Podcast, Sherman Lecture 2020

Jewish Studies. The 2020 Sherman Community Lecture by Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford) is now available to view online. The lecture entitled "Spades and Shovels: Louis Jacobs, Northern Grit, and the Reshaping of British Jewry" was on Thurs 3 Dec 2020. Further information. 

50 Jewish Objects poems

50 Jewish Objects Artwork. Atar Hadari has created the Gethsemane suite of poems inspired by the fragment of the New Testament from the Gospel of John which is part of the 50 Jewish Objects project. Read the poems and watch them performed by Atar here.

Blog entry, 50 Jewish Objects

50 Jewish Objects Artwork. As part of the activities of the 50 Jewish Objects project, creative pieces are commissioned to contemporary artists in response to selected artefacts from the John Rylands Library and the research produced by Dr Stefania Silvestri. The third blogpost by artist Atar Hadari has now been published. Atar is working on an artistic piece inspired by the fragment of the New Testament from the Gospel of John which is part of the 50 Jewish Objects project. Further information.

New publication, blog entry

Jewish Studies. Lauren Banko has written a blog entry entitled 'Trading undeserving for deserving refugees: Afghan Jews and European displaced persons, 1945-1949' for Refugee History. Further information.

Online Lecture

Jewish Studies. Prof Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky): ‘“It’s Not Just the Same”: How Rituals and Religions Cope with Crises’. 5-7pm. 8 Dec 2020. Joint event with CJS and CIDRAL. Further information.

Paper, Oxford University

Jewish Studies. Philip Alexander will give a paper entitled 'The "World to Come'' as a Postmortem Disembodied State vs the "World to come" as a Post-Resurrection Embodied State at the End of History' at the conference 'Apocalyptic Thinking'. Oriel College, University of Oxford, 14-15 February 2021. Further information.

Blog entry, 50 Jewish Objects

50 Jewish Objects Artwork. As part of the activities of the 50 Jewish Objects project, creative pieces are commissioned to contemporary artists in response to selected artefacts from the John Rylands Library and the research produced by Dr Stefania Silvestri. The second blogpost by artist Atar Hadari has now been published. Atar is working on an artistic piece inspired by the fragment of the New Testament from the gospel of John which is part of the 50 Jewish Objects project. Further information.

Sherman Community Lecture 2020

Jewish Studies. Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford) will give the next Sherman Community Lecture entitled "Spades and Shovels: Louis Jacobs, Northern Grit, and the Reshaping of British Jewry". Thurs 3 Dec 2020 8pm. Further information.

Online Lecture

Jewish Studies. Jean-Marc Dreyfus will be delivering the Sam Johnson Memorial Lecture (online) on “Mischling: the contrasted destiny of 'half-jews' in the Third Reich, between persecution and survival.” 3 Dec 20 17.30 - 19.00 online event. Further information.

Bernard Jackson Student Prize 2020

Post-graduate prize. This prize of £100 is awarded annually to the student with 'the highest grade for a master's dissertation in Jewish Studies' at the University of Manchester. It honours the Centre's second co-director Bernard Jackson. For 2020 it was jointly awarded to William Kerrs-Farmer (History) for 'Rewriting the Past: Denazification and Ernst von Salomon' (supervisor: Christian Goeschel) and to Rachel Miller (R&T) for 'Witch, Please: A Feminist and Narratological Reading of 2 Kings 9:22' (supervisor: Todd Klutz). Further information.