Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 1:08PM 
The detention camps of Paris. On May 22nd Jean-Marc Dreyfus gave an evening lecture organised by the Leeds branch of the Jewish Historical Society at the United Hebrew Congregation (UHC) on the evanescent memory of the three satellite camps of Drancy: Austerlitz, Levitan and Bassano. Further information.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 6:22PM 
What is Israel Studies? We are delighted to announce that the 2013 Sherman Lectures by Derek Penslar on 'What is Israel Studies?' are now available to see online. The lectures are entitled: 1. Writing Israel's History: Between Myth and Counter-Myth, 2. Theodor Herzl: Charisma and Leadership, 3. Rethinking the Diaspora-Israel Connection: The Case of the 1948 War, 4. The Invention of Israeli Nativity. Further information.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 5:41PM 
Congratulations to Bryan Roby on his new appointment. Following completion of his PhD under Moshe Behar in Middle Eastern Studies, Bryan has received a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University. The Taub Center is dedicated to the study of recent history, society and politics in modern Israel. Further information.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 5:07PM 
Anti-Semitism and articulations of national identity in Hungarian film, 1931-44. This three-year Leverhulme funded project investigates articulations of Hungarian national identity in early Hungarian sound film from the introduction of sound in 1931 to the end of wartime film production in 1944. The award was won by Gábor Gergely and will run 2012-2015; it aims to throw light on Hungary’s complicated and often contradictory concept of its own national identity. Further information.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 12:28PM 
11th annual conference of the Manchester Regional Group. This full day event will be held on Sunday 12 May at the Greater Manchester Police Training College, with Bill Williams among the contributing speakers. Further information.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 11:59AM 
The Persecution and Extermination of the European Jews by Nazi Germany 1933–1945. Jean-Marc Dreyfus has co-edited with Katja Happe and Maja Peers volume 5 (Western and Northern Europe 1940 – June 1942) of this German multi-volume study of the Holocaust. 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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