Centre for Jewish Studies 14/11/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 14/11/2023

The Megillah at the Rylands

Rachel Lichtenstein has been working with the Rothschild Foundation Haanadiv Europe for the relaunch of their Hidden Treasures website. Read her blog post here.

Centre for Jewish Studies 13/10/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 13/10/2023

Appointment, Office for Students

Consultant role. Daniel Langton has been appointed as the lead assessor for Jewish Studies for the Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of Higher Education in England.

Centre for Jewish Studies 10/10/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 10/10/2023

Teaching

UK Jewish Film Festival. Students taking RELT20121 Religion, Culture and Gender can look forward to a gender-themed evening at Cineworld Parrs Wood on 15 November 2023 at 19:00. Katja Stuerzenhofecker is organizing free tickets for the course group to watch the comedy Matchmaking (2022) with support from the Student Enhancement Fund.

Centre for Jewish Studies 09/10/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 09/10/2023

Conference paper

Jewish Studies. Alex Samely delivered a paper at the 12th congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies in Frankfurt on 19 July 2023, on the topic "Experiencing the Mishnah as an Open or Controlling Text in Antiquity". Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 03/10/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 03/10/2023

New publication

Jewish studies. The Prophets edited by Rabbi Michael Hilton and Alasdair Nisbet, published by Liberal Jewish Synagogue London, 2023. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 29/09/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 29/09/2023

New publication

Religion and Science. Daniel R. Langton, 'An Historical Overview of Jewish Theological Responses to Evolution', Theology and Science (2023) e-pub, 1-25. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 07/07/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 07/07/2023

New publication

Ancient Judaism. Alex Samely, “The Use of Genre for Many Text Meanings: Apocalypse and 1 Enoch”, in Lorenzo DiTommaso and Matthew Goff (eds.), Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature Press), pp. 157–196. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 07/07/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 07/07/2023

New publication

Religion and Science. Daniel R. Langton, 'Naphtali Levy's Divine World: Jewish Tradition, Panentheism and Darwinism', Theology and Science 23:1 (2023), 1-19. Further information.

Centre for Jewish Studies 30/06/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 30/06/2023

Klezmer performance and video recording

Forthcoming event. Klezmer Klassica will perform as part of Sacred Music at the Bradford Literature Festival. 2 July 2023, 6.30-8.15pm. Further information.

A video recording of Klezmer Klassica's performance of Joseph Achron's 'Hebrew Luluby & Melody' from earlier this year is now available to watch on YouTube.

Centre for Jewish Studies 09/06/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 09/06/2023

Book talk, History Dept

Natalie Zemon Davis (Professor Emerita, University of Toronto and Princeton University) will join via Zoom to discuss her scholarship and latest book, Listening to the Languages of the People (Central European Press, 2022). Ranging from Romania to France at the turn of the twentieth century, this is story of migration that partakes of biography, linguistics, and Jewish studies. Jean-Marc Dreyfus will be one of the responders. 4pm, Samuel Alexander Bldg Room, A7.

Centre for Jewish Studies 05/06/2023 Centre for Jewish Studies 05/06/2023

New publication

Science and Religion. Daniel Langton, "Evolution" in Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online, edited by Martin Thurner, Peter Schäfer, Christoph Markschies, Amy-Jill Levine, Rainer Kampling and Walter Homolka. (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023). Manuscript and online.

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.