The Jewish Chronicle

How Jews hothoused cosmopolitanism. Cathy Gelbin wrote an essay in the Jewish Chronicle (7 Feb 2014) in relation to her AHRC project: 'When I was growing up behind the Wall in East Germany, cosmopolitanism was not a good word for the Jews. Hitler had persecuted us as 'rootless parasites'. And hushed up as they were, rumours of Stalin’s purges of Jews as 'rootless cosmopolitans' had not escaped me either.' Further information.

New Publication

Judaism and Natural Sciences. CJS fellow Norman Solomon has published an entry entitled 'Natural Sciences in Judaism' in the Judaism section (Langton and Lancaster, eds) of Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religion ed. Anne L. C. Runchov and Lluis Orviedo (Springer, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Jewish views on Fetus. CJS fellow Norman Solomon has published a chapter entitled 'The Eight-Month Fetus' in As a Perennial Spring: A Festschrift Honoring Norman Lamm (Downhill Publishing LLC, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Jewish Pilgrimage. CJS fellow Norman Solomon has published a chapter entitled 'Jewish Pilgrimage and Peace' in Antón M. Pazo, ed, Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam (Ashgate, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Bible Geography. CJS fellow Adrian Curtis has published an entry entitled 'Geography and Topography in Biblical Interpretation' in Steven McKenzie, ed, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Writing the Bible. CJS fellow Adrian Curtis has published a chapter entitled 'Ilimilku of Ugarit: Copyist or Creator?' in P.R. Davies and T. Römer, eds, Writing the Bible (Acumen, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Psalm Titles. CJS fellow Adrian Curtis has published a chapter entitled '"A Psalm of David, When... ": Reflections on Some Psalm Titles in the Hebrew Bible' in James K. Aitken. Jeremy M.S. Clines, and Christl M. Maier, eds, Interested Readers: Essays in Honor of David J.A. Clines (SBL 2013). Further information.

Radio, The Jewish Hour

Mein Kampf copyright. On Monday 3 February 2014, Dr. Jean-Marc Dreyfus was interviewed about the end of copyright restrictions on  Mein Kampf and the CJS workshop on the subject. Listen again: mp3 or wav.

Manchester Limmud

Dedicated to Jewish learning in all its variety. Alex Samely was among those contributed to this year's Manchester Day Limmud, a full day of Jewish learning for the general public on Sunday 2 February 2014. He spoke on the topic 'Do we justify our lives through our work? Strivers and shirkers, art and religion in Jewish and philosophical perspectives.' Further information.