Centre for Jewish Studies 23/05/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 23/05/2023

Webinar, Jewish cemeteries as visitor destinations

Jewish studies. Hosted by The Foundation for Jewish Heritage for those leading work with Jewish heritage, heritage industry experts and an invited audience, this webinar explores how and to what extent Jewish cemeteries are currently being used as visitor destinations across seven countries in Europe, and how current initiatives might contribute to the sustaining and promotion of more historic Jewish cemeteries. 24 May, 9.30am-5pm CET. Further information and registration details are available here.

Centre for Jewish Studies 16/05/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 16/05/2023

Research seminar, History Dept

Holocaust Studies. Anne Knowles, the Col. James C. McBride Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maine, will present a paper entitled "How Can We Map the Holocaust." 4:15pm on 18 May 2023. Join Zoom webinar here.

Centre for Jewish Studies 09/05/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 09/05/2023

Klezmer performances

Upcoming concerts. A Klezmer Klassica performance will take place as part of Chorlton Arts Festival on 20 May at Chorlton Unitarian Church, 3:30-4:30pm. Tickets and further information are available here. The Klezmer Tune Club will play at the Manchester Jewish Museum on 21 May, 2:30-4pm. Tickets and further information are available here.

Centre for Jewish Studies 05/05/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 05/05/2023

BBC Radio 4, ‘In Our Time’

Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish Studies. George Brooke was a contributor to In Our Time on the topic of ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls’, the revelatory collection of Biblical texts and other documents dating from around 250 BC to AD 68, which were first rediscovered in a cave in 1946. Thu 4 May. Listen Again.

Centre for Jewish Studies 19/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 19/04/2023

Research seminar

Jewish & French Studies. Julia Elsky (Loyola University, Chicago) will discuss her book, Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices and Wartime France (2020), paying particular attention to Benjamin Fondane's rewriting of his poetry during the war. 4pm Zoom webinar.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94407197096

Centre for Jewish Studies 19/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 19/04/2023

Book launch

Italian Studies. Professor Robert Gordon (Cambridge). Book Launch: Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long Twentieth Century (UCL, 2023). Modern Luck sets out to explore the enigma of luck’s presence in modernity, examining the hybrid forms it has taken on in the modern imagination, and in particular in the field of modern stories. Analysing a rich and unusually eclectic range of narrative taken from literature, film, music, television and theatre, it lays out first the usages and meanings of the language of luck, and then the key figures, patterns and motifs that govern the stories told about it, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Among other things this book considers the survival narrative of Primo Levi. 24 April, 5pm GMT.

The event will take place in person in Samuel Alexander A7 and will be live-streamed on Zoom. To register for this event, either in person or online, please visit our Eventbrite page. For further information, please contact Mara Josi (mara.josi@manchester.ac.uk).

Centre for Jewish Studies 17/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 17/04/2023

Screen and Talk panel discussion

Holocaust Studies. We are delighted that the recording of the panel discussion of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 film series: Jews, Gay People and the Holocaust, is now available to view. View again.

Centre for Jewish Studies 17/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 17/04/2023

Sherman Conversation, application extension 30 April

Jewish Studies. The Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the Sherman Conversation 2023: ‘Encountering Others, Encountering Ourselves’: Reflexivity and the Jewish Studies Researcher, 4 September 2023.

This workshop seeks to explore collaboratively and reflexively our positions as Jewish Studies researchers in relation to the Jewish subjects we study. We invite applications from researchers at all career stages working in Jewish Studies, broadly defined as scholarly engagement with Jewish subjects, past and present. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 15/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 15/04/2023

Podcast, Sherman Community Lecture 2022

Modern Jewish Studies. We are delighted to announce that the podcast of Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz's Sherman Community Lecture, entitled "A Jewel in the Crown of Anglo-Jewry? History of Limmud", is now available to view. View again.

Centre for Jewish Studies 13/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 13/04/2023

Yom Hashoah Manchester 2023

Holocaust Studies. Yom Hashoah Manchester is one of the largest annual Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in the UK. This year the event will be held at the Bridgewater Hall on Monday 17 April. Professor Rebecca Clifford will be the guest speaker. Doors open 7.15pm. Event starts 7.45pm. Tickets are free and can be booked here. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 11/04/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 11/04/2023

Traces of Displacement

Whitworth exhibition. This exhibition uses the Whitworth’s collection to address one of the major humanitarian concerns of the 20th and 21st centuries – forced displacement. Traces of Displacement uncovers stories of persecution, creativity, and resilience, and the experiences of artists and makers who were displaced in their homelands, forced to flee, survived, and even thrived in exile. Part of this exhibition is dedicated to Jewish refugees. 7 April 2023 – 7 January 2024. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 21/03/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 21/03/2023

MA fees bursaries in Jewish Studies

Masters degree studies at the University of Manchester, 2023-24. This is a home fees bursary for MA students who make Jewish Studies topics their main study focus in their MA in Religions and Theology. This bursary will be awarded on a competitive basis. There are no eligibility criteria based on nationality, but please note that the bursary is restricted to the maximum cost of home fees. Deadline: 23 June 2023. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 17/03/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 17/03/2023

Language Tutor in Modern Hebrew (part time)

Language Experience for All Programme (LEAP). The further particulars specify, among other requirements, that applicants "must possess near-native command of both Hebrew and English; demonstrate excellent language-teaching skills; and have an educational background appropriate to the delivery of the specified duties. Experience of teaching and assessing advanced Hebrew language skills at tertiary level, in person and online, are essential. Experience teaching in UK higher education and a track record in curriculum development are highly desirable..." Deadline: 29 March 2023.

Employment type: Fixed Term
Hours Per Week: 4.86
Contract Duration: from 1 September 2023 to 30 June 2024
Salary: £35,308 to £43,155 pro rata depending on relevant experience
Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 06/03/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 06/03/2023

Funding, postdoctorate

Holocaust Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations. Congratulations to CJS honorary research fellow Ion Popa for the renewal of his Gerda Henkel Scholarship (2023-2024) on the topic 'The Holy War: Churches' Counter-Secularism and the Destruction of European Jewry'. He will continue to be based in Manchester for the next year.

Centre for Jewish Studies 22/02/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 22/02/2023

Sherman Conversation

Centre for Jewish Studies 18/01/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 18/01/2023

Screen & Talk

Jewish Studies. The Centre for Jewish Studies in collaboration with the Department of Drama and Manchester Reform Synagogue are pleased to announce the next Screen & Talk event for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: Jews, Gay People and the Holocaust, an online film series and live-streamed panel discussion with public Q&A, 2-8 February 2023.

Chiming with the 25th anniversary of the release of the controversial landmark film Bent (UK / Japan 1997), the five films in this online series explore the predicaments of gay people and Jews during the Holocaust and its aftermath among the postwar generation. The concluding panel discussion with public Q&A brings together researchers with Jewish and LGBTQ community and cultural practitioners who will consider the distinct Holocaust histories and partly clashing cultural memories at hand. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 05/01/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 05/01/2023

Inaugural public lecture, Durham University

Jewish History. Daniel Langton will give the inaugural annual Sweeting Judeo-Christian History Lecture, organized by the university’s Centre for Catholic Studies. The topic will be 'Darwin's Jews: Evolutionary Theory, Jewish Thought, and Interfaith Relations.' Ushaw College, 6pm on Tue 21 Feb 2023.

Centre for Jewish Studies 06/12/2022 Centre for Jewish Studies 06/12/2022

Bernard Jackson Prize 2022

Postgraduate prize. This prize of £100 is awarded annually to the student with 'the highest grade for a master's dissertation in Jewish Studies' at the University of Manchester. It honours the Centre's second co-director Bernard Jackson. For 2022 it was awarded to Kerry McCall (MA in History) for a thesis on 'Negotiating Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Victorian Britain: Case studies in wider literature and the press' (supervisor: Daniel Langton)

Centre for Jewish Studies 05/12/2022 Centre for Jewish Studies 05/12/2022

Limmud Festival 2022

Jewish Studies. The University of Manchester is well represented at Limmud Festival 2022, the volunteer-run Jewish learning event running from 23–28 December. Katja Stuerzenhofecker will participate in the panel discussion ‘The UK Jewish community in the age of Covid: What changed and what didn't?.' Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz will lead several sessions including a presentation of her recent research as CJS Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Also presenting are CJS and R&T alumni/ae Ariel Abel and Sarah McCulloch, and SALC colleague Noelle Dückmann Gallagher.

Centre for Jewish Studies 01/12/2022 Centre for Jewish Studies 01/12/2022

Klezmer accompaniment

Klezmorim of Manchester have played an accompaniment to a short film about life on Bury New Road as seen through the eyes of ten women from the Jewish women's group, Alevai. Further information.