Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 12:35PM 
Migration and Nationality. Lauren Banko, 'Claiming identities in Palestine: Migration and Nationality under the Mandate,' Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 46, Winter 2017, 26-43. Further information.
Share Article Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 12:19PM 
Educational visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau. A recipient of a Bogdanow student travel grant, Caitlin Touhey, BA Hons History, has written about her visit to Krakow and Auschwitz. Further information.
Share Article Monday, April 24, 2017 at 4:07PM 
Jewish Engagement with Atheism. Daniel Langton will give a presentation on 'Atheism, Scepticism and the Judeo-Christian Tradition' at the annual Religions & Theology Postgraduate Study Day. 9 June 2017, 6.207 University Place.
Friday, April 21, 2017 at 5:30PM 
Biblical archaeology. In collaboration with the CJS and the Jewish Historical Society of England, the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society presents Yosef Garfinkel (Hebrew University), 'The Quest for the Historical King David: New Light from Khirbet Qeiyafa and Khirbet El Rai'. 7.00-9.30pm, Mon 22 May 2017, Manchester Jewish Museum. Further information.
Friday, April 21, 2017 at 11:34AM 
Anti-Judaism in Methodism. Simon Mayers, '"Monuments" to the Truth of Christianity: Anti-Judaism in the Works of Adam Clarke', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 93:1 (Spring 2017). Further information. See also Dr Mayers' recent Research Guide to Jews and Methodism in the Rylands Library.
Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 11:19AM 
Eastern Jewish thought in Palestine. Moshe Behar, '1911: The Birth of the Mizrahi–Ashkenazi Controversy' in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 16:2 (2017), 312-331. This was published in the special section, guest-edited by Dr Behar, entitled 'Fusing Arab Nahda, European Haskalah and Euro-Zionism: Eastern Jewish thought in late-Ottoman and post-Ottoman Palestine'. Further information.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 9:59AM 
Dead Sea Scrolls. George J. Brooke, 'Choosing between Papyrus and Skin: Cultural Complexity and Multiple Identities in the Qumran Library' in Mladen Popović, Myles Schoonover and Marijn Vandenberghe, eds., Jewish Cultural Encounters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern World (Leiden: Brill, 2017). 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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