Friday, July 21, 2017 at 7:35AM 
Manchester and Balfour 100. Azriel Bermant, who recently completed a catalogue of Anglo-Israel holdings at the Rylands Library, has published an entry for Fathom entitled 'Chaim Weizmann, The Guardian and the Balfour Declaration' based on his findings. Further information.
Friday, July 14, 2017 at 9:24AM 
Festschrift for Philip Alexander. The Centre is delighted to report the publication of George Brooke and Renate Smithuis, eds, Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of Philip S. Alexander (Leiden: Brill, 2017). The presentation to Philip Alexander was made by George Brooke and took place at the BAJS conference in Edinburgh, 11 July 2017. Further information.
Friday, July 14, 2017 at 9:06AM 
Jews on the Move: Exploring the movement of Jews, objects, texts, and ideas in space and time. Contributors from Manchester to the BAJS Conference 2017 included Marci Freedman, Chronicle of Ahima'az" Tomb tours to the Holy Land: Exploring Jewish pilgrimages in the Middle Ages; Stefania Silvestri, Beyond a closed box: a Yeminite Pentateuch manuscript, its box binding and production models; Katharina Keim, The sale and export of Samaritan manuscripts to Western collections in the early twentieth century: a comparative analysis of the Samaritan collecting of Moses Gaster, E.K. Warren, and William E. Barton; Maria Cioată, Dr Moses Gaster's Istoria Biblica on the move; Philip Alexander, From Vitebsk to Glasgow: a tale of two cantors; Renate Smithuis, Donning borrowed clothes: Judah Halevi, Ibn Kammuna and Shi'i Theology; Katja Stuerzenhofecker, Displaying Religious Jews in Jewish Studies Classrooms. Further information.
Monday, July 10, 2017 at 3:31PM 
Edmund Chapman on modern Jews and literary translation. The Centre would like to congratulate Edmund Chapman on the successful defence of his doctoral thesis 'Afterlives: Benjamin, Derrida and Literature in Translation'. His supervisors were Dr Jerome de Groot and Dr Robert Spencer. His external examiner was Prof Scott McCracken (Queen Mary, University of London). See the list of current PhD students in the area of Jewish Studies at Manchester.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 at 3:34PM 
Songs of the Jewish underworld. PhD student Izabella Goldstein will be performing at the concert 'Highbrow/Lowbrow: From Chopin to Fado to Songs of Jewish Thieves and Prostitutes' at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation on 13 July 7pm. Further information.
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