This seminar by our visiting fellow, Dr Stefania Manca, explores how Holocaust memory is being reshaped within digital learning ecologies, focusing on the interplay between education, user engagement, and activism on social media. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, it examines both the risks of distortion and the opportunities for fostering critical remembrance in the digital age. This

We often hear the term “dehumanization” used in a variety of contexts. For example, dehumanization a set of beliefs, or a set of behaviors?  Is it metaphorical or do people actually believe their...

Aaron Wolmark was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland on 28 December 1877, and moved to England with his family in 1883, first to Devon and then to the East End of London. He trained at the Ro...

Thanks to the generosity of the Joir and Kato Weisz Foundation, which acquired the collection from the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation of London and donated it to the Centre, the Leopold …

Rosh Hashanah postcard, Warsaw, late 1920s • Jewish Museum London

Engraved Shofar • Jewish Museum London

Collection Encounter: Amulets collected by Moses Gaster

Handwritten documents from the Holocaust, whether in the form of diaries, personal letters or official forms, sometimes seem to have been written in an unreadable scrawl. Often, the reason they…

Volunteer workshops for recording graves at the historic Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery in Hackney

Workshop: Jewish terminology for cataloguing

This 'in conversation' event is held as part of the event series for the Library's exhibition Looted: Two Families, Nazi Theft and the Search for Restitution. We will hear from researcher…