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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

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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 26d

Hello Bluesky! This is the account for the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in @ucllibraries.bsky.social. It's one of the most significant Judaica collections in the UK and supports the only department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies in a British university @uclhjs.bsky.social

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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 3d

Wishing all those celebrating the Jewish festival of Sukkot over the next week a hag sameah (Image: By Gilabrand - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, buff.ly/2isR5G8 )

A lulav and etrog together with a silver etrog case

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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 5d

This week's #NewBooks: Hannah Arendt, medieval Castile, and early modern Europe library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...

Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of Light is sown: the cultivation of Kabbalah in medieval Castile by Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Phillip Brown

UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 7d

Wishing all those observing Yom Kippur an easy and meaningful fast and gmar hatimah tovah. Image: part of the Yom Kippur Neilah amidah from a sixteenth century Italian manuscript prayer book @uclspeccoll.bsky.social MS MOCATTA/2

A page of Hebrew manuscript text with the words va-hatom and ve-nehatem enlarged

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 9d

Get to know our libraries and find your way around them with a self-guided tour. Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/getting-started/self-guided-library-tours

Students sat around the Flaxman Gallery.

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 7d

Our next seminar will be with the wonderful Anne Irfan's paper on 'Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948' on 28 October. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... or join our mailing list: forms.gle/8JtLfYwH1MYL...

Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948

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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 12d

UCL is not a member but you can still read and download books in the public domain and search copyright restricted books which you can then look for in the library

HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 13d

Curious about accessing HathiTrust's 19 million items? What you can download depends on copyright, login, and library affiliation. Visit the Help Center for more info #digitallibraries #trusty: buff.ly/7HYKXhw

Screenshot from HathiTrust Help Center: What You Can Download from the Collection

UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 12d

Lots in here about doing the reading, which you can find in ReadingLists@UCL ucl.rl.talis.com

UCL Arts & Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social · 12d

If you could go back, what would you tell your first-year self? 💡

Our students and graduates share the advice they wish they’d had when starting university.

Watch the video to hear more! buff.ly/usvBqf7
@uclhjs.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 12d

Looking into using the library? Find out about our study spaces, opening hours, borrowing items, membership and more. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library #WelcomeToUCL

A student entering through library entrance barriers.

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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 12d

This week's #NewBooks: Yiddish New York and Italian Jews library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...

Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew and Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of
The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City by Henry H. Sapoznik

UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 13d

. @ucl.ac.uk is looking for talented individuals to join our team of Social Media Content Creators on a casual basis, producing content for UCL’s central social media channels — including TikTok Instagram and YouTube bit.ly/3HGGNCx

UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 16d

Wishing everyone celebrating the Jewish New Year a shanah tovah u-metukah

UCL branded graphic. A stylised illustration of a bowl of honey, a pomegranate and apples on the right and text saying 'Happy Rosh Hashanah' on the left.

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Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social · 20d

The author of the book “The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A story of Survival” tells a story of how darkness beyond the imagination could never extinguish the light of humanity at its brightest, bravest and best.

8 Oct 2025 8pm
Exact location tbc

£10

www.jhse.org/event-detail...

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival | JHSE

www.jhse.org

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Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership @hgrporg.bsky.social · 20d

Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social collections!

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JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social · 20d

We're excited to present you with NGG's academic programme for this winter term! Looking forward to seeing you! @jewishhistorical.bsky.social #JewishStudies

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The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social · 21d

We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog!

Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center

A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access

katz.sas.upenn.edu

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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 20d

UCL staff and students now have access to Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, 1870-2021 from the @eastview.bsky.social Global Press Archive. These include several Arabic newspapers from Israel/Palestine blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-ejou...

Screenshot of the Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection in Global Press Archive

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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 21d

Check out this week's #NewBooks library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...

Screenshot from the UCL Hebrew & Jewish subject guide, featuring the cover of Olga Lengyel, Auschwitz Survivor: Interdisciplinary Explorations, by Peter Davies, Hannah Holtschneider, Sheila E. Jelen, Christoph Thonfeld.

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 23d

Our guides, training and support enable you to develop your information literacy skills. Find out more and make the best use of our libraries. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills #WelcomeToUCL

Students facing each other across the table in the library.

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The Jewish Chronicle @jewishchron.bsky.social · 22d

Anyone with Jewish ancestry urged to sign up for BRCA test as deadline looms

www.thejc.com/community/an...

Anyone with Jewish ancestry urged to sign up for BRCA test as deadline looms - The Jewish Chronicle

The BRCA gene mutation greatly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancers

www.thejc.com

UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 26d

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