS!
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Languages and religious studies yet again on the list of courses axed in the UK higher education crisis. Solidarity to colleagues at @uonucu.bsky.social
onnigust.bsky.social Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 19d
This week, UoN announced course suspensions for all modern languages, music, theology & religious studies, biosciences, mental health nursing and more.

@uonucu.bsky.social fighting management tooth & nail to prevent this reckless, shortsighted stupidity.

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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Second Temple Early Career Academy Autumn 2025 Events (online) stecaonline.wordpress.com @stecacareers.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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The next British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies conference (conveniently located near @uclhjs.bsky.social, @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and the British Library) might also be of interest to @jewishstudies.bsky.social members.
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM