Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 9:14AM 
The Palestine/Israel question. Moshe Behar will give a talk entitled 'The One-State/Two-States Controversy in post-1917 Palestine/Israel: Nationalism, Liberalism, Marxism, Bi-Nationalism’ at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, on Tue 3 Nov 2015. Further information.
Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 2:00PM 
The Modern Polish Jewish community. Jan Lorenz, 'Shades of closeness: Belonging and becoming in a contemporary Polish Jewish Community' in Boundaries, Identity and Belonging in Modern Judaism, ed. Maria Diemling and Larry Ray, 63-75 (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015). Further information.
Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 1:45PM 
Poland’s Jewish Revival. Jan Lorenz, 'Counting as one: Moral encounters and criteria of affinity in a Polish Jewish congregation' in Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5/2 (2015): 59–81. Further information.
Friday, October 16, 2015 at 3:49PM 
Nationality in Palestine. Lauren Banko, 'Imperial Questions and Social Identities: The "marvel" of nationality and citizenship in interwar Palestine' in Revue des Mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée Special Issue, Vol. 136 (May 2015). Further information.
Friday, October 16, 2015 at 3:42PM Gaster and Jewish Literature
. Maria Cioată presented a paper entitled 'Moses Gaster, Hebrew Tobit, and Folklore’ at the Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period, Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University. Clarendon Institute Building, Oxford, Tue 13 October. Further information.
Friday, October 16, 2015 at 3:28PM 
Early Jewish Responses to the Roman Empire. George J. Brooke, 'The Kittim and Hints of Hybridity in the Dead Sea Scrolls', 17-32, in People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Empire. ed. Michael Labahn and Outi Lehtipuu (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015). Further information.
Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 1:38PM 
Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism. Marcel Stoetzler will give a talk entitled 'Durkheim's and Simmel's reactions to antisemitism and their reflection in their views on modern society' as part of an international symposium organized by the Max Weber Foundation and the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism. German Historical Institute, Paris, on Tuesday 21 October. Further information.
Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 1:05PM 
Old Testament and its Reception and Study. A new collection of essays by the former CJS Fellow Roger Tomes. Interpreting the Text: Essays on the Old Testament, its Reception and its Study, eds. Walter J. Houston and Adrian Curtis (Hebrew Bible Monographs 71; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2015). Further information.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 2:15PM 
Jesus in the Jewish Tradition. Philip Alexander will give a talk entitled 'Narrative and Counter-Narrative: The Jewish anti-Gospel (the Toledot Yeshu) and the Christian Gospels’ at 5.15pm on Tuesday 27 October at the University of Lausanne. Further information.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 2:07PM 
Philosophy of Law and Jewish Family Law. Bernard Jackson, 'Philosophy of Law: Secular and Religious (with some reference to Jewish family law)', in Law In Society: Reflections on Children, Family, Culture and Philosophy. Essays in Honour of Michael Freeman, ed. Alison Diduck, Noam Peleg and Helen Reece (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 45-62. Further information.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 11:23AM 
Forthcoming events featuring the Michael Kahan Kapelye. The University's klezmer band will perform Thu 10 December 19.30-21.45 at the Manchester Jewish Museum ('Gathering of the Klezmorim for Chanukah') and Tue 8 December at the Heathlands residential care home (Chanukah concert). Further information.
Monday, October 12, 2015 at 10:02AM 
Ashes from Auschwitz. Jean-Marc Dreyfus, 'The transfer of ashes after the Holocaust in Europe, 1945–60’ in Human Remains and Violence, Volume 1, No. 2 (2015), 21–35. Further information.
Friday, October 9, 2015 at 10:33AM 
Irish Jewish History. Philip Alexander has been appointed President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 2015-16, and will give his Presidential Lecture 'In the footsteps of King Billy: The Origins of the Jewish Community in Dublin in the Context of Irish History' at University College London at 18:15 on Thu 15 October 2015. Further information.
Friday, October 9, 2015 at 10:32AM 
For the year 2014-15. The CJS annual report for the previous academic year is now available online. Further information.
Friday, October 9, 2015 at 10:03AM 
The history of Jewish views of the Apostle to the Gentiles. Daniel Langton will give a lecture entitled 'The Apostle Paul in the Jewish Imagination' for the Merseyside branch of the Council of Christians and Jews. 8pm on Tue 20 October at King David Campus, Liverpool. Further information.
Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 3:28PM 
Congratulations to our colleague, Ben Williams, who has now been appointed as Teaching Fellow in Rabbinic Judaism at King’s College London, but who will continue to work on his Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship on Reading the Bible in the Ottoman Empire: A New Chapter in Early Modern Jewish Exegesis, which he began in Manchester.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 11:04AM 
Goering's Catalogue of Stolen Art. Jean-Marc Dreyfus, ed, Le Catalogue Goering (Flammarion, 2015). The transcript of the catalogue listing all the works of art looted by the Nazis on behalf of Goering, found in the archives of the Quai d' Orsay. With the story of their collection and their postwar fate. See video interview (French) with the author and Telegraph article (English). Further information.
Monday, September 28, 2015 at 10:01AM 
Short-term fellowships at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester. The John Rylands Research Institute is pleased to announce its latest call for Visiting Research Fellowships. The Library’s Special Collections include highly significant collections of Judaica and Hebraica. The Institute welcomes applications for these Fellowships, which offer financial support up to a maximum of £1500 per month for three months to cover travel and living expenses. The closing date is Fri 27 Nov 2015 and further details of how to apply, including application form, can be found at www.jrri.manchester.ac.uk/opportunities/visiting-research-fellowships/
Friday, September 25, 2015 at 1:18PM 
Documentary about the sons of two SS officers. Co-sponsored by the University of Manchester, the screening of David Evans' documentary 'My Nazi Legacy' will be followed by a Q&A panel that includes Jean-Marc Dreyfus and the film's director. HOME, Manchester, at 6.20pm on 11 Nov 2015. Further information. (See all Jewish Film Festival events in Manchester.)
Friday, September 25, 2015 at 12:37PM 
Gaster and Jewish intellectual history. Maria Cioată, 'Representations of Moses Gaster (1856–1939) in Anglophone and Romanian Scholarship' in New Europe College Yearbook 2012-13 (2015): 89–128. Further information.
IMAGE CREDITS: Illumination from a 14th century Spanish Passover Haggadah, showing the Israelites walking through the Red Sea. © John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
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