Monday, February 27, 2017 at 2:10PM 
Antisemitism. Marcel Stoetzler will be giving a talk on 'Capitalism, Antisemitism and Stupidity: On Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment' at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism lunchtime seminar. 1pm, Thu 2 March 2017, Dreyfus Room, 26 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DQ. Further information.
Share Article Monday, February 27, 2017 at 1:46PM 
Moses Gaster's library. Maria Cioată will give a paper on 'Rev. Dr. Moses Gaster and his Library: Collecting, Discovering and Sharing' to the Manchester History of Humanities Research Network. 4.15pm, Mon 13 March 2017, C1.8 Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester. Further information.
Share Article Monday, February 13, 2017 at 10:09AM 
Interfaith readings of Scripture. David Ford (Cambridge University), 'Introducing Scriptural Reasoning - An Interfaith Practice for Our Time'. 12-1 pm, 2 March 2017, Manchester Cathedral. Further information.
Friday, February 10, 2017 at 12:59PM 
The Guardian and Zionism. As part of the conference "'Comment is free but facts are sacred': The Guardian in Local, National and Global History", Daphna Baram (Journalist, editor and lecturer) will give a paper entitled 'What is The Guardian's 'Heretofore' on Zionism: How C.P. Scott’s legacy was interpreted by his successors'. 2pm, Thu 6 April 2017, John Rylands Library, Deansgate. Further information.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 11:51AM 
Holocaust Studies. The 2017 Bogdanow Lectures by Dr Vicki Barnett (Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum) on 'The Church and the Holocaust' are now available to view online. The lectures are entitled: 1 Unfinished Hero: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in History, and 2. International Responses from Catholics, Jews and Protestants during the Holocaust. Originally presented 30 and 31 January 2017. Further information.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 11:23AM 
Victoria Biggs on Israeli and Palestinian youth. The Centre would like to congratulate Victoria Biggs on the successful defence of her doctoral thesis 'Storytelling on the Fault Lines: Storytelling, Community, and Memory among Israeli and Palestinian Youth'. Her supervisors were Prof Bertrand Taithe and Dr Alison Jeffers. Her internal examiner was Dr Jenny Hughes and her external examiner was Prof Dawn Chatty (Oxford). See the list of current PhD students in the area of Jewish Studies at Manchester.
Share Article Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 5:19PM 
Holocaust Studies. See the Church Times report on Vicki Barnett's lecture series 'The Church and the Holocaust'.
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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