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.