Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 2:36PM 
Holocaust diplomacy. Jean-Marc Dreyfus contributed a paper entitled 'Vollrath von Maltzan: A German Diplomat and 'Mischlinge' in Weimar, the Third Reich, and the Federal Republic, 1899-1967' to the Jewish History research seminar series at the Institute for Historical Research at UCL on 3 Feb 2015. Further information.
Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 2:22PM 
Midrash paper. Katharina Keim (JRRI) has given a presentation entitled 'The Exposition of Scripture in Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer' to the research seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. 24 Feb 2015. Further information.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 12:42PM 
Showcase of Hebrew Collections. The John Rylands Research Institute lunchtime seminar will feature short presentations by Katharina Keim (Research Associate, JRRI), Dr Renate Smithuis (Lecturer in Medieval Jewish Studies), and Dr Ben Williams (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, JRRI). 12-1pm, Wed 4 March, in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate. Sandwiches and drinks will be provided. Further information.
Friday, February 20, 2015 at 9:33AM 
New tools in analyzing ancient Jewish texts. A podcast is now available for a presentation Alex Samely gave at Harvard Divinity School in October 2014 entitled 'Written Religion: Some New Avenues in Analyzing Ancient Jewish Texts'. Further information.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 8:10PM 
Times Higher Education. Hugh Williamson (Oxford) has an essay in the THE entitled 'Isis shows Oriental studies are essential', with the subheading 'The University of Manchester could not have chosen a worse time to consider closing Middle Eastern language courses.' Further information.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7:09PM 
CJS Israel Studies series. Thu 5 March: Michael Hilton (Leo Baeck College, London), The Zigzag Kid: Patterns of Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Israel. 4pm in A113, Samuel Alexander Building. Further information.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 6:50PM 
Early scholarly accounts of antisemitism. Marcel Stoetzler has published an essay entitled 'Moritz Lazarus und die liberale Kritik an Heinrich von Treitschkes liberalem Antisemitismus' [Moritz Lazarus and the liberal critique of Heinrich von Treitschke’s liberal antisemitism] in Hans-Joachim Hahn and Olaf Kistenmacher, eds., Beschreibungsversuche der Judenfeindschaft [Early scholarly accounts of antisemitism] (Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2014), 98-120. Further information.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 6:44PM 
Jewish resistance by music. The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama at the University of Manchester is hosting an international conference on the topic of 'Music under German Occupation 1938-1945: Complicity and Resistance'. Jewish Studies related papers include '(Re)visiting the Archive of Gideon Klein – Terezín ghetto, 1941-1944' by David Fligg (Leeds), '"Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt": In Search of Ilse Weber' by Mirjam Frankand (NYU), and "Hungarian musical life in the shadow of Nazism" by Agnes Kory (Manchester). Mon 30 March - Wed 1 April 2015. Further information.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 12:58PM 
Pre-1936 Middle Eastern Jewish intellectuals. Moshe Behar has published an article entitled 'The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought' in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 41:1 (2014), 43-61. Further information.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 11:42AM 
The biblical figure of Hagar and European Provincialism. Yvonne Sherwood, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics at University of Kent, will give a special guest lecture entitled 'The "Hagaramic" as a provocation for European Provincialism: Surrogate, Rogue, Resident Alien, Foreign Body' in celebration of 50 years of the Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies. 2pm on Thursday 16 April 2015. A113, Samuel Alexander Building (followed by tea). Further information.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 11:31AM 
The first feminist-Mizrahi story written in the Middle East in modern Hebrew. Moshe Behar has published an article entitled 'The centennial of 'Flora Saporto': Thoughts on the possibility of a Mizrahi-Feminist alliance' in Pe‘amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry 139-140 (2015), 9-54. Further information.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 9:19AM 
Jewish Historical Society of England day-conference. Philip Alexander, president of the JHSE is participating in a day-conference on 'Mission and Missionaries among the Jews in 19th Century Europe' with a paper entitled 'Christian Restorationism in Ireland in the Early 19th Century: The Strange Case of Miss Marianne Nevill'. Mon 30 March 2015. Further information.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 11:58AM 
Religious responses to the Shoah. Thu 26 Feb: Dan Garner, Assessing Post-Holocaust Theologies of Image: Melissa Raphael's Fraught Theology of Divine Powerlessness. 4pm A113, Samuel Alexander Building (Religions & Theology research seminar).
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 10:53AM 
CJS Israel Studies series. Thu 19 February: Sarah Hirschhorn (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford), The Origins of the Redemption in Occupied Suburbia? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and the Jewish-American Makings of the West Bank Settlement of Efrat, 1973-2014. 4pm in A113, Samuel Alexander Building. Further information.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 9:34AM 
Radical Jewish Women. PhD student and local historian Ros Livshin will give a talk about nonconformist Jewish women in Manchester, many of whom joined their non-Jewish sisters in playing an active part in anarchist, communist and anti-fascist movements dating back to the 1900s. 2pm, Sunday 1 March. Entrance free. Refreshments provided. Further information.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 2:42PM 
'Intimate Grammar'. Set in 1960s Israel, the film follows Ahron, 12, son of Holocaust survivors, who are experiencing the conflict of generational gap (2012, Nir Bergman). Part of the Middle Eastern Film festival organized by the Middle Eastern Studies department at Manchester. 5-7.30pm, Wed 18 February, University Place 5.206.
Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 11:06AM 
Different Jewish attitudes towards Zionism. Mon 16 Feb: Elian Weizman (SOAS), Resistance to Zionism as an Educative Practice. 5pm, University Place Room 2.217. (Middle Eastern Studies research seminar). Further information.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 10:50AM 
CJS Israel Studies series. Wed 11 February: David Newman (Ben Gurion University), Rethinking Borders: Deterritorializing the Two State Solution. 4pm in A7, Samuel Alexander Building. Further information.
Monday, February 9, 2015 at 7:43AM 
Jewish New Testament Studies. The Sherman Lectures in Jewish Studies 2015 will be given by Amy-Jill Levine (University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University) on the topic 'Jesus, Judaism and Christianity: Old Prejudices and New Possibilities'. Among her numerous publications is the acclaimed The Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford, 2011). Lecture dates: 27-30 April 2015. Further information.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 7:49AM 
Studies on Agunah problem. The Centre's Agunah Research Unit has now made a number of key studies available online as (free) PDFs. 1. Bernard S. Jackson, Agunah: The Manchester Analysis, 2. Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, Confronting 'Iggun, 3. Shoshana Knol, Agunah and Ideology, 4. Avishalom Westreich, Talmud-Based Solutions to the Problem of the Agunah, 5. Nechama Hadari, The Kosher Get: A Halakhic Story of Divorce, 6. Agunah Research Unit, Agunah: The Manchester Analysis (short version, in Hebrew), with hasqamot from R. Shear-Yashuv Cohen and R. Shlomo Daichovsky. 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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