BAJS student essay prize 2018

Manchester award winner. The annual national undergraduate Student Essay prize offered by the British Association for Jewish Studies was awarded to a Manchester student this year: Fergus Selsdon Games, for a dissertation entitled 'Soviet Nationality Policy and the Movement for Soviet-Jewish Emigration During the Brezhnev Era' (supervised by Ewa Ochman). Further information.

Honorary Professorship, St Andrews

Jews and the New Testament. We are pleased to report that Philip Alexander has been made made an Honorary Professor at the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. In this role he gave a seminar entitled 'Temple and Cosmos in Philo, Josephus and Hebrews' on 17 April 2018. Further information.

Summer School, Manchester

Jews and others in Manchester. Philip Alexander is presenting a course entitled 'Manchester: Melting Pot of Faiths' for the Manchester International Summer School, 8-27 July 2018. Students will learn about the social history of the religions, including Judaism, that have shaped Manchester, how the distinctive beliefs and practices of each religion are made visible and the challenges that face religions in Manchester. Further information.

Conference contributors, EAJS 2018

Searching for Roots of Jewish Traditions (Krakow). Contributors from Manchester's CJS staff and students to the EAJS Conference 2018 include Renate Smithuis, 'Misogyny and the Medieval Sermon: The Case of Jacob Anatoli (c.1194–1256)', Katharina Keim, 'Scholarship, Philanthropy, and Orientalism: Models of Western Collecting of Samaritan Manuscripts in the Early Twentieth Century', and Emma Berg, 'In Search of Yiddishkait in Abraham Cahan’s ‘Yekl'. Further information.

Conference contributors, BAJS 2018

Theories and Histories: Jewish Studies Across Disciplines (Durham). Contributors from Manchester's CJS fellows and students to the BAJS Conference 2018 include Dominika Cholewinska-Vater 'The Polish Government-in-Exile and Jews: Between the Ethnic and the Democratic’, Katharina Keim (with Helen Spurling), 'Interdisciplinary paradigms: The Concept of ‘Religious Competition’', Marcel Stoetzler, 'The place of antisemitism in Horkheimer and Adorno's critique of modern capitalism and human civilization in Dialectic of Enlightenment', Adi Bharat, 'Queer Theory and Jewish-Muslim Relations: The Case of Two LGBTQ Muslim and Jewish Organizations in France', and Edmund Chapman, 'Home, Mother, Madness: Jacques Derrida And Jewish Monolingualism'. Further information.